March 1: Accident: In Bolivia at least 37 people (Pluto) are killed and 39 others injured in a crash involving two buses in the western Potosi region. Progressed Pluto was semisextile Mars in the Pluto cycle; and progressed Mars was trine Saturn in the Mars cycle.
March 3: Trade and finance: Donald Trump says 25% tariffs (Saturn) on goods from Mexico and Canada will take effect Tuesday March 4 triggering a selloff in global stocks and pushing bond yields lower. The Mexican peso (house 2) and Canadian dollar both fell. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (house 5) fell 649.67 points, or 1.48%, the S&P 500 lost 104.78 points, or 1.76%, and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 497.09 points, or 2.64%. Jupiter was square Saturn in the sky; and progressed Saturn was semisquare Jupiter in the Saturn cycle. In the Pisces new Moon chart > start date was February 28 > the Moon is square Jupiter and conjunction Saturn.
Ukraine war: Donald Trump pauses (Saturn) military aid (Mars-Jupiter) to Ukraine until Kyiv is committed to what he determines are good-faith negotiations for peace. It’s called coercive diplomacy (Jupiter-Pluto). Jupiter was square Saturn in the sky; progressed Jupiter was sesquisquare Pluto in the Jupiter cycle; and progressed Mars was trine Saturn in the Mars cycle.
Weather: In Japan more than 2,000 firefighters (Mars), backed by military helicopters, are battling the biggest forest fire (Mars) in three decades following record low rainfall in the Ofunato area and last year’s hottest summer on record across Japan. The blaze (Mars) is burning thousands of hectares of land every day. Progressed Mars was trine Saturn in the Mars cycle.
Violence against children: The UN children’s agency, Unicef, reports that mass sexual violence (Mars-Pluto) involving children has been used as a weapon of war in Sudan’s civil war. A third of the victims were boys. Of the 221 rape cases against children officially reported since the start of 2024 16 of the victims were under the age of five years, including four infants. Progressed Mars was parallel Pluto in the Aquarian Age chart.
March 4: Trade: Donald Trump’s trade-tariffs (Jupiter-Saturn) on goods from Canada, Mexico and China kick in triggering a trade war (Jupiter). Jupiter was square Saturn in the sky; and progressed Saturn was semisquare Jupiter in the Saturn cycle.
Reconstruction: In Egypt Arab leaders adopt an Egyptian reconstruction plan (Mars) for Gaza that would cost $53 billion and avoid displacing Palestinians from the enclave, in contrast to Donald Trump’s vision of a Middle East Riviera. Progressed Pluto was semisextile Mars in the Pluto cycle; and progressed Mars was trine Saturn in the Mars cycle.
March 7: Women’s rights: In New York at a United Nations event on the eve of International Women’s Day Antonio Guterres says women’s rights (Venus) are under attack (Mars) and ‘we must fight back’ warning that the world cannot stand by as progress (Uranus) is reversed (Saturn). Centuries of discrimination against women (Venus) were being exacerbated by new threats. Progressed Mars was parallel Venus and progressed Venus was conjunction Neptune in the Aquarian Age chart.
March 7-9: Violence in Syria: Pro-Assad insurgents attack (Mars) utilities and security forces killing hundreds of civilians in massacres (Pluto) targeting the Alawite religious minority. Progressed Pluto was semisextile and parallel Mars in the Pluto cycle.
March 10: Foreign aid and finance: In America, following a six-week review, the Trump administration has cancelled 83 percent of all the programs at the US Agency for International Development (USAID). The 5,200 cancelled contracts spent tens of billions of dollars (Jupiter) in ways that did not serve US national interests (Saturn) and the remaining programs would now be administered ‘more effectively’. The administration’s broad program campaign of layoffs and downsizing (Saturn) aimed at combatting ’waste’ and ‘fraud’ (Saturn and Neptune) continues; and the US stock market’s sell-off (Saturn) got worse with the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropping 2.1%, and the Nasdaq composite 4% as expert commentators increasing use the ‘recession’ word (Saturn). Jupiter was square Saturn and Saturn was conjunction Neptune in the sky.
Collision at sea: Off northeast England a tanker carrying jet fuel for the US military was hit by a container ship (Jupiter) with the collision (Mars) igniting a blaze (Mars) on both vessels, causing multiple explosions (Mars) and forcing both crews to abandon ship (Saturn). Jupiter was square Saturn in the sky and progressed Mars was square Mercury in the Mars cycle.
March 12: Trade and tariffs: The global trade war (Jupiter) intensifies as tariffs (Saturn) on all steel and aluminium imports into the United States come into effect and trading partners take retaliatory action. Jupiter was square Saturn in the sky.
Military operation: In Pakistan the hijacking (Pluto) of the Jaffar Express ends with a military operation (Mars) against a group (Pluto) of separatists (Pluto) with 33 attackers and 28 passengers killed and 346 passengers rescued; and Iran, Russia and China begin two days of joint naval drills (Mars) in the Gulf of Oman aimed at strengthening cooperation (Pluto) between the three countries. Progressed Pluto was semisextile Mars in the Pluto cycle; and progressed Mars was square Mercury in the Mars cycle.
March 15: Military operation: In Yemen the US launches a large-scale military strike (Mars) on Houthi targets with at least 53 people killed. Progressed Pluto was semisextile Mars in the Pluto cycle; and progressed Mars was square Mercury in the Mars cycle.
Protest: In Serbia 325,000 anti-government protestors (Uranus-Neptune-Pluto) take to the streets of Belgrade in the largest protest (Uranus) over the deaths of 15 people last November in a railway station collapse. Saturn was conjunction Neptune in the sky; and progressed Uranus was parallel Pluto in the Uranus cycle.
Weather: In America a massive storm (Saturn) kills at least 37 people across Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Mississippi and southern Tennessee. Progressed Pluto was parallel Saturn in the Pluto cycle; and in the Moon cycle the Moon is conjunction Saturn.
Finance: According to carscoops.com Tesla sales (Jupiter) have fallen of a cliff in 2025. In January sales were down a massive 76.3% in Germany and in February sales declined by 71.9% in Australia. According to InsideEVs ‘Tesla sales are tanking across the world’ and Business Insider reports that ‘Tesla’s year is off to a brutal start’. Meanwhile on March 10 the Tesla share price (house 5) plummeted 15% to $215. It’s been in free-fall since its peak of more than $435 in mid-December 2024. Jupiter was square Saturn in the sky. In Elon Musk’s chart progressed Sun in house 2 was square birth chart and progressed Jupiter in house 5. During March and April 2025 progressed Moon is square birth chart and progressed Jupiter.
March 16: Fire disaster: In North Macedonia at least 59 people are killed in a blaze (Mars) at the Pulse club (house 5) in Kocani. Progressed Pluto was semisextile Mars in the Pluto cycle; and progressed Mars was square Mercury in the Mars cycle.
March 17: VOA radio service shuts: In America Donald Trump’s administration begins laying off staff at Voice of America after he signed an executive order on March 15 to strip back federal funding for the news organization, accusing it of being ‘anti-Trump’ and ‘radical’. On March 16 VOA employees received an email informing them that they were being terminated (Pluto) effective March 31. Progressed Mars was parallel progressed Pluto in the Aquarian Age chart; Jupiter was parallel Pluto in the sky; and progressed Jupiter was sesquisquare Puto in the Jupiter cycle. In Donald Trump’s chart progressed Midheaven was conjunction birth chart Pluto; progressed Mercury was parallel birth chart Mars (the cusp ruler of house 9); and progressed Moon was semisextile progressed Mars, parallel birth chart Mars and parallel progressed Mercury.
VOA is primarily a radio service (Pluto-house 9). It was set up during World War Two to counter Nazi propaganda and currently reaches hundreds of millions of people globally each week. A White House statement said the order would ‘ensure taxpayers are no longer on the hook for radical propaganda’, and included quotes from politicians and right-wing media criticizing the broadcaster.
Beijing-backed media celebrated the shutdown.
State of emergency: In Peru a state of emergency (Mars) is declared in the capital Lima with soldiers (Mars) deployed to the streets to help quell a crime wave (Pluto) and a recent surge of violence (Mars) blamed on criminal gangs (Pluto) that claimed the life of Paul Flores, a popular cumbia musician.
Diplomatic split: Rwanda cuts off diplomatic (Jupiter-house 9) ties with Belgium. Progressed Jupiter was parallel Pluto in the Jupiter cycle.
March 18: Military operation: In Gaza the Israeli military (Mars) carries out air strikes on dozens of targets in multiple regions ending a weeks-long standoff over extending the ceasefire that halted fighting in January. The Palestinian health authorities said over 200 people had been killed. Progressed Pluto was semisextile Mars in the Pluto cycle; and progressed Mars was square Mercury in the Mars cycle.
March 21: Civil unrest: In Turkey protests (Uranus) against the detention of Istanbul’s mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu (Sun), grow into the biggest show of civil disobedience (Uranus) in more than a decade. Imamoglu, President Tayyip Erdogan’s chief political rival, was arrested on March 19 days before he was due to announce his 2028 presidential run. Progressed Uranus was parallel Sun and Pluto in the Uranus cycle; and progressed Jupiter was semisextile Uranus in the Jupiter cycle.
March 22: In the sky: Mars (strife, hostility, armed-force, destruction, hate and anger) opposition Pluto (groups, dictators, bullies, coercion, nuclear weapons and threats) starts > peak power date is April 27
March 25: Fire: In South Korea at least 24 people have been killed and almost 20 injured as ‘unprecedented’ wildfires (Mars) rage in multiple areas across the country’s southeastern region where thousands of firefighters and soldiers (Mars) are struggling to control rapidly expanding blazes. Mars was opposition Pluto in the sky. The fires started on March 21 with progressed Pluto semisextile Mars in the Pluto cycle.
March 26: Shock revelation: In America the Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, releases (Uranus) the attack plans (Mars) that Trump’s advisors shared in a group chat on Signal. Progressed Mars was sextile Uranus in the Mars cycle and Mars was opposition Pluto in the sky.
(March 13: Security breach: In a group chat (Pluto) on Signal high-level US government officials – Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, National security adviser Mike Waltz, Vice President JD Vance, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent – discussed military actions (Mars) against the Houthis unaware that Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief at The Atlantic had been added to the group.
On March 24, 2025 Goldberg published an article – The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans – in which he expressed the concern of security experts that the coordination of national security operations (Saturn) over Signal potentially violated the Espionage Act. The Signal scandal has now escalated into what some say is ‘a massive breach of our national security’ (Saturn). Lead actors in the developing story have channeled their 15-year-old-selves blaming Goldberg and calling him a liar, loser, sleazebag and scum. US National Security Adviser Michael Waltz has said he takes ‘full responsibility’ for adding Goldberg to the chat. On March 13 progressed Sun was parallel and conjunction Neptune in the Sun cycle; Saturn was conjunction Neptune in the sky; and progressed Pluto was parallel Saturn and Neptune in the Pluto cycle. It will be an ongoing story and could develop into a major in-sky Saturn conjunction Neptune event.)
March 28: Natural disaster: In Myanmar a shallow 7.7-magnitude quake (Saturn) shakes the region including neighboring Thailand destroying buildings, roads and bridges and killing at least 800 people with the death toll expected to rise significantly. Jupiter was square Saturn in the sky; and progressed Pluto was parallel Saturn in the Pluto cycle.
March 31: Politics: In France far-right leader Marine Le Pen is found guilty of embezzling European Union funds (Neptune) and barred from seeking public office for five years. See her chart progressed to March 31, 2025
March 31-April 1: Fighting back: United States Senator Cory Booker breaks the record for the longest speech in US Senate history with a marathon address railing against President Donald Trump for more than 25 hours. See his chart progressed to April 1, 2025
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