Jan 13: Walking through the Fire: Martial Mars meets Powerful Pluto!

Wow.

Today, Mars (planet of anger, aggression, assertion, ammunition) meets Pluto (planet of the underworld, secrets, passion, sex, what lies beneath). It's an intense day of which we're already seeing manifestations.

Remember the planets don't make anything happen on Earth, they merely find their own dance reflected in events below.

We've already heard of the serious earthquake that has called for Tsunami warnings in Alaska and Hawaii, after a quake of 8.2 magnitude under the pacific Ocean. Rumblings beneath the surface indeed.

Mars relates to many things including: fire, gunshot, violence, explosions, weapons, war, aggression, testosterone, anger, impatient, impulsiveness.

Pluto relates to many things including: subways, tunnels, underground, shadows, conspiracies, spies, shady goings on, crime, nuclear activities, night, death, transformation, rebirth, taxes

A quick tour of the news stories this morning show the darker side of these manifestations (since the news loves a good 'horror' story)

I like the story of the huge crowds at Vegas' Porn Convention. Mars is desire and sexual conquest and Pluto is the urge or merge. Both together on this day bring boiling passions to the surface. Anger and violence witnessed now are surely a corruption of the pleasure principle. Sexual frustration leads to mass trauma!

A subway station in Brazil collapses after an explosion.

Two men met their death by a train in an underground tunnel in England.

Airport taxes on England increase causing outrage. (Mars is anger and Pluto is taxes, and in Sagittarius the sign of overseas culture and long distance travel, the ramifications were obvious.

I have no doubt the idea of travel at this time still conjures up more images of death - and with Mars and Pluto connected to the sign of Travel (Sag) it's possible we'll see more trauma in this field.

Scientists have decoded the genes of a sex bug - whilst syphilis rates rise in China.
The cold virus is being used now to try and fight cancer (Pluto relates to virus eating illnesses and with Mars now energy is being invested in exploring new ways (sagittarius) of attacking these (mars the ruler of war)

A game called WarCraft (mars) is being expanded (Pluto in Sagittarius)

The Polish Church is stepping up its spy probe. (very plutonian, and of course Sagittarius is the sign of Religion while in other news Polish ex-spies face punishment.

I found it interesting but not surprising to see the themes coming out of the winning films at the 112th Annual US Critic's Choice Awards, with Mars focusing so much energy (intensified by Pluto the planet of our "obsessions":

Martin Scorsese's gangster film The Departed has taken top honours (the departed theme so common to mars/Pluto death & endings.

Offbeat comedy Little Miss Sunshine , about a dysfunctional family on a road trip across the US, (Sagittarius relates to road trips, travel) took the awards for best acting ensemble.


Pixar's Cars won the award for best animated feature film (again the travel theme)

Hollywood actor Johnny Depp may produce and star in a film about the death of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko.


Summary:

In Short, PLuto and Mars together INTENSIFY EVERYTHING. Our anger, our passion, our rage, our jealousy, or desire, and our focus becomes a lazer - an X ray vision, a B-s Detector. We may become swayed by picking sides on any debate. Extremes are common. And that's fine - this is a time to decide just where you stand and whether you're IN or OUT. But remember, everything is on a cycle, and this is just a very intense part of a cycle that will in time, be over.

Whether things go pop, explode, die, vanish or are destroyed in the wake of this particular planetary vibration, we should not be worried nor concerned. Pluto aspects are always a time of letting things go that should be gone, and that have outstayed their welcome. Death is never really a very welcome part of life on Earth, but for life to exist and continue we must all face a death of sorts.

Nature unleashes her wrath, rage or just an enormous sigh now, and we feel it. Those living in fear will fight back and those who in the know, will look upon these events now and realize that in order to see the Light, we must forge through the darkness. And to heal, we must feel the pain and to continue to Love.

We're in a period of rebirthing, but not before we burn off a few excess and unhealthy ego issues and urges.
We get to see how amazingly strong we are - and what is left after this period, is what we need, as we have become free of things weighing us down, spiritually.

In the fire sign of Sagittarius, these planets combined now truly are an initiation - as we are left to walk through the fires and come out cleaner and clearer. The heat is truly turned up!

Relax, enjoy some intensity, some great sex (it's a great time to truly focus on what you need now and on gaining true freedom from your own darker side! - or at least pour your passion and purpose into something worthwhile today and lastly:

Choose your battles!


Love,
Neil