Welcome to the season of the Ram, the great “I am”. The Sun is exalted and off to a very strong start with a New Moon at the very beginning and end of the month. Venus, at home in Taurus, has us in touch with our pleasure principles and motivated to ground desire in reality. Check the transits below to find out more about how the month’s astrology is playing out collectively. The monthly planetary movement is followed by a week-to-week breakdown, so check back each week and see how it resonates. HAPPY NEW YEAR, LOVELIES

3/17 Venus →Taurus
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All Month

⊙ –> ♈Sun in Aries 3/21 to 4/20/2023

• Focus outward expressions of self-definition and individual will. Everyone’s natural focus is on the “I am” but we don’t exist in a vacuum, rather in relationship to one another.  
• Pluto will sextile the sun early in the month, making it easy this season to foster a balance between self-definitionz our individual will and our impact on the group (or lack thereof). This is the time to initiate (♈) the transformation (♇)
• Fixed & Fire Signs (??????) will be affected the strongest, obviously. Nevertheless, this season also brings the cardinals very specifically into the mix. Get it started; keep it going.

♄⚹☊ Applying Saturn sextile to the North Node

• Learn and apply our lessons at a slow and steady pace. There is ease in handling responsibilities (especially those to the group) and embodying our spiritual values (saturn in pisces ♄?).   
• Getting started now makes it sustainable & is likely to bring rewards. Try to ground the expansive dream through practical planning & follow through.

Week 1 :March 21 – 27

All week: 

Mars squares Neptune. (♂㌬♆ ) Neptune sextiles Pluto(♆⚹♇), and Venus conjuncts the North Node(♀☌☊).

Physical energy is likely low especially for cardinal & water signs. Mars is not comfy in Cancer. The urge to go straight is hindered by a need to sidestep obstacles within and without. Be careful of behaving in ways that bely your true feelings or intent. Many are finally resolving doubts we have around consequences of past choices coming to bite us in the ass. This likely has to do with some past dishonesty, illusory goals, or hidden dynamics in relationships with men. These are heavy hitters. So, there’s no use fighting the current. If you were a perpetrator, you likely expected something to happen even if you didn’t know what that might be, so just be open to the lessons available.   

Being honest with ourselves mitigates the need for outside input. Other people can’t see any more clearly, so don’t be taking their advice on what you wish to do. Take naysayers’ words with a grain of salt. If you apply these lessons, you can take advantage of blessing implied by Neptune’s loose sextile to Pluto.♆*♇

If this aspect hits a personal placement, you’ll experience significant changes to the overall way of life. If not, you’ll be a witness to this taking place in society or the lives of those around you.  Many familiar circumstances and dynamics are closing out at this time, so we can start anew in ways that reflect willingness to adjust, let go, and grow. Great time to start a new healing or other spiritual practice.

This Week’s Transits

3/20 Mercury enters Aries 

• Direct communication, taking action on plans. Facing fears. We’re analyzing our fears and strategizing a way forward in spite of them.

3/21 New Moon 0°48 Aries ? – 12:22  am CST – (☌conjunct Mercury and ⚹sextile Pluto (waxing))
Venus ☌conjunct N.Node (waning) ⚹sextile Saturn & Mercury) 

• We’re talking about what makes us who we are and not worried ’bout them other hoes LOL
• Discussion about what we wish to initiate should include talk about sustainability (Saturn). This is doubly true with a new moon at the Aries point. What we begin now can support a new self-definition in the long term. 
• Be careful of self-absorption and trying to force our ideas/goals down others’ throats.    
• What’s for us is for us, and that should be our focus, not getting everyone else on board.   
• Venus will show us the rewards available for our commitment to our relationships and material goals. Good time for setting standards and expectations in groups and in relationships. Business affairs and other financial concerns are also favored.    
• Great time to seek, enjoy, and take heed to the counsel of wise elders.

3/24 Pluto enters Aquarius ♒ (waxing ⚹sun ⚻mars) 
Moon in Taurus ♉ Square Lilith ⚸ in Leo ♌

• Power struggles are highly likely as people vie to feel a sense of importance within the group (Aqua)
• Opportunity to apply creativity to important life changes.  
• Actions are more effective if we’re focused on integrity and authenticity.   –
• Sextiles mean we must choose to act or nothing will happen.
• Emotional expressions are met with resistance or other’s attempts to suppress. We’re torn between the impulse to follow our passions and the need to secure our foundations. The tension within is mirrored back from outside.

3/24-3/27 ☉☌☊ Sun in Taurus conjunct the North Node 

• Time for our annual timeline jump! This is a great time to get in touch with the direction you truly wish to go and to implement the plans that take you there. We’re clear on who we are, what we want and our capacity for achievement. Nothing is stopping us but willingness to do the work.

3/26 Mars enters Cancer

• Emotional side stepping. We’re wanting to move like great balls of fire soaring through the air, but we’re stuck back at the ranch, smoldering under the weight of our own emotions. The desire to create emotional dependencies with others will be like weed smoke in the air. Be like Bill. (Don’t inhale, for you 90‘s and 2000s kids ?  
• Kicking up the dust under the rug is gonna trigger some emotional outbursts. Watch your reactions, not other people’s.

3/27 Mercury in Aries ? conjunct Chiron (once every 50 years)

• Putting the wound into words helps us transcend it’s impact and integrate a lesson. Who I am is not why I hurt. How I process my pain can impact my self-awareness & self-definition.