Monday's New Moon and Tuesday

FIREWEEK
FIRST QUARTER MOON
MARCH 15 to MARCH 22

The seed/ideas we have from the New Moon to the First Quarter Moon come from the kabbalistic world of Atziluth (Fire) and are the blueprints/seeds for everything that exists, has existed, and will ever exist in the physical world of Assiah (Earth), as an embodiment of the archetypal idealized apple (or a least the Core).. Fireweek is the time to remember we're in the pilots seat of our own personal Lightcraft and make some course corrections if we've veered off course. In the 13 cycle Light-specific lunar year, this is the beginning of last cycle, the Pisces cycle. To a certain extent, we've been wandering in a world between dream and reality since the beginning of the year. That is about to change. The New Moon in sensitive Pisces is usually dominated by feelings that feed imagination and spur spiritual inclinations. This one, though, is intellectually enriched by conjuncts with cerebral Mercury and inventive Uranus. Nervous energy may be high and minds could suddenly shift directions, but compassionate and creatively original thinking can lead the way to major breakthroughs in awareness. Still, communicating unconventional ideas so that they make sense to others might be difficult. Simplifying concepts could be necessary to bring them down to earth where they can help change the world.
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Monday March 15
Today’s New Moon at 2:01 pm crackles as it lights up 25°10′ Pisces, near Mercury and Uranus. Mercury conjoins Uranus to underscore the power of intuition in our process over the coming month. This will be combined with the insights gained over the past month to build our future of Jupiterian success and expansion, so take time to check inside and plant the seeds that will ripen later this year. The Moon’s final connections in Pisces occur as it conjoins Uranus and Mercury, entering its void-of-course as 5:01 pm. This still-useful period lasts until 11:32 pm, when Moon goes into Aries. The chart cast for the US is set in Washington DC, with 29°08′ Leo rising, close to fixed star Regulus. This places emphasis on leadership and the perils of pride. The overall configuration suggests that the legislature may change its pattern and pass important legislation, such as the jobs bill and healthcare reform. Meanwhile, we’re reaching an economic turning point, where the US will either swim (if the right bills and policies are activated) or sink (if
gridlock continues). The fall of the dollar is possible—all that has to happen is for the Chinese to pull the plug. While this is not likely in the coming month, actions taken now will have an impact later in the year. The Sabian Symbol for Aries 26 is “a man possessed of more gifts than he can hold.” Sometimes it is easy to overlook the wealth we have “here” and fix our gaze on what we don’t have “there”. When we look at the here, we see what can be developed. We live in the consciousness of gratitude instead of the consciousness of lack. We are possessed of more gifts than we can hold because we have attained the cosmic viewpoint, which opens the doors to abundance. This is the challenge before the US as well—to put its efforts into developing the potential that lies on its own soil—its people and the resources they can create.

Tuesday March 16
The Day of Mars in Fireweek. A Tad after midnight a lunar trine to Mars launches rockets of aspiration, but an early morning opposition to Saturn and square to Pluto could curb the enthusiasm considerably. But we are not going to bend to the will of tyrants or surrender to the dullness of daily life, oh no we are not! The Moon is in Aries all day, all headstrong and full of piss and vinegar. Aries represents the period from birth to seven months old, when as new borns, we experience everything as an extension of ourselves. Virtually all energy is devoted to having our needs met. On the World scale, Aries is between 48,000 BC and 26,000 BC, when the primitive Neanderthals were trounced upon by Cro-magnons. They were virtually identical to modern Homo Sapiens, yet anthropologists do not know from whence they came. The Aries Moon can be so enthused with it's own adventure that it might seem a little arrogant. Don't take it personally. The focus is on action, not reaction. Sobbing and laughing from the fjord to the poorhouse, the tattooed infant teethes, balancing maliciously over the sea in the jejune elephantine dawn.
Tactically, we are the proverbial dodo feather stuck between the crocodile’s teeth. The man who invented aikido was a samurai who became a pacifist & refused to fight for Japanese imperialism. He became a hermit, lived on a mountain sitting under a tree..One day a former fellow-samurai came to visit him & accused him of betrayal, cowardice, etc. The hermit said nothing, but kept on sitting--& the other fell into a rage, drew his sword, & struck. Spontaneously the unarmed master disarmed the samurai & returned his sword. Again & again the officer tried to kill, using every subtle kata in his repertoire--but out of his empty mind the hermit each time invented a new way to disarm him. The samurai of course became his first disciple. Later, they learned how to dodge bullets. We might contemplate some form of metadrama meant to capture a taste of this performance, which gave rise to a wholly new art, a totally non-violent way of fighting--war without murder, "the sword of life" rather than death. The Sun’s conjunction with liberating Uranus in Pisces at 11:50 p.m. will raise the victory sign