This year the Aries Ingress, aka Spring Equinox, is at 1:45 AM EDT on March 20th in Washington, DC, or 10:14 PM PDT on the 19th for the West Coast. The Sun is conjunct both Mercury and Uranus, establishing a condition where our current focus of attention will be easy to communicate and that either that focus will be on something totally out of character (for us) or the method of communication will be out of character for whatever the focus happens to be.
What seeds did you plant at the Capricorn Ingress? If, for example, the seeds were connected to attitudes no longer productive, now would be a good time to put in practice the changes you envisioned. Such a change could well seem out of character for you. The Sun, having moved one quarter of the zodiac while Pluto creeps slowly along, is now square Pluto instead of conjunct him. So there may be some opposition to your efforts to focus on the changes you know you need. Pluto in Capricorn carries with it a background? pressure to break down and thus allow for the transformation of the ?old order. So the opposition you feel will likely come from people in your normal circle of friends and co-workers.
If you are starting to live the changes you’re making, they’?re a bit surprised by the “?new?” you, as there are now parts of you showing that they haven’?t seen before. These changes in your old attitudes will create a need to make adjustments, both within yourself and in your interactions with others, shown by the stressful quincunx aspect of the Sun to Saturn in late Libra. Saturn, in turn, is in a trine to both the Moon and Neptune, who are together in early Pisces at the Ingress.
The Moon in Pisces can represent your current emotional investment in achieving your hopes and dreams. Neptune, in its highest form, represents those hopes and dreams. Hopefully the trine from Saturn will help to ground those hopes and dreams and help us to make them happen. Since Neptune and the moon are both also opposite Mars, there does seem to be enough energy available to put into the tasks in front of us. Conversely, if we don’?t take advantage of the energy of Mars and the discipline of Saturn, we may waste Mar?s energy in the pursuit of unrealistically inflated Neptunian illusions.
Jupiter and Venus are conjunct each other, in Taurus. One thing that can be said about this combination is that it could easily become too much of a good thing. They complete a grand trine between themselves, Mars and Pluto. It’s typical of a grand trine that all the planets involved work harmoniously together. And while it’s also true that we often feel so relaxed about their interactions, we fail to take action in the areas highlighted by the positions of the three points of this triangle. But with Pluto and Mars being two of those points, I don’?t think complacency is an option in this case.
As mentioned above, Pluto in Capricorn sets up a background pressure to tear down old structures. Mars in Virgo (and yes, for those of you who remember that at the Capricorn Ingress Mars was in Virgo, he really is still in Virgo due to his retrograde cycle) can represent precisely focused action. So it seems that this chart tells us that we can potentially achieve positive results after the application of such action in transforming old structures in our lives that are no longer productive or beneficial to us. Of course, we have to put in the work and effort for this to be at all possible.
Since Pluto makes a square to the Sun of the chart, we’ll likely feel like there is some outward force pushing us to initiate changes, but it’s also often the case that the pressures we feel are from outside are really attitudes of our own that we?re not truly comfortable with, and hence let others “do” for us. In the instance of this chart, we would do well to come to terms with our discomfort and start making the changes necessary to realign those attitudes with the seeds of change that we planted back at the Winter Solstice.
The Spring Equinox marks the time of year when the first shoots and blooms begin making their appearance. Since the Winter Solstice chart spoke so strongly about needing to “?think globally, act locally” this chart provides us the opportunity to start acting on those issues. While it is never easy to let go of those things in our life that are familiar and comfortable, that old habits die hard, it’s also very true that sometimes those old habits are no longer useful, actually holding us back from achieving our potential. The Ingress chart?s grand trine, tied as it is by a square to the Sun, can provide the necessary ?push? to help us escape from our old routines, and give us some help in trying to actualize the changes we were contemplating last December. Be flexible.
Aries energy typically wants to charge right in and think about what and why later, this chart has a lot of mutable elements in it, reminding us that we may need to adjust our aim, and that we may be ?shooting? at a moving target. So when you feel the outward (or become aware of the inner) push, don?’t automatically dismiss or follow that pressure. Think before acting, remind yourself of the goals you set in December, and modify your actions to stay true to those goals.
