Learn how to get the most out of my forecasts.

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 3rd house of information exchange.

From then until April 21, fight for what you want, in applying your intellectual abilities and communicating your knowledge, ideas, or opinions to others. Choose wisely which battles you are going to fight and which battles you are not going to fight.  

While Mars tromps through your 3rd house, it’s time to get yourself moving in a livelier, more experimental way. Take bold, yet practical steps to collect as great a variety of facts, ideas, and experiences as possible. The 3rd house represents learning, buying and selling, training, contracts, agreements, writing and editing. Take a clear-eyed look at where your life stands in connection with such matters. Think about what catches your eye or your interest, and follow it up.

Take the initiative now to get a stalled contract negotiation moving. Start a big writing project. Schedule a trip to make a big sales pitch or participate in a training opportunity.

Do you find some situation in your neighborhood annoying or frustrating? Then make some calls about it. Send some emails. Go to a meeting, or better yet, call your own meeting. Take some productive action to make it a more satisfying place to live for you and for others.

Are you having academic difficulties? Then get some tutoring, or look into new ways to learn what you need to learn--techniques that will play more to your strengths, not to your weakness, as much as possible.

One way or another, take an improvisational, yet purposeful approach to thinking, learning, communicating and traveling, especially travel that is within, say, several hours by automobile. 

If you choose to struggle over who is in charge in your daily life, your outlook on life could suffer. Such people might include neighbors, classmates, teachers, siblings, or local shopkeepers, for example.  If you find yourself feeling hot and bothered about someone not meeting your expectations, and you run roughshod over the other person, then you could get embroiled in a tit-for-tat test of wills. Doing that would only waste your energy--energy that you could put to so much better uses.

Even if you manage to get the upper hand in some heated exchange, you could go through your everyday life with a chip on your shoulder, expecting the worst from others and (not surprisingly) often getting it. If you let yourself sink into cynicism or pessimism, you’ll probably end up feeling drained or tense, not energized.

Doing any of these things would only make it harder for you to go after whatever you want later this year and next year.

With Scorpio rising, developing a style that helps you more confidently and comfortably through the world means that you sometimes bring up taboo subjects. You need to communicate about the very sorts of subjects that many people would just as soon never look at or talk about because they seem too dark or troubling or controversial.

Now, while Mars is moving through your 3rd house, aim to do this very sort of thing. If you have an idea or opinion or information that you feel a need to share, then do it. Put it out there in clear, plain terms. Don't stew or brood about it.  Say what you need to say, but bear in mind that your words and your natural manner alone carry a lot of force.

If you feel like you’re being trampled on, by someone with whom you cross paths in the course of your day-to-day movements, then do something about it, but don’t use excessive force. Think about what you want your life to look like in the long run, and wield your pen, or bargaining power, or voice, or computer accordingly. Acting assertively, not aggressively or submissively, will help you do a good job on your cosmic homework now. That means taking a stand to play on your own terms, while still respecting other people’s rights, too. 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. You’ll also be more effective.

On March 10, freedom-loving Uranus catapults into Pisces and your 5th house of self-expression.

Uranus represents your evolving individuality. While he spends about seven years rumbling through your 5th house, he’ll agitate for you to express your creative, playful, romantic, risk-taking side in a more electric, innovative way. It’s time to recharge your psyche by letting your hair down and kicking up your heels—and to do it in a way that is all your own.

Are you unhappy with the state of your “play time” right now? Then stop and ask yourself how much you’ve been trying to play by other people’s rules.

How much have you been trying to parent your kids the way others think you should do it? Have you been investing your money in what your golfing buddy insists is the next hot stock? If you’ve been trying to satisfy your parents, or the Joneses, or society, or anyone else, in your most creative self-expression, then cut it out.

If you don’t, you can expect to feel vulnerable or victimized. The stock goes south, and you get soaked. You feel like you’ve been had because you “played by the rules” and you still got battered or bruised in the game. You try to keep everything calm with your girlfriend or boyfriend, and he or she still yanks your chain, erupting like Vesuvius or bolts out on you, leaving no forwarding address. You’re left behind, nursing a broken heart or worse. One way or another, you could end up dazed and confused by sudden, unexpected, and probably undesirable events, wondering what hit you.

That’s not to say that you should rebel against everything and everyone. Doing that would mean going to the other extreme of expressing the high-voltage independent energy of Uranus.

Doing that could cause just as many problems as trying to conform to other people’s expectations.

If you go down that path, then you automatically do the opposite of what others try to pressure you or sweet-talk you into doing. You act arrogant toward your date, and you still get embroiled in melodramatic—and possibly tragic--lover’s quarrels. You’re just playing the role of agitator or bomb-thrower, rather than the role of the one who’s trying to maintain order.

You tell your golfing buddy off after taking his advice in the market and losing money. In fact, you trash the country club and get banned for life. You insist on playing the game your way, never mind what happens to anyone else. If you go on a rampage, painting the town red and trying to keep the good times rolling, then look out. You could very well find yourself in the doghouse with your honey pie, or in jail, or in some other sort of dire straits. Before you know it, you could find yourself painted in a corner, sporting a scarlet letter of shame. Doesn’t sound like much fun is it?

And that’s the point. During the seven years or so that Uranus is in your 5th house, it’s time to emphasize having fun. In fact, in order to continue developing your sense of individuality and your freedom to express yourself freely, you have to have fun.

The fun that you have needs to feature one key component, whether you’re having fun playing with the kids or playing like a kid, playing in the market or playing the field romantically, or playing in any other sense of the word. The key to your freedom: making your own kind of music, and singing your own kind of song.

Don’t choose just any music that falls off the shelf. Don’t try to mimic other people’s songs. Invent your own. Dabble in the market in ways that spark your imagination or help you feel exhilarated. Consider what your intuition tells you, or what comes to you in flashes of insight. Don’t blindly trust your fortunes to the judgment or advice of others, not matter how solid or sound it might seem. If acting on their advice happens to make sense to you, then sure, give it a whirl if you’d like.

On the other hand, if by taking their advice, you would feel like you’re living a lie or betraying your own spiritual values, then dance to your own tune instead. By choosing creative, self-expressive actions and opportunities that feel natural to you, you’ll feel liberated, not like you’re stuck at home while the rest of the world is out partying. You’ll have a vibrant, authentic, satisfying sense of joy and spontaneity in your life.

Maybe the other girls on your softball team roll their eyes when you talk about checking out some new kind of singles’ mixer, to see whom you might meet. If it feels right to you to try it, just to see what happens, and especially if you don’t have much to lose, then go.

If your stockbroker advises you against making a particular some investment, saying it’s too unconventional or risky, but it’s a risk that you would regret not having taken, then choose carefully. It’s your money, and it’s your life. Make creative choices that will allow you to look back and say, “I chose it freely and willingly. I did it my way.”

If you want to make a major change in an existing creative venture, and your closest friend says, “If it ain’t broke, then don’t fix it,” then decide for yourself what will give you a greater sense of joy, and a greater sense of creative freedom, and act accordingly. By doing that now, you’ll find it easier to live with yourself, whether the machinery goes kaput or purrs like a kitten.

Now that Uranus is churning through your 5th house, the old rules of the game no longer apply. It’s time to invent a new game, one that you can call your very own. Make it a fun game. Make it an authentic game, one that you chose to play.

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