MARCH 17-19: CHALLENGING ARIES MOON

MOON REMAINS IN PISCES until 9:12am EDT on Saturday, March 17 when the LAST ASPECT gives us the NEW MOON (Sun Conjunct Moon) at 26º Pisces. MOON GOES VOID OF COURSE from 9:12am until 2:57pm when the MOON ENTERS ARIES. It remains in Aries until Monday, March 19 at 3:29pm. LAST ASPECT OF ARIES MOON: Moon Conjunct Uranus in Aries. Given that most of Saturday is VOID OF COURSE, we won't expect much important practical work to be accomplished until the Moon enters Aries. The V/C period is best used for inner creative work or imagining future actions. The Aries Moon brings our journey around the zodiac back to the beginning of the astrological wheel. After the Pisces New Moon spirited us into a new chapter, we have Aries, the number-one Fire sign, adding fuel to whatever was begun. The diffusion of identity that often comes with the Pisces Moon is now injected with an overly confident sense of who we are. The Warrior Archetype is in even higher-than-usual gear with the Last Aspect of impulsive and potentially unstable Uranus in Aries. With all this Fire, not only may it difficult to complete all the things you begin, but differences of opinion and strong wills are likely to confront each other and incite conflicts. If this is the case, refer to level-headed and compromising Libra, Aries' opposite sign, for Balance. If you are unable to go there yourself, bring in a trusted mediator skilled in conflict-resolution. Otherwise, actions initiated now will tend to have Challenging resolutions. Also remember that during this current Moon period, Mercury enters its shadow 3-days-before-it-Stations-Retrograde on March 22. This, of course, will tend to add to the discombobulation of the otherwise forthright Aries Moon.

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ARIES SCENE: Red Sparrow, 2017; Director: Francis Lawrence. Prima ballerina turned Russian spy, Dominika Egorova (Jennifer Lawrence) is our Aries ambassador this month. Her identity is quickly transformed from applauded female artist at the pinnacle of her cultured career, to being controlled by powerful political men who condemn her to sexual slavery as a Red Sparrow. Her will to survive, however, drives her to tap her Uranian inventiveness and beat them at their own game. It's fun to watch Lawrence in a different milieu, but besides the shocking sexual education she receives as a Sparrow, the Matron's formidable training (a riveting Charlotte Rampling), and the slippery twist at the end, the film fell into the discombobulation category and failed to compel. Check out the trailer and see what you think.