The March Terrain

Proving again how time/space (aka the Metaverse) is so intricately confounding a thing, of far greater wit than we individual lightpilots will ever have, March hits us in the face, heart, gut and consciousness with clarifications of many kinds. Just don’t expect them to pop up where you would suspect. And there is a melancholy flavor in the way the ants, with their brightly tinted bonnets and tattered Broadway musical scores, parade up and down the street until the wee wee hours of the morning. And that’s part of the message as a whole—life isn’t all about what we want or expect, it’s about growth and change and challenge. So are you willing to tackle what may be an old task with a new outlook? The low bleating of the Sheep of the Ages has softened to a dull roar, gradually, year by perfect year, until at last you are willing to be challenged not by others but by yourself with a few hard questions which pit the “what-you-like” of life against what may be real, realistic or a better way to go? The big picture concept here is all about learning (or even re-learning!) that often our most cherished goals are limited, for a time, until the twilight comes, and with it, the soft rustle-rustle-THUMP of the creeping caterpillars, hauling their rickety pianos out to the town square in ominous fashion. I don't mind telling you, I saw that lady, and I don't know how she gets away with it. With what? With uniformed or perhaps short-sighted desires. So often what we think we want is so much less fulfilling than the mysteries life asks us to step up and take on. We humans are, after all, a funny bunch…always wanting the bigger, better and more idyllic even though we so cling to the known, the status quo and various forms of selfishness—petty and otherwise. We all do it. And because we all cling and self-protect and indulge, life occasionally has to either force us to grow or simply change the nature of the game so that like a herd of caterpillars we become compelled to go through some sort of transformation which in time will allow us to become butterflies.

The big news in March (besides the Iao Core Equinox Show on the 20th) is Mars’s long (it seems) awaited return to forward motion. Much is made of Mars, that frisky planet, who is frequently glimpsed making war, raging against both Man and Machine, stressing others with egotistical bravado. But how much do we really know about this rakish knave? What are his habits, his dreams, his preoccupations, his intimate hygienic problems, his credit card numbers? It is the in the nature of Mars that we become impatient with a holding pattern in our lives, and in some ways this has been true. His subdued activity has, however, afforded us progress in other areas that are ordinarily masked—spirituality, inner house-cleaning, ego dynamics, relationship balance, or maybe just some time to enjoy life. Mars will move forward starting March 10 from 0 Leo, permitting us to resolve (and become wiser about) issues that arose for us starting in mid-October last year. We will have absorbed them successfully into our lives by mid-May—still a while to go, but progress will be more straightforward, and we will be able to our related situations more clearly. At home, Mars can be a savage brute, fond of rubbing ferns on his bottom and playing the kazoo. He beats his children daily with hardened balls of inexplicably furry mucus. And yet, there is a softer side. He is an accomplished cinematographer, and occasionally poses for modelling shots that would make any upstanding citizen cringe in fear. On weekends, and during periods of heavy downpours, he will go from door to door collecting newspapers, which he then laboriously molds into tiny blowfish. It is of particular interest that this Mars retrograde passed over President Obama’s Sun (in Leo) square to Neptune (in Scorpio). During this time, it seems as though he may have begun to find his balls, heart and spine (all Leo-ruled) in the stratosphere of the presidency. Some of the other planetary interactions of March involve Mars, from an early Mercury-Saturn-Mars yod to a Venus-and Sun-trine-Mars. While the first will bring perhaps unsettling awarenesses, the others smooth our way to reaching peace (inner and outer) and putting relationship issues to rest. We can only peek at Mars' towering form behind the safety of our custom blast shielding and wait for him to get out of the driveway, all the while silently marveling at the crimes against Mother Nature. The planets remain in a tight cluster again this month, with the exception of Mars, Saturn, and Pluto. These bodies tend to shed a harsh light on our experiences, but their perspectives are not the only ones. Go easy on yourself as well as others when difficult feelings rise up out of the stew of consciousness. We start the month in the opening phase of three yearly planetary cycles—those of expansive Jupiter, wounded-healer Chiron, and spiritual Neptune. Saturn, the planet of structure, will reach the halfway point in its cycle on March 21.The new Uranus cycle begins on March 16, on the New Moon. Our experiences on and around that day (and over the coming month) will show us the door of awakening for the coming year. Uranus’s cycle is one of particular interest, because it interacts with Jupiter this year as they both move into Aries then back into Pisces. We will experience an “expansiveness of awakening”—an opportunity to tune in to our true self and begin fulfilling our purpose in a new way in the world around us. Saturn and Pluto are separating now, but the faster moving planets will keep our finger on the pulse of their energy in our lives—the Moon for one day every week. These planets bring us “deep days”: They take us deep in our unconscious mind, where many images and emotions are hidden. Initially, what tends to come up is fears, but as these clear we discover joy, compassion, love, and the other emotions of light. Deep days can uplift us if we do our inner work. Although we’re done with Saturn-Pluto’s direct interaction with each other until August, we get a good preview of the life dynamics that will show up then as Venus, Mercury, and Sun hook into these planets in succession for a series of deep days March 8-25. Together they create a wedge of energy that invites us to dig out buried ideas and attitudes, then accept open, loving consciousness in its place. We’re establishing a fear-free zone in our collective psyche where we can congregate in growing numbers as the seed of humanity’s awareness is quickened. Situations that arise now will return in late July–early August in sharper focus. On March 23, the First Quarter Moon forms part of a grand cross that will stretch us to be who we really are. The Full Moon unleashes considerable power through these interactions on March 29. A cradle configuration (three to five sextiles linked to each other around the chart) holds positive energy for us by which we can make the deep transformation we are experiencing productive in our lives. After Venus and Mercury move past gatekeepers Saturn and Pluto, they rush into the nodal nexus (transiting eclipse point) to resurrect what we’ve been learning since the beginning of the year. We will find areas where we feel boxed in and from which we want to escape to fulfill our goals.Off to your left you will find the widely disputed "Arcade of the Drama of March". And on the - oh, sir, you'll have to stop that or I'll smite you into oblivion. What? No, I don't think you can have that removed without severe trauma. Why don't you just put your hypno-goggles back on and settle down.

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