March 1st: Applying Moon Trine Pluto @ 12:50 AM
Strong emotions and urges move people now. A great time to let go of inhibitions and move with the energy of the moment. Be open to changes and rearrangements.
March 1st: Applying Mercury Conjunct Mars @ 7:06 PM
Problem solving activities increase in intensity now. Communications are direct and honest, while transportation matters present challenges. It’s a time of transportation upsets, emergency actions, strikes, and executive decisions.
March 2nd: Applying Moon Square Mars @ 7:02 AM
This transit often coincides with stressful conditions, upsets, quick responses, and competitive reactions. Men may raise challenges to cooperation. Impulse control may be an issue. Constructive projects will channel negative energies.
March 2nd: Applying Moon Sextile Uranus @ 10:10 AM
People tend to be more easily excited and thrilled now. Conditions favor novelty and experimentation.
March 2nd: Applying Moon Square Neptune @ 2:43 PM
Conditions are confused and uncertain. Feelings run high. Perceptions are altered, leading to misunderstandings. Imagination, escapism, and gullibility are factors to contend with.
March 3rd: Applying Moon Square Sun @ 11:46 PM
Tensions, imbalances, and incompatibilities must be handled now. Decisions and judgments may be made under pressure. Turning points may be reached due to crisis situations.
March 4th: Applying Moon Square Saturn @ 8:00 AM
There is a conservative and serious mood in the air now and some may feel isolated. Fear reactions are driving events. Delays are possible. This is a time for work, organization, and restraint.
March 4th: Applying Moon Trine Mars @ 1:34 PM
This is a time for action, initiative, and decisiveness. It’s a good time for constructive projects and physical activity.
March 5th: Applying Mercury Conjunct Neptune @ 1:41 AM
Imaginative talk, future planning, and the presentation of a new vision are stimulated by this transit. It’s a time for insight, retreat, closure, spirituality, and inspiration.
March 5th: Applying Moon Opposite Pluto @ 8:16 AM
Strong emotions play a role in events now. Basic instincts are motivating forces. Some may try to dominate others in subtle ways; others will share their power. A major time for cleanups.
March 6th: Applying Moon Square Venus @ 5:06 AM
Social interactions tend to have more emotional charge now. Decisions and choices are feeling-based. Women and feminine issues predominate. Public events generate strong responses.
March 6th: Applying Moon Trine Sun @ 6:15 AM
This is a time of balance and harmony. Changes in awareness and in relationships occur naturally and quickly. It’s a good time for making agreements and decisions.
March 6th: Venus Stations Retrograde in Aries @ 9:17 AM
March 6th: Applying Moon Sextile Saturn @ 10:16 AM
People are thoughtful and serious now. It’s a time for traditions, pragmatic decisions, and sensitive diplomacy.
March 8th: Applying Mars Conjunct Neptune @ 5:51 AM
This transit brings dramatic action and a kind of ideal decisiveness; people take action, protest, or attack others for reasons of ideology or beliefs. Leaders use theater to conceal intentions. There may be confusing episodes in the field of medicine, in regard to hospitals, and in other kinds of institutions.
March 8th: Applying Moon Trine Venus @ 8:05 AM
Interactions with others, especially females, feel natural and balanced now. It’s a time of warm feelings and affections, cooperation, and emotional comforts. Public events are positive.
March 8th: Applying Moon Opposite Neptune @ 11:56 PM
This transit may bring uncertainty and confusion. Feelings are running high. Boundaries are ill-defined. It’s a time of altered perceptions and misunderstandings. Be honest and to-the-point.
March 10th: Full Moon with Applying Mercury Sextile Pluto @ 10:36 AM
Agendas for change are announced now. There may be news about investigations and private matters.
March 10th: Full Moon with Moon Conjunct Saturn @ 3:26 PM
People's security needs are strong now. For some a time to be serious, formal, conservative, thoughtful, shrewd, and find practical solutions to problems. This can also be a time for traditions, formalities, pragmatic decisions and sensitive diplomacy.
March 10th: Full Moon with opposition to Uranus @ 10:48 PM
Disruptions in the flow of events may occur suddenly now. It’s a time for experimentation and novelty. People’s moods are subject to rapid changes. Expect the unexpected.
March 11th: Applying Jupiter Sextile Venus @ 5:35 AM
Celebrations, meetings and weddings are successful. Confidence and feelings of prosperity move events along now.
March 12th: Applying Moon Opposite Venus @ 1:36 PM
Social interactions are highlighted now and tend to be emotional and feeling-oriented. Relations with women present challenges. Rational choices are bypassed; feelings dictate action.
March 12th: Applying Sun Conjunct Uranus @ 6:26 PM
This is a time that favors innovation and progress, quick thinking, and the willingness to accept new conditions. Upsets, sudden events, radical proposals, controversial or surprising actions, and some “firsts” may be prominent right now.
March 13th: Applying Moon Trine Neptune @ 8:15 AM
People display sensitivity and compassion now. Thoughts and conversation focus on the future. Feelings and intuition are behind choices and decisions.
March 13th: Applying Moon Trine Mars @ 3:39 PM
This is a time for action, initiative, and decisiveness. A good time for constructive projects and physical activity.
March 14th: Applying Moon Trine Mercury @ 11:45 AM
Communications flow smoothly now. Feelings and emotions are expressed naturally. An opportune time for meetings with women..
March 15th: Applying Moon Trine Uranus @ 12:17 PM
This time favors social experimentation, novelty, gambling, and other forms of risk taking. People are more easily excited now.
March 17th: Applying Moon Square Mercury @ 7:39 AM
Strong emotions may trigger misunderstandings. Communicate sensitively. Schedule disturbances and transportation complications are possible now. Meetings with women require focus.
March 17th: Applying Moon Square Uranus @ 11:57 PM
This transit brings temporary upsets in the flow of events. Moods may be unstable and changeable now. Expect the unusual and the unexpected. Social conditions may be awkward and inconvenient.
March 18th: Applying Moon Square Sun @ 10:47 AM
Tensions, imbalances, and incompatibilities must be handled now. Decisions and judgments may be made under pressure. Turning points may be reached due to crisis situations.
March 18th: Applying Mercury Opposite Saturn @ 8:59 PM
Situations are serious and need organization. This may be a time of realistic communications. Authorities announce restrictions, denials, delays, freezes, and cuts. Transportation matters experience difficulties. A time for special patience and endurance.
March 18th: Applying Mars Sextile Pluto @ 11:12 PM
Passions are high and daring actions are often a response. Situations intensify, bringing out the extremists and power-players. Takeovers are often successful under this transit.
March 19th: Applying Moon Square Venus @ 2:32 PM
Social interactions tend to have more emotional charge now. Decisions and choices are feeling-based. Females and feminine issues predominate. Public events generate strong responses.
March 20th: Applying Moon Sextile Mercury @ 7:13 AM
Feelings and emotions are expressed easily now. A good time for meetings with women.
March 20th: Applying Moon Sextile Uranus @ 1:06 PM
People tend to be more easily excited and thrilled now. Conditions favor novelty and experimentation.
March 21st: Applying Mercury Conjunct Uranus @ 10:02 PM
Unique circumstances can arise during this transit. A time for unusual arrangements, awkward situations, and progressive (or controversial) decisions. Sudden changes or disturbances bring fresh air and innovations make news.
March 22nd: Applying Moon Sextile Venus @ 12:18 AM
This is a time of good feelings and intentions, a time favorable for meetings and social interactions, especially with women.
March 23: Applying Moon Conjunct Neptune @ 5:10 AM
Conditions are more delicate now. People may show more sensitivity as they express their beliefs. Thoughts and conversation are on the future. Feelings, imagination, and intuition are strong.
March 23rd: Applying Sun Square Pluto @ 11:34 AM
This transit brings strategy sessions, power-brokering, quarrels, and other turbulent conditions. Change may be demanded now and leaders may be forced to share power. A time for secrecy, purification, healing, and rehabilitation.
March 23rd: Applying Moon Sextile Pluto @ 8:22 PM
Be open to changes and rearrangements. A time to let go of inhibitions and move with the energy of the moment.
March 24th: Applying Moon Conjunct Mars @ 4:02 AM
The trend now is for things to heat up and begin to move faster. This transit stimulates decisions, initiatives, and action. It’s a good time for active physical work or constructive activities. Some people may become competitive or overly impulsive now.
March 24th: Applying Moon Opposite Saturn @ 10:24 PM
There may be a serious mood in the air right now and some people may find themselves isolated. Traditions and formalities are appropriate; this is not a time for novelty. Emotional detachment and heightened self- consciousness also describe this period.
March 25th:Applying Moon Conjunct Uranus @ 9:53 AM
Anything can happen now. It’s a time for social experimentation, novelty, and risk taking. People will tend to be more easily excited and thrilled now. Conditions are unstable and changing.
March 25th: Mercury the winged messenger takes on a fiery persona and move into Aries @ 12:56 PM
March 26th: Applying Moon Conjunct Venus @ 12:15 PM
Relations with others, particularly women, are emotionally enhanced now. People are attracted to each other and feelings are shared. Public events move along more or less smoothly.
March 27th: Applying Mercury Square Pluto @ 5:15 AM
Challenging announcements and agendas for change are made now. Talks take place in a tense atmosphere. It’s a time of transportation upsets, disturbing events, explosions, storms, and stories of covert operations. Who’s telling the truth?
March 27th: Applying Sun Conjunct Venus @ 12:24 PM
Since Venus is retrograde, this is an inferior conjunction of Sun and Venus. Social conditions may be intense now and people may act impulsively. Establishment leaders may fall or be struck down in some way.
March 27th: Applying Moon Sextile Neptune @ 7:17 PM
People may show more sensitivity now. Intuition, insight, and compassion are in the air.
March 28th: Applying Moon Trine Pluto @ 8:50 AM
Strong emotions and urges move people now. A time to let go of inhibitions and move with the energy of the moment. Be open to changes and rearrangements.
March 28th: Applying Mercury Conjunct Venus @ 7:31 PM
Friendly discourse and creative expression are stimulated by this transit. A time of mergers, deals, economic progress, the relaxing of controls, and progress in human relations.
March 30th: Applying Moon Sextile Venus @ 3:37 PM
This is a time of good feelings and intentions, a time favorable for meetings and social interactions, especially with women.
March 30th:
Applying Mercury Conjunct Sun @ 8:30 PM
This contact often indicates that news or an announcement of some importance from leaders is imminent. Mercury is now direct, it’s a time of decision making based on rules and regulations. Transportation-related issues are active now and they may require special attention.
March 31st: Applying Moon Square Saturn @ 10:51 AM
There is a conservative and serious mood in the air now and some may feel isolated. Fear reactions are driving events. Delays are possible. This is a time for work, organization, and restraint.
Current astrological transits detailed...
All times using Pacific Time Zone (Daylight savings starts March 8, 2009)
April 2009
April 1st : Applying Moon Opposite Pluto @ 3:06 PM
Strong emotions play a role in events now. Basic instincts are motivating forces. Some may try to dominate others in subtle ways; others will share their power. It’s a time for cleanups.
April 2nd : Applying Moon Square Sun @ 7:34 AM
Tensions, imbalances, and incompatibilities must be handled now. Decisions and judgments may be made under pressure. Turning points may be reached due to crisis situations.
April 3rd:Applying Venus Square Pluto @ 3:27 AM
Stressful events may occur during this challenging transit. Cooperation and participation is forced and demanded. It’s a difficult time for open talks, trust, and sharing.
April 4th: Applying Mercury Sextile Jupiter @ 7:59 AM
School, travel and transportation, and legal matters are themes now. A time for exploration and learning.
April 4th: Applying Moon Trine Sun @ 2:38 PM
This is a time of balance and harmony. Changes in awareness and in relationships occur naturally and quickly. It’s a good time for making agreements and decisions.
April 4th: Applying Mars Opposite Saturn @ 5:55 PM
Tensions are rising. Forceful urges collide with legal structures. This abrasive transit often coincides with cooperation problems, serious conflicts, and accidents. At worst, fighting or warfare erupts or spreads, errors are made, natural and man-made disasters occur, and controversy flares. Patience and restraint are very much needed now.
April 5th: Applying Moon Trine Pluto @ 9:43 PM
Strong emotions and urges move people now. It’s a time to let go of inhibitions and move with the energy of the moment. Be open to changes and rearrangements.
April 10th: Applying Sun Sextile Jupiter @ 6:43 AM
This is a time for proposals, launchings, generosity, increases, travel, helpful actions, legalities, and educational matters.
Here are Ray Merriman's MMA Comments for the Week Begining April 6th , 2009 " Mars will now begin its “translation” to the Saturn-Uranus opposition, April 4-15. In 2008, such “translations” were accompanied by sharp declines in stock indices throughout the world. Since the market is moving higher into this time band, we have to wonder if it will do that again. Or will it move down and complete the decline nearby to April 15, and then make another run to new yearly highs? Last week’s column pointed out that, “The last “translation” occurred with the Sun making the same aspects to Saturn and Uranus (opposition and conjunction respectively), March 8-13. That coincided with the low in most world stock indices, from which started this current bull run…”
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Recent earthquake and volcanic events listed here
Earthquake, Weather and Volcano Alert for Pacific Ring of Fire, Western Hemisphere and US
Quake, Volcano and Weather News:
April 6, 2009: With Mercury Sextile Neptune to aid our ability to make predictions
Scientist, Gioacchino Giuliani: My quake prediction was ignored
Last month, vans with loudspeakers drove around the area broadcasting Giuliani's warning after he claimed his method of predicting seismic events by radon gas emissions had forecast an imminent quake.
The scientist was reported to police for spreading false alarms and was made to remove his findings from the Internet. "They called me an imbecile," he said.
April 6, 2009: Pluto (lord of the underworld) stations retrograde in orb of hard aspect to Venus with Mars-Saturn separating from
an opposition.
Death toll in Italy quake on the rise
Buildings that had stood for centuries lie in ruins after the quake that killed more than 100. Cries for help are heard from the rubble, and thousands are in the streets bracing for aftershocks.
April 5, 2009: Strong earth energies are releasing with Virgo Moon trine Pluto and Mars applying to conjunction with Uranus
Strong 6.3-magnitude quake rattles Italy (plus a Magnitude 4.8 struck an hour later)
ROME, Italy (CNN) -- A 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck central Italy early Monday, less than six hours after another quake hit the northern part of the country, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
April 5, 2009: Moon still in Leo and opposing Neptune as Pluto stations retrograde and Mars is moving toward Uranus (exact April 15th)
Magnitude 6.0 - KYUSHU, JAPAN
April 4, 2009: Right on time astrologically with Pluto stationing retro. and Mars Opposing Saturn - another volcano goes off!
Evacuation ordered as Chile Llaima volcano erupts again
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chile's Llaima volcano, one of the most active in South America, spewed out a river of lava more than 1,100 yards long on Saturday in a fresh eruption, prompting officials to order dozens of people to evacuate.
April 4, 2009: As Pluto stations retrograde and things heat up with Mars opposing Saturn some of our worst fears re: climate change are happening.
An Antarctic ice shelf has disappeared -scientists say
They said the Wordie Ice Shelf, which had been disintegrating since the 1960s, is gone and the northern part of the Larsen Ice Shelf no longer exists. More than 3,200 square miles (8,300 square km) have broken off from the Larsen shelf since 1986.
April 4, 2009: Mars opposing Saturn as Pluto turns retrograde
Magnitude 6.3 - PHILIPPINE ISLANDS REGION
March 31, 2009: Moon in Gemini TSQ Mars-Uranus/Pisces opp. Saturn - Quakes
Magnitude 6.3 - NEAR NORTH COAST OF NEW GUINEA, P.N.G.
March 30, 2009: Driven by the applying Mars Opposing Saturn aspect especially with Sun-Mercury-Venus in Aries is ruled by Mars
and in wide orb to square with Pluto in cardinal Capricorn - Quakes persist in Alaska along with volcanoes
Strong Quakes from ANDREANOF ISLANDS to KODIAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
March 29, 2009: Fixed Earth Taurus Moon with esoteric ruler Vulcan meaning more volcanoes especially with an applying Pluto
square Venus (ruler of Taurus) now retrograde.
Three Indonesian Volcanoes Put On Code 'Orange' Alert Status
March 28, 2009: Taurus Moon with Trine to Pluto during the continuing Mars Opposition to Saturn
Alaska's Mount Redoubt has largest eruption yet and spews ash 50,000 feet high
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Alaska's Mount Redoubt has erupted again, spewing an ash cloud 50,000 feet up into the air.
The Alaska Volcano Observatory in Anchorage says the volcano had a significant eruption at 1:20 a.m. Saturday. The ash is expected to move north toward the Alaska Range, missing Anchorage which is about 100 miles from the volcano.
March 27, 2009: Mars in Pisces opposing Saturn in Virgo for serious accidents
At least 50 dead in 'mini tsunami' after dam bursts in Jakarta
March 26, 2009: The power of the fiery, Aries New Moon is being felt especially with Pluto SQ Venus-Sun-Moon
Given Threat of Major Earthquake, County Fire Chief Dennen Says, “The Message to the Public Right Now Is That They Should Be Prepared”
Given the, now, countless number of small earthquakes centered in the Salton Sea area just south of Indio this week, a threat still exists for a major earthquake to take place on the San Andreas Fault—perhaps of a 7.0 magnitude or greater, though this risk is reduced with each passing day.
Update March 26, 2009: Aries New Moon and another day hundreds of quakes are registered in Salton Sea - Bombay Beach.
March 26, 2009: The power of Aries New Moon is being felt especially with Pluto SQ Venus-Sun-Moon
Two tornadoes touch down in Mississippi
(CNN) -- Two tornadoes touched down in Mississippi before dawn Thursday, damaging about 70 homes and flattening a church, emergency officials said.
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