from the chair: New Moon in Aries 23rd March

Hi everyone! Land ho!

Well, the past couple of weeks since the Full Moon have been shifting us along as the Grand Earth Trine took us into the earth energies and physical change. Along with the solar activity you may well have been feeling a variety of strange physical symptoms. The digestive and nervous system may have been stirred up by the Virgo moon and possibly compounded by the solar activity and Grand Earth Trine.

However there has been an incredibly beautiful flowing peaceful energy coming out of all this with the ongoing connection between Jupiter and Venus. The universe is preparing us to shift gears from this coming week and the foundation of these past weeks of earthing energy will stand us in good stead. That doesn’t mean we’ll be taken back into conflict...unless we need to be. The earth energies are the launch pad for our firing up the rockets of desire and ambition!

It’s Aries time! Hope this doesn’t drive you mad...it’s a little frenetic! That’s Aries energy!

Becoming our own best advocate: Baby let me light your fire!!!! It’s all about the igniting fiery Aries energy, the first sign in the zodiac, the one that is up and running before others have thought about it. Aries doesn’t stand back and wait for everyone. It’s called to lead and it doesn’t shy away from dangerous terrain. It’s the adventurer, the warrior calling us into stepping into new ways of being, doing, living. It takes risks, is impetuous, impatient and capable of arousing couch potatoes to take action they never believed possible.

Where we’ve been...’In the doldrums’!: It’s probably just what we all need feeling as though we’ve been travelling on our sailboats...in the doldrums...no wind to carry us forward! We have been travelling...just very, very slowly.

Quote from ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean.

Water, water, every where,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink.

Well the winds of change are coming through when first the Sun, then the Moon join Mercury and Uranus in Aries.

20th March: Sun moves into Aries 4.14 pm AEDT Autumn equinox (Southern hemisphere)

...off the couch all potatoes!

The equinox in Aries marks the beginning of the solar astrological year. So, if you didn’t feel you made inroads on January 1st or on Chinese New Year, this is another chance for the fresh start. You’re likely to notice a marked shift in energy, not just away from all the ocean of emotion in Pisces, but in the finalisation of certain aspects of the past astrological year as well as the past Piscean month.

Action stations...yes! But slow and steady is the pace!: The sun represents our masculine, outward looking and acting energy. After the past month of inward looking, Piscean energy, we’ll feel a dramatic shift with fiery life force returning. We’ll be motivated to take action in the physical world and in our physical circumstances. However, as we take action we’re likely to feel the purifying, healing energies of Mars (ruler of Aries) still retrograde in Virgo as it calls us to take it easy and act in our own best interests with respect to stability and security. This is not likely to be a battle as we’re now so much more attuned to impulsive, reckless Mars being tempered by the protective energies of Virgo caution.

Prepare to launch your own personal rocket ship! A beginning to the New Year and your own personal hopes and dreams!

Just a reminder of a message from Lauren Gorgo/The Pleiadians last year that we should notice some difference in our lives by the Equinox although the bigger change will be around mid year ( we have eclipses at end of May and early June as well as the transit of Venus in June...change, change and open hearts!)

20th March: Sun meets with Mercury and Uranus in Aries...The domino effect ...3 days later the New Moon joins in...the dominoes will fall, one after the other!

Mercury is speed even though it is retrograding. Uranus is lightning wildfire. The sun is our extroverted masculine energy and in Aries doubly so!

At the expense of mixing metaphors, fuelled by fire we’ll feel like kicking over the traces and all it will take is one domino to fall to upset the status quo...you know, that energy that’s been holding us back with the ropes of the past. These three planets together will get things on the move and prepare us to welcome the Aries New Moon.

Dark of the Moon: From the time the Sun enters Aries, we’ll be entering the 3 day period called ‘the dark of the moon’ as it leads up to the New Moon in Aries on 23rd. This 3 day period is a release time, 3 days releasing the past Piscean lunar month and all its residue energies. Often, we’ll find that the last energies of a sign can pack a final punch...be aware of this. We are saying goodbye in a final release.

How will be releasing?...words and more words: With Mercury, Uranus and the Sun together, expect to hear/speak/write/read words that need to be expressed/heard, in line with our ‘I am’ truth (Aries Sun). Because it’s the last 3 days of the lunar year (Pisces is last zodiac sign) I imagine the words will be words that have been waiting for some time, held in, waiting for the cosmic energies to provide words of absolute truth. These words may offer surprises, insight, even shock...all Uranian energies. But they are words which will clear the air and set down a new foundation for ourselves, relationships with others and the world.

23rd March: New Moon in Aries, 1.38 am AEDT at 3 degrees Aries...Reach for the sky! It’s all about ME! I am that I am!

It’s a New Moon, so a fresh start to a new lunar month on top of which, being Aries, it’s the lunar beginning to the astrological year...a bit like New Year! It’s like starting a new exercise book at primary school...a blank page, waiting for our creations. With the moon involved there’s an igniting of your personal passion/s. You know the feeling...fire in the belly ready to burst forth.

Uranus and Mercury in kissing distance to the New Moon and Sun: Messages, new ideas, inspiration and guidance abounds...clarification about right action!

With the New Moon, we’ll have the Sun on the same degree and Uranus and Mercury bunched together with them. Because the Moon is our introverted subconscious self, expect the unexpected to surface from the subconscious, from the memory banks with guidance on how you can move your life forward. Listen to the messages of your inner voice about yourself and what you have to offer the world.

Expect the unexpected in your life...synchronicity and manifestation is on offer. Be ready to go through new doorways!

24th March: Mercury retrogrades back into Pisces until April 17th:Treading the grapes, purifying the emotions, finding our voice...our glass of wine awaits!

We’ve only got a few days of re-treading the grapes until 4th April when Mercury moves direct. Hopefully, if we’ve done a good job in the grape press, the wine will be ready for drinking! it’s all about finding ‘me’ amongst the masses!

We’re reviewing and ensuring that we’ve done all the clearing we need to do. We are in a 5 year (2012) so the throat chakra and thyroid is our healing focus.

With this energy alongside the Aries energy, we’ll probably find ourselves finding and separating our own particular ‘voice’ from that of the collective. Ask yourself if

you are repeating words absorbed from the collective unconscious like a well trained parrot or are you speaking your own truth from your ‘I am’ presence.

Neptune and Chiron in Pisces (water energy) long term: Continuing healing of the emotional wounds of the collective...we are all in this together!

Forward Movement:

Upcoming Dates give some guidelines as to when we can expect things to start getting moving.

In particular, 4th April when Mercury moves direct and Venus moves out of Taurus when we’re likely to feel a lightening of the body work we’ve been doing.

14th April when we’ll all be happy to see Mars move on. Mars in Virgo till July means we’ll still be dealing with physical changes and healing. How much depends on us and the way we personally need to process.

Upcoming Dates:

4th April: Mercury direct

4th April: Venus in Gemini till 7th August

7th April: Full Moon in Libra, 5.18 am AEDT at 18 degrees Libra

14th April: Mars direct in Virgo

Well folks, that’s it for the time being.. Enjoy the liberating influence of the Aries energy. It’s the beginning of the feeling of a shift forward which will roll on into the next few months.