Exclusively for Vogue Scandinavia's Society members, astrologer Clarisse Monahan of Venus in Retrograde charts each month's most powerful cosmic shifts, breaking down exactly how to understand, navigate and benefit from them
In his magisterial poem, "Little Gidding", T.S. Eliot penned a bit of verse particularly apropos the spirit of Aries season, which starts on March 20th:
For last year's words belong to last year's language / And next year's words await another voice. / And to make an end is to make a beginning.
For those inclined to follow the cosmic calendar, March 20th marks the astrological New Year, a moment to speak in “another voice” and articulate new goals and intentions. And, for those who don’t follow the cosmic calendar, this upcoming New Year’s Day can nonetheless be a fitting occasion to more forcefully and seriously revive one’s resolutions, most likely wanly scribbled down while hungover back on January 1st.
The question, though: Why does the astrological new year fall on March 20th?
Think of the Aries ingress as your time to recognise that “last year’s words belong to last year’s language.” New resolutions are required
Clarisse Monahan