Horoscopes for March

by Eric Francis Coppolino, February 25, 2009

Aries (March 20-April 19)
As people and situations disappear off the radar, you might ask where they are going. And while you are asking, I suggest you take their fading out as an opportunity to simplify your life. You have good reason to do so, namely that it will provide you with opportunity to focus on one aspect of your personal goals that will lead you to the most satisfying and moreover authentic success. But herein reside the core issues, of which there are three. There is one dimension of accomplishment that is connected to what you feel you deserve; there is another with how high you set your goals; and another connected to how much discipline you can muster. You need to work on all three aspects of yourself at once. There is one additional challenge—your most meaningful objective or goal may, at the moment, be mixed in with much other activity that obscures it. So the first thing you must focus on is discernment, and part of that is about knowing yourself. This is the thing that is given lots of chatter in our world, and many people claim possess have this pearl of great price. This month, I will leave you with a question: assuming you feel you possess deep self-knowledge, how would you know if you did not?

Taurus (April 19-May 20)
Your sign is renowned for its ability to resist, and to persist. Yet there are times you may find yourself resisting what you want the most, and persisting at what you want the least. Events of the next two months (and indeed the next two weeks) seem determined to teach you one thing, which is your true objective in life. Will you notice it when you finally have the information, or the gut feeling? This is question of awareness, but also a question of how you deal with originality. Here is the Paradox of Originality, as I see it. When you finally figure out that you want to do something that’s never been done, you reach a juncture. This is the place where you must decide if you’re capable of doing something that has no preset plan; no precedent; no pre-approval by the world; and no guarantee of success. In a sense, one problem is solved and another few are created. Your commitment level is tested, and you can confront the moment of being in a place without a map—and that includes rich inner territory without any prefabricated guide. The truth is most people would rather run. It’s easier and generally works better, that is, if you don’t care.

Gemini (May 20-June 21)
The angle of your chart that is pumping megavolts of power is the one where you meet the wider world of ideas and of possibilities. It’s the house of going past your mental limits. To get there, you need to do at least two things. One, throw away, dissolve, or step out of the contracts in relationships that do little other than create those limitations. Your life in that case consciously would become about something more than hooking up with that one special person. This supposed goal takes the place of every other goal, which keeps you locked in your past and terrified of the future. The second thing, as far as I can see, is figuring out the extent to which you allow yourself to take action on ideas you suspect other people won’t approve of. As in most matters, you will be coming at this from two distinct viewpoints: for example, one that wants to blaze out and be absolutely yourself; and another that will want no part of anything like that. Please don’t make the mistake of spending more time fighting yourself than you do expressing yourself. Remember that just because something is acceptable to others does not mean it’s not worth your time. Just because part of you rejects an idea does not mean it’s the wrong for you.

Cancer (June 21-July 22)
If I am not mistaken, the whole concept of making deals probably revolts you. It’s not that you don’t like success; it’s that you don’t like thinking of it in terms of a hustle or a game where one person wins and another person loses. And it’s likely to be even more irritating that so many people walk around with such an idea of success—that it implies failure by someone else, or anything other than a situation where everyone benefits. A lot of people do in fact lose in these situations, and plenty more cheat to get a piece of the action, and this does in fact hurt people. And most of it is simply an addiction not to wealth or excess, but rather to the feeling of greed. Therefore, your primary objective this month needs to be thinking some other way. There are in truth many other ways available to us. What you may discover, as you experiment with them, is not so much a distrust of win/lose situations, but rather a distrust of situations where you come out ahead at all—and the time has come to leave this particular worldview in the recycling heap of your psychic history. To accomplish this, note that you don’t have to do things a lot differently, only a little differently. And this is not about being different—it’s about being who you are.

Leo (July 22-August 23)
Clearly this is an unusual time in your life, though the universe has yet to reveal its true colors. You may not understand the motives of someone close to you, or why they need to be so zealous about what they are trying to accomplish. Remember that not so long ago they had that moment when their ideas seemed like sage wisdom; but you may be having your doubts. This is understandable enough. Most of us would rather live in a laid-back world where things just happen. In the human realm, nothing just happens; everything is connected to intention and volition. Even the choice to be unconscious is an option. The situation you are looking at is rapidly driving itself in the direction where awareness is the only option, and that awareness would be very useful coming from you. You will feel more in control of your vehicle the more you apply your own intention and energy to the situation—gently, dancing with the flow, but consciously. There is an incomprehensible amount of energy moving, but the thing to remember is that it is beginning to focus like a laser. That calls for all the more care in how you handle it; all the more refinement; and with Mercury and Neptune together in the picture, the east-facing, forehead to the ground honoring of your intuition above all else.

Virgo (August 23-September 22)
The myth is that you are taking your time, needing to think the situation through left, right and in reverse; and that others are provoking to immediate action. This story has been going on so long they are starting to etch it into the side of the Great Sphinx, right where they hid the water damage with new masonry. There is at least one deeper layer to this psychology (with psychology there always is). Your caution and indeed your reticence to act is a veil thrown over your fear that your impetuosity will not lead to a flood, but rather a fire. Beneath your stoic exterior, your mind is on burning up. You seem to get into these cycles of thought, and I am sure there have been moments recently when you doubted your sanity. You may also be wondering whether some of your ideas are as brilliant as you think they are; as brilliant as they seem when they burst out like a solar flare or push you as you walk, like a firm gust of wind. I don’t think your mind is damaged; not in the sense of broken. What you have experienced has revealed elements of weakness and imbalance, but you’ve also experienced this sense of an interior opening where something truly different is escaping into your awareness. I suggest you feel, and think, and take notes; you will not burst into flames.