Aries Horoscope for March 2016

This month, Aries, represents yet another dunking in the transformational stew that you practically swim in these days, with more to come as the year continues to unfold. You are very aware, although perhaps only peripherally, of what is going on beneath your obvious surface layers, and how much that underworld of your personality contributes to who and what you really are. This shows up in the cosmic currents swirling about you, reflecting the building power of these transformational times. Your inspirational vision is over the top, while the very way you have of putting yourself out into the world around you, its style and content, is a moving landscape that is slowly becoming more familiar. Learning and understanding are the keys that enable you to emerge from the intense trials of this year more whole than when you started.

As the month begins, you are feeling the transition into a new phase. Your way of looking at the world around you is evolving as a result of recent experiences and your responses to them, and you find yourself in another place altogether regarding your attitude toward your work in the world. If you have been dissatisfied lately, it might be that instead of simply criticizing your situation you are seeking to change it. It is odd to relate, but by a simple gesture, a figure-and-ground reversal, you might be able to find meaning in the very same activities by rearranging your point of view on what makes life worthwhile. This is a powerful month, with a solar eclipse, opposite expansive Jupiter, in your sector of unconscious process. This brings far greater attention to this unsung and little-known area of your psyche. The exploration that you are launching into contains the seeds of great and important changes within you, if you to allow them to be planted, and when you have the courage to nurture them and watch them grow.

Mars, your ruler, is changing signs this month as well, entering Sagittarius on the evening of Saturday, the 5th, during the first weekend of the month. This is the sign ruled by Jupiter, representing expanded awareness and new understanding. A few days later comes the eclipse, bringing a burst of energy for exploring unknown worlds deep within you. Later in the spring, in mid-April, Mars will retrograde there, symbolizing another profound shift in your thinking and in the system of your basic beliefs. This is therefore a foundational and exciting year for you, one in which, although what is fundamental in you remains, the structure of your life will inevitably alter. You have before you the prospect of change, and also your resistance to these changes, and you will spend much time and energy mediating between these two poles of activity.