March 2008 Forecast

By Gwynne Mayer
(ongoing classes in astrology at UTLEC)

The March forecast is full of information regarding the trans Saturn planets and their activities (Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Chiron and Pluto). These planets definitely affect us all in a personal way, depending on our natal charts so the forecast will be general to the signs mentioned. If you know your chart and know the placements, then it will be easier for you to make sense of what is happening on a more specific level of understanding.

We have just undergone a Lunar Eclipse at two degrees of Virgo, while Saturn is also sitting within conjunction of that Eclipse cycle which lasts until August 16th. This affects those closely aligned with that conjunction in a way that demands taking care of the physical body, so that the soul body can achieve and do its work. This is no easy time for you do to this, because you have deadlines and a need to focus on 'what is happening now'. Diet and rest are very important now, more than any other time for those who are in proximity of these degrees. If you know the house this falls in, then you must focus accordingly on that house and those specific projects. It also affects, in opposition, square, sextile and inconjuncts, to other planets, but mainly the other mutable planets in Pisces, Sagittarius and Gemini. The push is on and this is no time to procrastinate your soul's purpose in life, but you must focus now more than ever and not be distracted by your own laziness.

Aquarians and Leos are responding to the Chiron/Neptune in Aquarius transit and this is affecting them in their healing of self and the soul body. The two are very connected as more channeling of information regarding healing, comes into their dreams and mediumistic connections. This is a spiritual awakening, especially for those born between February 5th and February 18th, the same for those born between August 2nd and 21st, especially the Sun, Ascendant or Moon sign in those areas. The planetary vibrational level is moving at a very high momentum and is affecting all around us, so the need to reach for our highest spiritual goals is a necessity right now more than ever. It isn't the time to sit back and wait for 2012 as the time is NOW! Learning to heal oneself, by going into the inner shadow world is important and not misinterpret what others are saying to you as well as what you are saying to yourself. To make this more profound the nodes of the moon are also in Aquarius and this marks a destiny point for most of us no matter what sign we are.

Uranus is in the sign of Pisces and has been for the last few years. It takes approximately seven years to transit a sign. This is a real wake up call for most who have this planet going across their Sun, Moon or Ascendant in Pisces and ups the vibration to a point of a shock to the system, meeting some new individual who brings maximum change into one's life, causing a paradigm shift of great magnitude. It is a time of great reorganization and total 'wipe out' to lazy energies that have been at a corporate level all they way down to a personal level so on a universal level, you might see some changes in the way political movements fold and reorganize to a degree that we have never seen before. We are going through this somewhat in the USA.

Pluto is now moving into Capricorn and will be leaving the Sagittarius alone for a while, all but the latter degrees of Sagittarius. This has a deep affect on our unconscious and brings up a total purging of falsities that have existed in our own collective unconscious as well as those in the media. I know that those of you born between December 19th and December 23rd know exactly what I am saying here, however Pluto affects this planet more than we know (even if it has been discovered to not be a 'real planet'). We must really read beyond the propaganda that is put out in politics, on the internet, in our reading materials, in our own unconscious and in some of our deepest fears. This is a hard one to handle, but the fact that Pluto is finally moving into a more grounded earth sign is remarkable, and hopefully will change the way we have been doing things thus far.