Scorpio Horoscope for March 2016

This is your time to shine in your artistic self-expression, Scorpio, as you face outer-world optimism and interior shifts. Your creativity might also have to be of a special kind that takes your unconscious motivations more firmly into account. The time might be past for overlooking this little-understood and under-acknowledged part of your personality. You are riding a wave of enthusiasm that has been in symbolic chime with your ruler, Mars, in your own sign, which is a changing landscape for you over the course of a strange spring that takes you further to the inside of your psyche. In what is perhaps a logical outcome of better and more integrated connection with your own deep emotions, as you enter into new relations with your own inner world, you also forge new ties with important others in the three-dimensional outer world of your senses.

As the month begins, you are encountering, in key areas of your chart, a collision of symbolic astrological factors representing mystical realities beyond the confines and restrictions of the physical plane versus nuts-and-bolts certainties of the here and now. You are therefore perhaps feeling caught in the crossfire. There is a higher sense of integration that will allow you to synthesize these very different viewpoints, on the one hand hazy and unclear, taking you beyond the realms of ordinary life circumstance, and on the other, most definitely concrete and practical. The initial conundrum of the current month is a preview for this entire spring and summer, because your ruler, Mars, after leaving your sign, will, in time, retrograde back into it. Mars enters Sagittarius on March 5th, although only for a little while, before he stations in mid-April at the ninth degree. After retrograding back into Scorpio in late May, he stations to direct motion on June 29th. The first half of the summer months he is occupied with a return to optimistic and outward-looking Sagittarius, which he does not regain until early August. There are therefore six month ahead for you of these changes, which will likely partake of an introspective turn of affairs, beginning in mid-April with Mars' station to retrograde motion. This is true unless you are one of those rare individuals born with Mars in retrograde (already).

This month also features a solar eclipse in your sector of creative self-expression that highlights many outer planet combinations, plus a mid-month somewhat difficult alignment with Venus, the ruler of your opposite sign, bringing significant others — or potential partners — more squarely into the picture.