Hello Spring!

Every Spring, when the Sun moves into Aries I feel a surge of new creative energy. I am revamping my website, my newsletter, and playing more with social media. However, it was a very difficult road to travel to this spot.

Starting on 3/7 at the Virgo Full Moon I got sick for 12 days.

It was worse that covid. It lasted way longer than covid. It started with viral tonsillitis and then shifted into a bacterial infection. High fever, coughing, pain, nausea. I am not a big fan of doctors, so I stayed away for longer than I should have, treating it with cough syrup, ibuprofen, herbs, and teas. At day 9, I laid down my sword and surrendered to a doctor’s appointment. Enter in antibiotics and within 48 hours I was reborn and felt like myself again.

Let me share some of the significant astrological details of this time that connect with my chart. It is in hopes that you also can start to recognize the transits and cycles in your own life, providing you a comforting framework to sometimes understand why things play out certain ways.

I am a Virgo sun and this full moon was in my sun’s sign. Something being highlighted in my life to release and let go. The day 3/7 was also significant because Saturn moved into Pisces which is my 10th house of career and purpose - as a Gemini Rising (Whole sign houses). I met with a website designer for 3 hours for a training, taught 2 yoga classes, worked my day job, and also, of course started my moon cycle on this moon phase. I was feeling super out of it all day, then Wednesday 3/8 I had a meeting at a bank to close on a loan and buy a camper. I worked all morning, then shifted gears to drive down to the bank, meet the sellers, grab the keys to the camper, load up, and drive home.

At this point, I was feeling super strange, a heaviness, I thought it was just the dreary day and the anxiety of taking on another loan. I couldn’t even get excited for the camper I felt so sick! When we got home safely and parked the camper, I could barely function, but a mama’s duties never end. I made it through dinner, through homework, and getting the kids to bed. I was asleep by 9. Sick Thursday 3/9, sick Friday 3/10 - thinking it would soon pass as viruses usually pass through me within 3-4 days. However, this was not the case.

Pisces Season had something else in store for me. Pisces is the opposite sign of Virgo and it rules immunity, therefore during this time the Sun, Mercury, and Neptune all in the late degrees of Pisces was opposing my Virgo Stellium (intestines and nervous system) of Sun, Mercury, and North Node, also squaring my 26 degree Gemini Ascendant. I was taking a major hit to my inner self and my immunity! I felt horrible. Mars in Gemini was also traveling over my ascendant and causing the inflammation (1st house) flare up of my lungs (Gemini) - coughing, hacking, fever, mucus. I knew I wouldn’t get better any time soon, cancelled most of my yoga classes, cancelled the kid’s activities and just stuck to the bare minimum.

All of this happening, along with a promotion at my day job that has been in the works since October 2022 - when Mars in Gemini went retrograde. Again, Gemini is my rising sign and rules my perspective on life and also how others view me. I knew that with Mars in retrograde that this promotion process would take a while and resided to the fact that it probably would not come up again until January 2023 - which like magic on the day Mars went direct, I was contacted about it again. Fast forward, I applied on 3/4, was made the offer 3/10 - all connecting to the Virgo Full Moon (my sun sign) and Saturn moving into Pisces (my 10th house of career and purpose). Big changes, big movement. Lots more responsibility - says Mr. Saturn. On 3/8 I was also so fortunate to go see a new beautiful meditation and movement studio in Niwot called Una Vida. A fellow bright light Virgo Kristin owns it and I can’t wait to see what magic can happen here! We had so many synchronisities, I felt the Universe yell yes into my soul. More to come on that!

Illness to me feels heavy and depressing and scary and opens a black hole to self doubt. During those days, I felt an immense pressure to just quit and stop all of it. It was just way too much and I didn’t think I could handle it moving forward - not even when I felt well again. In true Pisces season fashion, I was breaking down in tears every day, I was feeling sad and overwhelmed. I was questioning everything. It is an intense process to just surrender to what is, to the reality of the situation instead of pushing forward. I had to let go of control and seek out help and support, got medicine, ask my husband to make dinners and escort kids, and turn inward to nurture myself. I had to let go of control and just see what stayed with me as I got better, what insight came to me in my hours of darkness.

As I emerged from my black hole, the energies started to shift and I felt an awakening. Saturday, Life Cycles Yoga students and I visiting Indian Hot Springs for the day and bathed in the healing waters. We wrapped ourselves in magic mud and rinsed off in the mineral rich water. So significant as Mercury and the Sun change into Aries tomorrow and away from opposing my Sun and my Mercury in Virgo. No longer squaring my Gemini rising. I can breathe again, my lungs work again, no more fever and a renewed outlook of the future. Spring literally feels like a rebirth to me!

March is pivotal. It is potent. It is probably the most significant month of 2023. How are you experiencing this massive movement? Here is an outlook for the the start of Spring as we say goodbye to Winter and hello to Spring.

What appears to be an end is also a new beginning.

> Mercury enters Aries today 3/19

> End of Winter today 3/19 - Spring Starts Monday 3/20

> End of Astrological New Year today 3/19 - Aries New Year Starts 3/20

> End of Moon Cycle 3/20 - Aries New Moon Tuesday 3/21 (Connected to the Aries Solar Eclipse April 20th - PAY ATTENTION)

> End of Pluto in Capricorn 3/22 - Pluto enters Aquarius for the first time 3/23 and will dance in and out of Capricorn and Aquarius through 2024

> End of Mars in Gemini since August 2022 - Mars enters Cancer 3/25

Releasing, purging, shedding, surrendering, letting go.

What are you letting go of to start anew? Check your natal chart for these zodiac signs. Book a consultation with me here.