Sun enters Aries. Monday March 19 still holds some of the left-over sparks from the weekend's highly-charged Aries Moon. This emotional energy could encourage us to brave brand new steps... toward the New Moon intentions that were planted over the last few days.

As we embrace what feels incredibly unfamiliar and foreign, but yet exciting - the Sun (identity, ego) will exit from dreamy Pisces on Tuesday March 20, and enter the pioneering realm of Aries for the next four weeks. We'll have a chance to go beyond the emotional remains that could have misled us, so that we can take much better control of our life again.

Exploration versus comfort is what come to mind. And if we haven't already trailed upon the unknown path or the unexplored approach, pay attention to where your steps will lead you. The personal challenge that we need for individual growth, is right around the corner - if we can let go of what keeps getting in our own way.

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. John Quincy Adams

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Mercury Retrograde. Our forward steps may become a bit awkward and confusing, if we continue with the same old approach. Perhaps we've already experienced some of odd mishaps that are found under the cosmic shadow, as Mercury (thoughts, communications, journeys) stations retrograde on Thursday March 22. Communications, phones, computers, fax machines, emails, letters, appliances, vehicles, and machinery can often blink, fail or breakdown. Yet these unfortunate alerts help to create more awareness with the sense of presentness in our lives. And seriously friends... what better way to wake up from our sleepy day-to-day routines, than through the awkward noise from the car engine, or the disturbing glitch on our favorite technical toy, or the uncommon approach from someone who we thought we knew. \

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge. Elbert Hubbard

If we find ourselves stumbling through Mercury retrograde's three week cycle - don't fret, but pause and take a few steps back. It's time to remember, review and recorrect - where misunderstandings, errors and breakdowns had originally occurred. And if we dare to handle life and others carelessly, as we try to force our way ahead - the next few weeks could get pretty uncomfortable, intense and inflamed in the warrior Aries season.

“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveler, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth;I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference.”Robert Frost

What happens when we don't get our way? How do we confront life or those around us - when our path become troublesome, inconvenient and/or uncooperative? If you aren't sure - there will be an opportunity to re-inspect our words and re-assess our approach - under the difficult Venus/Pluto square on Friday March 23, and the challenging Sun/Mars square on Saturday March 24. Starcana weekly tarot: Still ignoring what would be right and fair. [Justice/TwoSwordsRx] Stay brave! ~Suzi xx