Your astrological horoscope (natal chart) at birth is an important key to your personality and character, but your natal chart is not the last word about you. As time moves on after the moment of your birth, the Sun, Moon, and planets continue to circle through the heavens forming ever-changing kaleidoscopic patterns in relation to your own birth chart, bringing out or obscuring this or that part of you.

It can be useful to know how these ongoing planetary patterns relate to your life, and that is what this report is about. Here we calculate the primary astrological changes in your chart and interpret them so that you can see at a glance what is happening at any given time. Your events are arranged and interpreted chronologically, by well-known astrologer Michael Erlewine, and each event includes date and time, keywords, astrological indicator, and an astro-tarot card. We hope you enjoy your forecast.

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In the tradition of astrology the planets have always been interpreted separately from the Sun and the Moon, which are called "The Lights," and for good reason. They literally light up our life and their combined interaction describes the essence of what is happening to us at any given time. Although called "The Moon Report," any mention of the Moon automatically involves the Sun, and of course, our Earth. These three, the Sun, Moon, and Earth, in their endless interaction are perhaps the single most important factor to observe in astrology.

The ever-changing relationship in the sky between the Sun and the Moon is perhaps most obvious at the Full Moon, but as we know, it is going on all the time. This report tracks the Sun-Moon relationship as it relates to your particular natal horoscope and birth chart, detailing all of the major events that take place in the current month for a specific life area and planet.

The Moon has always represented the 'mother', meaning anything that nurtures or cares for us, our support system, however that is made up. It also indicates our emotional makeup, how we feel about things, and the nostalgia of the past - where we came from.

On the other hand, the Sun represents the 'father' principle and the future, where we are heading toward and, to some degree, the means we have to get there. The Sun burns brightly, while the Moon is cool and comforting. The two together mark the endless play between the past and the future, and we here on Earth, are caught right in the middle, that is: the present.

Your Mars Forecast

Mars is the planet of drive and ambition, literally what motivates us and urges us on onward along whatever path we take. Mars keeps us going; it is the way we reach out and where at times push comes to shove. It has to do with how we are aggressive and assert ourselves, although this need not mean in an unrestrained manner, but that too sometimes happens.

If we are looking for a pick-me-up and perhaps some extra energy to get the job done, Mars can indicate when and in what form this might come.

This forecast is about how the planet Mars figures in your natal chart and what it portends for the immediate future. Mars in that gut feeling that makes us do things, that keeps us on the job, and urges us forward toward the future. We hope you enjoy it.

Before we present your Mars forecast for the coming months, let's review how the planet Mars is configured in your natal or birth chart. What follows is an interpretation of Mars at your birth to the Sun, Moon, and other planets. It should help to give you a general idea of how you related to matters of drive and ambition. Here goes:

Ambitions

Your are naturally impulsive and have a built-in drive to express your feelings (privately or publicly) for friends, family, and whatever you currently consider your support network, and this tends to manifest as various future plans you intend to carry out.

Planned Effort

Your ambitions and natural drive to push forward and get the job done at all costs sometimes meet up with annoying restrictions or requirements that must be met in order to continue on. This is happen fairly often, and probably will require at least a minimal (and perhaps a liberal) amount of patience and acceptance on your part, not your long suit. At times these hindrances may perhaps even be vaguely humiliating. The sage advice is to suffer this voluntarily on your part, and this will more than pay off, compared to just using brute force.

Minor Impasse

You have a natural drive and urge to express yourself in words (speaking, writing, etc.), but your expression may meet with all kinds of hindrances, most of them small stuff. It is important to continue forward at these times, taking advantage of each opportunity.

Embody Love

You will naturally have energetic times, where things are enabled and you can make progress, in this case progress connected to desires for a more physical existence, be it through exercise and sports, or getting more physical (hugs, whatever.) with those closest to you. These are the times to implement changes in these areas.

Training Others

You naturally feel successful and even have a growing sense of pride in your career accomplishments, and for good reason. This may include teaching or communicating this to others, as you sense greater control over yourself and your environment. To make this happen may require skill at listening and great receptivity on your part.

Discipline Ideas

You like to entertain questions of self-discipline, of channeling your drive and ambitions, anything to do with building a workable engine.

Hold Your Horses

You plans for change and/or a drive to make innovations will generally move forward, but may be beset by problems, minor distractions - whatever can arise. The idea here is to attend to the problems, for the sake of moving your plans forward, rather than giving up or turning back.

Deep Pools

Efforts at greater acceptance of your life situation or urges and ambitions for a more inspired life can be boiled down to the essentials, and become a part of your core identity.

Plans to Control

You have an natural drive to get to the bottom of something and to gain control, and perhaps to make changes, and this is important enough to you to make careful plans in this regard.

Your Mars Forecast

Now that we have reviewed how Mars is configured at your birth, let's get to the heart of this report, a forecast as to how Mars (matters of drive and ambition) will play out in the coming months. These are the actual transits that will occur between the Sun, Moon, and other planets in relations to Mars, laid out in an easy-to-read calendar-like format.

Each event will be described by date, day of the week, and include an interpretation written by astrologer Michael Erlewine about how that event might appear in your life. This includes a brief keyword description, when you can expect this event to be exact, the astrological jargon professional astrologers can read, and even a little tarot-like card image to jump-start your imagination.

By reading through the activity of Mars forecast in the coming months, you basically have a roadmap of how this planet will manifest its nature and play out in your life. We hope you enjoy your forecast.

This is one of "Planetary Forecast" series of life-area reports from Matrix Software, one for each of the planets in relations to the astrological lights, the Sun and the Moon, the two most potent chart facts. Feel free to check out the other planet reports. We hope you enjoyed this report and forecast.