Mars tips us into a new era as the masculine gets pulled up short, unable to go forward, unable to go back. What to do when we are held in this moment, ambiguous and uncomfortable as it is? All we can do is be here now, making explorations into how to make it as comfortable and nurturing for ourselves as possible.

Mars has just passed over Sedna in Gate 23 line 5. There is an Inuit story that when things got out of balance the elders would call on Sedna so that the men could apologise for not heeding her natural wisdom. Right now, Sedna is rising from the deep ocean, on her path to the return of the goddess.  Mars stands before her, but our desire to push forward, our fear that we will end up here forever or not get what we want, makes us rash and unable to heed Sedna’s voice.

The surfaces are cut and sliced away; the old and unviable is stripped back to expose the living core. This inevitable natural process often feels like a flaying, the more you have invested of yourself in these old things the more painful it will be.

It’s no good at such times to imagine the future and make plans. You need to bring your energy back to centre and honour the process. This is the time to be transformed, not to act. Until the old is utterly stripped away so that you have no choice but to think in new ways, you will still be tempted to recreate the old patterns.

Hilary Barrett

 

Mercury, Mars and Venus are making the rounds of the Throat Gates, creating the illusion that we can act to get what we want.  But the old ways of manifesting are at an end and our efforts to push forward on an ego-based agenda are doomed to failure.   What if we can’t have what we want?  What if we have to struggle on and on in this terrible place with no hope of something better?  What if .. what if … what if.   And so Pluto in the Root Centre asks us “which way to joy?”.  We must allow our fears to be transformed, to be in a place of calm surrender to a more natural way of being.  We are shifting from control to containment, from separation to synergy, from ownership to manifestation.

The fear and shame that has been held in our DNA for many, many generations wants to come free and this can feel terrifying.  It’s toxic, it’s what’s kept us in a more limited version of ourselves.  We are undergoing an evolutionary intensification that will clear old earth based wounds and open us up to our higher galactic selves.

Mars is passionate desire, creating a fiery presence in each moment of our lives.  What do your Mars activations in your chart tell you about your fire?

One Mars gets the idea, that we don’t have to put in so much effort to create, we can release our addiction to the struggle and relax enough to dance with Venus in passionate creative embrace.