Horoscopes

ARIES • MAR 21-APR 21

With change-maker Uranus, vivacious Venus and wordsmith Mercury in your sign for most of March, wherever you indie-spirits direct your energy (investments, inventions, creative innovations), it will light up and take off. The big caution is a potential for flameout after the 21st, when the sun makes a fiery fourth planet in Aries, and Mercury does a backflip. Sure, it’s tempting to arc up impatiently at delays, but don’t go down that hot red road; be your own best friend instead by reining in the speedy mind and racing emotions. Silver lining? Plenty of solid Saturnian energy available to stay solidly grounded.

TAURUS • APR 22-MAY 21

Your prima planet Venus in Aries wears high heels and a very red dress. She’s a wild child. Quick-tempered, too. Which centres this month’s challenges around interpersonal exchanges; working through these with ruthless self-scrutiny will guarantee a major growth spurt. Your earth-sign visualisation for March could be thinking of difficulties as dynamic lifters: not so pleasant when first encountered, but ultimately the results are wonderful. Or, in the words of Taurean mind/body/spirit medico, Deepak Chopra: Once you realise all problems contain the seeds of opportunity, every so-called upsetting situation becomes a chance to create something new and beautiful.

GEMINI • MAY 22-JUN 22

Once your patron planet Mercury enters the fiery furnace of Aries on March 7, the effect on this month’s communications isn’t hard to imagine. Inspiration ignition? You got it. Heated exchanges? On the cards. The perfume of burning bridges? Not if you think before you speak, especially during the final week of March, when Mercury retrogrades to mischievous mode and misunderstandings multiply. You always have plenty to say and who could stop you, but current cosmic conditions offer a tutorial on the joys of slow talk – listen and learn; slow love – receive and appreciate; and slow life – take it easy and trust what comes.

CANCER • JUN 23-JUL 23

The biggest astro news for you lunar-ruled beings is the potent full moon’s opening and closing this month. Virgo full moon on the 2nd could press the

switch on eureka inspirations and practical epiphanies: those “doh!” moments, where something important becomes blazingly apparent. Midmonth’s new moon in the sign of letting go highlights attachments: we arrive and leave life with nothing, so why cling to things that can’t last? What can you throw out, give away, share? Libra full moon on the 31st illuminates the shadow of what’s not in balance, where something needs to be equal, and how you can make life more beautiful.

LEO • JUL 24-AUG 23

March stars continue spotlighting your personal wellbeing, with Jupiter insisting on self-care and structured Saturn prioritising health improvement measures, fitness initiatives and reduced stress levels. Think living leaner and switching FOMO settings to JOMO: the Joy Of Missing Out, as illustrated by Michael Leunig’s cartoon: print it out, blow it up, consult it often. Of course, you’re born to socialise, so do it on your own terms, hosting at home, where you call the catering shots. With master planner Saturn blessing your nest sector, you’re already downsizing and decluttering. And romance? Venus in Aries is smokin’, frisky, free as a breeze. Say no more…

VIRGO • AUG 24-SEP 23

Starting with the annual Virgo full moon on March 2nd, this month’s healing Pisces vibes are for watering the lawns of your psyche before April pumps up the volume. For finding magic in the mundane – if anyone can, it’s you. For listening – to outside input, certainly, but increasingly to your own inner instructions. For trusting your instincts. For accepting (this is the Big One) that sometimes feelings override facts. As Virgo Van Morrison sings it, March is your month to, “Smell the sea and feel the sky, Let your soul and spirit fly into the mystic…” Before you get back to being super-busy.

LIBRA • SEP 24-OCT 23

Vixen Venus in Aries puts this month’s emphasis on presentation and pizazz, which, of course, means an auspicious time for makeovers, new looks and style upgrades. Frivolous, you think? Not to Libran US author Jean Kerr, who, when asked her opinion about beauty only being skin deep, replied: “What do they want – an adorable pancreas?” A possible March flashpoint could be red planet Mars in your domestic sector making tempers touchy among Team Libra, especially round the 31st blue moon (a month’s second full moon) in your sign. This fandango of emotions could call for the Buddhist kindness exercise of distilling passion into compassion.

SCORPIO • OCT 24-NOV 22

Jupiter, the planet of advanced education, digging into retrograde in your sign for the next four months offers an unusual learning curve. Kaia Roman, Scorpionic author of The Joy Plan, has some timely advice she’s kindly allowed me to paraphrase: the world responds to our thoughts and feelings. Experiments into this phenomenon, replicated many times, always with the same result, marked the birth of quantum physics. So we really do have way more power to change our life than we realise. Understanding this, we can use our thoughts and feelings to create the world we want. Good to know, right? Thanks, Kaia.

SAGITTARIUS • NOV 23-DEC 21

Venus and Mercury in your fiery fifth house of outrageously persuasive self-expression, plus sparky Mars in your sign, set a sizzling, and potentially combustible, scene in Camp Sagittarius this month. But the next three years are about measured, steady growth. Pacing yourself. Thinking marathon not sprint, as Saturn backs the long haul over the shortcut. If Mars on accelerator and Saturn on brake feel like an exercise in frustration during the last week of March, your best option’s a steady cruise. Try not to make it a slow burn, by stepping away from the mike, zipping the lip and perfecting your Mona Lisa smile.

CAPRICORN • DEC 22-JAN 20

March takes off mid-month for Capricorns like a rocket blast when motivating Mars joins heavy-duty duo Saturn and Pluto in your sign. You’ll be the business superforce, of course: hard-core bargaining and powerbrokering, but watch that tendency to micro-manage. While March’s flirty vibe’s delightful, richest romantic possibilities could be staying in and getting affectionate with your current plus-one – even if you’ve been together for years. Especially then. The end of month blue moon brings a lunar lift to your career sector with an unexpected offer, funding or status upgrade – a foretaste of what Saturn has in store over the next three prestige-increasing years.

AQUARIUS • JAN 21 - FEB 19

There’s a wealth of natural chemistry percolating this month, with Venus in a wild, unfettered, feral mood. Not to mention brainstorming Mercury’s ideas firing like switched-on party lights. You techie Aquarians do love your digital realities and virtual worlds, but, when mid-month Mars hits your subconscious house of unaddressed issues, ease off on the electronics as long as possible before bedtime, because input from a more organic and enduring source – your dreams – will be downloading important information about what you need to have closure on. After the 21st, back up data, double-check your plans and listen to what people aren’t saying.