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Astro-LOA, astrology, communication, energy gauge, exercise, fight or flight, freedom change, frustration, healthy aggression, inner warrior, Mars retrograde, mercurial, mercury messenger, relief
Astro-Flash: Mercury. messenger of the gods, is on the Mars (healthy aggression) and Uranus (freedom/change) midpoint making communication less than diplomatic. People are going to speak out, minus the social filters. Think truth serum with an amphetamine base. Clear the air. Listen. Learn
Some people are reporting ‘contrast’ with this Mars retrograde period, big contrast! Things of a mercurial nature (computers, internet, servers, communication, thoughts, contracts, the written or spoken word) are going haywire and although given a great enough perspective, they may lead to creative outcomes, still, the frakups are frustrating! What is going on?
Think of Mars as an archetype of our inner warrior. He is raw, animated energy. He represents the force that gets us out of bed in the morning, staking claims, winning battles and achieving all desires. Vital for our ability to move forward, Mars is an energy gauge, suggesting how much dynamic force we wield and where. As Mars links to healthy aggression, he can also be impulsive, rash and willful. Does our inner Mars like to retreat?
No.
It would appear that this retrograde motion, particularly in Virgo, is rubbing him the wrong way! Some are feeling a frustrated energy. We can’t get our way, be assertive or initiate current desires. While using this time to question what we want and if it is a match to our core values, it’s best not to let Mars stew. With links to the flight/fight response, he needs an outlet, preferably physical. No matter what contrast comes your way, taking your Mars out for some healthy exercise is going to help move things along. Relief! Meanwhile, there is a message in the madness. Can you decipher it? I’d love to hear your thoughts. What’s your inner warrior been saying lately?
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Too late! You’ve just described the last three years of my life! And now that you get here, I’m moving on from focussing on the warrior archetype. That said, it’s probably my prerogative, seeing how I have Uranus, Pluto and Mars clustered together at the point of my ascendant Virgo. It’s a theme for life, for me. – boy, is it ever!
Perhaps it is precisely because of this period that it is pertinant for me to be shifting focus – something like the way when an emotion reaches maximum intensity it becomes enough. It’s served it’s purpose, it’s been heard. It is no longer needed.
I can understand well how Mars puts forth his wishes when flanked by Uranus and Pluto! The idea of processing though the ‘communion with the archetype’ interests me. I think the key is what you say, ‘it has been heard’. That’s all these images in the unconscious ultimately want. To be lived out.
Thank you!
maybe the message is “be true to yourself”…. that’s what seems to provoke so much energy is when ones truth is being thwarted….and there may be so many times in a day when that truth is being damaged, that either we fight to tell the truth, run to a place where we can be true and not challenged, or it can all come out in hurt in all its many and not really be in alignment with our truth… mmmm yes… livin it!!!!
I agree. If we aren’t being true, living our core values, being authentic, our existence feels thwarted. Getting into alignment with authenticity. That’s the go! Thanks gor dropping in with the gems!
Great information about energy right now! For me it is really about being in the moment, assessing my truth, perhaps speaking my truth but making sure its not an ego response, trying to make someone else wrong. Feeling i am challenged to feel compassion for others but not taking action at my own expense, really checking in with myself as to whether this is being supportive of myself as well as another. Again wanting to stretch myself without allowing myself to be used, a tough call to assess being an ex people pleaser seeking approval from others person! Thanks really enjoyed post.
Good point, Sharne. We can be authentic without having to make someone else ‘wrong’. It’s not like our ‘right’ won’t work around other forms of expression. Mars has very little toleration for the people pleasing side of our nature, unless Mars is in Cancer, or Libra, maybe Pisces, or Mars in aspect to Venus. Then the need to balance our own will while still feeling connected to others becomes the life’s work . . . still at it
Your response is much appreciated!
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