Astrology supplied by Lois Stahl. Lois can be contacted on masonwaspstudio@telkomsa.net

PISCES: 19^TH FEBRUARY TO 19^TH MARCH

MOON PHASES:

NEW MOON : 21^ST FEBRUARY

WAXING HALF MOON -- 1^ST MARCH

FULL MOON -- 8^TH OF MARCH

WANING HALF MOON -- 15^TH MARCH

PLANETARY ASPECTS:

3^RD OF MARCH -- SUN OPPOSES MARS

5^TH OF MARCH -- VENUS MOVES INTO TAURUS

12^TH OF MARCH -- MERCURY TURNS RETROGRADE

18^TH OF MARCH -- MERCURY CONJUNCTS URANUS

19^TH OF MARCH -- VENUS CONJUNCTS JUPITER

ARIES:

If you leave your personal experiences and powerful life changing events cocooned and beyond the knowledge and understanding of others they will forever be devoid of healing and helping yourself as well as others. If you choose to stay closed and guarded you will live an unrealized and unspoken life. Your pain, your past and your personal stories will stay hidden like a talent for music or art that is stifled and you then will never know the effect your gift can have on others. Sharing brings about confidence, acceptance and perception to those that give even of their pain.

You have the power to demonstrate your dreams by committing yourself unconditionally and to manifest those dreams that serve humanity as well as your personal aims and this will assist you in accepting those opportunities that are currently available. You can gain a sense of achievement through consistent, daily applications of your spiritual ideals, no matter how seemingly insignificant. This will give you the knowledge that you have contributed to the manifestation of society’s ideals in a realistic way.

TAURUS:

Though this is a wonderful time of expansion for you with both Venus and Jupiter in Taurus it also brings about certain feelings of emotional tensions during this period of change. Your vision is changing and the old cycle of identity is dissolving and the new is coming into manifestation. This hopefully will give you enough confidence to release old forms of expression that are not working in your life now.

Do not hastily and on a whim enter into any business deals or undertakings that seems great on the outside but when looked at closely is prone to causing you problems and difficulties. It is advisable to look at any business venture from a sound mental viewpoint and have things in black and white. This may sound so very opposite to your general trusting and accepting nature, but you know your tendency to allow your trust to lead you into difficult ventures. A hasty and wrong step could cost you dearly and you need to have a solid grounding for any venture to make it work for you.

GEMINI:

For the moment it seems as if it is your destiny to suffer through your work but make sure you do not get caught up in victim mode. You seldom stick around in a job that’s mundane or repetitive as you are keen to be involved with new projects and you thrive in a competitive environment which can cause you to have difficulty in finishing what you start and then you tend to leave the finer details for others to complete. Because you’re independent by nature you could be uneasy taking instructions or cooperating with others and some people might find you brash at times but you’re happiest when you have a mission to accomplish. As you are very aware of your boundaries you need a demarcated working space. It should be easy to access and without clutter especially if you’re on the run and very busy.

A control issue could give you sleepless nights. Stay objective and try not to let it get to you. Taking things personally won’t help and the same applies to relationship dynamics.

CANCER:

Whether it is based on science or belief, healing is a self generated state. Though miraculous cures can manifest in either paradigm, it takes a profound acceptance of your self and a deep willingness to process your personal issues in order to allow true healing to occur. However you need to be aware of the inclination towards docility, inertia and sluggishness. These are born of fear and what you cannot handle. When you fall into this state it is only a matter of time before you attract someone or something that will make such immobility uncomfortable and compromising. It is then that you have to make a change or let something go.

You need to discover your truest, deepest and highest values, which is symbolized by knowing what you truly consider valuable and you will no longer be chained to people to do things that have lesser value to you. The greatest indication of value is beauty which cannot be owned only appreciated.

LEO:

Although your cultural background was established and solid in its way and it is always something you will fall back upon but it can keep you chained to limitations and reassured traditions. So the radical and individual streak in your personality will force you to free yourself from the negative tradition that is part of your background.

This is a time when that what is hidden or subliminal will be brought to the surface in order to be released from the old shell and transformed into a new source of consciously-usable power. This will affect how you feel about yourself and how comfortable you are both within yourself and in your current living situation. You need to transform the quality of your emotional life through the adherence to some belief or transcendental truth, which has the effect of liberating your Self from a morass of confusing emotions. Possibly at times this re-orientation will require long periods of loneliness and abstention from social interaction.

VIRGO:

You have the right to value your things and choices but you need to be clear and accepting of this and stand for your own truth and choice. Initially you may be illusive and undefined about your things and portray this attitude out into the world but this brings confusion as others may think that you are sharing and unconcerned about your belongings, whereas you are more inclined to be orderly and particular about your possessions.

In a way life is quite a see-saw for you between your ‘good’ and comfortable self as opposed to the person that needs to seek and speak her truth. You need to find who you are in order to express yourself. This will be a time for you to express your higher potential and you will feel yourself infused with energy and enthusiasm for new creative projects. Go through the open door of opportunity to see where and how you can expand.

LIBRA:

It is not always easy for you to accept the restrictions that are placed on you through the legal process but in the long run this is what you are also learning about.

It seems as if career wise you could be going through some changes – possibly even just your own attitude and way you are addressing these issues in your life is going through change. In any harmonious picture you will find at least one discord that is the key to the balance. If yours is the voice of dissent to speak out against those things in society that you are not in agreement upon, then this is because of your own unique make-up which although it is not always what makes you popular it is what makes you feel truthful. It is also through your creative pursuits that you will express yourself out into the world, but the crux of these situations is the discipline and responsibility that you have to shoulder in order to fulfill your destiny. I see it is not always easy for you to accept the restrictions that are placed on you through the legal process but in the long run this is what you are also learning about.

SCORPIO:

It is time to move your boundaries and restrictions as well as the beliefs that you have held fast too. It is necessary to break down the walls and allow your own individual person to step forward and change your old belief structures because that is what is keeping you in this loop of never having what you want and need. Start constructing your future reality as if you have a loaded bank account. Money is merely a means of exchange -- energy exchange -- see what you can manifest in your life with and without money. Life is initially seen by you as a process to be observed coolly and impartially which can lead to either a strong awareness of how society and life functions as a whole or an inability to become involved or a personal level. It is also a great cover up for your very intense and strong feeling nature and the fear of becoming too involved with other’s emotional baggage. Look further a field and don’t keep repeating the same pattern over and over again as you extend your horizons.

SAGITTARIUS:

You could now be inclined to stir people up one way or another but some kind of philosophical or enterprising end has to be in sight so that there is an intelligent and appealing direction to justify your arousing nature. You are often the spirit of enjoyment as you excel at gathering people together for any reason be it as teacher, preacher or reveler.

They will make the vital practical contribution that you can easily overlook. Life is always full of possibilities, extraordinary experiences and new things to discover. With such an outgoing and adventurous outlook it is obviously an asset providing it eventually becomes more than just an outlook. There is the danger of promising your self and others the world and delivering practically nothing. You are liable to attract people that will provide you with the facts and figures in order to complement your adventurous spirit but this does not mean you do not have to do your own home work and expand to incorporate your full potential.

CAPRICORN:

Mercury turns retrograde on the 12^th of March and you need to be objective of life’s adversities, or you will feel overcome by them and succumb to deep depression and self-perpetuating pessimism.

Everyone is made up of many particles and parts and each planet dictates certain aspects of one’s multi-faceted nature. We all have inherited a traditional set of beliefs and values that serve us well in the ordinary daily sense but when change, even in the form of opportunity, comes your way, you get held back by what looks like ‘normality’. So although you have a reliable way of progressing in life you occasionally have to put aside one set of plans or beliefs and look for another that will serve and guide you appropriately for the next chapter in your life. You tend to not believe in anything that cannot be proved and therefore you settle for whatever the system says is so and blindly mould yourself to fit. Unless you drop your inclination to subscribe to the letter of the law rather than the spirit of it your sense of joy will be as meager as your ethics are narrow and confining, reliable though they may be.

AQUARIUS:

There is an inclination to surrender to others ideas and ways to avoid conflict, but you need to assert your own boundaries. Harmony will be important to you and it is natural to feel a sense of duty to your family or community. The lesson is to find a balance between the expression of your own creative energies and time given to family or community affairs. You will feel burdened and resentful if you do not create these balances and you have to make choices along these lines.

You need to structure your personal and collective resources for which you are responsible so that you may be in service to the community, but you need and should create greater freedom of personal expression because you have special goals to achieve and will not manage to do so if you are limited in any way. Pinpoint your objectives and endeavor to stay with them, but avoid treading on others toes as diplomacy is necessary.

PISCES:

Your emotions carry memories and remembrances as a natural process. Water speaks of emotional flow, movement and sustaining energies. These are keywords identifying the particular aspects of your inner nature. It is the source of all growth and the most sacred of natural forces. It is both a giver of life as well as one that could take life away, depending on whether it came as a gentle shower or a devastating flood.

Being born under the sign of Pisces now with Neptune in its own sign, puts you in touch with the dreamtime and the necessity in your life to give space and time to dreaming. It is through your dreams, the wakening and sleeping ones, that you access the depth of your inner being and many things are revealed to you during this time, hence the essential nature of dreaming to you. It is also necessary for you to have this space during which you can ponder and consider issues that require decisions – a time to contemplate things from all sides before you rush in with any fiery energy.