Opeaus' Observations: 7 March 2023
Opeaus' Observations: 7 March 2023
People think they do not have to learn, because there is so much information available. But knowledge is about more than just possessing information. And only the wise move fast enough...
Today is 2023’s ‘Big One’ (at least in astrological terms), we are now a week into one of the most pivotal months of this year - March.
I have mentioned it already several times now, that March 2023 is going to deliver some of the most significant cosmic events we will see year.
Today, Saturn and Pisces conjoin in the sky above – meaning that the practical and the imaginative, the tangible and intangible, the boundless and the bounded, our realities and dreams, will all be crashing together as Saturn plunges into the watery depths of Pisces for the first time since the late 1990’s.
But first, lets review how we got to today, what astrological activity brought us here, and what have the stars been setting the stage for…
Well, the first notable event of the year 2023 occurred on 22 January (with Uranus coming out of retrograde), finally, all the planets commenced moving direct (that is, no planets were retrograde), and everything started to feel like it was aligning, finally moving forwards.
During retrograde periods, planets appear to move backwards, against the flow, opposite to the normal direction of travel. As such, these times are often associated with difficult periods (most people these days are aware of Mercury retrogrades, but this principle applies to all the planets). One planet in particular, has spent an inordinately long time retrograde within one sign – that planet is ‘Mars’.
This January past, Mars finally went direct in Gemini (where he has been lingering for some time). Usually, Mars shifts signs every six weeks or so, but this time his transit through our Air sign of ‘Motion’ had to be endured for several months (Mars transited into Gemini on 20 August last year, and his retrograde period started on 30 October, with the ‘God of War’ finally due to transit out of Gemini and into Cancer (our homes, comforts, and security) on 25 March).
This retrograde period (not to mention the long sojourn within Gemini) has brought with it a feeling that all of our ideas and thoughts (in fact most of the information the we consume/are fed), have been subject to constant change and alterations, as if our very thoughts themselves have been in flux.
With Mars no longer retrograde we can start to sever the ties, and binds that we have built around all the lies within our heads, all those false stories and tall tales we have created/built up in our minds to help deal with, and to also understand, the circumstances we have all faced over these recent years.