March Astrology Highlights – “Dancing with the Stars”

By Janis Page   c2010

The spring equinox month of March begins with Mercury, the speedy messenger planet of communication, entering  Pisces on March 1^st.   Mercury joins the Sun, Venus, Jupiter and Uranus, now giving us five planets in the watery mutable sign.   Idealism, compassion, emotion and confusion abound! Almost immediately, on March 3^rd Venus conjuncts Uranus, triggering surprises, magnetism, breakthroughs, sudden intuition, love at first sight.  

But you knew things weren’t quite that easy, didn’t you?  Have you noticed frustrations, blockages and delays, and stress in relationships?  Our two retrograde planets, the heavies Mars and Saturn, continue to trudge slowly backwards locked in a sixty degree sextile of opportunity, which now Mercury as the last of the Pisces planets takes its turn activating a stressful yod, or ‘finger of God’ aspect.   Yods gently – okay, make that relentlessly,demand awareness and adaptation.  Hurry up and wait!  One foot on the gas, the other on the brakes! 

Venus enters impulsive Aries on the 7^th,and quickly opposes serious Saturn on the 9^th, calling for a sense of patience and responsibility – and Aries is not known for patience, shall we say?   The key phrase for Aries is‘ready, fire, aim!’  But things might be feeling pretty intense around then, especially as on March 10^th,fiery Mars in fiery Leo, finally comes to a full halt finishing its retrograde movement, to slowly resume forward, direct motion.   Mars has been retrograde (Rx) since December20^th, and finally, much that has been held in frustration and delaywill start to release and open.   Those of you who keep asking (and you know who you are) yes, it will finally be ok to have first sex in a relationship, which  is considered best to avoid during Mars Rx.  I’d give Mars a few days to start to build momentum, though, and it  won’t be fully out of its ‘shadow’ – the degree at which it turned Rx – till  mid-May.   But yes, after the 10th,frolic on! 

Don’t forget that daylight savings time  begins on Sunday, March 14^th - spring is near at hand! The new Moon on March 15^th brings our planet in Pisces count back up to five,with the Moon joining the Sun, Mercury, all in a close conjunction, and Jupiter not far behind.  Here is a time for compassion, sensitivity, spiritual seeking. Then Mercury enters Aries on the 17^th and quickly trines Mars and opposes Saturn.  Watch out for arguments and resistance.   

This new Moon sets the foundational energies for the spring equinox on Saturday, March 20^th at10:32am.  The equinox chart shows a lot of motivation and possible discipline (and frustration and impatience) with the Sun trining Mars but also closely opposing Saturn, both squaring powerful Pluto in Capricorn.   Be smart, be efficient,be organized, be prepared for your patience to be tested.  And watch more power plays unfold on the national and international stage as well as around you.   The equinox chart for Denver has the uranian transneptunian Hades smack on the ascendant.  Ashes to ashes, some things will break down, time to release what has outlived its usefulness…  acceptance…

The full Moon on March 29^thhas the Sun in Aries opposing Moon in Libra, past Saturn in that sign, still close enough to the square to Pluto to pay attention.  This is softened by Pisces Venus in sweet sextile to Neptune conjunct Chiron.  There is idealism, the possibility of romantic longing, and some spark with Chiron involved.  

March is a month with a lot of both water and fire, and opportunity to practice greater balance and harmony between inner feeling and outer expression.   Have a beautiful, spring awakening, as the light and so consciousness continues to rise.   Blessings!