Daily Planets: Celebrate spring equinox 2009

March 20, 9:23 AMAstrology ExaminerMaria Barron

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The sun rose in Aries this morning and we are officially in spring. The waning moon was overhead in Capricorn when the sun came up. The planets are arrayed across a quarter of the sky, through Aquarius, Pisces and Aries. Only Saturn is on the other side of the sky, heading down below the western horizon as the others proceed up the dome of the sky in the east.

It is Equinox Day, a day of time-keeping power for as long as people have been keeping time. There are sites in Colorado and throughout the southwestern United States where the sun shines just right at the vernal equinox to illuminate or cast shadows on precisely carved areas of rock that ancient people fashioned for the purpose of recognizing this borderline in time.

Now nature reliably grows again. The stars suggest we're in for a bumpy and continually eye-opening spring, but even the economy should be better by summer.

Astrologically, Saturn, the planet of constriction and construction, is in difficult and limiting aspect with a number of planets, including Venus and Jupiter. You can picture Saturn as Father Time keeping love and money grounded. These particular sky patterns (called quincunx angles) generally reflect a time of learning to value yourself and others in ways that are independent from praise and rewards. (Because you probably won't be getting much in the way of praise and rewards.) That's where our economy is now.

Venus continues to retrograde, which puts attention on potential abuses of the principles of love and money. Those abuses, in turn, give us nonstop news coverage of Chris Brown and Rihanna and of AIG and us.

In the sky the signs of economic woe shift through the spring, but fortunes in general look relatively balmy about the time summer arrives. However, the underlying sign of cultural shift, the Saturn-Uranus opposition, won't be finished by any means and will be in play again later in the year.