International Women’s Day is on March 8^th and it would be nice if the lawmakers in this land and around the world would realize their equality and keep their public hands off their private parts. The state of Vaginia should be the new name of the northern neighbor to North Carolina just to the east of West Virginia. Invasive probes into a women’s vagina is an incredible over-reach of government and must be against the Bill of Rights, as in the 4^th Amendment. What these men don’t realize is the women are one half of the power of procreation and share in the responsibility for family, the cornerstone of civilization. As the foundational unit of government, women were the guardians of traditions when men abdicated their duty or lost interest in maintaining the traditions of the elders or when they were lost in wars or other early deaths. Men are fearful that now that women can have children without a penis, that they will choose it as the primary method, which is nonsense, since many women enjoy the intimate interaction of intense intercourse, intermittently, at least. Yet this is also an attack by religion on governmental authority to provide for the general welfare. Callous men who sit in judgment of women’s sexual and medical conditions are in no position to begin to comprehend what they are attempting to do as they venture into murky waters.

It’s not just female humans getting shafted by a chauvinistic society but gay and transgender people get screwed in ways they aren’t fond of and don’t deserve that sort of treatment. People of all sorts just want to be accepted for who and whatever they choose to be or are by birth. As Lady Gaga says in her song, “I was born this way…” She’s an Aries so I’ll look at her chart next month but I found out she has Sag rising, which is why she’s rather over-the-top in her self-expression and speaks out for her political causes. Acceptance is one lesson Jesus had been sent to teach his disciples, that and forgiveness, compassion and self-sacrifice; all Piscean themes that you wouldn’t figure a Capricorn would embrace. When you turn toward consciousness and the quest for enlightenment, higher energies beckon you to strive higher on the evolutionary scale. Personal choices figure prominently into how we evolve through preparing the vehicle for the journey. Just as you prepare for travel to a vacation (a Piscean destination), so life is preparation for the next phase of development. If you lived through a string of female lifetimes and have a need to experience how the other gender lives, then you’ll come back as the opposite sex. However, sometimes genes don’t get your soul’s intentions correctly and program into the cells the wrong gender for proper emotional and spiritual growth, so the person has to determine how to alter their body to deal with those kinds of situations. Since the ‘70’s, more people have begun to recognize that their spirit might inhabit the wrong body. These are the transgender people who require some transitions to return to a sense of normal functioning. Children who play at gender-opposite games are exhibiting early signs and require tolerance of their differences and accepting who they wish to be is a major step in overcoming stigma of aberrant behavior. Social norms must evolve along with laws and people to connect science with reality because most people who feel compelled to change from male to female have the XXY chromosome mutation. In my opinion this is the next step in our biological evolution. Souls have no gender and bodies are now able to reflect reality of spiritual consciousness. We are blended beings, with a large percentage of the transgender populace of mixed parentage, often growing up in a single parent household. It’s about time we see the beauty in all of life’s creation.

Lamar Smith R-TX is one such congressional criminal who earmarked millions for road work around his own home, which shows what a selfish asshole he is. His self-centeredness is a hallmark of the Sun on the Scorpio S Node and his haste and insecurity is played up by its square to Mars/Saturn in Leo. Uranus is sextile to the Mars/Saturn, so you can bet he used every friend and all the connections they had to get elected in order to increase his personal fortune, which so many members of the current congress have done. But he’s got the Sun quincunx Uranus so even his so-called friends don’t really like him all that much. His detachment to the feelings of others is an effect of the Moon in Aquarius, which could well oppose Pluto in a square to his Chiron or the nodes, depending on his time of birth. Anyway you look at it though Fortuna will be in the 3^rd house, so he’s a rationalizing game-player. He was born to lust for money with an unoccupied N Node in Taurus, the ruler of which, Venus, is trine Pluto, ruler of the S Node, so his abundant opportunities for wealth are part of his karmic pattern. That Mars and Saturn square the nodes adds the sense of the skipped evolutionary steps wherein he’s not mindful of the proper expression of the soul or ego, raging at his frustrations and blowing up over things he can’t control. To his discredit, he blocked the bill that would have ended marijuana prohibition because of his donors, the Beer, Wine and Alcohol Lobby! This is the Einstein who brought up the SOPA bill that would have shut down the web except for the largest corporations. His congressional seat has been held by a Republican for over thirty years and we can only hope it reverts back to the Democrats somehow, ejecting this man from the hallowed halls of congress. Not that I like to disparage religions all that much, I do think it’s good to have something to believe in, but his faith is Christian Science! Those are the people who believe that Christ will heal you, so doctors are taboo and so is medical science and pharmaceuticals. Understandably, their lack of faith in medicine of the latter half of the 19^th century makes perfect sense, as they were pretty barbaric then. Today’s medical treatments aren’t all that much better but we can keep people alive and healthier longer with certain meds, like penicillin, which has been a life saver for the sexually promiscuous. Without it, I would have been dead a long time ago, repeating a past life death experience. It’s to be expected of Lamar’s lack of intelligent awareness of facts or wisdom, having no planetary contacts to either Mercury or Jupiter. How he got elected is a mystery to me!

Marking the Sun’s ingress into Pisces is a conjunction with Neptune late on the 18^th and early on the 19^th, inspiring musical, mystical and magical encounters and experiences for those sensitive enough to recognize the potential for expressing your dreams. The New Moon on the 21^st continues this impression of great potential resonating with good aspects to Jupiter and Neptune, so your opportunities are only limited by your imagination. Try to stay calm on the 23^rd as tensions rise over petty things because with Mercury opposite Mars can cause arguments and conflicts over small concerns. Life is great on the 25^th when the Sun sextile Jupiter opens up doors to fun adventures and exploring the world around you offers new perspectives and grand vistas. Another sextile, this time Sun to Pluto, develops on the 27^th, deepening the passion for personal expression of intense desires of the heart, which may manifest in extremely varied ways. Mercury moves into Aries on March 2^nd, accelerating the rapidity of the mind and rushing into all kinds of blind alleys. The 3^rd of March is the mid-point of the Mars retrograde cycle as the Sun opposes the Red Planet, angering the gods and stirring up wars and the rumors of war, which could include dictators being overthrown and the resulting upheavals and strife as they struggle to regain order after such chaos. The very next aspect, early on the 4^th, is Venus in Aries opposite Saturn in Libra, the very essence defining the people who want order but deny its ability to enslave them. Free from the oppressive force of Saturn, Venus moves on into Taurus on the 5^th, joined by Mercury conjunct Uranus, adding more liberating thoughts and brilliant ideas to the mix. Imaginative inspiration integrates the beauty of Venus sextile the spiritual vision of Neptune early on the 6^th and its effects can be transcendental. The Virgo Full Moon on the 8^th coincides with Purim and International Women’s Day, so draw correlations on your own but I suggest you place your focus on your endeavors and enterprises. That’s because the chaos of Mercury retrograde is once more upon us on the 12^th, shifting life into reverse as it stalls progress and makes it hard to get any work done with any consistency. Best to stick to routines and not try to initiate any new projects and certainly don’t buy any major products where the cost is more than a paycheck. You don’t need any buyer’s remorse but there are good uses for the retrograde. One is hinted at by Jupiter trine Pluto culminating on the same day, which speaks of searching out truth and investigating for justice, researching publications for information that helps you understand the larger picture and the evolutionary process that got us to where we are now. As for the larger picture, this is an aspect on an improving economy, including foreign nations helping out those in deep debt doo-doo. It’s a good thing that Venus joins the fun the next day, conjoining Jupiter in the trine, increasing the benefits and making it fairer all around. Most elegantly, on the 14^th, Mars, still in Virgo forms an exact trine with Venus and Jupiter as well as Pluto, making a celestial Grand Trine in the Earth signs. Material wealth should be spread around to make everyone’s life better but everyone needs to participate in the circle of productivity to make it happen. That’s the dream of the Pisces-Virgo polarity, too; we’re all in this boat together and we all have to row! Just before the Sun departs the last sign, Mercury retrogrades back into the conjunction with Uranus, coming up with recycled ideas that seem futuristic, kind of like Newt solving problems with Bond villain concepts. Prepare for the spring with brilliant new ideas (that you’ve had before) and with one cautionary advisory; Mars and Saturn are retrograde during the entire transit of the Sun through Pisces, requiring more alertness for authoritarian violence and pressure.