March 2013 horoscope - Aries

I follow the sidereal calendar; this is the monthly solar horoscope for birthdays from 14^th April to 15^th May or Aries Ascendants or Moons

By Louise Gilbert

Aries, March 2013 begins with you being exceptionally busy. Your 11^th house of friends is jam-packed for the first part of the month and invitations and networking opportunities are there for you to take your pick. This is a time when your focus is on your corporate network, your friends and possibly the community in which you live in. Perhaps you are being drawn into working on a project with a large, global community or you are spending a lot of time with your friends these days.  The global market place, your wider circle of friends and acquaintances including your siblings can also be source of financial gain for you this month. Financial gains are particularly well-starred at the moment in any case as Jupiter, the planet of expansion, is still transiting your 2^nd house of income until the summer. You should have felt a marked improvement in this area since late January as everything you’ve been working towards is now paying off – in particular if your Ascendant is in Aries. Make use of this energy as long as you can as the same opportunity won’t come around again for another 12 years. If indeed you have felt a boost around your finances, then you should find yourself in a much stronger position money-wise even when Jupiter leaves this house on 31^st May. The 2^nd house if the house of your own earned income and you are having to put in the effort to reap the rewards but whatever you’ve learnt or initiated over the past year, will stay with you moving forward!

In order to communicate with your growing network of friends and associates, early March may also be time when you decide to invest in some new gadgets, update your online (dating) profile and increasingly communicate via modern means of technology. You’re ‘out there’ at the moment, getting closer to making your dreams come true. The new Moon on 11^th March in this area in your chart is a new beginning and if you are about to launch a new campaign or business idea, then this is the time to do it. Both Pluto and Saturn are supporting any new endeavours while Jupiter increases your bank balance…although you may not see the results until September.

The only thing that may be a little irritating is that Mercury is still retrograde until 18^th March and in your house of global networking so be careful with what you are about to post on Twitter and Facebook. Equally, your filter when it comes to deciphering what piece of information is real and which isn’t may also not be at its sharpest at the moment with Mercury going backwards AND conjunct Neptune.

So, after a busy time networking in early March, your annual wind-down phase commences. Planet after planet is gathering in your house of behind the scenes and just as well, as you’re building up to the first of the eclipses in April that will hit your relationships axis. But for the time being you’ll simply be recuperating and preparing for the new solar year – preparing for new projects, thinking about the past year and the progress you’ve made, reviewing the choices you’ve made while starting to make new ones that you’ll begin to implement in April. And quite possibly, these have to do with your relationships. Whether you’re single or coupled, the focus on partnerships is a major one in 2013. Some of the questions you may be asking yourself are whether you have put up too many barriers or not enough, has your partner put too many limitations on the relationship or have you limited yourself in getting the relationship you want? Key learnings in this area are in the post for you and as Saturn is going retrograde until early July 2013, you are required to go over some old ground and find out – again - what it is you want from a relationship but also how far the mutual commitment of one particular association stretches. So, from mid-March you’ll have enough time to ponder…

Then, the full Moon on 27^th March in Virgo opposes the Sun, Uranus, Mars and Venus, all of which square up to Pluto. Although squares are productive in the sense that they inject the energy and the focus we need to get things going, they are not very comfortable aspects, especially in the mutable signs, and we often have to put a lot of effort into solving issues and removing obstacles in the areas touched by the squares.  Think about what began in late September 2011 with another milestone at the end of June 2012 and this should give you a clue as to what comes to a conclusion now or moves on to the next level. For you Aries, this puts the spotlight on some niggling health concerns, your daily routine around work and fitness but it can also blow arguments and conflicts that have been unresolved up to now out of proportion, especially with the major squares involved. The best way to master the squares and the full Moon is to be aware. While there may be some challenges involved in this full Moon, you now know where you stand on certain agreements and if you have to give up on some idea or some deal, you know you will be better off without in the long-term.

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