Equinox and Aries New Moon March 2012: A New Balance

"Tension is the great integrity."  R. Buckminster Fuller

"The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument." Henry David Thoreau

"Know how to live the time that is given you." Dario Fo, Playwright (1926 - )

Aries Astroactivator© by Kathryn Andren Mina

Time is accelerating. Hard to imagine 2/3 of March has past, or almost 1/4 of 2012. Has time's recent passage felt faster to you?

And here we are again...at a significant astrological turning point. One season departs as a new season arrives. Thousands of years ago, tribes in England and Northern Scotland marked the Sun or Moon's arrival at specific points in the sky. Usually, this pause denoted the Equinox, Solstice or other special planetary alignment. Erected were massive stone structures such as Stonehenge, or stone circles, such as Callanish, serving as time keepers of this seemingly "endless journey" around our day Star.

If I may digress for a moment....This endless journey of Planet Earth around the Sun, which spans over 4 Billion years, is literally an incomprehensible passage of time. However, some context may help you appreciate its enormity.

Consider this: according to anthropologist, the human experiment on planet Earth began with Homo Sapien approximately 4 to 5 million years ago, somewhere in Africa. While that may seem like a very long span of time, it's insanely insignificant compared to the age of our solar system. To be more precise, humans have been on this planetary ride less then .1% (that's .0001) of the Earth's epic journey.

Virgo Full Moon March 2012: Mercury Retrograde arrives

"The great successful people of the world have used their imaginations, they think ahead and create their mental picture, and then go to work materializing that picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that bit, but steadily building, steadily building."

Robert Collier, Author (1885-1950)

“Our whole life is an attempt to discover when our spontaneity is whimsical, sentimental irresponsibility and when it is a valid expression of our deepest desires and values.”  

Helen Merrell Lynd, Sociologist and Philosopher (1896–1982).

We reach the culmination of the current lunation as the Moon reaches its fullness at 11:40 pm on the 7th in Hawaii, and on the 8th for the rest of the world. Virgo Full Moon focuses on life's details, your health and how you choose to be of service in the world.

Behind this focused intent lies tremendous spontaneity, uncertainty, and infinite possibilities...and therein lies the conundrum of this current lunation.