Libra Horoscope for March 2013

You are seeking fulfillment amidst the ordinary, Libra. You are making a breakthrough to new levels of understanding, of yourself and of where in the world your life could be heading, although the details are more than a bit confusing, mystical and vague. Since Mercury is also retrograde until the first week of April, when you take into account the period of the retrograde shadow, it may be best not to try too hard. You win if you can wait to forge ahead with plans until you have a good sense of what you really want, down within the deepest centers of your being. One stage of this evolving process, when significant others enter even more into your picture, takes place with the Full Moon in your sign during the last week of March.

As the month begins, you are more aware than ever of the mandate upon you now and throughout your life to rise to the occasion and transcend limitations that seem to hold you back. This might be because of recent experiences of difficulty which you have had to surmount, or it might be a preparation for further trials still to come, but in any case you are on the cusp of a move forward that you can choose to take or to let go of the possibility for at this particular juncture. There is a sense of idealism right now, and of optimism that you can find your way through, although these might need to be tempered by practical considerations.

This is because of the massing of planets, including mystical Neptune, in your sixth sector of everyday process and the discipleship to your higher self. This concentration of cosmic energies includes your ruler, Venus, still in the early stages of entering this sector of your chart, which concerns health and well-being in your work as well as in other forms of service to the surrounding collective. This also involves your dedication to that which you must inevitably become through your efforts. Mercury retrograding right all month long through this same sector, moving backward through the zodiac since the final week of February, implies that you will be spending loads of time within the current monthly cycle thinking about these basic realities of life on planet earth.

It might be that an impending situation will get your attention, forcing the recognition that you need to muster your forces in a more positive direction. Chiron, the Wounded Healer, is a significant part of this configuration, and it could be that issues of reactivity could arise, perhaps concerned with issues of service to another or to an employment situation. Since Chiron is strongly aspected by all the other outer planet energies as well, any issues that arise could also relate to the house position of your natal Chiron, so that many other scenarios are potentially possible. You are encouraged during this relatively internal time period to meditate on the ways that you have been wounded in the past in such a way as to affect your present and future choices, although with Mercury Retrograde it is enough to witness for this entire current monthly period. It might be that you have been unaware, or not as aware as you could be, of the power of the hidden complex within to take over your behavior from below. You benefit when you can pay more conscious attention to painful places inside you, places that have been neglected and ignored, at least consciously, for far too long.

After the middle of the month you will be focused on these same issues but from a slightly different perspective, as Mercury returns to direct motion and as Mars, ruler of your relationship sector, enters that sector and conjuncts Uranus there. This might provide surprising information or partnership activities that lead you to new information. All in all, it is necessary to pay the closest possible attention to whatever happens to you over this entire month of March so that you will be in the best position to take action, once action is required.