Astrology Highlights for March 10-16, 2025: A Change is as Good as a Rest
“A change is as good as a rest,” as the old saying goes. And it really is amazing how much energy can be unleashed by the tiniest alteration in routine. It doesn’t need to be anything dramatic; perhaps a different breakfast, a new route to work, takeout for dinner – just something outside the usual.
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Astrology Highlights for March 3-9, 2025: The Zestful Journey
Mercury in Aries favors moving fast, thinking fast, and talking even faster. It’s not that we’ve forgotten the gentle wisdom of the Pisces journey; it’s just that Aries tends to bring more interest in new challenges and fresh ideas than in soul-searching and reflection.
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Astrology Highlights for Feb. 24-March 2, 2025: Start with the Ending
How do we make sense of a New Moon in Pisces, the last sign of the zodiac, the one devoted to letting go of old baggage and releasing attachments? How do we make a new beginning when we’re knee-deep in endings?
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Astrology Highlights for Feb. 17-23, 2025: Pisces Soup
All year long, we acquire leftovers from various endeavors: A new tablecloth from a flea market, a guitar we’d like to learn to play, a couple of books we’ve been meaning to read. When the Sun enters Pisces, just a month ahead of the Sun’s Aries equinox and the start of a new astrological year – it’s time to put some of those treasures to use, to make room for new experiences.
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Astrology Highlights for Feb. 10-16, 2025: Adjustment
The Sun and Mercury’s squares to Uranus this week are a kind of planetary chiropractic adjustment. Something has progressed from aggravating to painful, and we need to make a change in order to relieve the pain and move forward. And these aspects are designed to get us off our sofas and engaged with much-needed change.
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Astrology Highlights for Feb. 3-9, 2025: All We See is the Magic
Nearly every dazzling Jupiterian undertaking begins with Mercury, who wonders: How is it to be done? What will I have to learn, and what skills must I acquire, to accomplish this audacious feat? As Mercury trines Jupiter, breathtaking performance achieves the miraculous: Making hours of perfecting and planning disappear, so that all we see is the magic.
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Astrology Highlights for Jan. 27-Feb. 2, 2025: The Exhilaration of Hard Truths
As I grow older, I can more easily locate Aquarius on my inner landscape: I recognize it in the sudden, violent protest that lets loose in me when I feel the walls closing in. There is something hard and detached in this sign. But Aquarius is unruly and wild and beautiful, too.
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Astrology Highlights for Jan. 20-26, 2025: The Truth Will Set You Free
Sometimes we have to let ourselves get good and angry, mad enough to spit tacks, before we feel free to say and do exactly as we please. Just one insensitive person hurting our feelings will often do the trick.
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Astrology Highlights for Jan. 13-19, 2025: Where the Center Lies
We’re leaning into a time of rapid change, with Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and the Lunar Nodes shifting into new signs in a period of just six months. The winds of change can sweep us up and deposit us somewhere new and exciting, but they can trigger destructive fires as well. When too much changes too fast, we can feel disoriented and lose our center.
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Astrology Highlights for Jan. 6-12, 2025: Spirit and Spreadsheets
Give your fanciful, imaginative Pisces side a chance to come out and play. Learn to read tarot cards, begin a meditation practice, or take up the guitar, safe in the knowledge that your practical side will keep you from quitting your job to join a rock band when you’ve only learned three chords.
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