The fire of Aries

Thurs 18 March – Wed 31 March
As with last edition, Venus continues through Aries, but this time she is joined there by Mercury and on 21 March the Sun. That means, with Mars still in Leo, that it’s “Fire all the way” when considering the influence of our closest movers and shakers in the solar system. If Venus in Aries was forward last edition, then this time should be even more so. The favourable fire correspondence between the personal planets will allow them to all be talking the same language on the same page and in the same direction, so to speak. This will be an ego-boosting time. Some of the most highly favoured activities include those involving men, or products and services related to men, the military, sports, surgical procedures, manufacturing (particularly iron and steel) and firearms. The mood is dynamic and will give a big boost to courageous activities and a push to get ahead, being highly competitive. Now is the time to let it shine. Strut your stuff on the catwalk of life and be prepared for the audience to love and shower you with much-deserved praise in your specific field. Being consciously competitive can be a creative rush and a sure way of expressing your unique talents and individuality. So be yourself with pride and enjoy your rise to the top. This applies even more to those of you with Sun, Moon or Ascendant in Aries in your birth chart, but all of us have Aries in one or the other of the houses in our personal horoscopes.

As you can imagine, this is a delicate time too, for with so much planetary influence pushing in one direction, there is the potential for going overboard if not careful. The mood is to be assertive, go-getting and crusading your cause, but not everyone wants to march to your drum do they? So the tendency may be to come across as opinionated and even end up getting overheated, leading to arguments and worse. Sportsmanship might help here. Certainly having something that you can call your own and work independently on may be good, since going it alone and taking the credit is the mode of nature that presently predominates. The mind will be impulsive, quick-thinking and potentially irritable if it doesn’t get its way or has to wait, so be extra careful of road rage - or any kind of rage for that matter. Our state president Jacob Zuma is an Aries so it will be interesting to see how he behaves over the coming fortnight and if he continues singing his favourite song, “Bring me my machine gun”. A good meditation over the Equinox of the 21st may be on maintaining a balanced and equipoised state of being during this time of equal day and night, for it could be a potentially emotional time in the fiery sense and not all of us are as cool-headed as others under fire.