Astrology of the Week Ahead with Chani Nicholas - The Week of March 13th, 2023: Mars in Gemini squares Neptune and communications are tested

Episode Date: March 13, 2023

Episode 117 In this podcast, New York Times bestselling author and astrologer Chani Nicholas discusses the astrology of the week and what it might mean for us all. The astrology of the week of March 13th, 2023, has so much going on that it’s hard to depend on for a specific outcome. On Tuesday, Mars (the planet of action) squares Neptune (the planet of illusion), leading to a potential communication meltdown. On Wednesday, there’s a Neptune cazimi, which is great for our imagination and creativity. On Thursday, one gajillion things happen — Mercury (the planet of communication) conjoins Neptune, the Sun squares Mars, Venus (the planet of love) squares Pluto (the planet of regeneration), Venus moves into Taurus, and Mercury squares Mars — so information sharing is weird and wild. On Friday, the Sun conjoins Mars, offering a helpful moment of clarity to parse through the confusion of the week. Also on Friday, Venus sextiles Saturn, giving us some sweet affirmation. On Saturday, Mercury sextiles Pluto, which feels deeply supportive. Later that same day, Mercury enters Aries, signifying a shift in how we connect. Overall, it’s a good idea to relax your expectations and ride the waves. Our advice? Keep your hottest takes in the drafts, at least until the weekend. For more, check out your free daily horoscope on the homepage of the CHANI app. Android users can receive their free daily horoscope on the CHANI website. The CHANI app is currently only available for the iPhone, but we are working as hard and as fast as we can on an Android app. In the meantime, Android users can access our content by purchasing the Android Workshops on chani.com. The music featured in the podcast was created by Latashá.

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This is the astrology of the week ahead podcast, and I'm your host, Chani, Nogh. All right, y'all, this week is weird. I wouldn't use it to, you know, launch things that need to go in a specific direction or have a specific timeline. I'm not saying that there's not some really interesting, maybe even poetically beautiful moments this week, because it really does look like there are. first of all, there's one gajillion things that are happening. It will overwhelm you just to hear the list of things that are happening. But all that to say, the main situation, the main theme that is occurring this week over and over and over again is really quite Piscian in nature and also very hard. to depend on. So again, if we're looking to do things that have to go by rote or that need to be a specific

formula, we're going to be really disappointed. The week starts out with one of the more significant events that I've been keeping my eye on because it's part of a larger theme that's unfolded for, you know, the last seven months. So Mars, planet of action and drive and going our own way is going to be in a square with Neptune. What does that mean? It means that something is going to be at odds with our drive and our ability to get things done in a linear fashion. So Mars is in Gemini. It's been in Gemini since August.

It's about to leave Gemini on the 25th of March. It will finally leave Gemini. It has made a square to Neptune to. other times. And each time things have gone totally awry. And it's actually, when you look back on everything, it's kind of wild because part of the Twitter meltdown occurred around one of the squares between Mars and Neptune. And, you know, there's all kinds of disastrous outcomes from that that are not funny, but there was a lot of really great humor that happened. And, and And in the midst of that very wild and weird time.

So I'm not saying there's going to be another Twitter meltdown, but I'm not saying that there's not going to be another Twitter meltdown. This is the end of the moment transit between Mars and Neptune that has been happening for seven months. This is the kind of wrap up. So we might notice that we're going back to something that occurred in 2022, that last half of 2022, that has something to do with communications, that has something to do, possibly with social media, that has something to do with the virtual reality space of it all. Neptune is deception.

Neptune is illusion. And Mars and Gemini taught us a lot about communications and words. And, you know, we communicate a lot on social media. So social media is like this virtual space, obviously. And it's a social virtual space. So there's something that is very like, on the nose about these two impacting a illusion of us being connected and what that means, what it doesn't mean, how everything can go awry on spaces like that.

So, you know, save it in your drafts if you're like doubting yourself. Don't press publish if you're like, maybe I shouldn't say this. Or, you know, if you feel in the mood for mayhem, go ahead. But communications at the beginning of this week are going to be tested. And this is not the only signature that says so. That's on Tuesday, the 14th, Mars Square, Neptune. It's best to ride the waves. It's not best to try to steer the ship in a specific direction,

especially if it's against the waves that are coming in. Neptune is the god of the seas. And it just feels like there's a lot swelling. and spilling over and making a mess this week. So we've got to get used to like making mud pies instead of trying to keep everything clean for lack of a better metaphor. On Wednesday, we've got a Neptune Kazimi, which means the sun and Neptune come together. And this can be a beautiful moment for our imagination, for creativity.

It's not good for specifics. It's great for blurred lines and watercoloring. our hearts out. So again, gorgeous for virtual reality, gorgeous for fantasy, gorgeous for film, photography, fantasy, creativity, not great for specifics. On Thursday, 700 things happen. Mercury makes a conjunction to Neptune. The sun squares Mars, Venus squares Pluto, Venus moves into Taurus and then Mercury Square is Mars. That's a lot. That's a mouthful. That's overwhelming to even think about. Basically, in the simplest terms that I can say it in, communications are weird and wild on Thursday, but we know that that's already happening all week. So again, it just feels like

there are arguments and there's a lot of misinformation or there's just an absolutely an absolute torrent of hilarity and calamity. And because the sun is also squaring Mars at the same time, because basically the sun and Mercury are traveling together. So they're both squaring Mars and they're going to come together on Friday, which Friday is going to bring clarity. I will say. Friday will help to clear the air in some way, shape, or form. But this Monday to Friday situation is lost emails, missed meetings, crossed paths, two ships passing in the night kind of scenario if you want to just boil it down to everything feels like a mercury retrograde even though Mercury isn't retrograde. Great. And there's also some hostility floating through

the air. Again, that could make for great comedy and it could make for a very entertaining scene if we are in the audience. It probably won't feel that fun if we're in the hot seat. Who knows? Maybe your kind of personality can turn it into a type of game. But it really feels very wily and kind of all bets are off. So I'm a little bit interested to see how it all works out. And we don't fear astrology in this house.

But I won't be expected. everything to work out smoothly and easily. Okay. Then on Friday, we have the Mercury Kazimi of this moment. Mercury is direct. It is catching up with the sun. There is a download that we can receive on this day. There is an ability to gain clarity.

There is the capacity here to be like, okay, that's what all of that mess was about. So wait until Friday if you can. Friday is actually a really good day to work with. Mercury does not do typically well in Pisces. Mercury is in the sign opposite from what it likes to be in. Mercury loves to be in Gemini and Virgo. In Pisces, which is a sign opposite from Virgo, it wants all of the details in the big, big picture.

But again, Mercury is a planet that belongs in Gemini and Virgo, which are signs that love details and facts and data. So again, it's not a great day for getting details correct, but it is a great day, Friday, for downloading some kind of bigger concept or it might even be a day that just helps us to think in artistic terms, to think in color, to think in shapes, to think in sounds, to think in a very different way.

And also on that day, Venus makes us sextile to Saturn, cute, affirming. And then over the weekend, Mercury communicator goes on to Sextile Pluto, lovely, again, deep and affirming in some kind of way because it's a sex style. So it's like, okay, that's interesting. I've got this. And then moves in to Aries. Mercury moves into Aries. So it moves into some new terrain. So again, Friday into the weekend, totally different tone, a very helpful shift into some kind of clarity into some kind of truth into like a, okay, let's regroup here and collect some data and get a download and then by the weekend, be able to move in a new direction.

But Monday to Friday, let's just ride these waves. Let's be entertained, if at all possible. Let's be open to what flows, what sinks, what gets capsized, what works, what doesn't, zero expectations. Let's relax into some kind of circus because this week is quite the ring leader. Thank you all so much for rating and reviewing our little app. It means the world to us. here's a recent one that I wanted to leave you with. It's called pause, listen, reflect, and grow. I've been following Chani since the Dropbox days and have been a subscriber since the app dropped.

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