Welcome to Marchuary

Where I Live, the months go …April, May, Junuary, July, August… because May and July are usually quite warm, while June somehow often resembles January. Of course Mom planned this out to make sure the Strawberries get just the right combination of Morning Drizzle and Afternoon Sunshine so they Fatten up Aromatic, Firm but Tender and Super Sweet without that tacky Sugary texture that grinds your Teeth.

Well, at least that was true before the Chemists crossed them with Golfballs to improve their Shelf-life. Chemists, not generally being Highly Sensitive People, didn’t notice that they now Lacked Aroma, Tenderness, and Sweetness. But they did have the Shelf-life of a Golfball! Kinda like the famous Flavr Savr “Tomato” that was crossed with a Baseball and supposedly “Loved by Housewives” (whom they never actually asked), and survived as a Commercial Success for about a week and a half.

Traditionally, March begins our season of horizonal Big Tide-Spotless Bright White Puffball Clouds (Towering Cumulus) on a gorgeous Blue-Sky Background. This year the Sun is hesitating to leave Mexico, so at night it’s still in the 20s F, with Skin Chill factors of 10 below Reasonable. So Locals will recognize the “-uary” pun, while everyone else, Coincidentally, will probably think “Mortuary,” though most of the Victims of 2023 so far haven’t had nearly so formal a sendoff.

March 1, 2023 March 1, 2023, Damocles (Fear of Accountability) moves into Pisces (Letting Go of Emotional Baggage) until 22 August 2023. Till now, since December 1994, we’ve been concerned with our Accountability to Political and Social Rules, like our local zoning laws and our Relationships, especially with Neighbors (Damocles in Aquarius). These concerns have been Impacting us Emotionally, Triggering our Karma, since April 2021, during which time Damocles has been Dancing back and forth between Aquarius (Rules) and Pisces (Emotions). This Dance will continue till December 2025, when Damocles will enter Pisces “for good” (till its next Zodiacal Loop). With Damocles in Pisces, we will Suffer Mightily if we Fail to Accept Accountability for our Emotions. That means we stop Blaming them on other people, and Realize that, as Iyanla Vanzant tells us, An Emotion is Described by only One Word – everything else is a Thought About Our Emotions! If it takes us longer than two minutes to Let Go of an Emotion, it’s not Present-Moment, it’s Karma. Changing that Nasty Self-Sabotaging Habit must be our First Priority if we have any Hope of finding 5D, OR any Inner Peace. The 40-year orbit of Damocles stretches from 1.6 AU (Earth-Sun distances), just inside the Orbit of Mars, to 23 AU, just beyond Uranus. It spends about two thirds of its Orbit in Aquarius, which explains a lot about how Huper Politics has been so screwed up over the span of HisStory, and continue to be. Relate this to your own Personal History and Journal, and to your own natal chart: Damocles was or is or will be in Pisces during April-July 2021, March-July 2022, March-August 2023, March-September 2024, February-October 2025, and December 2025-May 2029. March 1, 2023, Arache (Grandmother Spider Who Weaves the Web of Life) moves into Aries (A New Beginning with a New Spiritual Agenda) till 3 May 2023. We can PIAVA that Huperity makes major Progress toward Learning to Respect Nature as the Source of Our Sustenance. With it’s 4¼-year Orbit, Arachne was last in Aries between January and March of 2019, when Greta started touring the World. In the upcoming Cycle, Arache will Dally most in Libra (most of 2025), where the World’s Social Order will Transform to the New Agenda, and in Capricorn (most of 2026), where the World’s Infrastructure will be Revised. 1 Aries is Single-Minded, Hard-Working, Opinionated.

March 2-19, 2023, Mercury (Awareness) will move through Pisces (Letting Go of Emotional Baggage), giving us a great Opportunity to Learn to Stop Mentalizing our Emotions. Emotions are best mined for Intuitions, but Studying the Sensations that Accompany them is a good Heuristic to help us Learn how to do that.

Till 3-4 March 20231 (27-28 February) Till 3-4 March 2023, Moon (Instincts) Out of Bounds (Magnified) North (Folks are more likely to Panic, especially in the Northern Hemisphere), from 5 Gemini through 8 Leo, likely Lighting Up your natal Planets in this Degree Zone. Moon OOB till PST 9:46 pm 3rd, GMT 5:46 am 4th, IST 11:16 am 4th, AEST 3:46 pm 4th. Till 3-4 March 2023, Icarus (Tendency to Overperform and Burn Out) Stationary (Strong) in 25 Pisces (Supreme Sensitivity to Collective Karma). When you find yourself tending to lap up too much Raw Meat from the Minia, Remind yourself that It’s Not Present Moment unless it’s happening within a few minutes and within a block or two of your house. By all means Feel it Deeply but Quickly, and then just as Quickly, Let It Go. If it Lights you Up, it’s a Mirror for your own Karma, but nobody bids Adieu to Karma by rolling in the Stories like a Dog in Roadkill. If there’s anything that’s Not Present Moment, ie, Not Real, it’s Stories. They have great Utility, but not for Letting Go of Karma, and if we Aspire to 5D we need to be Letting Go of Karma. They’ll be Back, but we Convert Flashbacks to Flushbacks by pushing the lever and Enjoying that Oh-So-Permanent Flushing Sound, if we’re Lucky enough to have Indoor Plumbing. Gratitude for that wouldn’t be Out of Order either. Station Exact PST 6:30 am 3rd, GMT 2:30 pm 3rd, IST 8:00 pm 3rd, AEST 12:30 am 4th. Till 3-4 March 2023, Saturn Waxing Unx Pluto (Opportunity to Cleanly Break Our Most Compulsive Habits, perhaps as Easily as by Earnest and Honest Intention) in 30 Aquarius (Channeling the Light into Earthly Grace with Total Presence and Total Detachment). The Initiation of this New Saturn-Pluto Cycle occurred 12 January 2020 in 23 Capricorn (Committed to Erasing Karma Ritually and Thoroughly), so we’ll want to Break any Habits that will Inhibit our Adopting this New Energy Fully. Thanks to our CAO for noticing this one! Angle Exact PST 2:21 pm 3rd, GMT 10:21 pm 3rd, IST 3:51 am 4th, AEST 8:21 am 4th.

3-4 March 2023 through 13-14 March, Moon In Bounds (Relatively greater Emotional Stability). Moon IB from PST 9:46 pm 3rd, GMT 5:46 am 4th, IST 11:16 am 4th, AEST 3:46 pm 4th in 8 Leo; Till PDT 7:32 am 13th, GMT 2:32 pm 13th, IST 9:02 pm 13th, AEST 12:32 am 14th in 5 Sagittarius.

6 March 2023, Ganesa (Remover of Obstacles) Out of Bounds (Stronger than Usual) moves into Cancer (Nurturance, Compassion) till 17 June 2023.

7 March 2023 7 March 2023, Sisyphus (Neverending Tasks) Out of Bounds (More Extreme than Usual) backs into Leo (Self-Appreciation) until 10 June 2023. Sisyphus Reminds us that the Journey is Far More Important than the Destination. 7 March 2023, Saturn (The Most Important Thing) moves into Pisces (Letting Go of Emotional Baggage) until February 2006, with a brief Test of Aries in May-August 2025. See the post https://astrobuss.wordpress.com/2023/03/08/you-poor-sweetheart-you-dont-feel-like-celebrating-do-you/ for more information. 7 March 2023, Full Moon in 17 Virgo (An Ornery Hermit Due to Excessive Sensitivity). See the post https://astrobuss.wordpress.com/2023/03/08/you-poor-sweetheart-you-dont-feel-like-celebrating-do-you/ for more information.

Till 9-10 March 2023, Asbolus (Intuition) Out of Bounds (Amplified) and Stationary (Strong) in 27 Gemini (Removing Our Masks). Intuition is a Skill, and the more we Practice it, the more we Learn to Listen to it. It’s always firing, but we usually Think it’s just a Thought or a shard of our Programming, and Ignore it. Not being Rude, it usually Speaks Quietly, so it’s Easy to Ignore. The next week is one of the best times of the year to Open to it. If you Listen Carefully, it’s likely to tell you what SuperPowers you’ll be Surviving on when we get to 5D (see next entry). Station Exact PDT 6:35 pm 9th, GMT 1:35 am 10th, IST 7:05 am 10th, AEST 11:35 am 10th.

11 March 2023, Juno (Growth in Consciousness) enters Taurus (Solidifying into Hard Copy) until 2 May 2023.

Till 11-12 March 2023 Till 11-12 March, Chaos (Our Unlimited Potential) Out of Bounds (Prominent) and Stationary (Strong) in 29 Gemini (Embrace of the Underwhere to Bring Light). This is who we Become after we Let Go of our Karma and Programming. You’ve been Daydreaming about it all your Life. Go ahead, Open up a few of those Doors. Station Exact PDT 7:35 am 11th, GMT 2:35 pm 11th, IST 8:05 pm 11th, AEST 12:35 am 12th. Till 11-12 March, Chiron (Despair and Miracles) Initiates Jupiter (Expansion) in 15 Aries (Freedom of Action but the Need to Be Present with Oneself). Chiron tends to be Discouraging or Depressing, till a Breakthrough occurs and Delightful Miracles Manifest. See the post https://astrobuss.wordpress.com/2023/03/08/you-poor-sweetheart-you-dont-feel-like-celebrating-do-you/ for more information.

12 March 2023, 2 am PST becomes 3am PDT. Don’t blink, or you’ll miss the Change.

13-14 March through 17-18 March 2023, Moon Out of Bounds over the Southern Hemisphere (I haven’t verified this, but based on the Northern version, I Imagine that denizens of the Southern Half of the Planet are more likely to Panic than usual). It’s not always so, but lately when the Moon is OOB S, it’s crossing early Sagittarius through early Aquarius, so watch for your natal Capricorn Plus planets to Light Up while Moon is OOB S (no matter which Hemisphere you’re in). Moon OOB from PDT 7:32 am 13th, GMT 2:32 pm 13th, IST 9:02 pm 13th, AEST 12:32 am 14th in 5 Sagittarius; Till PDT 7:22 pm 17th, GMT 2:22 am 18th, IST 7:52 am 18th, AEST 12:22 pm 18th in 8 Aquarius.

26-31 March 2023, Moon Out of Bounds over the Northern Hemisphere (Folks are more likely to Panic, especially in the North). Lately when the Moon is OOB N it crosses early Gemini through early Leo, Lighting up your natal planets in that Zone. Moon OOB N from 26th PDT 12:46 am, BST 8:46 am, IST 1:16 pm, AEST 5:46 pm in 4 Gemini; Till 31st PDT 6:41 am, BST 2:41 pm, IST 7:11 pm, AEST 11:41 pm in 8 Leo.

26 March 2023, 2 am GMT becomes 3 am BST (British Summer Time; GMT is London’s Standard Time), instantaneously. If you have a meeting scheduled for 2:15 am and you make the meeting, you may get Lost to Linear Time and emerge in another Time or Galaxy, which may turn out to be fortunate. See https://www.amazon.com/Time-Bandits-John-Cleese/dp/B0B8TNVR4H/ref=sr_1_1 for more information.

March’s major Sturm und Drang occurs before the Ides. Here’s an outline of the program. We’re hoping that it will be warm enough for Popcorn to pop by the Ides…

¹ The Impact of astroEvents – Stations (which Strengthen the Influence of a planet), Angles between planets (which Merge their Energies in various ways), and Initiations (which Begin a New Cycle in the Merger of the Energies of two planets) – kicks in ahead of the time when they’re Exact (the times listed above) – usually a couple days for asteroids, and a week or so for other planets, sometimes more. This will vary a lot depending on what else is going on – the Bigger Events (Slower planets) can crowd out other Events, though if you look closely you’ll probably find the Influence of each. It also depends on whether the Eventful planet(s) are prominent in your natal chart, or the Event occurs within a few Degrees of one of your natal planets.

The primary advantage of Knowing about astroEvents, is that it enables us to Discriminate between astrological Energies and other Energies.

People also vary in how Sensitive they are to Energy in general. A friend once told me, “I’m always aware that This Too Shall Pass, but as an astrologer, you Know When it will Pass!” Knowing that an Energy is Temporary can Prevent us from making Decisions to Protect ourself from it. If we can’t Stand an Energy and don’t know that it’s “just” an astroEvent, we can make Decisions that become Karma if we Neglect to Let Them Go afterward. For instance, we might Blame our Resistance to the Energy of the Event on some Action we took earlier, and Declare “I’ll Never Do That Again!” Bingo! Instant Karma. We’ve just added another Limit to our catalog of Unconscious Limitations.

If we Know an astroEvent is happening, or happened, and we can Identify the Energy, we can Use it Purposively, or Just Let It Go. In that case, the Energy Fades Quickly after it’s Exact. If we don’t know it’s happening and we Act to Protect our Resistance to It, it can continue in our Life indefinitely, Creating most of the Difficulties we Experience with Life. Unwinding our Karma, to find our True Self and Allow Ascension, is just the process of Identifying and Letting Go Of our Unconscious Limitations. Our Programming is probably the best Clue to Identifying our Unconscious Limitations, as we would never have Allowed the Programming if it weren’t Karmic for us.

If you’re in the habit of not reading the purple because it’s too technical, you might gain from reading the previous paragraphs.

This Crystal was used by the twelve Apophylls to Practice their Intuition, which is why it’s called Apophyllite. You can see the Crystal on the left whispering bright Multidimensional Truth into the second Crystal’s Ear, and the Dubious look on the second Crystal’s Face as he rejects the Intuition because it would Betray his Programming. Truth always Shines.

Apophyllite is actually a Mica (note the …phyll… in the name), a “Phyllosilicate,” meaning that the Silicate units arrange themselves in Sheets, with tight bonds across the Sheet, and loose bonds between them, causing Micas to cleave into their signature flat Sheets or Chips. Most Crystals form in Clusters, but a Cluster of Mica Crystals is called a Book, because when the Sheets are stacked, that’s what they look like. As molten Stone cools and solidifies, the Minerals in the Soup Solidify at different rates. The most autophilic Crystallize first, often leaving Cavities between them filled with less autophilic Minerals. The rest of the Soup Solidifies on its own timetable, either filling the Cavity with a “Massive” form of the Mineral, or not filling it and leaving the characteristic Crystal shapes we Recognize.

Apophyllite has stronger bonding between Sheets than more Mica-Morphic Phyllosilicates, allowing it to form three-dimensional Crystals, which may break between Sheets. The Cations (positive ions of the Crystal Unit) are Potassium and Calcium. The Silicate Anion (negative ion of the Crystal Unit) is usually suffixed with Fluoride, but sometimes with Hydroxide (OH). Apophyllite also contains Water embedded into its Crystal Structure. Most Apophyllite is White or Clear or Milky. The green hue in this one is probably produced by a few Copper cations thrown in.