Loads of Martian energy coming this week
Here is how to navigate
On Thursday, April 9 at 15.36 EDT chart cast for Washington, Mars enters Aries. More Martian energy is just what we needed, uhmm? Well, let’s put it this way: he is in his domicile now and hence strongly dignified.
This brings us to the old question: is a malefic better or worse when it is dignified? To start with, the question is wrong, because it implies a moral compass, which then would depend on current law, an observer’s ethics, culture, religion and entire belief system.
When something is lawful, it does not mean it is ethical. Let us not forget that there is a big difference between these two little words. Laws change constantly, and more often so in regimes or during war time. So, when Mars is in his own domicile he is not better or worse but but simply acts according to his own nature and is own agenda.
Let’s take the example of a football player. Even better if we think of an American football player with all his heavy gear and helmet (certainly more Martian than European football players!). Mars in a “foreign sign” sign might be a world champion but if he has to play under heavy rain, on ice, on high heels or naked in front of a crowd, or else has been on a juice-only diet for a month, his performance will necessarily suffer.
In his own sign, he is (so to speak) his own coach. But in another planet’s domicile, he can be asked to follow schemes that do not suit him or he is left knitting on a bench.
You get the picture.
So now, with Mars in Aries, the football player is about to make a home run, (if this is the right terminology).
So let us stick a moment to the concept of Mars in Aries energy. I could not believe my ears when I heard in this video (minutes 33:12-36)] a report that all US generals have been summoned to a meeting in Quantico, this coming week (the same already happened in September last year but this is a different meeting).
That is a LOT of Martian energy in just one room. I don’t know the exact day but -if true- it just might be on Thursday.
In any case, when Moon enters Aries, the Sun is in his exaltation and exactly at the 19° exaltation degree. In the chart cast for Washington we can see that Mars is in the 8th place. I am not a military expert by any means but having all generals in just one place seems a very Mercury in Pisces idea to me. Or else, could this news even have been leaked on purpose? Who knows. I am just reading the planetary synchronicity.
Mars in Aries simply means there are no obstacles to his energy and his preferred medium is fire. However, there is one -maybe- good news. In his domicile, Mars has (combat-) expertise. But in a war, combat is only one part of what will end in so-called “victory” or “defeat” (both are synonyms of death and tragedy). The very thing that leads to either of these two possible outcomes is strategy.
Athena was the goddess of war, but not so much of the bloody knife stuck inside a screaming body but about warfare strategy. It was Odysseus who came up with the idea of the Troian horse, but one may wonder how much he was inspired by that goddess. “Winning” a war (possibly with less blood and less destruction) requires cool, rational minds. Strategists cannot take decisions out of an impulse, a feeling or as a rushed response to somebody else’s action. They need to forecast probable outcomes, based on facts. So, when Mars makes his ingress into Aries , Mercury is still swimming in Piscean-Wonderland. It’s a water sign and the fishes bite each other’s tails. So much for strategy. But the other strategy candidate could be Saturn. Together with Mercury they are potentially a great team-when dignified. But now both are in their fall.
Mercury in Pisces hardly thinks straight and Saturn in Aries is pushed on the edge while his dryness (incapacity to communicate, explain or share) increases to a maximum. He lacks his (cool head) tendency to revise and control and hence instead of checking the quality of a job being done, he will neglect, overlook, forget and underestimate or simply accept bribery. Saturn rules patience and time. In Aries, schedules are being rushed before completed.
On the other hand. Mercury in Pisces can find unusual tricks and think about solutions never taken into consideration before. That what was to be expected, turns out different. I think we can see how this works, especially in Iran, who so far have Odysseus on their side.
So let us resume the important dates for the next few weeks (all times in EDT):
Mars Aries ingress April 9, 15:36
Mercury Aries ingress on April 14, 23:24
Moon/Mercury conjunction April 15, 13:08
Moon/Mars conjunction, April 15, 18:07
Moon/Saturn conjunction, April 15, 22:37
Mercury/ Mars/ Saturn conjunction April 19, 18:37
The coming two weeks will be decisive. Of course, not all is bad, Jupiter and Venus are bot in their domiciles and will hopefully bring some peace to some overheated minds.
What is important now is to understand the greater picture. Not just for the coming weeks, of course. And certainly not because of the Mars in Aries ingress. But are approaching the end of a 2000 years long cycle. We re not yet there, but the shift of the vernal equinox into Aquarius will happen in the next few hundred years. What we see now is the end of an era. Things break up. Economies shift. New empires arise. Slowly or strongly, the shift won’t be small nor, I am afraid, easy. This is not meant to instill fear, on the contrary. We cannot pretend nothing moves when we are on a ship. We adapt to the ever moving waves. Funny thing then happens when we leave the boat: why the heck does the Earth move so much? It is all a question of perception. Things will shake only if we expect stillness.
Besides the greater picture, the Marsian energy can be beneficial for all who have to much phlegm in their body. The lack of motion, cold-natured illnesses can now be challenged. We can use Mars for medical purposes. Here is an article where I studied his medicinal qualities and purposes. With these many planets in a cardinal sign, new beginnings will take place. Set the intentions accordingly.
Today is Easter. Here in Italy, all kind of typical food is cooked. In Naples, there is one particular cake, that is not only delicious but also liked to astronomy. Here is a little research into that. And by the way, I just had a slice for lunch. Just…jummy.
So, Easter….While sitting in the garden and soaking in the sun, I was not only reminded of all those people who are not having a home right now or feel the joy of the spring sun on their estranged winter faces. No, I thought of how the Sun is there for everybody, just as the air and the water. How we all need the same things, and hope for the same things, like a good life for us and our friends and families. We might pray to one single god or a pantheon full of different divinities, but while I was sitting in the Sun, and listened to beautiful Syrian Oud music, I had an Columbian coffee, a Neapolitan cake and was dressed in India-made clothes and the chair was made who knows where.
This made me think of Umberto Eco’s Baudolino. Here is a glimpse into the chapter I am talking about:
In a discussion about the many strange and supposedly different peoples described in distant lands, the speaker questions the validity of these distinctions. Despite claims of radical diversity, he observes that all humans share the same basic physical features so the alleged differences become difficult to define in any essential way. The reflection exposes how perceptions of “otherness” are often exaggerated or constructed, suggesting that what is taken as difference may be superficial, imagined, or culturally imposed rather than fundamentally real.
Baudolino asks this famous sentence: “But in what do [other races] differ, if they all have two eyes, a nose, and a mouth?”
This is it for today. Don’t bother about the differences. Find what unifies.
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