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This week the Sun, Mercury, Mars and Jupiter will be behaving much like a crowd of rowdy spring breakers.  Tactful Venus will step away from the ruckus when she heads into Taurus midweek, while Pluto prepares to crash a couple of the parties Aries is throwing.  Like libations served to college students, the Aries sass and sauce will freely flow throughout the week. 

This week begins with the Moon moving into Aquarius, and it ends with 2021's new Moon in Aries.  As most astrology enthusiasts know, Jupiter and Saturn are presently transiting inventive Aquarius.  Those who keep an even closer watch are no doubt aware that the Sun, Mercury and Venus are currently in Aries and Mars is in Gemini.  Aries is a fire sign and Aquarius and Gemini are air signs, and fire and air signs have positive polarity.  This polarity is described as masculine, yang or outgoing and is shared by six of the twelve signs.  When planets travel through signs of the same polarity, yin or yang, they can only create the agreeable conjunctions, trines and sextiles.

Whatever this past weekend's full Moon stirred up will take a few days to settle down.  Though decidedly lighter than last week's waxing Moon aspects, there's a smoldering quality to most of the week's astrology.  That said, the Moon is now waning and several celestial bursts of inspiration are on the way.  Most significantly amongst them, on Saturday Mercury will trade the ambiguity of Pisces for the impetuousness of Aries.  That bold stroke alone will help us take a fresh look at some new opportunities.  But first, Mercury has a meeting with Neptune on Monday.

This week a sequence of planetary squares and opposition will foment a series of struggles.  In the wider context, we are heading into the revelatory force of a full Moon in harmonizing Libra.  But before we receive its prized equilibrium and the restoration of peace, we'll have to work through some serious discord, in one form or another.  No matter the modality, cardinal, fixed or mutable, the call for resolution will be constant and pervasive, as conflicts will present themselves in a variety of manners and venues.

This week will see Mercury delve into watery Pisces while the Sun and Venus venture into trailblazing Aries.  Monday morning's upbeat sextile between the budding Aries Moon and optimistic Jupiter sets the tone for a week brimming with productivity and encouragement.  Aries is all about bold exploration, and Monday's Moon will give us a sample of the incoming transits.  However, Mercury's descent into reflective, relaxed Pisces, on the 15th, will subdue some of the ferocity, at least until April 3rd when the Messenger also enters the cardinal fire sign. 

If the first two months of 2021 have brought their share of fatigue or a feeling of being burned out, relief is on the way.  This week four planets are offering a retreat from all of the electricity that's been surging from Aquarius and Uranus.  Artistic Neptune will make exact conjunctions with the Sun on Wednesday and with Venus on Saturday.  In between, the Moon will slip into Pisces on Thursday morning for a two-day rest.

Mars' move into Gemini on Wednesday and Mercury's conjunction with Jupiter on Thursday are this week's highlights.  But its real cat amongst the pigeons is the seemingly innocuous Moon.  La Luna will instigate commotion amongst the fixed and mutable signs beginning on Tuesday night, when she slips into passionate, secretive Scorpio. 

Quietly in the background, the lunar Nodes have been working their mutable magic.  Last May, when all of the cardinal sign action was the center of attention, the Nodes stepped away from the fray and slipped into Gemini and Sagittarius.  For the past two months,  the planetary focus has been on the dogged fixed signs.  On one hand, people whose charts have strong mutable sign placements have felt relieved.  For Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces, the pressure's been off.  On that notorious other hand, the role of the mutable modality is just as essential as those of its counterparts.  Where the cardinals thrust and probe and the fixed resolve and sustain, mutables dissolve and prepare.  Their capacity to soften is accentuated when Venus is engaged.

Giving us an immediate hint about its unfolding excitement, this week starts with the waxing Moon in saucy Aries.  Headstrong and audacious, the Mars-ruled sign needs to be where the action is.  This brief lunar transit is the opening act for the week's main event, Wednesday's Saturn square to Uranus.  When the planet of tradition is confronted by the planet of rebellion, the exhilaration that began the week is likely jump the shark into another dimension.  This one is the first of the three squares that the two powerhouse planets will make during 2021.

The free-wheeling, freedom-loving zest of outlying, original Aquarius will get hyper-active this week when a six-planet super stellium coalesces around Thursday's new Moon.  Throw in a hearty challenge to retrograde Mercury, from a Uranus-emboldened Mars midweek, and the Messenger making three conjunctions to celestial companions, and we are in for one wild week.  The action starts on Monday with Mercury's first conjunction, to the Aquarius Sun. 

The undisputed star of this week's astrology is Venus.  She is the planet of beauty, pleasure and love, and this week begins with her entering lofty Aquarius.  Like a cosmic transmitter, Aquarius will broadcast Venusian messages of love and the greater good throughout this transit, and these transmissions that will always offer guidance from the perspective of the Higher Heart.