March Horoscope: Not even a God of the Underworld can stop Spring

Written with love by Mariah the Mystic

The squelching mud and vicious storm we traipsed through in February is giving way to hints of lush grass and delicate wildflowers blossoming in March. We have just a few more meters to go until the pungent decay of wintered leaves fade behind us and we are consumed by dappled sunlight. The despair and ennui of last month have us eager, barking to be unleashed. Restrain yourself ever so slightly. Let the excitement build as the opportunities descend into our palms, without the need to reach and swat.

March is happy to highlight the paradox in bold. The world shows support for what can’t be controlled, from Bad Bunny’s halftime performance, Alysa Liu’s gold medal win, to ICE backing out of Minnesota. And also in a more sinister tone, what can’t be stopped — higher tariffs, uncensored racial slurs on the awards stage, stone-faced lies about transgender care and support for children.

The earth is hobbling out of its cold, dreary hibernation into a season that has served as an omen of beginnings since our earliest civilizations. There is a glint of something on the precipice that we may not reach tomorrow, but we can taste moving on the breeze.

Early in the month, relational and aesthetic worlds begin to jolt awake. For a moment, the bar lights flick on. You can see the whole room, and it feels exposed and thrilling. Opportunities crawl out of the woodwork that parallel a deeper current within you. There is a desire to play again. Veer your mischief towards the low risk, high heart-pumping.

Paris Fashion Week follows NY and London, holding new reins for how fashion is morphing and refusing conformity. Color, texture, and tactility break through the monotone cracks of exhausting Pantone greige and uniform quiet luxury. Shapes refuse to conform to gender or beauty standards, layering and delicious accessorizing ask us to take something old and make it new again. This era begs us to stop dressing for the gaze or the clout, and to find a deeply personal, carnal juxtaposition with how we drape and wear our existing clothes in experimental ways, or find identity in the performance and ritual of dressing.

The month induces birth; a bookend eclipse begins its labor, ending the incubation of what we conceived during the February Solar Eclipse. We may find ourselves buried in the logistical plans and processes of our new ideas. Dig into the parts behind the curtain or below the surface. Dust off old projects yearning for attention and finishing touches. Take to your planner, journal, sketchbook, and calendar, and scribble down your plans.

While outer planet action softens in this moment, and two retrogrades find their end, we can feel a blush return to our cheeks. There is an unclogged rush of adrenaline snaking through our bodies, relentless and restless, but begging to be carried out with a steady hand. Like a match made in purgatory, you’re revved up, but you’re so, so fragile.

While inside this incredibly sensitive state every vibration and download is clinging to you like Saran Wrap. Be conscious of what you invite and consume while in this state of reprocessing realignment. Opt out of soul-suck or anxiety. Mute or restrict as necessary.

This astrological concoction is best wielded in a quest to find new routines, new orders for streamlining and improving your everyday life. Start small, start with research, with curiosity, with just jumping in and ‘trying’ something without major commitment. Use the syncopation of your daily life to notice what you need, to mix up your preset. Rot on the couch for a day and notice where burnout is pooling and guilt or worries manifest. Oppositely, get active for a day, tending to what you’ve been neglecting on your to-do list that takes 5 minutes or quenching needs that fulfill the spheres of your life and world that have been underwatered.

Your health and everyday happiness matter this month. Listen to what your body and mind ask for, and deliver it to yourself without judgment or disbelief of its usefulness. More than ever, lean on your gut, intuition, and your ability to be intentional through observation and patience, even if painstaking. When you feel overwhelmed, step away and take a rest, or even a day off, instead of conceding altogether.

The planets would rather see you retreat back to your hideyhole, tinkering behind the scenes, than bombing on stage with a set that you hadn’t fully tightened up.

Midmonth, you're asked to keep your jog to a steady pace, or you’ll start cramping. You are finding what is sustainable for you long term. Instead of embarking on side ventures of grandeur, dust off and finish what you started. Recharge yourself properly and stop living life with 20% battery life. Let everything marinate at a pleasurable pace, rather than rushing to the finish line and missing the milestones. Extend into the last bits of the Piscean archetype: sweet and bottomless compassion, subtle connection to a timeless inner knowing, noticing where lines blur or where you feel the urge to escape. The places inside and outside of yourself that make you feel ancient, or oppositely infantile.

The Astrological New Year arrives, returning us to the start again. You feel first-day jitters as you lay out your outfit for your debut. As this refresh yawns and the water pressure returns to a full surge from the garden hose, recalibrate with the physical world while retaining the softness spilled in you by your wintry process. Prep like you’re training for a marathon, discipline coupled with zeal, hard work mirrored by rest and recovery. Notice which small synchronicities and tangible experiences arrive to validate the nest of insights you've gathered in your glacial nest. Commit to your new routines, and when you miss a day, start again tomorrow.

You are reforming, and the world is reforming, too. Winter wrecks the landscape, but it hunkers and holds relentlessly, even through ice age and drought. Spring fulfills her vow to return fruit to our soil. March wags her forked tongue, split down the middle. On one side, the growling, growing hunger for reparations, liberation, and self-actualization reaches a restless fever-pitch. The other carries the warning of impact when action is led by impulse with no wit, no caution, and no care for the consequences of others.

Though the war is far from over, collectively and personally, and frankly, never-ending, there is a cactus sprouting in the utilitarian cracks of empire. No matter how many walls they build, people they try to banish, or land they manage to usurp, they cannot stop the force of nature. They have everything to lose, sentencing their own legacy to a grisly execution by the severe nature of our planet.

Close this month focusing on your own processes, letting the planet take care of the bigger picture. Sweetness returns to the senses. Lean into the present moment like a hiking stick. Accept the serotonin syringe from Mother Earth, embracing a feral and radical hedonism by exploring the world in hands-on, tactile ways. Show up embodied in the artifacts of your hibernation ritual, a stronger and well-slumbered version of you that has grown fearless in its demands and ambitions, and acutely perceptive of its beating heart.

Aries Sun + Rising: A private ending has swept you bare, leaving space for new devotions or brazen affairs. Rest deeper even if your mind fights it; collect dream messages, swell your tempo into a steady battle cry, and prepare for your own season to wake you with a devilish grin.

Taurus Sun + Rising: Tend to your tedious put-offs or maintenance-y tasks, then collapse and let your gut out. Fill loafing time with artistic pursuits, bleeding joy, and releasing something truly strange and earthly behind the comfort of drawn curtains.

Gemini Sun + Rising: Invite brushstrokes of order and intention into your chaos cave. Dust off unsupportive factors. Limit disruptions to your flow. Let your quicksilver mind fully chew on your method and madness before publicly broadcasting or sharing your next move.

Cancer Sun + Rising: Expand past your antiquated self ideals or beliefs with new nerve. Molt your current shell and discover your next form with permission to play and experiment. Here you are an abstract, amorphous, and self-evident embodiment that does not require further explanation or reason.

Leo Sun + Rising: Your experience and understanding of love, beauty, and yearning has taken on a new shape. Demote outside opinions from a final sounding board to a witness of this evolution. Let this month lead you towards explorations that sate and suit these desires, discoveries, & demands.

Virgo Sun + Rising: You are approaching a negotiation of the ideal management of your solo ventures & regimens versus your roles & commitments in partnerships. Invite your people into this process, rewriting the script for when to take the lead, collaborate, or step into the second-in-command role.

Libra Sun + Rising: Opportunities materialize in your outer world, sunbathing your dynamism and melting away lingering apprehensions. Feed overflow energy into others by speaking authentically, making bold moves, & inviting them in on your feral appetites.

Scorpio Sun + Rising: Your beliefs are stretching, skintight yet liberating. Give flight to creation cravings, grow or shrink frivolities to fit your new dimensions, & be elastic when meeting accelerations or pushbacks.

Sagittarius Sun + Rising: Embrace starting a project, adventure, or process without too many frills. Let the contents be from the felt and experienced, not the over-intellectualized. Respect the bounds of sanctity surrounding your home, dropping outside baggage or tensions as you enter.

Capricorn Sun + Rising: Give your ego a humble renovation, while respecting any historical foundations that hold value to your core identity. Discover how to merge productivity with downtime, forcing yourself to find stasis without guilt or restlessness.

Aquarius Sun + Rising: You’re experiencing an optimism infusion, shifting you towards renewed sense of worth, perhaps even something enigmatic. Sync up to what is known and trusted, perhaps one word, aligning truth, or proof of heartbeat, and anchor into it as your buffer.

Pisces Sun + Rising: Your passage between self and other has become vaporous, unbound, and liminal. Seek out what dynamics would benefit from more malleable or reinforced boundaries. Unlock the door for the bits that could use untimed recess or the delight of improvised play.