It is possible to move through space at high speed without sensing it so long as the rate of motion is constant. An airplane leveled out and cruising in mid-flight is one example. The briskly spinning Earth swiftly orbiting the Sun is another instance. Moving through a typical period of two weeks between eclipses (as we are now) can be a similar experience.

As next week begins, however, you should get a sense of motion through your life thanks to Mercury and Mars. Both planets will change signs as Monday segues into Tuesday. As result, what has been constant about the rate of your experience will probably change.

Some things are likely to speed up. Other things are looking to slow down. Either way, all things will be more manageable for you if you can discern what parts of your life correspond with Mercury and what parts correlate with Mars. That way, you can anticipate changes in the rate at which things move for you and either accelerate or decelerate along with them. 

Mercury will probably correlate with parts of your life that experience acceleration next week, when it moves from Pisces into Aries at 9:44 pm EDT Monday (01:44 UTC Tuesday). That’s partly because Mercury’s apparent motion actually is accelerating at this time and will continue to do so as it gradually catches up with the Sun for an exterior (or “superior”) conjunction at 19+ Aries on April 10.

Additionally, Mercury is bound to express itself more energetically in the fiery element and cardinal quality of Aries than in Pisces. As you have probably experienced since Mercury entered Pisces back on March 13, introversion and introspection have been the mental order of the day more often than not. A lot of that has to do with the fact that Pisces opposes Virgo, one of the two signs (along with Gemini) where Mercury rules the roost.

Hence, Mercury has been a proverbial stranger in a strange land for nearly two weeks. After Monday, however, both your mind and its means of expressing itself (which, among other things, is what versatile Mercury represents), will probably quicken. You may, however, want to think twice before quickly acting on those thoughts.    

That’s because Mars will leave Aries behind to enter Taurus at 12:26 pm EDT (16:26 UTC) Tuesday, less than 15 hours after Mercury makes ingress to Aries. Hence, there will be an implicit disconnection between Mars (a planet of action, among other things) and Mercury. 

What’s more, by moving out of Aries (one of the two signs Mars traditionally rules, along with Scorpio), Mars will by definition be losing at least some of its vaunted swagger and mojo. The fact that Taurus opposes Scorpio reinforces the notion that Mars and its symbolic energy will be somewhat grounded in the earthen element and fixed quality to which Taurus corresponds.

Finally, when you consider that Taurus is ruled by Venus (the neutralizing complement to Mars for astrologers), you have a rather conclusive image of deceleration for all worldly manifestations of the Martian archetype. Chances are it would do you far more good than harm to go with that flow by not aggressively forcing your concepts onto others or into the world.

Therefore, next week will almost certainly be an appropriate time to think more quickly while acting with greater restraint. By doing so, you will stand a reasonable chance of maintaining at least internal equilibrium and progress even if external events function along the lines of stop-and-go traffic.

As a bonus, moving through your life while mindful of what Mercury and Mars are doing will give you a better read next week regarding how far you have come since the solar eclipse of March 20. Even more importantly, you will better know how far you have to go before emerging on the other end of what promises to be an ever more eventful journey to the lunar eclipse on April 4.

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To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
— William Blake (from “Auguries of Innocence”)

The big picture of astrology right now is that the big picture is changing. We are in a relatively long transitional phase for the sky, and probably for your life as well. The extended transition will consist of a succession of smaller tableaus and shorter periods. Each are somehow related to, even may possibly contain, the big picture on a smaller scale.

Implicitly then, one way to deal successfully with a larger issue or a longer period now is to break it down. The indicated protocol is to take one thing at a time, each at its appropriate time.

Fortunately, astrology appears to have emblematically broken things down for you, at least in time. Longer timeframes have recently defined themselves more clearly, and each contains a shorter transitional period within. 

Currently, one of the longest well-defined timeframes in astrology has to do with Uranus and Pluto. For years on end, Uranus in Aries alternated retrograde periods with Pluto in Capricorn so as to return to precisely 90 degrees of separation (the definition of a square aspect) seven times. This particular series of square aspects gets part of its meaning because it follows the conjunctions of Uranus and Pluto, which shared the same degree of Virgo three times about 50 years ago during the eventful transitions of the 1960s. 

Well before and between their seven exact squares over the last several years, the angular relationship from Uranus to Pluto remained close enough to precision to be considered functionally continuous. That continuity has been astrology’s big picture for this decade so far, manifested in the big picture of what has changed for you and how those changes have tracked with what has been going on in the world at the same time. 

As of today, the square from Uranus to Pluto is still exact to the degree, and will arguably remain functional for a couple years more. Nonetheless, a point of no return to any further precise square aspects has been reached. That is how it’s not the end of an era — not yet. It’s the beginning of a transition from one era to the next, a signal for you to commence in kind.

Within the transitional period from one era to the next implied by Uranus and Pluto, Saturn is now in the midst of taking months on end to transition from a long continuous time in Scorpio to a long continuous period in Sagittarius.

As was the case with Uranus and Pluto remaining in continuous square aspect for so long, Saturn’s change of sign is being prolonged by a retrograde. Even now, apparent reverse motion is taking Saturn back to Scorpio for a short visit after the first of two incursions into Sagittarius.

Since Saturn correlates with form, order and structure, there is the implication that the new historical era the world is transitioning into (following the last of the Uranus-Pluto squares) is in the process of defining itself while Saturn oscillates back and forth between signs. This indicates that redefining who you are is the key to transitioning from one era of your life to the next.

During the prolonged period Saturn will require to finally begin more than two continuous years of residence in Sagittarius, the Sun will move through several seasons, breaking the process of gradual transition down even more. You should therefore take each new season as a step toward redefinition.

Finally, concurrent with the most recent change of season (on March 20), you entered what will probably be an eventful transitional period for consciousness. It began with last Friday’s conjunction of Sun and Moon for a total solar eclipse, and ends with a total lunar eclipse when the Sun and Moon oppose on April 4. Hence, the first step toward redefining yourself should begin by somehow raising the level of your consciousness.

Breaking the journey between eclipses down further is what distinguishes this first week in that period. There are two astrological events this week bracketing what issues you should be dealing with now, so as to better grasp and deal with larger issues of longer duration. One event is near the beginning of the week, the other near the end.

Amanda Painter broke the first event down for you in her column yesterday: the Pisces conjunction of Mercury and Chiron.

As Amanda delineated, Mercury briefly sharing the same degree of Pisces with Chiron earlier this morning carries specific implications about what you believe about yourself and where those beliefs come from. Since Mercury’s apparent motion is relatively fast right now, it would be appropriate for you to be both mindful of what you have been conditioned to believe and willing to move on from it. Thus, rising to a new level of consciousness requires you to first let go of the old level.

The event near the end of the week — the lunar first quarter this coming Friday — symbolically illustrates what releasing any attachments to conditioning would entail.

Every first quarter Moon is the template for any separation of 90 degrees following a conjunction. That would include the currently transitioning square from Uranus to Pluto. Looking at things that way, you could fairly say that the lunar first quarter this coming Friday represents the proverbial grain of sand, in which you could find much of this entire decade broken down into one relatively small and more manageably scaled event.

As it has been since the season changed following the total solar eclipse last Friday, the Sun will be in Aries for this coming Friday’s lunar first quarter. The Sun in Aries (where it is exalted) implies all forms of conscious declaration that begin with the phrase “I am.”

The Moon, in turn, will be 90 degrees away in Cancer for the lunar first quarter as this week draws to a close. The Moon in Cancer (where it rules) represents all forms of emotional assertion that begin with the phrase “I feel.”

The separation of 90 degrees between a conscious declaration of what you are and an an emotional assertion of how you feel indicates tensions between the two. As is always the case with square aspects, that tension can only be resolved by action. In this case, that means acting to release any emotional attachments to what you are so as to transition to something else.

In other words, set yourself free. It’s a small thing. It’s a brief moment. Nonetheless, in such small things new worlds are conceived. In such brief moments eternity is found.

So there’s the gist of your astrology this week. To see heaven implied in the wild flowering of a new season and to realize (make real) the infinity a mortal hand can hold.

You can do it. It’s the reason you are here now. No action will be too small so long as it is conscious. No effort will be wasted so long as it is made anew.

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You are about to enter another dimension. You ingress tomorrow to emerge on April 4. It will be a dimension not only of Sun and Moon, light and dark, but of mind. You are moving toward a portal of unprecedented potential, limited only by your imagination, resilience and will. This will be a journey to which you were born — through The Eclipse Zone.

Cue the tinkly music, that’s the facts. Going back more than three centuries, no solar eclipse (much less a total solar eclipse) has taken place in the last degree of the zodiac – the final degree of Pisces. Tomorrow, it happens at 5:36 am EDT (09:36 UTC).

The two closest such occasions during the past 300+ years were in 1765 and 2007. On March 18 or 19 of 2007 (depending on your time zone) there was a partial solar eclipse at 28+ Pisces, precisely square Pluto at 28+ Sagittarius.

On March 21, 1765, there was a partial eclipse at 1+ Aries, during the last time Pluto was in Capricorn. Interestingly, Uranus was in Aries at the time as well. Tomorrow, however, will implicitly be an entirely different dimension from any experienced by anybody else for centuries.

So relax if you will, and get yourself ready to both refresh your recent experience and transcend time with this guide to your impending journey.

Eclipses usually take place in pairs. The solar eclipse always occurs during a New Moon (Sun and Moon in the same degree of the same sign) that is in the vicinity of a lunar node, either following or preceding a lunar eclipse by about two weeks. Whichever eclipse (solar or lunar) takes place first can be considered an entrance. The second eclipse of the pair can be considered an exit.

In between, it’s a zone. Each time it’s different. Nonetheless some generalities are always applicable.

Between the opening and closing eclipses, one big general rule applies: the more you participate with conscious awareness, the more probable a desirable outcome.

As regards to influencing the outcome of a journey through any eclipse zone, you can generally expect at least three things. To begin with, it is probable that there will be some loss. The more consciously and actively you participate, the more likely you will lose what you want to get rid of anyway. Choose what you lose, and the chance of feeling loss as a hardship will be lessened.

Next, patterns are likely to begin and/or end. Once again, your awareness will allow you to be more the changer in charge. If you leave things to chance, the patterns you emerge with may not be such a good fit for your frame of mind.

Finally, between entering and emerging from an eclipse zone, you can expect to travel farther (literally or figuratively) and experience a more eventful life than would normally transpire for you during two weeks. Therefore, have an itinerary in mind and make up your mind to get off it periodically for rest.

So, what makes this pending eclipse zone different? First, it begins tomorrow with the only solar eclipse in centuries to take place within 24 hours of a Vernal Equinox. Implicitly, that unprecedented synchronicity gives you a chance to try or accomplish as never attempted or done before in recent history. The same applies for entities (such as the USA) that have been around less than 300 years.

Another very unique thing about this eclipse zone you are about to enter is that it begins and ends with total eclipses. A total solar eclipse tomorrow (visible from the east side of the North Atlantic and Arctic Ocean), and a total lunar eclipse (the fourth of four in a row) on April 4. Hence, think total. Jump in with both feet. Give your all. Be all you can be. Do all you can do. Or, as a viable alternative, totally recover, recreate and revive yourself.

Those are the basics. That should be all you need for your impending journey. It will be best to pack light, and before you depart to consider carefully your good fortune to be alive now.

Consider if you will a fortunate individual. That individual being you, about to enter another dimension. Not an realm of fate, but a milieu of choice. Not an impending doom, but an anticipated dawn on a new horizon. A tableau mediated by both light and mystery. This fortunate individual is about to go where none have gone for a very long time — on an unprecedented journey into The Eclipse Zone.

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Len is available for astrology readings. You can contact him at lenwallick [at] gmail [dot] com.

Simply being aware of astrology may be more or less all you need now. So, simply take it in and roll with it. As of this writing, Uranus has just started moving away from a final trial with Pluto, and Venus has just entered Taurus. Friday, you enter the portal of a total solar eclipse, not to emerge until April 4 with a total lunar eclipse.

Those are just highlights, and you are aware of them. How lucky you are! Think of all the people who are unaware of the monumental astrology going on. Contemplate how billions are unconscious to all but the most obvious cycles of Sun and Moon in the sky.

Yet, most of those billions manage well enough. Does that make astrology moot? Probably not. It’s very possible that most people can pick up some cosmic information in the moment, on a level other than that of conscious awareness. That information in the sky, usually corresponding to Earthly cycles and trends of which astrology is both an indicator and a part, is often more or less perceived at any given moment in intuitive and instinctual ways.

But what a difference to be consciously aware! Instead of improvising in the moment, you can appreciate how any given moment fits into your whole life. You can take in information in advance using the timeframes astrology provides. Astrology allows you to roll with every moment’s unique opportunity as the residue of your conscious preparation.

One timeframe, opened in 2012, is closing. An extraordinary series of seven square aspects (separations of 90 degrees on the zodiac and in the sky), from Uranus in Aries to Pluto in Capricorn, is behind us. Nobody will see the like for a long time. Probably not children living today, and possibly not even their children will be able to take in what you have spent the last three years (more or less) rolling through.

Take it in. Roll with how you were (and are) among those aware of Earth’s orientation to Uranus and Pluto. Count yourself as one who consciously correlated Earthly events in context. Let your act of knowledge be part of what you remember, and how you are remembered as the years roll on.

Another much shorter timeframe opened earlier today. Venus entered Taurus shortly before 6:15 am EST (10:15 UTC). Taurus is one of the two signs Venus rules, along with Libra.

Given that Taurus is a fixed earth sign, bright Venus as its ruler confers a natural correspondence with matter made animate — such as is the case with your living body. The more-or-less annual tour Venus takes of its Taurus domicile is an indicator to do your best to take into your body only what you can trust to make you brighter and more lively. It’s also a good time to trust that whatever experience you take in will be retained in the physical center of consciousness your body represents.

Venus will remain in Taurus until April 11, and during the entire time it will continue to rise higher and higher above twilight at the end of each day, dwelling ever longer in the night sky. As weather permits, go out after sundown and look for the steady brilliance of Venus in the West. Take it in. Roll with it. Let it be part of all you now are, and all you are aware of.

Viewing the steady climb of Venus as an evening beacon will serve you well as you enter new and multiple timeframes more or less simultaneously on Friday. The first timeframe begins with a New Moon in Pisces, which will open up a month (more or less) known as a lunation — until the next New Moon in Aries on April 18.

Because the Sun and Moon will conjoin in the last degree of Pisces on Friday, the New Moon will also be more-or-less concurrent with the Vernal Equinox, which will precipitate when the Sun enters Aries hours later. Since the Aries equinox represents the beginning of a season for all of us (and the start of a new year for some of us) a longer time frame will open at essentially the same time as the Pisces lunation.

Finally, Friday’s New Moon will also be a total solar eclipse. Because of this, a potentially much longer timeframe (as much as two decades) will open with the lunation, with the new season, and with the new astrological year.

That’s because the lunar nodes take nearly 20 years to make a complete cycle of the 12 signs. The lunar nodes are two opposing points on the zodiac and in the sky where, more or less, the Sun and Moon must conjoin or oppose to make eclipses happen.

So take it in this week as you stand on the threshold of one era, symbolized by Uranus and Pluto in a prolonged separating square aspect, plausibly beginning its end. Take it in as another ostensible set of timeframes are only now starting to open, like a fruit, wrapped in a flower, inside of a bud.

Let your awareness record this time in your conscious correlations. Allow your consciousness to observe this time in your body. Permit your natural proficiency as a child of the universe to prevail, and trust yourself to discover somehow your reason for being here now.

In spite of all that might trouble even the most blithe spirit, astrology indicates that now is an exceptional time to be alive. Simply show that you have taken that in and are rolling with it, and history will surely and somehow be made by you in this life.

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Len is available for astrology readings. You can contact him at lenwallick [at] gmail [dot] com.

Saturn stations retrograde just short of 5 degrees Sagittarius shortly after 11:02 am EDT (15:02 UTC) Saturday. When it shifts into about five months of apparent reversal, Saturn will not convey the same sort of symbolism contained in the astrology of preceding days.

Saturn has not the same energy that Mars brought to a merger with Uranus in Aries yesterday. Nor does Saturn’s turnaround imply as immediate a change as does Mercury’s ingress to Pisces tonight (following two long months of Mercury pinging back and forth in Aquarius).

That’s because Saturn’s apparent motion is far slower, and its expression in your life far more glacial than planets closer to the Sun.

Nonetheless, Saturn both abides as long and accrues as surely as the months, years and decades through which its correlations become solidly apparent for you. Hence, you would do well to observe on Saturday when Saturn puts the “stationary” in “retrograde station” to begin a deliberate, final return to Scorpio.

Notice what happens on Saturday that is different in some way from the rest of this week. Make a record of those differences somehow. Save your observations to review after Saturn finally retreats away from the degree of Sagittarius where it has lingered so long — and when, in direct motion, it eventually comes back.

The timeframes go something like this: Saturn entered Sagittarius late last year (Dec. 23 for most of you reading here) for the first time since 1988. As is often the case with outer planets (and was the case for Saturn in 1988) it was only the first entrance, as if to reconnoiter and report back to Scorpio before finally committing to Sagittarius for more than two years.

After the Dec. 23, 2014 ingress Saturn made impressive progress for a slow planet before moving into the 5th degree (alternatively expressed as 4+ degrees) of Sagittarius on Feb. 9. After that, Saturn’s apparent motion slowed down so much it has been in that same degree ever since.

That’s because Earth has recently been coming around the bend of its orbit on its own long way to eventually pass between Saturn and the Sun. Earth laps Saturn every year. Not because our planet moves faster than Saturn (at least not so much faster as to account for the perceived difference). Rather, because we have the inside lane — the shorter path around the Sun, making us only appear to move faster than Saturn.

It’s the same distortion of perception conferred by our current position relative to Saturn that will make Saturn appear to retrograde (move in reverse) beginning Saturday. If you have ever passed a train on a track parallel to the highway your automobile is traveling on, you know the illusion well. As your auto overtakes the locomotive and its entourage, the train first appears to slow, then go backwards until your vehicle has left it behind.

Because Saturn is so far away from us, both the apparent deceleration before evident reversal and the acceleration backing away from the point of retrograde station are very, very slow. Hence, Saturn will not leave the degree of Sagittarius occupied since Feb. 9 until April 17. After that, things will pick up.

Saturn returns to Scorpio through the back door in the middle of June. After that, Saturn will regress to the 29th degree (28+ Scorpio). At that point another long period of all but standing still will precede a resumption of direct motion as August begins.

Midway through September, Saturn will enter Sagittarius through the front door a second and final time for this go-around through the signs. Finally, as this year draws to a close (on Nov. 9 to be exact), Saturn will return to the point where its 2015 retrograde began.

That’s how you should make plans for November. Even though Saturn will not long abide in the same degree of Sagittarius at that time, it almost certainly will have accrued its correlations to any observations you may make this weekend. It will be worth the effort, and worth the wait to witness what Saturn’s retrograde has wrought and what it means for you.

Ideally, the time and effort invested this year will inspire you to both abide with and contribute to what Saturn accrues during its retrogrades in years yet to come. If you can bring yourself to do only that, Saturn will thereafter be more truly yours.

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Len is available for astrology readings. You can contact him at lenwallick [at] gmail [dot] com.

As this week progresses, astrology’s focus (and yours) must necessarily widen to take in Mercury’s next move: an ingress to Pisces. Mercury will enter Pisces at 11:52 pm EDT Thursday (03:52 UTC Friday). That’s big news made all the bigger by the fact that Mercury has been in Aquarius a long time — since Jan. 4 or Jan. 5, depending on your time zone.

Mercury is a versatile archetype, expressing in many ways. Among other things, Mercury has to do with mind — your mind in particular. Also, Mercury correlates with the means by which thoughts and other more tangible things move in the world.

How Mercury expresses has a lot to do with the sign it’s in. Signs are to planets what costumes are to stage actors. A change of costume nearly always implies a change of role.

Regardless of where it is on the zodiac, Mercury’s role in your life has been made all the greater in this century because of the influence electronic media (an extension and expression of mind) has swiftly taken on in the world.  

On average, Mercury’s apparent motion around the zodiac circle is significantly more swift than any other celestial object except the Moon. It usually takes Mercury only a bit more than two weeks to cross from one sign cusp to the next. Hence, only a retrograde entirely within the bounds of one sign can keep Mercury acting in a single costume for more than two months.

Mercury retrogrades are common — usually three times a year, about three weeks at a time. Three weeks in reverse motion functions to take Mercury forth and back and forth again over the same arc of the zodiac three times, in a cycle lasting nearly two months. Visualize three swipes of a windshield wiper on your automobile (except in very slow motion) and you get the picture.

It is not quite common for the three swipes of any given Mercury retrograde cycle to take place entirely within the confines of one sign. It is not every year that all three Mercury retrogrades are that way. This is one of those years.

The last such year was 2012, when Mercury was first retrograde entirely in Pisces, followed by a series of swipes limited to Cancer, concluded by a cycle confined to Scorpio. All told, Mercury spent half of 2012 in those three water signs. This year, it’s the air signs: first Aquarius, then Gemini and finally Libra.

For the time being, however, Mercury is about to leave both retrograde experiences and an airy milieu behind. Soon, Mercury (and, by implication, all in your life that it corresponds with) will begin manifesting through an entirely different raiment — Pisces. It will probably take some getting used to.

What you might anticipate is something akin to discomfort — at least at first. For example, being able to hear yourself think could conceivably (and rather suddenly) become more of a challenge. That’s how you might want to work some regularly scheduled quiet times into your life by Friday. You may even want arrange some quiet space to be in over the weekend

Similarly, a discomforting message or two may come your way over the next couple weeks. If that should happen, respond so as to make things easier for yourself. Procrastination in reply will almost certainly not be a viable option. Conducting your communications consistently and carefully so as to assuage others will encourage returns in kind.

Also, as mundane as it may sound, Pisces (as a water sign) implies how all things Mercury will soon be more subject to immersion, both literally and figuratively. Since tangible water is rarely compatible with electronics, take precautions.

If it is your habit to take a cellular phone into the bathroom, try calling a moratorium on that practice. Likewise, keeping your beverages on a surface separate from your keyboard would be prudent. Finally, if by some chance you indulge in alcohol during what remains of March, you might want to refrain from dialing anybody or sending anything until sober — unless you are calling a cab or a designated driver to get you safely home.

Fortunately, with the exception of delicate electronic devices and heavy machinery operated under the influence, nearly everything else Mercury can be associated with is usually very resilient. After more than two months of Mercury in Aquarius, your mind will probably have regained its sea legs in a matter of days.

Nonetheless, it has been a long time. It would be helpful if you were aware of that. Mercury has a major part in your life. Accordingly, it makes sense to think ahead a few days, and plan for a significant transition of that role as Thursday segues into Friday.

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Len is available for astrology readings. You can contact him at lenwallick [at] gmail [dot] com.

The astrology immediately following today’s Virgo Full Moon (at 1:05 pm EST / 18:05 UTC) feels almost like being in love. Not in the sense of being dreamy and ecstatic, unfortunately. More to do with the consequences of being in love. More like feeling compelled to change your life by making room for other imperatives, different priorities, a new way of being.

Much like falling in love, some things may come out of the blue. The idea is to accept them. Also akin to the experience of love, it will probably be much better in the long run to feel your way in rather than to analyze yourself out.

The short run of astrology that implies being in love is underway already. It will continue over the weekend and into the first half of next week. You might break it down into two parts or phases.

The first part will be the meeting. That is to say, the Sun’s more-or-less annual conjunction with Chiron. As it has been for a handful of years (and will be for as many years more), that conjunction will consist of the Sun sharing the same degree of Pisces with Chiron for a day.

That day will be Sunday, March 8. Appropriately enough, the same day most people in the U.S. will be compelled to set clocks ahead for daylight savings time.

Appropriate because love at first meeting can temporarily deprive your heart of a few beats just as the advent of daylight savings time results in the temporary loss of an hour. Either occurrence can throw you off stride for a while.

Also, conjunctions do represent (among other things) a new beginning. When objects merge on the zodiac, they start a new cycle that will then move through all of its stages before yielding to yet another cycle.

In the case of Sun conjunct Chiron in Pisces, the initiation of a new cycle will implicitly serve to make you more deeply conscious of both the complexities and the entanglements that falling in love (among other things) brings up. Accordingly, and combining the swift apparent motion of the Sun with Chiron’s tendency to get your attention, you might experience something suddenly this weekend. A bit more probable is that you might feel with intensity.

All of which segues neatly into the second part or phase of the astrology following today’s Virgo Full Moon: what you might call (with a nod to the late, great June Carter Cash) a ring of fire.

Just as with the Sun’s conjunction to Chiron, the ring of fire is functional now, even as the constituent aspects apply towards precision. Hence, just as with new love, your life will likely grow more intense in days to come.

What is, with some loving license, referred to as a fiery ring is developing. The peak will come on Monday and Tuesday, as Mars advances through the sign it passionately rules — Aries. The Martian advance will precipitate a grand fire trine.

The grand fire trine will consist of Mars conjunct (sharing the same degree of Aries with) Uranus while still in trine aspect to both Jupiter (retrograde in luminous Leo) and an intriguing object called The Great Attractor in smoldering Sagittarius.

A grand trine looks like the points of a big equilateral triangle on the zodiac circle, invoking a rolling, flowing, inertia. The metaphor of flow works with any grand trine, whether connecting the three fire signs (Aries, Leo and Sagittarius), the three earth signs (Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn), the three air signs (Gemini, Libra and Aquarius), or three water signs (Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces).

However, when it is the three fire signs so connected, and when the constituents are emblems of passion (Mars), volatility (Uranus), expansiveness (Jupiter) and polarity (the Great Attractor), falling in love is one of the few appropriate experiences to cite when anticipating the astrology following today’s Virgo Full Moon.

Therefore, the protocol for putting the astrology of the next handful of days to work for you. Honor your feelings for sure. There will be no need to repress yourself. Simply take the word “honor” seriously.

Perceive your vulnerability as well as your volatility. Respond with passion and respect in equal parts. Grow into what you experience. Carry the day instead of getting carried away. No matter how the astrology of the next five days expresses for you, express yourself so as to later be proud of what you have done and what you have found.

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Len is available for astrology readings. You can contact him at lenwallick [at] gmail [dot] com.