Power Surge - Embodied Astrology Aries Season (March 20-April 19, 2021)
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The last few weeks of Pisces Season has brought an overwhelm for many (click here to tune in with my most recent astro update, where I talk about where this overwhelm is leading). By this point, you might be carrying a backlog of unanswered (big, important) questions, or feeling the pressing sensation of immense change hanging like a fat cumulus cloud over your head. If you’ve been crying a lot, feeling uncommonly fatigued, or if you’re experiencing strange symptoms arising in your body, mood, or mental state… I just want to let you know, you are not alone! Many of us have been holding company with you.
Today, as the earth reaches its quarterly marking of the equinox and Aries Season begins, I am also happy to say that something else is on the way.
What Aries Season brings this year is energy. A lot of energy. Throughout the 30 days of the Sun’s tenure in the sign of its exaltation, it joins forces with Venus, Mercury, Chiron, Ceres, and Eris. If you were lacking confidence or clarity regarding your stance on certain issues or decisions, I can guarantee that by the end of this season you will have plenty of motivation and momentum and at least some sense of which direction you’re headed next. I should also note here, that 2021 in its entirety is a year of asking questions, not necessarily finding answers… so, some sense of which direction you’re headed next, ok? Don’t get attached to final outcomes.
Venus moves into Aries tomorrow and forms its superior conjunction with the Sun on March 25, marking the midpoint in Venus’ 584-day solar cycle. This cycle began on June 3, 2020 while Venus was retrograde in Gemini. Think back and consider what processes were initiated then that, in the past 10 months, have pulled you into internal undertakings and asked you to sort out some important issues in your inner landscapes. Relationships, values, investments, and communications are all highlights. Now, as Venus begins its ascending cycle, we are asked to take what we’ve learned and put it to use. Can you keep an open mind to possibility? Can what you’ve learned about your inner world be translated effectively? Can you actually listen and listen well to what others share with you? Can you orient through curiosity rather than judgment? In this new cycle, we are supported to understand where we stand. Only by being conscious and accountable to our positionality can we build bridges with others that will sustain our desires for solidarity and success.
Venus plays an important role in both the Libra Full Moon (March 28) and the Aries New Moon (April 11), as do Mars and the north node in Gemini and Jupiter and Saturn in Aquarius. The abundance of fire and air influences this season suggests rapid movement, catalyzing conversations, and quite potentially some significant conflict. Especially surrounding the Libra full moon, consider that any conflict or oppositional energy you find yourself engaged in might also hold important keys that can help unlock stuckness and actually deepen relationships through making space for more trust and accountability. Throughout the month, everyone benefits from taking time if things feel too heated, and orienting inwards to calm their central spaces–especially when pressed to make important decisions or speak important words.
My embodied advice this month is to take time meditating on your sense of self. Tune in with your “I-ness” feeling and especially notice what happens when your you-ness gets triggered by someone else’s stance. Reflexive instincts, defenses, and protections carry important signals. What our minds do with those signals is oftentimes another thing. If you find yourself feeling fired up, take a moment to attune with the part of you that’s surging forward. Ask your mind, “who’s talking?” and then listen through your inner body and intuition. We all have many aspects of our egos and the highest potentials this season require us to tune in to habits of self-initiation, action, and defense that keep us locked, loaded, or existing in hyper-mental states and ghost mechanisms.
If we’re awake and present in our actions and to our intent, this month’s energy can support dynamic and exhilarating collaborations and connections. Social movements gain powerful momentum and personal projects are propelled. The key is discernment. Remember, regardless of how activating, exciting, or triggering something might feel, you always have some amount of choice about how you use and direct your personal energy.
One thing I can promise you is that if you take the time to clarify your intentions and motivations, your future self will thank you for it. It doesn’t have to be a long process to listen inwards. Take a few deep breaths, get out of your head, feel into your body, locate your actual, physical center and expand that space internally. Then, ask into your motivation. You can trust impulses that feel clarifying, affirming, deep, and steady. On the other hand, sensations of urgency, hastiness, manic-ness, or the kind of instincts that have you spinning or shooting off in a million directions are all red flags. They’re probably not without merit, but there’s a good chance that something deeper needs some soothing before you’re ready to make a choice you’ll want to carry with you.
Use this season’s energy! There is an abundance of it. Use your anger, use your passion, use your will, use your desire to live the life you came here to live. Use it all and let it move you and move through you. Stay conscious of your motivations and intent and enjoy the ride.
Get focused interpretations of Aries Season’s offerings for your sign with my month-ahead audio horoscopes, linked below.
These horoscopes are sign-specific for the month ahead of ARIES Season (MARCH 20-APRIL 19, 2021). 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
Love yourself.
Love yourself.
Love yourself.
Include all of you.
Love yourself.
Then, trust your voice
and trust your choice.
Listen to the Aries horoscope for Aries Season here
TAURUS
Take time to tune out and drop in.
Let the noise of the outer world recede.
Listen inwards.
Your body will guide you.
So will the earth, spirits, and symbols.
Don’t reach for knowing. Just trust.
Knowing has always been here.
Listen to the Taurus horoscope for Aries Season here
GEMINI
How do you embody the potential you imagine?
Can you listen to your intuition
without interruption?
The work of getting present has never been more timely.
Be here now and enjoy it.
Everything you’re working for will happen
in its own time.
Listen to the Gemini horoscope for Aries Season here
CANCER
Determination, courage, and patience, please.
Measure your conviction with care.
Move at the speed of trust.
But don’t lose sight
of where you’re trying to go.
Listen to the Cancer horoscope for Aries Season here
LEO
You want freedom and adventure,
but do you have the trust you need to travel?
You want to heal and be your best self,
but are you letting others in to help?
The growth you’re reaching for is rooted
in the space inside you
that was always only love.
Listen to the Leo horoscope for Aries Season here
VIRGO
Clarity of mind is clarity of trust.
The sword of your discernment is sharpened.
Transformation and alchemy
are assisted by your precision and focus.
There is a lot that really doesn’t matter.
Cut it back, cut it away.
There is something now that needs your utmost
attention.
Listen to the Virgo horoscope for Aries Season here
LIBRA
Being true to yourself doesn’t mean
you have to be alone.
But if you’re not yourself,
then no matter who you’re with
you will feel lonely.
Take the risks you know you need to take.
Listen to the Libra horoscope for Aries Season here
SCORPIO
Breathe in with love for yourself.
Breathe out and trust.
Breathe in and let go of control.
Breathe out and trust.
Breathe in because breathing sustains you.
Breathe out and trust.
Listen to the Scorpio horoscope for Aries Season here
SAGITTARIUS
You’re learning that it isn’t always better
to go faster, alone.
When you can go farther together.
Soften your heart and let people in.
Widen your smile and open your ears.
The ways you’re growing now
in your leadership potential
require your presence, patience, and relationality.
Listen to the Sagittarius horoscope for Aries Season here
CAPRICORN
Feel your weight
connecting you to the ground.
You belong here.
You are valuable and needed.
Rest into your center.
Believe in yourself.
Listen to the Capricorn horoscope for Aries Season here
AQUARIUS
Tickle your brain.
Make mind maps.
Watch your thoughts.
Play with your words.
There is magic in your attention.
To harness it takes intention.
Listen to the Aquarius horoscope for Aries Season here
PISCES
Tune in to your central space and heart.
Listen from your source.
Visualize what you want to create.
What is it?
Listen for the deepest answer.
Notice what arises when you imagine
getting it.
Listen to the Pisces horoscope for Aries Season here
