We are in the last few days before Mars stations direct. The actual station is March 10, on Wednesday. Mars is hovering within a tiny range of 3 arc minutes all week; it will move those three retrograde till Wednesday and then direct after Wednesday. It happens to be in the first degree of Leo. It’s rare for a planetary station to occur in the first degree of a sign, but this is a marvelous synchronicity. Mars will actually be covering the entire sign of Leo in direct motion, from the first degree to the last, between now and June.
The first and last Sabian symbols of a sign tell us something about that sign. For Leo, the first is, “Blood rushes to a man’s head as his vital energies are mobilized under the spur of ambition.” The last is, “An unsealed letter.” We move from an image of raw vital force, to the image of a deep inner secret being revealed.
Anyway, the days surrounding a major planetary station like this one can be weird, and carry a kind of uncertainty that we’re not used to. Imagine how it feels to be a ball thrown in the air; you’re going up, and you’re going to come down, and then there is that moment between where you just seem to stop in mid air, nothing holding you there except for inertia.
With Mars, think of this as relating to desire.
