Astrology for Tuesday, 24 March 2020:

Today is the New Moon in Aries just around dawn eastern time. Ruled by Mars which is currently exalted in Capricorn—and with the Sun also exalted in Aries—this New Moon carries particular power to achieve recognition and glory. When a planet is in the sign of its exaltation, it is said to be elevated to great heights, a place of honor or great respect, high status or authority. With both the Sun and its ruler Mars currently exalted, this New Moon is an opportunity to plant the seeds of our own authority, to divine the pathways to positions of honor and respect. Aries is often associated with individual freedom and agency, and there can be a highly individualistic quality to the language of exaltation as well. It is vital that we remember that all freedom is socially conditioned and that to be elevated and respected, indeed, to exercise authority, is always relational within a collective context. Both the New Moon and the Sun’s ingress into Aries just days ago—the Vernal Equinox—mark times of new beginning. How might we tell the stories of new beginnings and plant the seeds of exaltation and authority in ways that do not forge the heroes of individualism or the fiery honors of one set apart from all others? How might we channel the energy of these new beginnings into telling heroic tales of collective sovereignty, the ways we lift up the lowest among us and become elevated together, distributing authority and stoking fires capable of sustaining long-term co-existence and living well? If the pathways to positions of true respect and honor must always bring us back to mutuality—honoring and respecting one another—how might we use this lunation cycle to forge such pathways toward one another and forward together?