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by Brian Habit

NOTE: The following forecast is based on your rising sign (Ascendant), not your Sun sign. If you do not know your rising sign, please visit www.astro.com and enter your birth date, time, and place to determine it.

Happy birthday to those of you who are Pisces, Aries, or Taurus, or Gemini!

On March 4, energetic Mars bursts into Capricorn and your 4th house of roots.

From then until April 21, fight for what you want in your private life, and choose your battles wisely.

If you choose to struggle with your parents or housemate or former spouse about who’s in charge, your morale could take a major hit. If you go into managerial overdrive, trying to control everything and everyone on the home front, then that could set you up to have some headaches now. If you stay in “head mode,” toiling away at the housework, or dealing with family affairs or real estate matters, and you never take time to listen to your heart, then you will not accomplish what you need to do now. Doing any of these things would only make it harder for you to go after whatever you want as this year continues.

Yes, it’s time to throw yourself energetically into such matters, and taking a practical, organized, goal-directed approach to them will help you make the most of your energy now. But the point of shaking things up in your 4th house is to become better attuned to your inner life, your feelings and fears and hopes and dreams.

That means taking a bold, clear-eyed look at what you find in your heart, and then doing some “heavy lifting” (literally or figuratively) to reorganize your most private affairs. Emphasize acting energetically and realistically now, to  make your physical and emotional roots more solid, so that they will support your more public activities later this year and beyond.

Mars needs physical energy, and he’s in Capricorn, an industrious sign. If you have reason to roll up your sleeves and go into high gear at home, then now’s a good time to do it. Clean out the closets if they’re bursting at the seams. Do that fix-'er-upper job that you’ve been meaning to get around to doing. Get some home exercise equipment, if you’ve been wanting to go that route. Moving from one home to another would also be a productive physical outlet for this Martian energy, if that’s something you’re planning to do soon.

Acting assertively, not aggressively or submissively, will help you do a good job on your cosmic homework now. That means taking a stand to conduct your home life on your own terms, while still respecting other people’s rights, too. It means taking initiative in real estate dealings. It means letting people who live with you (or used to live with you) in on your frustration or anger or resentment.

With Libra rising, you generally need to cultivate a collaborative, pleasant, considerate demeanor in order to feel comfortable in the world. However, if you’re feeling stepped on by people in your private life, then do something about the feeling. Use your feelings for fuel. Push for not just peace but also justice. Both you and those close to you will ultimately feel better, if you take the pressure off yourselves and each other to keep things light and pleasant all the time.

If you do that, you’ll have more energy, not less. You’ll feel refreshed, not exhausted. You’ll feel bolder and prouder, not like a coward. Your relationships will also have a chance to become not shallower and more fragile, but studier and more intimate.

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