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This is the introduction to today’s Inner Space horoscope. The full edition is on the subscriber pages of Planet Waves Astrology News.
Remember as you move through the next few weeks that Mars retrograde is still working itself out. That event, from the first day of winter through March 10, drew Mars in Leo back like a bow string, and how we are slowly watching Mars proceed forward through this sign. Mars retrograde was for many complex and frustrating, and now we’re in a process of disentangling ourselves from the issues that arose or that we somehow created.
Mars is still moving slowly and, to give you an example, Mars is covering the first little slice of Leo (five degrees, an amount arbitrarily chosen) between early February and mid-April. If you have a planet or angle anywhere early in Taurus, Leo, Scorpio or Aquarius (and many of us do) you’re getting a Mars transit that is unique to your experience of your chart; you’re not accustomed to this energy there. So of you’re having a series of weird experiences that you don’t recognize or don’t know how to process, or experiencing feelings to which you’re not accustomed, you can look to Mars as a way of processing those feelings. The riddle may be something like, “Where did all this anger come from?” or “What do I do with all this drive and determination?” or better still, “I have to find an outlet for all this passion and desire!” Yes we can!
Mars is the ruler of Aries. Sometimes the ruler of a sign and the events in a sign will have some fun correlations. While Mars is doing its one-of-a-kind thing in Leo, there has been lots of interesting stuff in Aries and there is a more to come — the really exciting stuff, in June. You’ve no doubt read something about the Jupiter-Uranus conjunction coming in the first degree of Aries — the Aries Point — in early June. Astrology is the art of “it’s not just a coincidence.” We’ve had the whole [Northern Hemisphere] winter and will have much of the spring to get used to an unusual level of Aries energy. When the next stage takes over, two slow moving planets rarely in Aries making a conjunction in that sign, we will have had some practice. And then we will have Mars newly in Virgo, suggesting the need for awareness and precision in our use of all that Martian passion. And these are passionate times, no doubt. It’s just that a lot of us have been conditioned by notions of purity, and the threat that if we express any lust, desire or saucy form of love at all, everything goes into a tailspin. Or we’ve been told we’re too old for that stuff, but you’ll never hear me agree with that.
On the way to unraveling ourselves, all kinds of weird stuff can indeed come up, and I suggest you let it do so. You who were passive may find yourself being snippy and demanding. You who lacked an opinion or held it in may find yourself fighting for justice and insisting you’re right. You who denied that you had any need or desire or passion may find yourself craving the presence of those fully in their body. Let this work itself out and teach you how to become someone new, someone unfamiliar but who you knew was there all along. Mars is still going by, stoking the fire, stirring the pot and making you go digging for your paints, the first draft of your novel or the phone number of that hottie you met three months ago.
