Spring Equinox Astrology

Spring Equinox The Astrology for the next 3 months

Surf’s Up!

The astrology of this next season still presents the astrological equivalent of a high surf forecast, very big waves this spring, even bigger over the summer. However, we should start being able to make some progress forward with Mars having just gone direct and the Sun initiating quite a series of dynamic planetary activity in Aries this season. “In boldness there is genius, just begin,” a quote attributed to Goethe, is the epitome of Aries advice; just begin. There comes a time when all you can do is to move forward as best you can, just get on with it. While Mars has been retrograde the last few months, direct action has not been the correct action. Now at least we can go forward.

It takes boldness to act in these times; risk is everywhere, but standing still isn’t exactly on solid ground anyway, so act we must. We will see the 4th of 5 waves of the Uranus opposite Saturn transit in late April, and change definitely is still in the air. The experience of time will once again accelerate and with Jupiter joining Uranus in Aries by June, change trumps resistance, and we can expect even the stalemate in congress to give way allowing social reforms. This is also excellent for personal breakthroughs and evolution.

Saturn in Libra tests our ability to stay balanced with opposing views. This principle of balancing polarities is exactly opposite the Aries impulse for spontaneous, self initiated activity, and both must be taken into consideration this season. One of my friends practices Aikido and says that one of its principles is to blend with opposing forces, rather than resist. Seems like good advice for all of us for the next few years. By allowing for polarities, a larger perspective emerges that encompasses both perspectives. Although it might sound ludicrous, it would probably be good homework for a liberal to watch a Fox News show, and a conservative to watch Keith Olbermann!

This would push the very buttons that Libra is about, the ability to handle opposing views and stay in balance. Not change your view or opinion, just allow the other to exist and remain unthreatened by it. Longfellow once said,” If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life, sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.”

This energy shift we are experiencing has many names, The Mayan Calendar, Pisces Age to Aquarius Age, a return of the Divine Feminine and the Cardinal Climax to name a few. 2012 is a code name for activation, ascension and access to more of the 85% of our brain we are not using. This period of time we are in is when the veil is lifted and we discover more of our true nature and our access to the Universal Mind via increased intuition.

From out of chaos a new order arises; trust in this we must. We are experiencing the very astrology that demonstrates this principle. Don’t cling to that which is falling apart, be part of the next wave. We are co-creators in all of this and it is not just happening to us. As we begin to know this to be true, it forces us to become more conscious in the way that we live our lives.

The shell is cracking. Those who can pull up out of fear do tremendous good in the world and become conduits for the new information that is getting in through the cracks. The choice is to attempt to patch the cracking shell, or trust the evolutionary intention behind all of this and allow the new information in.

Impact on Intuition: As the vibrational field around us quickens, along with nervousness and feelings of uncertainty, come flashes of insight, way increased intuition. Don’t just wish the anxious feelings away; breathe into them and like a surfer facing a huge wave, breathe deep and get on top of the wave. It would be futile to attempt to quiet the wave anyway.

The world and its resources once seemed so vast; it no longer does. The more we proactively get on board with conscious living, the less we are forced into that. Listen to the whispers, or listen to the shouts; we evolve kicking dragging and screaming, or more gracefully as conscious choice, but one way or another, this forces evolution. We are forced to deal with each other to solve our problems, the era of rugged individualism is over.

And this being forced to come together to resolve our issues is what activates the greater portion of the human potential, the 85% of our brain that lay dormant in the rugged individualism era. We’ve gone along with our autonomous, individual, 15% of our capacity mind, developing and becoming conscious of our individual role in the greater play we are part of, and now this astrology of critical mass is a crack in the cosmic egg that has held us in our limited individuality. Now is the time to let new information in.

We still need a powerful lot of hell to invoke a little bit of heaven. One way to get a clue as to the evolutionary intent behind a crisis is to look at the solutions that are called for. If the whole evolutionary intention behind a crisis is in the healing directions we are led to, why not move to the healing and solution directly without waiting for the prod of crisis?

Don’t be wallygaggin’ around with this type of astrology, use the tools you’ve been shown. This is high seas, big wave astrology and our rafts are so helpful. The rafts are your techniques that you’ve been shown already on your path. This is not a rehearsal test, this is the real deal and you’ve got to employ the tools you’ve been shown and then set about reinventing your life to live more closely to what your soul is craving.

As we awaken to the Heart Chakra, we rise up out of separate competitive roles, and realize we are all in each other’s best interest. We are the people we’ve been waiting for. Realize the importance of showing up for this moment in time and space that each of our souls have arranged for us. Those of you who have the skills for pulling up out of the fear of “the sky is falling” around you, by doing so, you activate the greater guidance that you seek. Heart first, the power of compassion awakens us to the information needed of how to alleviate the tremendous suffering on our beleaguered planet.

Pluto Square Saturn in the Spring equinox chart reveals corruption that has been going on beneath the surface, or where trust has been fractured. Sometimes in nature a limb on a tree gets damaged and in order to not threaten the tree, we remove the decaying limb. This is a time of making serious choices; does the limb stay, or can it be healed by rooting out the decay and letting new growth begin? Sometimes you deal with it to get it right, and sometimes you need to remove the limb, or the tooth, deck, investment, or partnership, that is not coming back. Negotiate as best you can, but be willing cut your losses if necessary. Don’t cut and run, negotiate and walk.

Neptune and Chiron both conjunct the United States Moon in March and throughout the year, while Saturn is sitting right at the peak of the US chart: It is time for our leaders to lead and make responsible choices and we will possibly see a decision on health care reform this very month. Chiron carries the mythology of the wounded healer and it is the perfect time for this historic decision to come about. With both of these planets in humanitarian, altruistic Aquarius, awakening the compassion of the public sentiment of the people represented by the Moon, it looks like the tide is at its best for reform in this fiercely fought battle.

Expect the health care issue to be resolved and the focus of Congress shifting to jobs and housing.

These transits over the US Moon could also have a healing effect on the divisiveness of what it is to be an American. Aquarius is Universal, and if nothing else, America is the melting pot of the planet. After all, what is an American? Every race, ethnic origin, religion, political view, or lack of is represented in “what is an American? We are a community made up of universal citizens. Our roots go everywhere on the planet. Perhaps these healing transits can inspire us to a larger vision of who we are as Americans, truly universal citizens, whose heritage is absolutely global in all respects. We have an opportunity to transcend our differences and step up to this larger vision of who we are and start from there: we are all in this together and must solve it together.

Ways to be with the energy
When the outer world is this unstable it is good advice to anchor yourself in that place within you that that is unchanging. Breathe. When you are anxious your breath is shallow; deepen your breath and expand what you can allow. Make your choices from there.


Let your voice be heard. The Saturn return in the US chart asks “who is responsible in a democracy” and ultimately that is each of us. Letters to your Congressman and women are still the one of the most effective ways of being heard. If you are blessed with vision, help us see beyond our fears and to connect with a greater vision of our collective future; what we can build and create together.

Go rogue. You can’t use the rules of understanding life from an old paradigm to understand a new paradigm. Be willing to be one of the fresh voices who offer the innovative ideas we need to move forward. This is the time for the new teachers, mythmakers and storytellers to step forward.
Take part in something worthy, your vision of what it would take to become a more compassionate culture with any and all acts of kindness and compassion.

Allow yourself to feel the chaos of the times and the breaking down of old structures that no longer serve you in your life. Allow collective DNA deconditioning to occur so that the collective DNA reprogramming can occur.

You can’t move forward where there is mistrust. Repair it or dissolve it, but don’t let it foul your undertakings. Wherever you can, create a safety net of trust in family, work place, and government. You will certainly see where it isn’t.

Autocratic, top down leadership is giving way to team building. It is not just what we do, it is how we do it together, the cooperation sets up greater intuition. All that connects you with others furthers; all that separates stands in the way.

Fighting for the survival of people who can’t fight for themselves is a way to employ this intense astrology. This is a struggle for survival time for many, and if fate has spared you this battle, help those who haven’t been as fortunate, and here the list goes on and on. This is all hands on deck, if you have skills and resources, they are needed somewhere.

Plant a garden.

Happy Spring,
David