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Inner Space

Inner Space for March 2005

March brings the spring equinox, and finally, the outside is calling us. I think we've all seen enough of our four walls. It's amazing how much people change with the seasons, and how much places change with the seasons. Astrologically, quite a lot has changed since the last time we checked in. An ocean of energy has moved from Aquarius to Pisces, whereas of early March the sky is concentrated. Pisces enhances emotional sensitivity, and we are about to live through a deeply emotional season for the next few months. The effect I see is that people will suddenly begin to feel all that they have been missing, and wake up to everything they have not quite been thinking. Change is in the air, but as they used to say a long time ago, free your ass and your mind will follow.

Aries (March 20-April 19)
Do you believe your own fears? It's time you started listing them, so you can address them. To address something means to give it its place and put it someplace you know where to find it. I suggest that you may have a fear that you'll never really be welcome in your own home. You may not know how far you've come in the past few seasons of your life to resolve that one once and for all. But you can't force the issue; you can't make yourself see something you're not ready to see. Sooner than you think, one day, this is something you will just simply feel.

Taurus (April 19-May 20)
What is security, really? It must have an emotional basis, because the people who live surrounded by the highest fences and who have the best burglar alarms are often the most afraid. The more emotionally isolated most people are, the less secure they can really feel. Often, in such a state, human contact itself seems to be the most dire kind of threat. The 'issue' of social contact is being pressed in your life. There is considerable pressure to open your home to someone or something. I can't tell you what to do, but I can tell you to pay attention, and I can tell you that you need what people have to offer.

Gemini (May 20-June 21)
What are the lessons you never seem to learn? I'm going to guess that you would really love to get the cosmic teaching that you really can relax and be yourself in the presence of certain others who, at times, you may have experienced as daunting. This is what it means to be 'at home' on the planet. It's one thing to walk around your own house naked except for your antique cat mask. It's quite another to get with perfect strangers and actually hang loose. The notion of human equality is both doubtful and difficult to grasp. However, I suggest you try again.

Cancer (June 21-July 22)
You must at this point apply a test of loyalty for the people who come into your home. Define loyalty as you see fit, and make your own reality-check to see whether the qualifications are being fulfilled. You have learned much about being able to hold together your own definition of who you are. Perhaps the first test, for those who cross your threshold or sleep in your bed, is their commitment to supporting you in who you are, and who you are becoming. I propose that words mean nothing, and will not be reassuring. This is a commitment that needs to be demonstrated, not merely stated.

Leo (July 22-Aug. 23)
If there is a lingering sense of sadness in your home, or if you find yourself going out of your way to make your home a happy place, consider for a moment the struggle that your parents handed you. The fact that it was gift-wrapped as a good upbringing does not matter; that's just the packaging, and your job is to look beneath it. For you, a happy home is a healthy one. Healthy means the energy moves. It means that you consciously create a safe space for people to express themselves. It means they know they are safe being who they are -- because you tell them, and you show them -- both.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sep. 22)
Now that you know about people's tendency to use information for unrighteous purposes, I suggest you begin to see the power of knowledge. Try viewing your home as a kind of repository of wisdom, artifacts and documents -- in some limited sense it is, yet in the age of no privacy we tend to discount the importance of feeling secure about our personal papers and records. Take the time to get these things in order. Know what is where, and make the effort to create backups of the important materials, safely stored with people you trust, or perhaps in a bank vault.

Libra (Sep. 22-Oct. 23)
It's likely that in the past three years, every aspect of your home has been reorganized, recreated, eliminated or been rendered unrecognizable. What has come to take its place? Have you intentionally created it, or are you living with what has shown up? I would say there is a mix of both, but I would strongly suggest that the parts you can't say for sure were born of your own will and vision be evaluated immediately. You have the ability to change anything you want or need to change, but first you need to know what it is.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 22)
You may feel like recent events have had a destabilizing or uprooting effect on your life. I would propose that despite appearances, they have brought you closer to your center or your core. You're being blessed with a new depth of inner vision. What counts the most is that you're in a position to gain insight into the side of your nature that strives to restrict creation by controlling it, and by control, I also mean orchestrate, arrange or organize. To a real extent, life needs to just happen, and we can rest assured because in fact, it actually does happen.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 22)
Is there going to be any end to the changes? Will the pace of your life ever slow down? You need to invent new ways to find rest and refuge. If there is no place you truly feel at home, you need to make a few new ones. And if there are places you do feel like you belong, like you're perfectly safe, and like you have what you need, this may be for surprising reasons -- reasons that have nothing to do with your past. You are a different person than you ever were, you have different needs, and you finally have the independence to act on them.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 20)
You may be feeling like you have to make massive, sudden changes to your living space, all under the guise of improvement. I suggest you take it easy, and devote yourself to making changes within your own psyche rather than in your physical space. To keep your life in balance, for now the change needs to come from the inside out, and your rather intense drive for renovation is about clearing inner closets and tearing down emotional walls rather than the symbolic ones in the rooms that surround you. The next time you feel the urge to go to Home Depot, head for your journal instead.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 19)
This month is the time to reassess a certain set of plans, potentially relating to how you get your emotional needs met. It may seem like no matter what you reach for, you push further away. You may think what you need is going to hurt you. I suggest you reach for yourself, and remember that you need yourself. If you can use that as a point of origin, you will find it a lot easier to relate to others in your environment. You'd do well to go on a search for all self-defeating thoughts, including those elusive things called paradoxes. If you find any, resolve them or throw them away. They are traps.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)
Take care that your money is well invested, and in good hands. And take this month and do a careful review of your spending patterns, your methods of organization, and your priorities. Your wealth is much more likely to increase if you'll take these steps, which don't involve much work and consist mainly of awareness and understanding. You are at this point feeling strong enough and good enough to put these items on your agenda; there is only so much you can do when you're feeling emotionally compromised or stressed out with other responsibilities. Money is not happiness, but often, it helps.


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