Heavens Above
Celestial Indications
for MARCH 2004

by Jani Allan

Aries
March 21 - April 19

This month both solar focus and gabby-mouthed Mercury are positioned to unleash something from your private vault. Since the quality of your fire sign energy is cardinal, an up rushing, active fire and vital force, skeletons could literally jet out of the closets. Or you may choose to reveal something startling about yourself that is sure to have the neighbors’ lace-curtains twitching.

With Mars in your second house, chances are that you could find yourself in a Martha Stewart situation. Or even more dire, you may be caught by the usherette at the Royal Cinema complex while sneaking into a second movie without paying.

Archetypally you are the Mortal Hero; whereas other signs could be mortified by personal revelations, you see them as a perfect opportunity to live your motto: “I am.”

Consider using the New Moon on the 20th to commence an (extreme) personal makeover.

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Taurus
April 20 - May 20

With Mars and Venus in your first house for most of the month you could find yourself, as the Cockneys would say, in some Barney. (Barney Rubble = trouble).

The trouble is that a Mars truly doesn’t give a fig what anyone else thinks, while Venus, on the other hand, feeds off the love and approval of others for a sense of self-worth. (Aphrodite could not possibly survive without a crowd of adoring youths at her feet.) Few people realize that beneath your bombastic exterior beats a petal-soft heart with a tremendous secret dependency on the love of others for a sense of self-worth.

Still, you have the fighting power to joust with dragons in order to enrich and beautify your life.

Around the 19th, you may have to face the choice of finding that fine line between being giving and understanding to the one you adore or allowing yourself to be treated as though you had “Welcome” written on the back of your coir pullover.

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Gemini
May 21 - June 20

Until the 20th you will be taking care of business and burnishing your legend. Your career may take leaps and bounds and for the first time you can set long-term goals. Mercury, the chatterbox communicator, is inclined to matters of business and commerce and you will be talking like a recently released Trappist monk.

On the 15th Mercury squares Saturn and you will find that instead of being a mere accumulator of other people’s values, facts and opinions, you are gradually processing information and building your own belief system.

Do remember to catch your breath! Since Mercury rules the lungs, the connection between breath (spiritus) and consciousness is obvious. Too much oxygen leads to hyperventilation. You may decide to join a yoga class in order to learn pranayama, a complex and highly scientific method of breathing which enables one to reach higher levels of consciousness.

After the 21st you will have enough self-confidence and the energy to build a couple of pyramids.

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Cancer
June 21 - July 22)

You have a longing to explore the far pavilions. Should you pack your polka-dotted scarf and set off down a less traveled road? You yearn to live according to your life’s higher philosophies.

But Stick-in-the-mud Saturn is still retrograde in your first house. You feel as though you are being toyed with by Miss Fate – and a rather unpleasant Miss Fate, it seems, too.

Life, it seems, is as exciting as being in a boarding house on a wet November Sunday in Llandudno with the only telephone kiosk broken.

Fail to fret. Saturn represents the way you program your universe at the deepest, most fundamental level. Perhaps the ‘losses’ that you perceive are things that you don’t really want or need.

New Moon on the 20th will flood you with the immense possibilities of life. Ideas, plans, expectations, new chapters, preparation of the ground are the keynotes. Reclaim yourself and release your addictive attachment to fear of the unknown.

Make that transition into a new story line. Or give a quirk to an existing tale.

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Leo
July 23 - Aug 22

Solar focus is on the eighth house – the house that Freud built – and Jung moved into. This is the house that governs our attitudes towards sexuality (eros) and death (thanatos)

From around the 4th when the Sun, your ruling sign, opposes Jupiter, your ability to deal with the uncut, uncensored (and possibly untalented) facts of your life will be tested. What, a Leo that is untalented? I hear you gasp. Perhaps. But only if you look really hard. If you have the bottle to do this, you will find yourself in a place of confrontation with your unconscious and all its guilts and shames.

You are undergoing an intense session of psychic therapy - not something gilt-edged, 24-carat showoff Leo likes to do.

Remember that consciousness of shame and the reason for it can open the golden doors to redemption.

The loveliest lilies grow in mud.

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Virgo
Aug 23 - Sept 22

Scientists have instruments delicate enough to measure the tide in a cup of tea. It is ridiculous to assume that the water in human bodies is less sensitive to such a pull. Even for steel-spined Virgos.

The full moon on the 6th is in your first house and solar focus is on relationships for most of the month. Full moon is the prime time for spiritual/psychological breakthrough and growth. This is a time of potential revelation and truth. (It is said that Sakyamuni Buddha attained enlightenment on the full moon). Chiron, the wounded healer, is in your creative zone the whole month inviting you to think of new ways of thinking and being.

Early in the month when cheeky Mercury opposes Jupiter (retrograde the whole month), you wonder if the promise of expansion will ever become a reality. While waiting for your number at the deli counter of life, you are, despite everything, developing a more philosophical approach.

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Libra
Sept 23 - Oct 22

It strikes you just as you are struggling to unload the washing machine (its funny how the sheets get so twisted, isn’t it? Like huge sopping wet pretzels); whatever happened to Auntie Muriel’s sherry glasses? And that silver samovar! Didn’t she promise them to you? You feel as though your life is a Vermeer painting. All chores and the mundane minutiae of daily life that diminish the soul – without the dramatic lighting.

You will be doing a great deal of inner bookkeeping. Tit-for-tatting, awarding of Brownie points and a tendency to be dissatisfied by over-comparing your contribution with that of others. Don’t let minor miseries clutter your mental mantelpiece.

Your ruling planet Venus is in the house of relationship until the 5th. Love could take on a sheen that you didn’t expect. Mercury darting into the Hello Darling zone around the 12th could produce a flurry of billets doux (love letters). Solutions to a difficult relationship could present themselves.

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Scorpio
Oct 23 - Nov 21

The Sun is shining very brightly indeed, since it is in the fifth house – its natural home.
What a fabulous month! Romance, love affairs, fun and amusement. All the ingredients of a good political campaign.

Your ambitions will be high. You will find yourself seeking center stage to show off the ingenuity and creativity of your latest project.

You are in the mood to take emotional and physical risks, whether blindly or by calculation. You have an inherent taste for – need, even – for danger (sometimes to life and limb), which is achieved through hazardous sports or gambling in the widest sense of the word.

With Mars in your seventh house much energy will be directed into partnerships. You may decide to aggressively pursue a new relationship. It is wise to remember the 7th is the house of projection; what we admire in someone are really our own positive values.
Your ruling planet Pluto is in your second house causing you to investigate your ability to generate resources.

There is an excellent potential for a new business venture, perhaps building up your own empire from scratch, or simply making a lot of money.

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Sagittarius
Nov 22 - Dec 21

Solar focus is on your home until the 20th. The vitality and self-expression of the Sun will find a positive outlet in the creation of a good home and a happy family life. Familiar surroundings instill a sense of security. You will be as happy as a baby beaver in a toothpick factory, just pottering around the house, reorganizing your sock drawer and planting those spring bulbs.

So stay at home. Why, even watching Dr Phil on the telly is a form of no-carb nourishment. The Full Moon in your tenth house on the 6th will have you musing about
what success really is.

Whatever your chosen field, you attract attention. Your flair and sense of the dramatic seems to be on hold this month (Jupiter is retrograde in the 10th house). Spend the month consolidating your real strengths – the ability to view the long term philosophically and practically. Your aspirations are high and as they are conquered, worldly wisdom grows.

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Capricorn
Dec 22 - Jan 19

Your tendency to show off and take assertive action – often prematurely – is a cover-up for inner fears of inadequacy. Chiron is in your first house, inviting you to see what part of your psyche needs nursing. Only by healing yourself can you heal others.

Possibly there were restrictions placed on you in early childhood. When emotions are blocked they will break through with a torrential force. You have great charisma and potential for leadership, but you may be spending too much time using nervous energy to influence others. Controlling these enormous resources and giving them free but positive direction is essential.

Since solar focus is on your immediate environment, start by modifying your day to day thinking and your interactions with relatives and neighbors.

Saturn in your relationship zone indicates that there is a heaviness in your relationships. It’s time to realize that while single people grumble at being single, the responsibility of a partnership is an even greater burden. Are you ready to step up to the plate?

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Aquarius
Jan 20 - Feb 18

The theme of your tapestry remains resources. Both solar focus and your ruling planet Uranus are pointing at the house of possessions. Is this going to be the theme of your life? At times you feel as though you can’t even get the two ends together to introduce them, let alone meet.

You are acutely aware of lack and feel an urgent need to accumulate and consolidate. This is a time of planning, working to plan, and seemingly endless discussions and negotiating of agreements. At times you may feel tinges of boredom and impatience with the status quo. There is scope here for an argument with life. Perseverance is called for.

There is a spark of promise and you have quite rightly scented hope in the air.
Around the 19th Venus (the vamp on the chaise lounge nibbling chocolate truffles), squares up with the cosmic awakener Neptune reminding you that it’s time for a reality check.

Your life is in your own hands. Best you keep a firm grip on it.

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Pisces
Feb 19 - Mar 2

Pisceans are notoriously humanitarian and Christian associations with the fish are many. Since Early Christian times, the “logo” of Jesus Christ is two curves of the fish. The disciples were said to be ‘fishers of men’; the Bishop’s miter (hat) is in the shape of a fish head; even the word ‘Episcopal’ has a fish hidden in it.

But this month, Saintly One, the flame of your characteristic compassion and love for humanity can safely be turned down to a simmer. Solar focus encourages you to steam ahead and concentrate on your sweet self, rather than concern for the hapless Haitians and who knows who else.

On the 4th when Mercury conjuncts with the Sun, you have a unique chance to translate your impossible idealism into innovative plans. Your non-linear mental agility will have people cheering from the curb. The rewards of trail blazing manifest in heaps of self-esteem and a happy bank balance.

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