Show Notes:
Here are the timestamps for today's horoscope:
0:00 Welcome to the AstroMommy Newsletter Introduction
0:45 Title and Date
0:53 Good morning, friends!
3:47 Daily Horoscope for Tuesday, March 28, 2023
7:09 The card for the day
8:55 End Remarks
9:02 quick links, and resources, and “side effects.”
Transcript:
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Without further ado, here is the daily horoscope.
Good morning, friends!
Well, today is a sad day and my heart and prayers go out to those who lost a loved one in the most recent school shooting in Tennessee yesterday.
Looking at the astrology from yesterday in retrospect, a few things stand out: Mars in Cancer is forming four aspects that seem to speak to this tragic incident.
First, Mars is in an applying square from the Sun, representing a crisis point.
Second, Mars is forming a quincunx to Pluto in Aquarius, indicating something estranged, penetrating, and going through a death. Pluto can also represent deep, psychological issues.
Third, Mars is in an applying trine with Saturn, the greater Malefic who is currently in the sign of Pisces (the fishes, which literally swim in schools), and Pisces represents the merging of the spiritual with the physical and Saturn in that place, can represent organized religion, authority, and structure (all of these things combined describe the Christian school where the shooting took place).
Fourth, Mars is in a semisquare to Uranus in Taurus in the twelfth house of self-undoing (perfecting today), indicating a possible unexpected event involving violence and hospitals and I believe that the semisquare represents something happening that was not intended by the shooter--in this case, the shooter was killed in the process. I think this outcome is also indicated by Mars in trine with Saturn—that trine represents easy access for violence and it also represents swift apprehension of the offender (Mars) by the authorities (Saturn)--trines mean there are no blocks in the way and the energy can flow freely—so, unfortunately, the shooter was able to enter the school by force, but with relative ease and then within about 14 minutes the police had arrived and shot the shooter. Below is the chart of the first emergency call received by the police at 10:13 am CDT (BBC News, 2023).1
You can see all of the aspects Mars is making illustrated by the aspect lines in the chart. It’s not always enough to show that Mars is making several aspects to other planets to predict an incident like this, but couple all of these aspects with the fact that Mars is in Cancer, in his fall, and you have a really nasty Mars on your hands when it comes to Mundane astrology.
This is not to say that Mars in Cancer in a natal chart manifests in this way, for Mundane astrology and Natal astrology are looked at differently—In Mundane astrology a fallen planet is usually a short-lived aspect that results in more acute events, but in a birth chart, the native has a lifetime to work through whatever issues the fallen planet may bring up in their psyche and in their experience of life.2
Astrologer Valerie Vaughan wrote an interesting piece about the astrology of school shootings on StarIQ.com in which she said that "one of the classic astrological indicators of violence is a "hard" aspect (such as a conjunction or opposition) between the Sun and Mars, the planet of aggression" and "one feature we might expect in charts of violent events is aspects (significant angular relationships) between any two of the three planets Mars (war, anger), Saturn (rules, structure) and Pluto (power)" all three of these classic indicators were present yesterday. (Vaughan, No date).3
So, it is a bit hard to just write the horoscope this morning, but here goes…
Let’s get into… the astrology
In the middle of the night last night, Mercury in Aries conjoined Jupiter in Aries and this is positive energy towards making a plan and implementing that plan.
Mercury represents your environment, the way you communicate, and travel, and in Aries, this means that you may want to initiate changes in your environment, communicate more quickly and to the point, and you may feel the urge to go places—locally or long-distance—to effectuate such changes.
Jupiter in Aries is about being positive and looking at the big picture, making grand plans about what you want to do and where you want to go. So, today there is a lot of positive energy that can be used to further those plans and even set out on a grand adventure.
We’ve been feeling this transit as it has been building over the last few days and we will feel it for the rest of the week as it dissipates.
The other big thing today is that the Moon moved out of Gemini and ingressed into the sign of Cancer this morning at 6:21 am ET and now she is copresent with Mars and will conjoin Mars by 9:19 am ET—she has not met up with Mars in Cancer since May 16, 2021. Then she will form her First Quarter square to the Sun in Aries at 10:32 pm ET.
Before she conjoins Mars, the Moon will form a quincunx to Pluto at 6:31 am ET (this explains my deep-dive into the school shooting) and after the conjunction to Mars, the Moon makes a semisquare to Uranus in Taurus at 9:35 am ET—indicating something unexpected or sudden throwing you off emotionally (probably my newsletter which you hope will be uplifting, but today kinda sucks because it’s depressing).
Then the Moon forms a trine to Saturn in Pisces at 11:03 am ET representing serious feelings coming about that are easy to access, or a bitter-sweet situation, in which you’re happy that something is happening, but also sad that it’s changing.
At 4:40 pm ET Mars in Cancer forms a semisquare to Uranus in Taurus, again as I said earlier, indicating a sudden, unexpected event that could involve tragedy, violence, rage, and end in a way that is not intended. This energy has been building more acutely since Mars made his ingress into Cancer on March 25, 2023.
And finally, at 10:32 pm ET the Moon in Cancer forms the First Quarter square to the Sun in Aries at 8° Cancer 08’. The square aspect between the Moon and the Sun indicates a crisis point where the environment and the plotline have tension and stress and individuating becomes difficult but necessary—so, it’s an action point—something happens and is initiated, the wheels start to turn and things get going, sometimes with growing pains.
This First Quarter phase coupled with Mercury and Jupiter conjoined could be a very positive omen of getting your plans figured out and underway. So, on an optimistic note, we can use the energy of today to get things going and take the next step in whatever project we are doing.
For example, I just bought a book titled, “The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide To The Classical Education You Never Had” by Susan Wise Bauer, a home-education expert, whom I deeply enjoy reading and following her sound, experienced advice on homeschooling. In this book, she promises that the reader will learn how to “read challenging novels or complex historical arguments with ease and understanding.” That is my hope! So, I am embarking on a journey of self-education—well, I have already been on that journey, but my hope is that this book will help guide me along in a more organized way, and Susan Wise Bauer is a joy to read, so it will be a fun and inspiring journey for my mind, heart, and hopefully improve my own writing as well, for as author James Scott Bell said, “Good writers are good readers.”
Let’s move on to the card for the day:
What is the guidance for today?
21 IL Mondo (The World)
On this card we see an old leather boot, laces partly untied, and a cracked tongue drooping out. The toe of the boot is split open revealing a small globe. The edges of the boot are worn and pieces of the world map are showing through where the leather is thin.
21 IL Mondo, The World card, is all about achievement and success. It’s about coming full circle and feeling a sense of completion. Reaching the highest potential on this plane of existence and it is now time to move on to the sphere of heaven.
The boot in this image has definitely reached its highest potential and seen the whole world—it literally has the whole world in its grasp!
At first, I thought this was a weird image for The World card because I associate The World card with riches, success, and happiness, which is a very subjective idea and to me doesn’t usually look like an old, worn-out boot, but then it dawned on me: this boot does show wealth, a wealth of experiences, and it does show success, because of all the landscapes and terrains the wearer wore this boot over, which is a big accomplishment for a boot! And this boot does show happiness because the person obviously loved their boots so much to wear them till the very end. How many times have we done that, right? Worn something way past its prime, because we loved it so much? My kids do this all the time.
So, as the guidance for the day, I feel the meaning of this card is to live life to the fullest, and wear it out, so to speak. Allow each and every crack in the leather of your “life boots” to tell a story. Relish in those stories, for that’s all we really have in the end. Stuff gets old and rots away, like this boot, but our stories can live on longer than we do. So, tell your stories to people, write them down, sing them as a song, a poem, or leave them as a message on a voicemail—share your stories and live life to its fullest.
Let me know if this reading resonates with you, in the comments!
I hope this is helpful!
Until Thursday,
AstroMommy
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Casas, Angélica. “Nashville School Shooting: Six Killed by 28-Year-Old Ex-Student in Tennessee.” BBC News, BBC, 28 Mar. 2023, https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-65092102.
According to my teacher, Adam Elenbaas, Mars in Cancer in the birth chart can bring up “difficult manifestations and challenges” in the areas of life where Mars falls in our birth charts.
“Mars in Cancer can also manifest through things like water sports, danger or violence related to water, and it can also create challenges for lunar things like mothers, children, home, family, etc.” and “Mars in Cancer is also notorious for manifesting as passive aggression, emotional outbursts, and difficult mental/emotional health issues in general.”
He goes on to say, “but remember that each challenge we face is an opportunity to hear the voice of the divine calling to us. Each challenge is an opportunity to turn our hearts back to our love for the divine.”
Elenbaas, Adam. “Mars In Cancer.” Nightlight Astrology, 5 June 2017, https://nightlightastrology.com/mars-in-cancer-html/.
Vaughan, Valerie. “Common Astro-Factors in School Shootings.” Astrology: School Shootings - StarIQ.com, http://www.stariq.com/Main/Articles/P0002265.htm#Notes.
Episode #143: Reflections On The School Shooting In Tennessee And Mars, Plus The Daily Horoscope—First Quarter Moon