Explainer: Forecast periods in global astrology
The trend of popular interest, as influenced by the planets in the sky and the major cycle charts, is shadowed in the news media – the press, radio, television, and internet news providers. The dominant planetary energies at each moment in time place their signatures on events and trends here on Earth.
The world today
Nation states around the globe have major problems to solve. In America it’s polarization, racism and election denial; in the UK it’s political dysfunction, the economy and industrial unrest; in Russia it’s a repressive dictator; in Ukraine it’s corruption and an illegal invasion; in China it’s international distrust; in South Africa it’s an energy crisis; in Myanmar it’s a brutal military administration; in Iran it’s a thug leadership, show trials and a people’s uprising; and in Afghanistan it’s insidious religious teachings that repress the rights of women.
In Peru democracy is in peril; Pakistan has a balance of payments crisis; Vietnam has political-corruption; and Haiti has gang violence and a deteriorating economy.
A police officers astrological credentials (a prominent Mars, Saturn, Pluto and Neptune) and role in society indicates that many are likely to be aggressive, paranoid, menacing, vague and not very bright.
With Mars dominant in house 1 of its birth chart America has a well developed hate and violence complex and is a nation with many scars.
Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) – the Green Comet – was discovered by astronomers on March 2, 2022. It was situated 399 million miles (643 million km) from the Sun, or just inside the orbit of Jupiter. Its decanate location at the time is unknown. In December 2022 it was sweeping across Corona Borealis – the third decanate of Virgo. Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) has a bright greenish coma (cloud of gases) and was closest to the Sun and at its perihelion on January 12. It was closest to the Earth on February 1. Its visit was a very rare occurrence – a once in a 50,000 year event.
It’s an ancient belief that comets bring astrological influences into our solar system that are not commonly found here and that their visits coincide with history-making events. The nature of their influence is judged by their shape, color and appearance. If the ancient beliefs hold then Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) brought a rare astrological influence that will benefit (the color green) planet Earth. Its event script is anybody’s guess.
Major events in the Aquarian Age chart
Progressed Moon is parallel birth chart Mercury > peak power date is December 22, 2023 > end date is May 9, 2025
March 9: Progressed Moon parallel progressed Sun starts > end date is February 26, 2025 > major aspect progressed Sun parallel birth chart Mars is stimulated
March 21: Progressed Moon semisextile birth chart Mars starts > peak power date is April 15
Major in-sky events
Jupiter parallel Neptune ends March 6
March 14: Mars is square Neptune
The major astro-events in March 2023 to watch
Progressed Saturn is parallel Sun in the Saturn cycle all month. Events involving conservative politics, security measures, economic woes, the weather, hardship, poverty and loss will get wide attention. The aspect is at peak power on March 16. (Saturn is conjunction the Sun-Moon lunation in the Moon cycle from February 20 to March 21.)
On March 14 and 15 Mars is square Neptune in the sky and in the Mars cycle chart. This high-discord energy event gets a red flag with Mars and Neptune scripting strife, disputation, increased violence, accidents, explosions, oil-disputes and plane crashes. The missile strikes cause death and destruction.
The Uranus cycle is active from March 4 signaling a resurgence in social unrest and disruption and on March 23 progressed Uranus sextile Venus starts. It stimulates protests and the uprising in Iran. Major events involve progressive change and reform. It reaches peak power on April 1.
Astro-events March 2023
This calendar of astro-events only records the zodiacal aspects formed by the planets in the major cycle charts. In a specified cycle chart for any nation its ruling planet forms progressed aspects with the ascendant and Midheaven and these aspects aren’t shown in the real-time monitor.
February 20, 2023: Pisces new Moon at 7.06am GMT > cycle end date is March 21 > the Sun-Moon lunation is conjunction Saturn (conservatism, the hard right, national-interest, protectionism, security, economy, recessed economic activity, cost-cutting, storms, floods and heavy losses). You can expect more cost-cutting and worker lay-offs by Big-tech as business activity slows.
Progressed aspects formed by progressed Sun or Moon to Saturn in this chart can time events forecast by its aspects in the Saturn cycle.
Progressed Jupiter is sextile Venus in the Jupiter cycle > peak power date is March 4
Progressed Jupiter is parallel Neptune in the Jupiter cycle > peak power date is March 2
Progressed Saturn is semisextile Neptune in the Saturn cycle > end date is March 3
Progressed Saturn is parallel Sun in the Saturn cycle > peak power date is March 16
Progressed Pluto is semisextile Uranus in the Pluto cycle > peak power date is May 2
Progressed Pluto is parallel Neptune in the Pluto cycle > end date is August 20, 2023
Progressed Pluto is parallel Saturn in the Pluto cycle > peak power date is August 29, 2024
March 1: Progressed Sun is semisextile Mars in the Sun cycle and progressed Sun parallel Mercury starts > peak power date is March 3
March 2: Progressed Jupiter is parallel Neptune in the Jupiter cycle > end date is March 13
March 3: Progressed Sun is parallel Mercury and sextile Uranus in the Sun cycle > end date for the Sun-Mercury parallel is March 5
March 4: Progressed Sun is semisquare Pluto in the Sun cycle; progressed Jupiter is sextile Venus in the Jupiter cycle > end date is March 9; progressed Sun parallel Jupiter in the Sun cycle starts > peak power date is March 7; and progressed Uranus semisquare Uranus in the Uranus cycle starts > peak power date is March 28
March 5: Progressed Sun is semisquare Pluto in the Moon cycle
March 6: Progressed Sun is square Mars and sextile Uranus in the Moon cycle
March 7: Progressed Sun is parallel Jupiter in the Sun cycle; and Saturn in the sky – planet of security measures, economy, restriction and loss – moves to Pisces and commences a 3 year transit of the sign that rules jails, imprisonment, incarceration, hospitals, charities, housing for the poor and homeless, religious fanaticism, Christianity, astral entities, deception, rivers and waterways.
March 8: Progressed Sun is conjunction Mercury in the Sun cycle; and progressed Sun parallel Neptune starts > peak power date is March 11
March 9: Progressed Sun is conjunction Jupiter in the Sun cycle; and progressed Sun parallel Neptune in the Moon cycle starts > peak power date is March 12
March 10: Progressed Sun parallel Jupiter in the Moon cycle starts > peak power date is March 13; and progressed Jupiter semisextile Uranus in the Jupiter cycle starts > peak power date is March 14
March 11: Progressed Sun is semisextile Saturn and parallel Neptune in the Sun cycle > the Sun-Neptune parallel ends March 13
March 11, 2011: Tohoku, Japan, is hit by a 9.1 magnitude earthquake – the strongest in Japan’s recorded history. It caused a tsunami with waves up to 40 meters (132 feet) high. More than 15,500 people died and over 450,000 people were left homeless. The tsunami caused the meltdown of the nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Explosions occurred on March 12 and 14 and the fear index on planet Earth went through the roof.
In Tokyo’s Saturn cycle chart on March 11, 2011 progressed Saturn in house 4 (natural disasters) was trine Venus in house 8 (death) and parallel the Midheaven event amplifier. The explosions at Fukushima occurred with progressed Mars parallel Saturn and square Pluto in the Mars cycle. On March 21 Mars in the sky moved into orb of a conjunction aspect with Uranus. It reached peak power on April 3 and Japan’s nuclear emergency was the dominant international news story.
March 12: Progressed Sun is parallel Neptune in the Moon cycle > end date is March 14
March 13: Progressed Sun is parallel Jupiter in the Moon cycle > end date is March 16
March 14: Progressed Sun is conjunction Neptune in the Sun cycle; progressed Jupiter is semisextile Uranus in the Jupiter cycle > end date is March 18; and Mars is square Neptune in the sky
March 15: Progressed Sun is conjunction Neptune in the Moon cycle; progressed Sun parallel Venus in the Moon cycle starts > peak power date is March 18; and progressed Mars is trine Saturn and square Neptune in the Mars cycle
March 16: Progressed Sun is semisquare Mars in the Sun cycle; and progressed Saturn is parallel Sun in the Saturn cycle > end date is April 4
March 18: Progressed Sun is parallel Venus in the Moon cycle; progressed Sun is semisquare Uranus in the Sun cycle; and progressed Mars is semisextile Mercury in the Mars cycle
March 19: Progressed Sun is sextile Pluto in the Sun cycle
March 20: Progressed Sun is conjunction Venus and sextile Pluto in the Moon cycle; and the new astrological year commences when the Sun enters Aries at 9.26pm GMT
March 21: Progressed Sun is semisquare Uranus in the Moon cycle
Aries new Moon at 5.23pm GMT > cycle end date is April 20 > the Sun-Moon lunation is conjunction Mercury (talk and controversy); square Mars (conflict, warfare, violence, accidents, fires and strife); semisquare Uranus (unrest, protests and electricity disruptions); conjunction Neptune (inflation, oil, drugs, pharmaceuticals, aviation, drama and exaggeration); and sextile Pluto (coercion, cooperation and standing together).
March 22: Progressed Sun is semisextile Saturn and semisquare Uranus in the Sun cycle; and progressed Mars is inconjunct Pluto in the Mars cycle
March 23: Progressed Uranus sextile Venus in the Uranus cycle starts > peak power date is April 1; progressed Pluto semisextile Saturn in the Pluto cycle starts > peak power date is May 2; and Pluto in the sky commences a brief 80 day visit to Aquarius the sign ruling human rights, altruistic endeavor, invention and technology. Pluto returns to Capricorn June 11.
March 24: Progressed Sun is conjunction Mercury in the Sun cycle
March 25: Progressed Sun parallel Neptune in the Sun and Moon cycles start > peak power date for both parallels is March 28
March 26: Progressed Sun is conjunction Mercury in the Moon cycle
March 27: Progressed Mars is semisquare Uranus in the Mars cycle
March 28: Progressed Uranus is semisquare Uranus in the Uranus cycle; and progressed Sun is parallel Neptune in the Sun and Moon cycles > end date for both parallel aspects is March 30
March 29: Progressed Mars is semisquare Venus in the Mars cycle
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