posted March 24, 2014 08:11 AM            

In the early part of the week, we figure out what we want to do with the information that has rocked our world. Our decision(s) will inform our actions over the weekend as Venus steps forward, after seeing things with a new perspective. Venus communicates her desires to those we are in relationships with (including ourselves). We take appropriate action. We set boundaries and structures into place.

Finally, there is a New Moon next Sunday, officially starting the spring season. The New Moon kicks off eclipse season. The eclipses are coming! The eclipses are coming!

The Cardinal Cross continues to tighten. In any situation you find yourself in, the four planets will be present, creating a cross of decision in your life. Take time to determine who is wild and crazy Uranus in Aries, expansive and related Jupiter in Cancer, power struggling or controlling Pluto and passive aggressive Mars. Shift roles if you don’t like the role you are assigned in the situation you find yourself in. You can change up your role by consciously working with the energy that is above our heads.

The information you received over the past three weeks and the decisions you make THIS week, will become the basis energy for the upcoming eclipse season. We finish up the eclipse from last November and start a New cycle on Sunday. Get ready! Change is upon us!

The Week’s Highlights!

Sun in Aries is very focused on clearing up old emotional energy patterns and situations in preparation for the New Moon in Aries on Sunday. Stressful but clarifying. Don’t be afraid to look! Nothing more cleansing and disinfectant than a healthy dose of sun shine!

Mercury in Pisces until April 7 means Fluid feelings! Mercury has at A MINIMUM 28 aspects that take place in the Sun’s blind spot. Dreams are incredibly important as is the energy of what is going on behind the scenes, behind your back or how you undo your own best effort. Your thoughts can undermine your ego and your options. No paranoia! Call the sad, depressed or suicidal folks you know ~ remind them it is just a transit which will end very soon. Swamped feelings prevail! Important connections, communications and pivotal visions or dreams can take place this week! Process, Process, Process!

Venus in Aquarius is active and hopping with activity. She‘s inspired by Jupiter to new ideas, heights and aspirations. She’s healing some old wounds. She’s harnessing envy and turning it to her own advantage. She trines Mars so is clear about what he needs to do for her. She squares Saturn and sets some major boundaries, frames, structures and limitations in place. Conditional terms perhaps but she knows what she wants. The girl is working it!

Mars is moving backwards until May 20, 2014. He is quiet, retreated into the cave. Men, Scorpio and Aries planets and houses are in retreat, moving away. He has a note of clarity next weekend, but mainly slogs along this week.

Jupiter demands a change in our relationships.

Saturn is quiet and stewing over the partnership and relationships issues brought to his attention last week. This week he figures out what to do about it by Saturday March 29. Time for things to change!

Uranus either blows up or commits to a relationship on Tuesday March 25. Either way, things are changing!

Chiron’s is still processing the information received over the past three weeks. He figures out what to do with the information after Wednesday. See the pattern for what it is AND understand what you have to do to nurture yourself to health and wholeness!

Pluto faces power stuggles in partnerships at the end of the week. Use your power wisely and for the greater good.

Black Moon Lillith stations to go retrograde on March 24, 2014 making issues of subservience and independence or freedom points of conversation this week.

Juno and Ceres argue with Vesta and Pallas ~ the feminine fights! Eris enters the mix to throw a bit of Envy into the stew! Back and forth all week! The entire world continues to feels like it has a bad case of PMS….Premenstrual Syndrome ~ ESPECIALLY the men as Mars is going backwards in a feminine sign and feeling picked on, detached and uncared for! Watch for jealousy and double standards! Retreat to your Man or Woman cave as needed! Sometimes it is better to be in a nasty mood and sulk by yourself than inflict it on the rest of us! Perhaps you can HIDE in your Man or Woman cave where they can’t find you….

Void Moons in the Week Ahead: When the Moon is Void, it is wise to avoid making important decisions as they tend to be unrealistic, and subject to false starts, errors or unexpected hassles. Avoid being concerned with things beyond your spiritual center. It is time for subjective, spiritual and non-materialistic concerns. Kick back, let life flow and center yourself. Connect into your essential oneness with the Universal Forces.

Moon goes void Square to Mars on Tuesday March 25, 2014 at 08:35:45 am EDT and Moon enters Aquarius on March 25 2014 at 06:39:59 pm EDT. Moon is void all day on Tuesday.

Moon goes void Tri Mars on Thursday March 27, 2014 at 09:14:14 am EDT and Moon enters Pisces on March 27, 2014 at 08:11:30 pm EDT. Moon is void all day on Thursday.

Moon goes void Tri Saturn on Saturday March 29, 2014 at 09:45:06 am EDT and Moon enters Aries on March 29, 2014 at 09:54:41 pm EDT. Moon is void all day on Saturday.

The New Moon on Sunday is at 9:59 Aries. It starts eclipse season off. It runs a 30 day cycle from New Moon to New Moon. It also starts a longer phase family cycle. The opening quarter moon will be on December 28,2014. The Full Moon will be on September 27, 2015. The closing quarter will be on June 27, 2016. Track your larger projects across these dates.

The Sabian Image for the New Moon on Sunday March 30 is A TEACHER GIVES NEW SYMBOLIC FORMS TO TRADITIONAL IMAGES

Lynda Hill’s interpretation of the Sabian Image is:

Commentary: ‘A Teacher Gives New Symbolic Forms to Traditional Images’. This Symbol shows someone who can take a thing or a situation and transform and update it. The ‘Traditional Images’ can be ideas, objects, icons, beliefs; things we are familiar with. That a ‘Teacher Gives New Symbolic Forms’ shows the ability to restructure, reinterpret and present them more in tune with the times. It indicates a need for a fresh and revitalized perspective on things. This is what Marc Edmund Jones and Elsie Wheeler did with the Sabian Symbol “experiment”. Dane Rudhyar took the Symbols a step further, giving them further depth and insight.

Oracle: In the situation facing you there’s a need to analyze and perhaps rewrite what has been observed and learned in the traditional roles we live out. Things may need a new interpretation to bring them up to speed with today’s thinking. Someone in this situation may have truly original ideas, but there’s a possibility of holding these back, feeling it has all been done before. The message here is to allow yourself to be creative and look for modern answers, seeing things in a different light or from a different angle. This may lead to realizations you have never even considered or imagined. Bringing out something new will revitalize your situation and affect those around you. This can bring new understandings about people and the way things work. There could be a revisioning of how one sees something like marriage, work, relationships, education etc. Sometimes this requires one to be daring, to “step outside the box”. Don’t stick to limitations of your own or those others place on you. You may have to make a stand against those in a higher or more exalted position that think they know more than you – perhaps they don’t. Be prepared to take a different stance or look at things from a new and fresh perspective.

Keywords: New dimensions breaking old thought forms or behavior. Quantum science. Innovation and re-creation. Working with educational tools. Finding new inspiration. Being “ahead of one’s time”. New-age consciousness. Ideas out of the past for the future. Sticking one’s neck out. Rewriting the book.

The Caution: Rejecting old ideas because they are old instead of reforming them. Throwing things of worth out, without examining them. Having little respect for things that are really worthwhile or traditional. Sticking with the tried and true, no matter what. Thinking that no one will be interested in your ideas.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. Herman Melville

Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself. James Stephens

Adam was the only man who, when he said a good thing, knew that nobody had said it before him. Mark Twain

It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end as superstitions. Thomas H. Huxley

Half my life is an act of revision. John Irving

Moon day Monday March 24, 2014 Moon is in Capricorn and goes void Square to Mars so today and Tuesday end on stressful or argumentative notes as relationships which haven’t been working out have decisions made about them. Moon goes through the Cardinal Cross and stimulates it at 10:44 am EDT in a separating but probably ultimately good aspect to Jupiter, at 12:26 pm EDT with a stressful, argumentative but action taking aspect to fire Uranus and at 2:57 pm EDT with a power or forceful dynamic joining with Pluto. Ultimately, the decisions made today end or release things that need to go. GET RID OF THEM! Lots of dreams last night stir up your emotions. Keep track of your dreams as the heavens are talking to you! Especially if they inspire action, changes or emotions around family or groups you are a member of! Chiron’s aspect to nurturing and relationships suggests you don’t want to do it the same way you used to. So change! Sun’s contraparallel to Chiron means that even if people are wounded (or you are wounded) by the changes, they actually are for the better for all concerned. No unnecessary suffering. No points for pain. Move it along.

Mars Day Tuesday March 25, 2014 Moon goes void Square to Mars at 08:35:45 am EDT and Moon enters Aquarius at 06:39:59 pm EDT. Moon is void all day on Tuesday. Today we emotionally process the changes from yesterday. No backtracking or changing your mind. Health matters bloom. Watch for emotional news early in the morning or more informative news that helps confirm your choices. Expect the fog to clear. Unusual folks splitting up or unexpected divorces or separations make the news today. Unusual partnerships form too!

Mercury’s day Wednesday March 26, 2014 Moon is in Aquarius and Moon goes void Trine Mars so the next few days are quite productive and inspired. Dreams tonight are about partnerships or relationships forming or guiding you towards wisdom. Watch for guidance and inspiration. Mercury’s trine to Jupiter makes today a great day for making connections and getting deals done that you want to close or propose. Bonding and connections take place that will go forward with enthusiasm and abundance. Don’t ask the other to sacrifice what they believe partnership to be ~ allow and encourage independence from subservience and control. Healing words arrive. Allow yourself to believe things are possible. Approach situations with gratitude. Adjustments with the Sea take place as Sedna gives up her secrets from the depths.

Jupiter’s Day Thursday March 27, 2014 Moon goes void Trine Mars at 09:14:14 am EDT and Moon enters Pisces at 08:11:30 pm EDT. Moon is void all day on Thursday providing you with the opportunity to connect and follow up on agreements made yesterday ~ do the paperwork ~ but don’t send it off until Friday. Clear out your system, home, office and body ~ great time for a cleanse of inner and outer spaces. Partners or relationships that are wounded or wounding need a bit more space between you and them. You don’t have to “end” the relationship but you do need to adjust HOW you approach them, connect or relate going forward. They are NOT going to change unless they want to. YOU, however, CAN CHANGE. Saturn in Scorpio has been asking us to really understand our deeper relationship patterns so we can evolve, become conscious and change our approach, especially when it is not working any more. You can’t be selective about your consciousness ~ you can’t pick and choose where you want to be conscious and avoid the other places. Responsibility in relationships ~ and Saturn is all about responsibility ~ Saturn demands that you understand how your behavior contributes (or contributed) to the relationship situations you find yourself in. Today, on some deeper level, there is a break through. When it happens, know that you didn’t do anything wrong. You did the best you could based on where you were at the time. Now that you are in a different place, you are going to do things differently. That is evolution!

Venus’ Day Friday March 28, 2014 Moon is in Pisces and goes void Trine Saturn so today is particularly profound in helping you move through to the next level. The trine helps you connect and clarify what emotions are talking to you about especially in areas where you are responsible for maintaining relationships or connections to others. Mercury is exceptionally busy during the early morning while you are sleeping and all through the day. Dreams are profound and deeply illuminating. Mercury’s aspects with the Nodes of Fate bring forth important connections and ideas which, while they might be stressful or unsettling, help you see things you hadn’t seen before. Mercury’s sextile to Pluto is good and offers fertile ground for new ideas to bloom and grow. Pluto’s argument with Juno breaks down the last resistances around how to proceed. You get it and are clear what you have to do. So time to do it. Well, actually you will be doing it over the next two months as we enter eclipse season on Sunday. The clarity and ideas from THIS week, fueled by the revelations of the prior TWO weeks, shift your reality into overdrive. Choose wisely. Avoid fear based choices. Be your best you. Sun’s argument with Saturn today advises that your ability to shine your best life rest entirely on your commitment to understanding and working with your deep hidden energies. You might be tempted to take a short cut today in communicating. Take EXTRA time or space to clarify all communications and conversations ~ either written or verbal. People are prone to mishear or misunderstand. Health matters take a turn for the worse mid-day so address them aggressively. People can be extra irritated today as they are feeling strong emotions and are perhaps not as clued into astrology as you are. The swirling feelings will clarify tomorrow and over the next few days as relationship pressures or decision points are being reached. Don’t expect folks to agree to be less than they think they are… today you will get big kick back. My friend Sharon had a boss at Pepsi who made her take a number of things she had accomplished OUT of her performance review ~ “You don’t want to look like you’ve done so much…”. When she agreed to it, I protested ~ “But you HAVE done so much!” Don’t let anyone steal or diminish your accomplishments today or over the next few days. You are who you are. You’ve done what you’ve done. Take credit for your past accomplishments and solid, good tasks you have performed today. No hiding your light under a barrel!

Saturn’s day Saturday March 29, 2014 Moon goes void Trine Saturn at 09:45:06 am EDT and Moon enters Aries at 09:54:41 pm EDT. Moon is void all day on Saturday. Today we process yesterday. We also harness Venus and take decisive actions or have clear events that make us go “hmmmm, You want me to not take credit for what I have done?” No more ducking. No more not being your full light and shining brightly. Gotta let your light shine! And shine BRIGHT! It can shine bright if and only if you come from a place of love. Today Venus is particularly active as she forms a number of aspects around her desire nature. Her desire nature is, of course, YOUR desire nature as she wakes up YOUR Venus with her aspects. So pay attention to all matters under her ruler ship today ~ even the ones that feel a bit “minor”. We start the day with very troubling or vivid dreams last night, probably waking in a bit of a bad or depressed mood. No fighting upon awaking ~ take that energy and do something wise with it. Venus cooperates with Envy and Discord in the morning. Immediately after that, Mercury reaches a bargain about ending something. Venus then rocks the rest of the day as she trines Mars and gets him to go back and get her what she wants. Next she squares Saturn creating a conflict and a bit of a drama about what she DOESN’T want to have happen. Once all that takes place, Mercury and Neptune, buddies in your disturbing dreams or news from last week, get busy too taking you emotionally higher. This is definitely the choice moment.

Sun’s Day Sunday March 30, 2014 Moon is in Aries with a lovely closing aspect to Venus offering the emotional clarity to work for what you desire. We start the day off bright and early with Mars fighting with his sister, Eris. Jealousy and envy can pop up out of innocent remarks. To the best of your ability, ignore the crabbiness. Dreams last night held some tense energy which can spill over into day. Release the dream stress by writing them down. Venus doesn’t want to be submissive anymore and will argue or leave to get her way. The energy can be rather spiteful if you (or they) don’t get what you (or they) want. The New Moon today is tied to the fight next month between Venus and Mars as well as the upcoming Mars station on 9 of the cardinal sign Libra on May 20. The degree of 9 cardinal is going to be a hot point for a while. The New Moon holds the promise of the new vision of your life. Embrace it. No more halfhearted gestures. You are in or you are out. It is your life. Let’s take time on this New Moon in Aries, the beginning of a New Spring, to commit to looking at your life and taking action around your choices with a firm, clear, focus on where you want to go. Moon in Aries sets off the Cardinal cross by joining with the Sun at 2:45 pm EDT, squaring Jupiter and stimulating abundance at 5:08 pm EDT, joining with Uranus at 6:45 pm EDT to shock, surprise, break through and amaze you and squaring Pluto at 8:46 pm EDT to end the day with a bit of a power struggle or argument about who does what to whom. Keep your decision and vision firmly grasped. No subservience. No making your needs less important in the situation than their needs are. Patterns and partnerships will be adjusted and asked to permanently shift. Over the next 6 weeks, we enter eclipse season. This is going to be a very powerful eclipse season where you will be asked to put in place all the needed changes in your life discovered since November 2013. The eclipses are coming! The eclipses are coming!

Anne’s Four Radio Shows and Two Recommended Shows Recap: Listen in to the podcasts via ITunes or by the website links.

Anne’s Weekly Weather: Lots of information delivered by Mercury in Pisces talking to the cardinal cross planets. By next weekend, Venus demands you take action and do something. A New Moon at 9 Aries marks the beginning of Eclipse season. You’ll take the information from the past few weeks and combine it with the action steps of this week to handle the upcoming eclipse energy.

Scorpios Talking: Michael was not feeling well and we delayed our broadcast to Friday morning as Anne was traveling.

The Mary Anne Show: No Mary Anne show as Anne is traveling.

Access Astrology: All three were on the air ~ taking calls from listeners.

Venus Unplugged: Llorraine Neithardt with Venus lessons for all!! For Jungians, dreamers, poets and visionaries this podcast helps with your individuation.

CG Jung Speaks! There are great readings from Jung! Tune in! Kendrick Norris, Ph.D. reads excerpts from Jung. Working on individuating? Listen in!

I will be speaking on “Tertiary Progressions” at The Great Lakes Astrology Conference in Ann Arbor, Michigan on April 11 to 13, 2014. To register or for information on the conference and the excellent line up of speakers: http://greatlakesastrology.com/

Lynda Hill’s work appears with her permission. Check her out at sabiansymbols.com

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