by Michelle McCann

Maybe you recall hearing that March comes in like a Lion and goes out like a Lamb? 2008 being the Eastern Astrological equivalent to Aquarius in the Chinese zodiac (the Rat), in March the Great Month, otherwise known as the Age of Aquarius, gets underway.
An Age or Great Month lasts approximately 2,150 years. So this March is more in like a Lamb and out like a Lion.

Our view of existence now becomes one with a greater breadth of vision, broad enough to incorporate once irreconcilable polarities. Belief systems that created a sense of the old dualistic, bi-polar way of seeing things fade away. Instead of that old-type thinking, at this stage multidimensional astrology creates a sense of unity and an urge to justness for all.

This is but one part of the evidence that a quantum change, or shift, has occurred in our thinking. No matter what day and month one individual is born, the virtue of unity is now realised by holding in balance the striking contrast of once deemed opposites. There’s no good or bad, not in this emerging paradigm. Now there is…simply all that IS.

In light of this, let’s consider first the basic backdrop for the differences that will slowly–and have already begun to–come together into a rich humanitarian mosaic.

In equal-house Western astrology each astrological sign has one of four elements, enjoys a polarity of six signs each, and is divided by three distinctions referred to as a quality. For example, qualities of the fixed signs Aquarius, an air sign, and Leo’s element of fire are polar opposites but both referred to as masculine. Scorpio, a water sign, is feminine; so is Taurus, an earth sign, although these two are direct polar opposites.

We refer to these as the fixed signs. Fixed energy denotes a persistent, determined, creative and resourceful set of qualities. The four signs embodying mutable, rather than fixed, qualities are the polar opposite masculine signs of Gemini, an air sign and Sagittarius, a fire sign. Mutable as well are Virgo, a feminine earth sign and its direct polar opposite, the feminine fire sign Sagittarius. Mutable energy lends a personality an easygoing, affable go-with-the-flow style. The third set of qualities are the cardinal signs, these being masculine air sign Libra and its direct polar opposite, the masculine fire sign Aries. Got that?

Feminine earth sign Capricorn and feminine water sign Cancer of course are polar opposites as well. All cardinal signs imbue a quality of leadership with initiative and creativity—these are active starter types.

As you can see, the day and month a person is born is a sliver off the grand scale of juxtaposed energies that birth kicks off, an amalgamation that creates a sense of unity so that all twelve signs are relevant to each individual.

The fire signs especially love the sun, spring, and promises of summer. Earth signs not only love spring but sometimes need it to escape winter blues. Water signs usually follow the sun either in dreams or for real. The air signs don’t even notice spring until they realise they should be wearing sunglasses and switching wardrobes. Spring around the zodiac is a sigh of relief as well as a feeling of renewal, rebirth, and just plain realization that, Hey this is a fantastic time to be alive and get ready to be invited to Aries’ birthday party’s starting March 20! Happy leap year to the Pisceans till the nineteenth when the sun moves into the constellation of Aries the Ram, a self-starter fire sign ready for action, lighting a fire under all our proverbial butts to shake of the cozy, hazy days of the Piscean precedence that started on Feb 18 this year.

See you next month for more on astrology for the fifth multidimensional reality. Remember the Chinese New Year of the Rat–check it out, as it all ties in together. Happy Vernal Equinox! (Equinox is the Latin term for equal night–the day and night are once again of equal length.)