By Tarotcom Staff, Solar Eclipse, New Moon, Lunar Eclipse, Full Moon, Astrology

Tarot.com is a Daily Insight Group Site

Lunar Eclipse in Libra Horoscopes

March’s Full Moon is a lesson in letting go

The diplomatic Libra Full Moon on March 23, 2016, is a Lunar Eclipse that does battle with the self-centered Aries Sun, confusing our choices. We want to give peace a chance, but tension permeates the atmosphere instead. We may still be wrestling with the discovery process that began with the Solar Eclipse on March 8; still unpeeling the layers of the ego to get to the truth at the center.

It’s time to leave something behind, and this Libra Lunar Eclipse gives us the objectivity to make wise decisions. However, knowing what to eliminate is complicated because we can clearly see both sides of an issue. Jupiter says more and Saturn says less, and we’re caught between conflicting voices of optimism and pessimism as these giants square off during this eclipse. Thankfully, the eclipse is also aligned with interactive Mercury, raising the importance of communication in any solution. But there is no way to escape by talking our way around the eye of the storm. The way out is the way through.

Learn more about the impact of this Full Moon now with your sign’s Full Moon Horoscope below…

Aries Horoscope (March 21 – April 19)

Describing what you see is challenging while communicator Mercury is swallowed by the Libra Lunar Eclipse in your 7th House of Others. Your confidence is high, but others may not be able to meet you halfway on your plan if you come off too arrogantly. Although you might prefer everyone to follow your agenda, it’s not wise to push to get your way. Don’t fret if your message isn’t getting across. Instead, take a deep breath, gather your thoughts, and then try again once the energy settles down. Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.

Taurus Horoscope (April 20 – May 20)

Making progress on your long–term goals is a walk in the park when all the details fall into place. Nevertheless, something still seems a bit off as the Libra Full Moon Eclipse rattles your 6th House of Minutiae. Although you understand that it may be prudent to keep your discomfort quiet, you also worry that the opportunity for improvement could fade if you don’t speak up right away. Nevertheless, it’s smarter to smile and save your words for another day when your audience will be more receptive to your feedback.

Gemini Horoscope (May 21 – June 20)

You’re on your best behavior because you know that your unrestrained shenanigans could interfere with opportunities for pleasure. Nevertheless, the Libra Full Moon Eclipse polarizes your 5th House of Play, encouraging you to get into mischief anyhow. You might believe your friends will cut you some slack, but tiptoeing around the real issues will only annoy them when they see through your charming antics. Instead of simply seeking a good time, balance your lighthearted spirit with a serious approach to your relationships.

Cancer Horoscope (June 21 – July 22)

You might choose to distract your attention from a vulnerable spot by starting a new project around the house. In fact, you could be so effective with this evasive tactic that you alleviate the tension for a while. The strategic Libra Lunar Eclipse occurring in your 4th House of Home and Family triggers familiar issues regarding childhood insecurities. But you can’t escape completely; the sooner you face your emotions, the sooner everyone will begin to feel better. True healing takes courage and compassion.

Leo Horoscope (July 23 – Aug. 22)

You’re motivated by your personal need to know everyone’s business while the Libra Lunar Eclipse shakes up your 3rd House of Information. Simultaneously, you may become so preoccupied with an impractical idea that it can turn into an obsession. However, your desire for a bit of adventure leaves you little time to get involved with another person’s drama. Distractions are not your friend; concentrate on the most immediate situations and then apply what you learn toward reaching your goals. There are no shortcuts to success.

Virgo Horoscope (Aug. 23 – Sept. 22)

Balancing your personal desires with your available funds could lead you to the conclusion that you’re not in any position to buy something you don’t really need. Money issues are emphasized while the Libra Full Moon Eclipse activates your 2nd House of Finances. You might realize that your old values are out of sync with your current aspirations. There’s no hurry, so step slowly into your future. If you move at your own pace, you can reestablish fiscal integrity sooner than you think.

Libra Horoscope (Sept. 23 – Oct. 22)

Maintaining a peaceful relationship life is highly unlikely while the pleasure-seeking Libra Full Moon encounters several combative planets in the sign of Aries. The emotional drama might be more meaningful if there was someone special with whom you could share your experience. However, you may not have the patience to cultivate open lines of communication. Don’t lose hope when it comes to love; you could be in for a sweet surprise when you least expect it.

Scorpio Horoscope (Oct. 23 – Nov. 21)

You might be quite certain about the intimacy you’re currently seeking, but an enticing opportunity could disappear upon closer analysis. The imbalanced Libra Full Moon Eclipse is like an emotional time bomb in your 12th House of Secrets, preventing you from reaching satisfaction. Don’t attempt to resolve any decisions too quickly. If you take the time to talk about what you want, the right person may be eager to follow your lead. Author Brene Brown wrote, “Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.”

Sagittarius Horoscope (Nov. 22 – Dec. 21)

You could place such inflated expectations on your friends that you just assume they’ll come through for you, although they might not actually meet your idealistic standards. Meanwhile, you’re distracted with interpersonal politics while the Libra Full Moon Eclipse in your 11th House of Groups opposes the Sun and Mercury in your 5th House of Creativity. Concentrate your intentions on expressing yourself instead of worrying about others. Satisfaction is more readily achieved when you actively pursue your own self-interests.

Capricorn Horoscope (Dec. 22 – Jan. 19)

You know exactly what you must do to come through for the people who depend on you. The Libra Full Moon Eclipse accentuates your 10th House of Public Status, enabling you to focus your mind like a laser light on whatever must be coerced into place to reach your professional objectives. Nevertheless, tread lightly; if you are overconfident of your position, your current self-promotional scheme could backfire and leave you with a mess on your hands. Your best contribution is your honest commitment to be as present as possible when interacting with others.

Aquarius Horoscope (Jan. 20 – Feb. 18)

You enjoy visualizing how you will live in years ahead, but your daydreaming could be rather distracting to everyone else. However, the energy-balancing Libra Lunar Eclipse falls in your 9th House of Adventure, encouraging you to keep a foot in the future while stabilizing the other one in the here and now. Widening your perspective enables you to maintain your unflagging vision for a better tomorrow while avoiding unrealistic idealism in the process.

Pisces Horoscope (Feb. 19 – March 20)

Your most pressing dilemma is how to strike a workable balance between simplicity and complexity. You desire all the creature comforts of being in a relationship, but you might not be eager to pay the emotional price while the Libra Lunar Eclipse shakes up your 8th House of Intimacy. Consider the consequences of unrestrained ambitions to avoid complications later on. Let your love light shine brightly by setting aside personal desires in the name of harmony.

Tarot.com is a Daily Insight Group Site

Astrology of Today – March 23, 2016

Summary:

• The Moon is in Virgo until 1:23 AM.
• The Moon is void until 1:23 AM (since March 21st).
• The Moon is waxing and in its Waxing Gibbous phase until 8:00 AM / the Moon is waningand in its Full phase from 8:00 AM forward.
• A Full Moon (Lunar Eclipse) occurs at 8 AM today.
• Mars is in its pre-retrograde shadow (Mars will retrograde from April 17-June 29).

Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Libra

a message from Dana Mrkich

To view more of Dana’s insight, please visit her website, www.danamrkich.com

Today we have a Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in Libra. Libra is about balance and harmony, so if you have any major emotional events, interactions or epiphanies today, know that it is about bringing yourself, your energy, your inner or outer world into a greater place of balance in some way.

Now, Mercury in Aries and the Sun in Aries are opposite the Full Moon today, and Aries is all about the Self, where Libra is all about the Other. Aries likes to make sure me, myself and I are taken care of, while Libra’s focus is on you, we, us and relationship.

We all have a tendency to lean more toward either an Aries or Libran approach to life, and so it is important for things to come along now and again to give us a nudge in the other direction. If you are overly focused on others, a bit of Aries Self/Me influence can be just what the doctor ordered. If your life is too self-involved, expanding your focus to those around you is the medicine you might need.

With Mercury being in Aries opposite the Full Moon Eclipse, communication could be the catalyst. You may find yourself standing up for yourself or your needs, putting your foot down, or realising how often you put the needs of others ahead of your own. You might find a relationship unexpectedly eclipse out of your life around now. If so, it is because one or both of you needed a new direction in order to experience the balance the Soul is seeking.

Some people might get a realisation today that they need to look after themselves with greater independence, more assertiveness or stronger boundaries, while others may realise that they have been neglecting others in the pursuit of self-interests.

How are you feeling today? Any Eclipse happenings in your life?

23rd March 2016: Lunar Eclipse in Libra

a message from Sarah Varcas

To view more of Sarah’s insight, please visit her website, Awakenings, Intuitive Astrology for Heart and Soul

On Meeting intensity With Gentleness

The lunar eclipse occurs in the 4th degree of Libra at 11:48 a.m. UT and augurs a time of high emotion and short tempers if we fail to remember that the urgency we currently feel is not to be trusted! With Saturn stationing retrograde in a few days’ time, we may already be feeling the burden of trying to remain positive when much around us seems to be spiralling into negativity. Previously buoyant attitudes may be waning, fears bubbling up and anxieties taking centre stage. If so, it’s time to cut ourselves and each other some slack; to accept that waves of energy come and go. Activity is followed by exhaustion, progress by inertia, excitement by quiet repose. If we try to push too hard against prevailing conditions now, desperate to maintain ‘progress’ no matter what, we may end up burning out and creating more stress rather than less. We cannot, at this point, extricate ourselves into ‘better times’ simply by sheer force of will. It is time to rest, stop and reflect. To allow to arise thoughts and feelings we may have been avoiding, for in doing so our inner world can begin a return to balance, rather than forcing it to run on empty because we’ve failed to refuel when necessary.

As eclipses go, and despite being far from total, this is a fairly intense one. But we can ease the load for ourselves and each other by choosing acceptance over judgement, love over fear, communication over withdrawal and hope over despair. We may be tempted to retreat into highly subjective positions now, assuming truth without putting assumptions to the test, forgetting that life from another person’s perspective can make equal sense even when their perspective is diametrically opposed to our own! Battles over who’s right and who’s wrong, who has the upper hand or moral high-ground, who did what to whom – none of these will help right now! It’s far more important to focus on what we share not what divides: the common ground that being human provides. The polarisation of individuals, systems of thought and belief, lifestyles and priorities, is becoming especially stark these days. This eclipse alerts us to the eventual destination if we continue further down that road – a place of conflict and hatred, power struggles and oppression. It urges us to let go the need to be right and embrace the possibilities inherent in deep listening and deep seeing: looking into our ‘enemy’ and recognising even the tiniest smidgen of shared humanity upon which can be built foundations for a new world.

The world as it stands is challenged by many opposing forces now. We feel them both personally and collectively, pushing against our own will, raising difficult questions, triggering issues we would rather avoid. How we manage our own inner conflicts largely dictates how we manage external ones. If we struggle with our own anger or hatred, telling ourselves we shouldn’t feel this way, we will struggle to respond effectively to the anger of others. If we fear our own power – preferring to see ourselves as victim rather than creator – we may too readily succumb to the power wielded by others, adopting their thoughts and priorities, behaviours and lifestyles without discerning the right path for us. If we refuse to acknowledge our own inner tyrant who demands its own way no matter what, we may project it onto the world around us, pointing the finger at those bullies out there without recognising their reflection within ourselves.

There is much to be seen and understood at this time. The floodgates holding back the unconscious are opened by this eclipse and we may feel overwhelmed by what comes pouring through. But remember, whatever it is, it is only ourselves. You and me in our fullness: good and bad, positive and negative, loving and hateful, accepting and impatient. We identify with those parts of ourselves we can live with and avoid the bits we can’t, when in fact we can live with all of it when wise discernment, gentle acceptance, compassion and understanding inform our attitude and shape our inner and outer relationships.

We are all in the same boat, we human beings, battered by the winds and torrential rain of emotion, warmed by the sunshine and life-giving showers of spirit. Uniquely separate at one level and united at another, this eclipse encourages us to reflect upon what divides us, what unites us and how we can move forward together in a life-affirming and positive way. It is time to encourage each other and ourselves. To hold up to others a mirror in which they can see their potential, not their failings: a child of god not an orphan of circumstance. If we each use this eclipse to do three things – allow ourselves to rest, forgive ourselves at least one ‘failing’ and encourage one other person to love who they are – we will have done it, and ourselves, very proud.

23 March

Summer Finding/Marzenna/Dance of Salii

The Norse festival of Summer Finding celebrates the light of the sun becoming stronger and more powerful than the darkness.

The old Pagan festival of Marzenna is still celebrated in the Polish countryside with dancing, singing, and the burning of straw effigies to welcome back the Spring.
In ancient Rome, the priests would invoke the Gods Mars and Saturn by dancing with swords and clashing holy shields. It was believed this display of power and strength would drive the evil spirits of Winter back, thus allowing the new growth of Spring to blossom forth.

Wednesday Is Ruled By Mercury

Wednesdays are wild and wacky days. They are for communication, change, cunning, and the arts. This is a Mercury day, and just its patron god this day is full of contradictions, change, and excitement. Some suggestions for Wednesday enchantments would include:

Pulling a little Wednesday color magic into your life by wearing purples or orange

Carrying a multipurpose agate with you and tapping into its various charms

Working with magical plants such as the fern for protection. This plant will also boost the power of any other magical plants with which it is arranged.

Incorporating lavender into charms and spells for transformation

Using the charming scent of lily of the valley to improve your memory, or working with the aspen tree for communication

Calling on Athena, patron of arts and crafts, for inspiration for a new project

Fanning out a Tarot spell to increase you creativity

Calling on Hermes on a Wednesday night to bring movement and good luck into your life

WEDNESDAY CORRESPONDENCES

Mercury/Neptune/Air/North/West/Southwest/Female/Male/Gemini/Virgo

Magickal Intentions: Communication, Divination, Writing, Knowledge, Business Transactions, Debt, Fear, Loss, Travel, Money Matters

Color: black, light blue, brown, gray, green, magenta, orange, peach, purple, red, silver, turquoise, violet, white, yellow; orange is the primary color

Number: 3, 5

Metal: mercury

Charm: distaff, rod, runes, staff, iridescent garments

Stone: moss agate, amethyst, bloodstone, emerald, hematite, lapis lazuli, lodestone, pearl, ruby, sapphire, sodalite, all blue stones

Animal: bear, dog, fox, magpie, swan, weasel

Plant: almond, bayberry, chamomile, cherry, cinnamon, cinquefoil, clove, coltsfoot, ginger, hazel, hazelnut, jasmine, lavender, millet, oak, peppermint, periwinkle, rosemary, sage, St. John’s wort, sweet pea, tamarind, lemon verbena, violet

Incense: cassia, cedar, cinnamon, clove, frankincense, jasmine, lavender, mastic, mint, rosemary, sage, sandalwood, storax, dried and powdered citrus peel, and all incense made from aromatic bark, wood, and seeds

Goddess: Carmenta, Hecate (Queen of Crossroads), Hel, Ishtar, Ma’at, the Morrigan, Nike

God: Anubis, Bragi, Elath-Iahu. Enki, Garuda, Hermes, Maximon (Black Magician), Mercury, Nebo (Wise God of Wednesday), Odin, Shango, Ullr, Vishnu, Wayland, Woden

Evocation: Agrat Bat Mahalat, Michael, Miel, Raphael, Seraphiel, Tiriel
 

Source

Moonlight Musings

The Witches Almanac for Wednesday, March 23

Wednesday (Mercury): The conscious mind, study, travel, divination, and wisdom.

Pakistan Day

Waxing Moon
The Waxing Moon (from the New Moon to the Full) is the ideal time for magic to draw things toward you.

Full Moon 8: 01 am
The Full Moon is the time of greatest power.

Moon Sign: Virgo
Virgo: Favors accomplishment of details and commands from higher up. Focuses on health, hygiene, and daily schedules.

Moon enters Libra 1: 23 am
Libra: Favors cooperation, social activities, beautification of surroundings, balance, and partnership.

Incense: Marjoram

Color: Yellow