Your Weekly Insights, Inspirations & Forecast for March April 17 – 23, 2026
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Insights, Inspirations & Forecast:
The historic New Moon in Aries is finally here. It includes a 7-planet alignment of Sun and Moon, Mercury, Mars, Saturn, Chiron, and Neptune – all in Aries.
Generally, this alignment will have an activating effect, both individually and collectively.
Where is Aries in your chart? Although it is relatively elementary knowledge, few people know it. Yet, if asked, “do you know yourself?”, many will assert that yes indeed they do. This ‘knowing’ often refers to what they think and feel about themselves and others, or their name, height, weight, eye and hair color, interests, preferences, aptitudes, orientations, strengths and weaknesses.
This level of self-knowledge is fine and may be deemed enough, yet there is much more that we do not know about ourselves than we do. Naturally, the more detailed knowledge is largely relegated to the ‘do not need to know’ category of the mind, which is fine too. However, knowing that we know much less than what there is to know, supports us to be open to know more.
Ironically, assumption is more the norm than the exception. Assumption accurately understood is ever a fundamental aspect of our daily flow. Yet, acknowledging it more consciously helps us to realize that it is operative, and that we know much less than we think we know. Interestingly, this acknowledgement is both a sign of intelligence and wisdom.
Lack of intelligence and foolishness is expressed when we assume that we know and have therefore closed the door to further considerations. Or we draw conclusions and then lapse into operating from this static notion, and even defend it, dismissing any and all other sources of knowledge, such as that coming from other people, and often with a complacent mode of confidence that, since we already know, we don’t have to consider it any further. The case is closed.
Considering that everything in existence, from the atomic to the cosmic, is ever in motion, cyclic motion, by the way, and everything in between these poles is therefore ever-changing, such conclusiveness, or stasis, begins to appear quite silly, even delusional, and dogmatic, and defensive, and polarizing. Can you see this factor operating in the world, or in yourself, or others you love?
There is a wonderful, wise phrase associated with this consideration of true intelligence and wisdom, which is as follows: “If all you know is that you don’t know much, you already know more than most people.”
Of course, what it suggests is that people commonly assume that their knowledge of things is conclusive. Even though upon just a little reflection, this notion soon becomes quite erroneous, even ridiculous, it is more the norm than the exception.
Aries is symbolic of the dynamic of life, the principle of incredible movements and action, even when things appear still and static. The atoms are not static, the cosmos is not static, our body systems are ever flowing, the Earth is calculated to be spinning on its axis 1674 km’s per hour, at the equator, and it is also calculated to be travelling around the Sun 29.78 km’s per second.
To some, such notions seem quite impossible. So, it is deemed a lie. ‘They’ are lying to us, emerges as the new attitude, inviting victim consciousness to move in and credulity to take the wheel. Then, the weave of thought and imagination leads some to assert something like… ‘the Earth is not a globe, it is flat.’ They will say, I have studied it, and it is flat, and that is that. Admittedly, most people’s experience of it is that it is flat, but is it?
Such exercises of thought can prove quite fun but are often intercepted or even halted altogether by another hidden factor: fear. Fear wears many masks. Here are some of them: conclusiveness, rigidity, pride, dogma, superiority, inferiority, dismissal, hysteria, extremism, desires to control external realities, and so on… This is the very short list. Knowing what the mask of fear looks like is key to recognizing it when it appears, in ourselves and others, which is usually often.
Fear is natural, instinctual, even the norm and it belongs here, but it does not have to be our modus operandi, but it often is. This is where free will choice comes to the fore and the most important usage of it is to choose love over fear, as often as possible, which includes being here, now and with a curious and open mind to have new experiences and cultivate new perspectives too
Aries is the archetypal principle of pioneering, courageous entering the unknown, yet also presence and authenticity, and simplicity that is free of what was and what will be. Aries is like a dot on a page, and in the purest sense, any action is illustrated as another dot.
Yet, in terms of our notions of time, it is natural to perceive life from the standpoint of a line. Of course, over time, this line becomes long and if drawn on paper would appear like quite a busy, overwhelming scribble. That is why spiritual teachings encourage us to meditate so that we can recenter and achieve a reset, to become a dot again. This is the wisdom of Aries and in the highest sense, it is fully present and ever-fresh, ready and willing, free of accumulated notions, and assumptions, beliefs and perceptions.
The historic 7-planet alignment today and the historic Saturn/Neptune conjunction at 0 Aries on February 20 are both here to lead us into new states, a new quality of being, and to be open to create a new world, both in terms of our personal lives, yet also in the collective sense.
There it is. Are you accepting this invitation? Or are you resisting it? It is happening in the world; do you recognize it? Or are you judging according to your notions of what ‘should’ be? Change is the law, and resistance is futile, but it is common to break this law, or attempt to.
While life can seem random and relatively chaotic with multiple unknowns, affirmation that you can intuitively align with and which reveals purpose, timing and possibility, and which guides a sense of self-actualization, can prove grounding and empowering indeed. Learn how an Astrology Reading can help.
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