Aries - the field of birth

The birth, that all the labour of our life is about, is the upwelling of the inner body that experiences our spiritual wholeness and connection with all life. The heart fills with promise, the potential moves within us, and bursts out of the womb-waters of Pisces - a sense of vastness and power that cannot be contained within the physical human body, but must reach out and out to fill the universe with Being.

This inner being awakes in Aries, and the awareness ripples from the heart-spring with joy whose intensity is almost painful, and love that is the root of immeasurable compassion. Like the birth of a lamb in the morning, or a blackbird singing full-throated in the first light of day; you breathe out of sleep and open your eyes, and consciousness lives again in human form.

Labour precedes birth

In the last few days, you may have had some emotionally painful realisations, or conversations, which revealed only too clearly those aspects of your character that really need adjusting; to get to the Sun in Aries, the Moon always spends the previous few days travelling through Pisces, and this year many of us would have found particularly painful mind-sets rising out of the past: a tendency to be overwhelmed by the suffering of the world, or our own anxieties about family or situations where we feel responsible - an aspect of ‘the martyr’ (on 28 March Moon passed Mercury and Chiron together in Pisces).

On 30 March, at this New Moon in Aries, we can make conscious choices for the rest of this year. This is not necessarily going to be an easy birth, challenges are clear from the beginning (Sun/Moon conjunct Uranus square Pluto). But there is a promise of great growth in the courage to be exactly what you find yourself to be (Sun/Moon in Aries square Jupiter). Aries has the courage to stand alone if necessary - not that it wants to, but compromise is not possible if ones truth is to be discovered.

Compassionate attention empowers

There is a great need for those who think positively to hold the suffering of humanity as part of the bigger picture of human life - our responsibility is to live our lives the best we can and hold the rest in the light of wholeness. We are not meant to rush to solve other people’s problems, nor even to help them unless we feel specifically called. This is not selfish - because the light we produce through acceptance of the truth ripples out and affects all life. Often what is needed in difficult situations is a compassionate listening ear, and an empowering hand on the shoulder, rather than someone thinking they know what another person needs (Saturn square Venus). Helping someone to take responsibility for themselves can be the most empowering form of healing.

Bright awareness with love heals

By the Full Moon on 15 April, we will need to be aware of any tendency to impatience, because we could miss opportunities by rushing past them, only to trip up a bit further along the road (Mercury will be conjunct Uranus). So mindfulness and flexibility are key qualities we could be birthing, for they allow awareness of the supreme sensitivity and compassion needed for healing deep issues (Venus and Chiron in Pisces trine Saturn in Scorpio).

Whatever changes you decide to make in attitudes to the circumstances of your life, or in response patterns in your relationships, use this time to get them going and they will develop well in the next few months.