Transcending "I" - Embodied Astrology for Aries Season (March 19 - April 19, 2020)
Hi,
I wish I could see you. I’m imagining your face, reading this, or maybe not reading this. Do you open these emails? I don’t really know.
I wonder how you are right now? I wonder what you’re doing, and how your health is, how your family’s health is? I wonder how you are faring during this strange time when so much is wobbling? I wonder how your heart is–not necessarily the actual organ, though yes, that too–but, you know, the place where you care from. How is that?
It’s the equinox today and I’m in North America. Which means that today the day and night are equal lengths, which means that tomorrow the daylight will be just a few minutes longer, and the day after tomorrow the light will last a few minutes longer again. It means that Spring is here and Summer is coming and Winter is now in the past until it’s in the future again. I went walking this evening in the long dusky light and watched hundreds of ducks congregating on a lake. The muskrats were busy and birds were chirping and I was amazed that only a month ago the whole lake was frozen over (I could walk out onto the actual middle of it!) and I was thinking about my friends in South America and wondering what it feels like for them to be moving into Autumn.
In astrology-land, today marks the beginning of Aries Season. Because the kind of astrology I’ve learned was conceived in the north, I think Aries is given to this season because of how it feels when the sun finally comes back after a long winter. You know that feeling? It’s like a supercharge, fuck yeah!, spring into action, grab the day, open your eyes, breathe deep, pound your chest, holler at the top of your lungs, take off running down the street, tear off your clothes, ravish each other, rough and tumble, maybe get in a fight, climb a mountain, kick down a door, barge in, that kind of hug where you jump up on a person and tackle them, then tag-you’re-it, take off tearing down the street again, hop on a motorcycle, do something risky, do something heroic, listen to loud music with all your friends in the car with the windows rolled down smoking joints no seat belts who-gives-a-fuck, laugh in the face of danger, then because it’s dangerous and the moment is now, fall head-over-heels crazy romantic in love.
An image for Aries Season. Morgan Lemes photographed by Gabz Tosi for the EA Bodies Project
I’ve been thinking about how much we need Aries energy now, but also how much we need its opposite, Libra. In this weird moment, when everything is breaking down and no one knows what’s going to come next, we need the fierce optimism and bravery of Aries and we also need the gentle considerations and social finesse of Libra. We need courageous warriors who refuse to live in a box under anyone else’s rules. And, we also need fierce companions and communities that work righteously for the good of all.
What impresses me most about Aries Season this year is that (along with marking the beginning of the astrological new year) it marks the beginning of a very significant change. In the traditional methods of astrological time-keeping, we are nearing an end (which is also a beginning) of a 200-year cycle. The cycle we are leaving could be considered synonymous with the Industrial Age. This cycle has promoted accumulation of personal wealth, materialism, fossil-fuel industries and hierarchies of authority. The cycle we are moving into suggests a shifting of values from materialism to intelligence, communications, science and social cohesion. Astrology doesn’t speak to “good” or “bad,” just energy and potential. Where we go and what we do with this new cycle is up to us.
“Us.” What a concept! Sometimes I think I know what “us” is, but most of the time, I don’t. Beyond our similar classification as homosapien. Beyond the fact that everyone lives in a body and therefore, needs the things that bodies need, like water, air, food, shelter and maybe companionship… I really don’t know what makes “us.” But, I think that something does. And, sometimes I think that maybe what it is, is actually our differences. Maybe, today I’d like to imagine us as stars. Apart and part of the same spinning galaxy. Each one burning and emanating radiance, forming constellations, and when we die, leaving trails of light that streak through the sky.
Thank you for being here with me.
In solidarity, with love,
R
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These horoscopes are sign-specific for the month ahead of ARIES Season (March 19-APRIL 19, 2020.) Check your sun sign to understand more about your inherent nature and ego, your rising sign to understand more about what's going on in your life right now, and your moon sign to understand more about your relationships and emotional landscape. Horoscopes are poetic pieces of mystical suggestion. Take what works and leave the rest. Use the affirmations as questions, metaphors, and reminders.
ARIES
One step at a time.
Every day, every moment brings you closer,
to recognizing your purpose and living into your potential.
Remember, you are a warrior!
May the battles you engage be those that result in greater healing,
larger love and more fabulous connections.
Listen to the Aries Horoscope for Aries Season here
TAURUS
Still your mind.
Listen. Listen. Breathe.
There is an abundance of support and guidance
pouring in through the empty spaces
and the immensity of all that it is unknown.
Listen to the Taurus Horoscope for Aries Season here
GEMINI
I am You and Me are We.
Us is All and They are Now.
Connecting in is reaching out.
Conversing out is inquiring in.
Life is Art and Art is Life.
There is no separation. No, none at all.
Listen to the Gemini Horoscope for Aries Season here
CANCER
Your sensitivity is your strength.
Your truth is your tenderness.
Please, be the new kind of leader we need.
Elevate us with your open-hearted vulnerability.
Listen to the Cancer Horoscope for Aries Season here
LEO
We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.
Together we have the answers. United we are the wisdom.
Let’s come together and play in the chaos.
Let’s wiggle and wrangle and wrestle with our humanness.
Let’s connect in our disagreements and agree on our connections.
Let’s believe in ourselves by believing in one another.
Listen to the Leo Horoscope for Aries Season here
VIRGO
Imagine
if coming face to face
with your shadow,
was a promise of your commitment
to seeing the world shift
into peace.
Listen to the Virgo Horoscope for Aries Season here
LIBRA
Relation-ships & Relation-shits,
sometimes they sail, sometimes they stink!
The destination is the journey, my love.
Be available for the ups, downs, in-betweens and unknowns.
Lead by following and follow by leading with absolute honesty.
Keep. It. Real.
Listen to the Libra Horoscope for Aries Season here
SCORPIO
If you haven’t already,
learn to wake up in your dreams.
Practice lucidity of mind
so that you can remain curious and empowered
when nothing makes sense.
Listen to the Scorpio Horoscope for Aries Season here
SAGITTARIUS
It’s something about who you are and where you’ve been.
No one else could do this but you.
It’s something about what’s important to you, and why,
that creates this fire, this passion, this fury.
The way you know
that who you are, where you’ve been and why it matters
is exactly what connects you to the rest of the world
and everyone in it.
Listen to the Sagittarius Horoscope for Aries Season here
CAPRICORN
You’ve come so far, to be here now.
Stay for a while.
Remember the steps you took.
And the journey, with all its twists and turns.
And all the ways it shaped you.
Pause long enough, so you can watch,
as the new horizon in front of you
expands.
Listen to the Capricorn Horoscope for Aries Season here
AQUARIUS
Rather than crush you under their weight,
let your concerns rise up underneath you, as support and foundation.
Seek the wisdom of others who’ve walked this path.
Work skillfully with your mind and thoughts
so you can direct your intention and awareness effectively.
Listen to the Aquarius Horoscope for Aries Season here
PISCES
Make surrender your practice.
Open in your awareness to the vast expanse of unknown
and potentiality that arises
from chaos.
Like Octavia said, “God is Change.”
If you can’t control the outcome, then it’s best to ride the wave.
Listen to the Pisces Horoscope for Aries Season here