The Lion does not sleep tonight, not with Mars still romping in its sign. This is your time to go and be seen. Mix, mingle and master the art of networking. You’re the leader of the pride and the social scene around is willing to go along with your direction, as long as you keep it light and fun. Any heavy-handed approaches and demands for respect will chase away even the most loyal lieges. You are the party right now, use the royal reins to guide those around you into novelty and delight. Mercury is problematic in the areas of friendship and groups. Make sure that you know your audience when speaking throughout the month, especially in public. A bawdy double-entendre might be mistaken for poor taste in front of the wrong crowd, so while Mars might be pumping you full of confidence and an infectious joire-devivre, you are not immune from overstepping your bounds and losing face. Neptune goes retrograde for you in your house of relationships and illusions come crashing down, you or they aren’t what either appeared to be and that’s really ok. Get to know them and that part of yourself that had so much invested in the artifice of love. You still have the opportunity to experience the divine in your most intimate relationships and yet in order to do so, we have to experience what isn’t so godlike in us, or others. Forgive, don’t forget and let grace guide you to a greater understanding of self-forgiveness.

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Feisty Mars settles into your sign in the middle of the month and your royal self gets a turn on the throne for the next two months. This would be a fantastic time to hit the highways and skyways as wherever you land; you’ll be greeted like a king or a queen. Travel opens you up to past life experiences in a big way and you get to reincarnate small bits and pieces of former lives lived as a ruler or someone who has been ruled. The gates of wisdom swing open wide and you learn from past mistakes. All of this high level attention you’re getting though could make you quite insufferable as well. Keep the pontificating and moralizing to a minimum, as you don’t want to experience the wrath of the people in this lifetime either. There’s also a real desire to escape the confines of your skin and touch something beyond the here and now. You’ll use whatever is available in order to do this. If I could fund and plan any getaway for you right now, it would be to Egypt amongst the ruins and artifacts of kings and queens that concerned themselves with the next world as much as this one. If you can’t get there, get a copy of Omm Sety’s Egypt: A Story of Ancient Mysteries, Secret Lives, and the Lost History of the Pharaohs, a past life chronicle of love in the time of The Pharaohs. You’ll gain credible insight on your experience during this life and time.

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While Aries is the pioneer of self this month, you are at the vanguard of consciousness as it relates to self-actualization. This is a terrific month for you to follow your own internal compass when it comes to the truth, whether it’s your own personal truth or the big T of universal truth…that’s where your learning is going down in April. The great thing is that it can be both (personal and universal) as you understand immutable principles and how, ,utimately, they relate to you. Doesn’t everything relate to you anyway? But this month is different as you get to dance between the personal and impersonal like Michael Jackson circa 1985 because, dear lion or lioness, you’re always entertaining as hell. The full moon in Libra on the 13th allows you to make friends and influence people in a very big way. Any lion who is into sales or marketing should look to this time to schedule meetings with important clients and make key presentations — just don’t plan a lot of travel. Get there ahead of time and you’ll be fine.

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“What you know you can’t explain, but you feel it. You’ve felt it your entire life, that there’s something wrong with the world. You don’t know what it is, but it’s there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad.” This was one of the memorable lines from the Matrix uttered by Morpheus. For you Leo, that is a reality in March, especially as it relates to your workplace and chosen profession. It’s time to honor some deeper commitment you made to yourself before you even chose this body. What are you waiting for?

Other astrological events for March 2008

Boy, do you have a lot to share. It’s time to spread your message now. Broadcast it as far and wide as possible. For business driven Lions, this is a great time to put your most visionary plans into action–you’ll get the most bang for your buck between now and March. Don’t stand on ceremony (you rarely do anyway) and with all of your dramatic flare, lay out the grandest scheme possible for the highest good of all and you’ll win as many converts as you need to take your plans to the next level. There might be some that are put off by your showy ways right now, but just give them a great big hug and a kiss. Your warmth and open heart will silence any critic.

Leo loves the limelight and the pageantry of ruling. When Pluto lands in Capricorn the lion will learn to serve and discover that true power lies in how we touch, care and attend to one another. Think of it as being on the stage of the human drama where you get to play the benevolent and kind soul that reaches out a hand to the desperate and dispossesed . Yes, Leo, you can be an angel or even a saint, but don’t look around for kudos or curtain calls. This is the most unconditional role you’ll ever play. For this year, get in shape, take a course in healing plants and change what you eat. You’ll need to lighten your own load before you can lighten the load of others.

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