In the UK (and northern hemisphere) spring will, errrm, spring, later this month. Thursday 20th March at 5:48am, to be precise. Here's the chart, followed by a very basic outline of the weather possibilities:-

Regular readers of this blog might recall the entries from last year about autumn and winter. The winter entry talked a lot about wind and stormy weather, and so it proved. So what might be the general weather pattern for spring? The theory is that the chart shown above can give us an indication; it's something that I'm recording here not as a prediction, but as a learning tool, to see what happens.

The first thing to note is that last season's multiple indicators of strong winds etc - the Sun, Mercury, Jupiter, Pluto, Mars configuration - is not present in the chart for spring. The Mars-Pluto opposition is within orb and aspecting the Sun so it will probably still have relevance to this coming season, but it has moved apart and in terms of geography it runs through Germany and the countries north and south of Germany, not through or near to the UK as it was in the chart for winter.

Uranus is on the Ascendant for part of the UK though, with a sextile to Jupiter. The areas involved are the East Anglia area and down past London to the south coast. The type of weather associated with Jupiter sextile Uranus is cool, breezy, dry, and fair.

The rest of the country has links with other planets for this season, and it's quite a mixed bag. The Mercury-Venus conjunction in this chart, which is opposite Saturn, connects with Scotland, Cumbria, Wales, and Cornwall/Devon, meanwhile Northern Ireland is sandwiched between Neptune and Saturn.

Mercury-Venus on its own suggests gentle breezes, a tendency to be warmer than average, and partially cloudy skies, however the opposition with Saturn increases the tendency towards being overcast, with cooler than average temperatures and heavy precipitation. Whether these result in changeability, or else cancel each other out, remains to be seen. The Mercury-Venus conjunction is also trine Mars, indicating warmer and windier weather in these parts of the country.

Scotland and the eastern parts of Northern Ireland also have the Jupiter-Saturn sesquiquadrate running through it, suggesting cloudy stormier weather.

In Northern Ireland the Saturn and Neptune aspects suggest cloudiness and precipitation. Saturn is trine Pluto, and Pluto also connects with this area of the UK for this season. Saturn in trine to Pluto indicates cloudy, windy weather. Jupiter and Uranus make aspects through this area too, so the breezy weather may well put in a significant appearance here too.

Neptune makes an aspect down through mainland UK, from the east coast of Scotland to the west of England near the border with Wales, however Neptune doesn't make any aspects to other planets so I'm uncertain whether or not it will symbolise anything weather-wise - I'll be observing and learning.

Some of the indicators suggest fog/mist in various parts of the UK, even for Spring, so that'll be interesting to watch and see what happens too.

Finally, the Moon runs through much of the UK for this season, and it's opposite the Mercury-Venus conjunction, not far from Saturn but out of orb of a conjunction. The Moon would therefore highlight the Mercury-Venus combination, picking out its breeziness and humidity, and tendency to be partially cloudy.