Aries Horoscope for March 2013

You are coming into your own, Aries, although you might not yet know it. The recent cosmic emphasis implies that in order that you take full advantage of your opportunities, it is more important than ever that you make fundamental changes in your mission statement. You are in a good place to aim carefully, and it is vital that, as you do, you take inner priorities more fully into account. With Mercury Retrograde all month long, this is not the time to push ahead without carefully thinking everything over, and from several different standpoints. You win when you base your thoughts on your deeper feeling level, making use of the powerful intuitive information that currently floods into your being. There, true information is to be found whenever you can make space and allow it to come in.

As the month begins, you are riding the wave of the very powerful Full Moon from the beginning of the last week of the previous month, which brought you to a mystical place and an amorphous feeling that anything and everything is possible. This implies difficulty in deciding on correct choices; or perhaps even in imagining that there is such a thing as the one correct choice for each circumstance. At the same time you might suspect that there is a lot at stake. This feeling of powerful process, tinged with confusion, continues into the present monthly time frame and beyond, through to the first week of April.

Since your ruler Mars is entering your sign on the late evening of March 11th, it is likely that from the 12th onward you detect a shift in your real-world presence, plus on how you perceive things in general. This transition to greater availability for friends and significant others is intensified by the 20th, the date of the Spring Equinox, by definition the time of the Sun's entrance into your own sign of Aries. As you move from the shadowy side of your personality into your more conscious awareness over these few weeks, you do well to bring the memory along with you of the dark places within. Much light proceeds from what you might have been able to perceive in the course of your sojourn there.

Another factor, again for the second half of this month, would be the startling and unexpected bounty of enlightenment represented by Uranus, still residing in the early degrees of your sign. This connection with the trickster archetype, what one astrologer has called the "freedom from the known" is also amped up by strong aspects from Jupiter and from Mars, your ruler. There could be unlikely events to contend with; as previously noted, even accidental collisions are possible.

All this is happening within the context of the powerful Saturn-Pluto sextile. Saturn is located in your sector of personal evolution and relationship intimacy, so that there is a "stop and go" element to your journey through this important month, which is also a spiritual one. You might find unexpected barriers cropping up that interfere with what you had formerly perceived. This is so even though these might have been your clearly understood and stated objectives. It is best to take everything that happens as it comes, without judgment or worry. Even if difficulties arise or other events unfold that are not fully in accord with your preconceptions, you might find that you can take these as an important lessons.