[Fate & Free Will ]

Astrology for the Week of March 13-19

You know the saying, it’s always darkest before the dawn? It’s that kind of week but the sunrise is spectacular. 

Monday 3/13: 

•  ☽ at 29° 47‘ Scorpio △ ♇ at 29° 47‘ Capricorn | 2:58 AM
• ☽ ▻ Sagittarius | 3:20 AM
• ☽ at 00° 40‘ Sagittarius □ ♄ at 00° 40‘ Pisces | 4:33 AM

Monday the Moon moves into Sagittarius at 3:20 am eastern giving us fresh, optimistic, get up and go energy to start the week. Sort of. The thing is, there are a *lot* of things happening this week that create a very nebulous vibe overall. 

Tuesday 3/14:

•  ☽ at 14° 56‘ Sagittarius △ ♃ at 14° 56‘ Aries | 5:56 AM
• ☽ at 21° 37‘ Sagittarius □ ☿ at 21° 37‘ Pisces | 5:38 PM 
• ♂︎ at 25° 04‘ Gemini □ ♆ at 25° 04‘ Pisces | 7:38 PM
• 🌗 Last Quarter Moon | 10:08 PM 
• ☽ at 24° 13‘ Sagittarius ☉ at 24° 13‘ Pisces
• ☽ at 25° 05‘ Sagittarius □ ♆ at 25° 05‘ Pisces | 11:37 PM
• ☽ at 25° 09‘ Sagittarius ☍ ♂︎ at 25° 09‘ Gemini | 11:45 PM

Tuesday should come with a special weather advisory of dense fog throughout the day as the final Mars Neptune square builds.

Mars is aggressive and Neptune is passive and when they square off like this there can be a whole lot of passive aggressiveness or aggressively being passive.

These squares have been happening off and on since August of 2022 and it also has the unfortunate consequence of making it more challenging to know how to take decisive action in the Gemini area of our lives but also in all areas because Mars is always helping us get things started. 

Ask yourself if you’re falling for the same illusion/delusion and if it’s holding you back from moving toward what makes you feel curious and free. 

Wednesday 3/15:

•  ☽ at 28° 06‘ Sagittarius △ ♀︎ at 28° 06‘ Aries | 4:50 AM
•  ▻ Capricorn | 8:05 AM
• ☽ at 00° 55‘ Capricorn ✳ ♄ at 00° 55‘ Pisces | 9:41 AM
• ☉ ☌ ♆ at 25° 06‘ Pisces | 7:39 PM

Speaking of blurred lines and fuzzy realities, Wednesday, the Sun and Neptune will be joined together making it really challenging to know which way is up and which way is down.

As the Mars Neptune stuff begins to dissipate ( a little) the Sun Neptune conjunction is steadily increasing making it harder to know for sure what it is we want - in the Pisces area of our chart but also generally in all of the areas.

It’s not all bad news. This is a fantastic transit for creativity, imagination, art, poetry, love songs, romance, daydreaming, meditation, spiritual pursuits, going with the flow, and all of the lovely things.

This isn’t the day I’d have serious meetings, sign contracts, or invest in that bridge the nice man tries to sell you on the way home from work ;)

Thursday 3/16:

•  ☽ at 15° 27‘ Capricorn □ ♃ at 15° 27‘ Aries | 10:16 AM
• ☽ at 16° 05‘ Capricorn △ ♅ at 16° 05‘ Taurus | 11:21 AM
• ☿ ☌ ♆ at 25° 08‘ Pisces | 1:12 PM
• ☉ at 25° 53‘ Pisces □ ♂︎ at 25° 53‘ Gemini | 2:09 PM
• ♀︎ at 29° 52‘ Aries □ ♇ at 29° 52‘ Capricorn | 3:58 PM
• ♀︎  ▻ Taurus | 6:34 PM

Thursday is bananas. The Sun and Mars get a bit further apart from Neptune but Mercury is coming in strong making it even more challenging to speak clearly. 

Confusing communication is likely to arise but it’s also possible words of love and adoration will flow more easily today, should you be so inclined. It’s also pretty great for fantasy escapes of all kind. 

With all of the Neptune hookups this week the passive, aggressive, idealistic, and confused themes are still in play but the fog is starting to clear and you may find you know exactly what you want. Finally. 

The downside is you might say something in the heat of the moment you haven’t quite thought out. So, take a beat and be sure you are responding rather than reacting. 

Note, this is not me saying don’t say the hard thing. This is for sure the day TO say the things that might otherwise feel difficult to say but do not say something you haven’t thought out and aren’t sure you mean.

The second half of Thursday is heavily focused on Venusian topics (women, money, desire). Just before Venus leaves Aries, she has a tense conversation with Pluto in Capricorn. This is most likely to be some serious but positive transformation in your Aries house or related to love and women being facilitated by something in your Capricorn house. 

Even if you don’t know what those topics are remember, stay focused on facts and don’t react to imagined fears.

Just after that Venus returns to her luscious, regenerative, sensual, decadent spring home of Taurus.

The house Venus is moving into is the area of life where you’ll be more willing to define and attract the things you value and desire (and reject the things that no longer live up to your standards), creating beauty as you define it, and facilitating greater harmony for yourself, between yourself and others, or between your inner and outer worlds. 

The house where you find Taurus is where you cultivate a gentle persistence in maintaining your reality. That sounds really nice, right? 

Yes. It can be where you have a quiet determination, grace, earthy sensuality, firmly rooted ideals, and a fortitude that allows you to move steadily towards your goals. My favorite image for this side of Taurus is a Scottish highland cow munching away in a field of flowers. 

But Taurus can also be where you are bull-headed, fearful of new experiences, unwilling to change, or stuck in a reality that you created (the paradox being that if it’s a reality you’ve created….you could always create another one). This is more of a bull in a china shop vibe.

With Venus in Taurus, it’s a great time to take a look at what you desire and value (in all areas of life), but especially in the topics related to your Taurus house, as well as topics related to love, women, and money. 

The thing is, I want you to try to imagine that the constraints you believe are imposed upon you because of the “reality” you find yourself in, aren’t real. What if you were the author of your own reality? What would you want in regards to those topics if you were allowed to want and create anything at all?

As an added bonus this is the first part of the glow up that will be happening for this area of your life that has been hammered by eclipses since the end of 2021. The eclipses aren’t quite finished yet but this is definitely a moment to take stock, realign, and get ready for a year of renovation and growth once Jupiter shows up in May.

By rising sign, areas where you’ll have a little boost of magnetism and the topics you’ll be exploring through the lens of Venus in Taurus are:

• Aries Rising: Money, possessions, resources, and how you make a living
• Taurus Rising: Self-awareness, your identity, appearance, personality, the way you view yourself, your character, your primary motivation, your body, your health, and vitality
• Gemini Rising: Mental health, the subconscious, ways you self sabotage, the ways you isolate yourself, hidden enemies, transcendence, and spiritual liberation
• Cancer Rising: Friends with influence, alliances, your hopes and dreams, social media, personal and professional networks, unions, mentors, and that which supports you
• Leo Rising: Your reputation, profession, actions, relationship with and to authority, your mother and her family, your destiny, and your ambitions
• Virgo Rising: Higher education, divination, foreign travel, religion, astrology, the divine masculine, and your ability to grow, adapt, and learn
• Libra Rising: Investment, other people’s money, debt, topics concerning death, psychology, taxes, fears, transformation, and the occult
• Scorpio Rising: Committed relationships, contracts, business partners, and other contractual relationships, and open enemies
• Sagittarius Rising: Physical health, illness, coworkers, your job, pets, self-improvement, and the things you feel obligated to
• Capricorn Rising: Children, pleasure, romance, dating, sexuality, the things you desire,  the creative arts, love affairs, the ways in which you are entertained, close friends, and lovers
• Aquarius Rising: Home, family, home life, land, ancestors, private self, your emotional foundation, gains from hidden sources, your father, and your father’s family
• Pisces Rising: Communication, divination, short-distance travel, your neighborhood, writing, your immediate environment, the divine feminine, siblings, and cousins

Friday 3/17:

• ☿ at °26 ‘05  Pisces □ ♂︎ at 26° 05‘ Gemini | 12:48 AM
• ☽ at 25° 09‘ Capricorn ✳ ♆ at 25° 09‘ Pisces | 2:26 AM
• ☽ at 26° 23‘ Capricorn ✳ ☿ at 26° 23‘ Pisces | 4:27 AM
• ☽ at 26° 29‘ Capricorn ✳ ☉ at 26° 29‘ Pisces | 4:37 AM
• ☉ at 26° 34‘ Pisces ☌ ☿ 26° 34‘ Pisces | 6:44 AM
• ☽ ☌ ♇ at 29° 53‘ Capricorn | 10:13 AM
• ☽ ▻ Aquarius | 10:24 AM 
• ☽ at 00° 52‘ Aquarius □ ♀︎ at 00° 52‘ Taurus | 11:50 AM 
• ♀︎ at 01° 11‘ Taurus ✳ ♄ at 01° 11‘ Pisces | 6:25 PM

Friday, the Sun and Mercury are finally clear of both Mars and Neptune. You could say logic and rationality are back online. This is fantastic news for anyone who has been feeling more emotional than usual or who has been having more trouble knowing how to proceed. 

Use this last little meetup to help you firm up your plans so that you can leverage the Saturn in Pisces building phase to the best of your ability over the next year (because you’ll get all of the planets piling up to help figure things out here again next year if you lose your way).

Pay attention after about 10:30 am eastern when the Moon will hit Aquarius without Saturn hanging around for the first time in almost three years. You might be surprised at the difference it makes (if you’ve been paying attention to that sort of thing).

Saturday 3/18:

• 🌘 Waning Crescent Moon | 6:58 AM 
• ☽ at 12° 34‘ Aquarius ☉ at 27° 34‘ Pisces 
• ☽ at 15° 56‘ Aquarius ✳ ♃ at 15° 56‘ Aries | 12:26 PM
• ☽ at 16° 11‘ Aquarius □ ♅ at 16° 11‘ Taurus | 12:50 PM
• ☿ at 29° 55‘ Pisces ✳ ♇ at 29° 55‘ Capricorn | 11:23 PM

Saturday is quiet and pretty nice. Take a breath and try to relax and assimilate all of the changes, dream, imagine, and relax (if you can). Tomorrow the changes kick off again and next week is even more intense.  

Sunday 3/19: 

• ☿ ▻ Aries | 12:24 AM 
• ☽ at 27° 07‘ Aquarius △ ♂︎ at 27° 07‘ Gemini | 6:33 AM 
• ☽ ▻ Pisces | 11:11 AM
• ☽ ☌ ♄ at 01° 23‘ Pisces | 1:27 PM 
• ☽ at 03° 31‘ Pisces ✳ ♀︎ at 03° 31‘ Taurus | 4:54 PM

Sunday Mercury moves out of the watery depths of Pisces and into the blazing heat and clarity of Aries. 

The house where you find Aries is where you have a greater need for independence and personal autonomy. You’re unlikely to enjoy following along in Aries house topics unless the leader is someone worthy (as defined by you) of being followed. 

This is also the area where eclipses will be occurring for the next year and a half. Mercury is showing up just before the Sun and a brilliant New Moon that will offer the last chance to plant your seeds to cultivate a garden of results you truly want here. 

Yes, there will be other new moons in Aries, but as part of an eclipse and those gardens are a bit more like the gardens planted by birds or small children who would rather be playing. Will they give you beautiful plants? Probably. But they won’t be in the neat predictable rows you may prefer. So, start thinking about what you want this organized garden to look like.

By rising sign, the area of life you’ll be ready to organize, think, and learn more about are:

• Aries Rising: Self-awareness, your identity, appearance, personality, the way you view yourself, your character, your primary motivation, your body, your health, and vitality
• Taurus Rising: Mental health, the subconscious, ways you self sabotage, the ways you isolate yourself, hidden enemies, transcendence, and spiritual liberation
• Gemini Rising: Friends with influence, alliances, your hopes and dreams, social media, personal and professional networks, unions, mentors, and that which supports you
• Cancer Rising: Your reputation, profession, actions, relationship with and to authority, your mother and her family, your destiny, and your ambitions
• Leo Rising: Higher education, divination, foreign travel, religion, astrology, the divine masculine, and your ability to grow, adapt, and learn
• Virgo Rising: Investment, other people’s money, debt, topics concerning death, psychology, taxes, fears, transformation, and the occult
• Libra Rising: Committed relationships, contracts, business partners, and other contractual relationships, and open enemies
• Scorpio Rising: Physical health, illness, coworkers, your job, pets, self-improvement, and the things you feel obligated to 
• Sagittarius Rising: Children, pleasure, romance, dating, sexuality, the things you desire,  the creative arts, love affairs, the ways in which you are entertained, close friends, and lovers 
• Capricorn Rising: Home, family, home life, land, ancestors, private self, your emotional foundation, gains from hidden sources, your father, and your father’s family
• Aquarius Rising: Communication, divination, short-distance travel, your neighborhood, writing, your immediate environment, the divine feminine, siblings, and cousins
• Pisces Rising: Money, possessions, resources, and how you make a living

If you’re feeling frisky, hit me up on Instagram and let me know how the astrology of the week played out for you.

Until next time, my wish for you is a quiet determination to create a reality that grows with you.

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