Sure Mercury’s retrograde creaking along in the early degrees of Leo. That’s why life feels especially challenging when looking in the mirror. Things like, “God, when did that show up on my face?” tarnish current efforts at optimism. Fortunately, that pesky mercurial bugger turns direct in Leo in a few days (11 August). And then, it’s all about straightening out skewed self perceptions and lining them up on a listing of indisputable attributes.
And sure, Mars very recently entered Libra and over the next few days he opposes Saturn and Neptune, making visions and dreams feel impossibly daunting and sufficiently thwarted.
Here’s the cosmic reminder: Things might actually work out yet. Throughout this weekend and into early next week, Mars also makes “favorable” aspects with Uranus and Sedna in Gemini and also to Pluto in Aquarius. Note the exact degree and minute of Mars in the moment when obstacles force any hint of a dark night of the soul upon your being. Then, go to when Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto retrograde to that degree and minute through the aspect they do and when they proceed past the degree in exactitude of the aspect in direct motion. This likely puts you into early 2026. Mark those dates as goal completion dates per the nature of the planets involved!
Saturn = Make your necessary life checklists are notate when they are successfully completed and integrate the accomplishment into your psyche.
Uranus = Affirm that any and ALL changes have been fully transacted and integrated. There is no going back now.
Neptune = Hold all aspirations with the clearest of vision and impeccable understanding how these all fulfill your soul’s needs.
Pluto = Everything has transformed. You are no longer who you were. You are who you are now and that’s the truth of the matter.
Sedna = Understand there is no finger pointing in cosmic circles. You did this. This is of your creation, so make sure you love the results. If you don't love what's staring you down, make corrections and fix it.
Ready for the epiphany? You gotta do it. You gotta do it now. No one else can do life’s task to your liking anyway. You gotta own that what you’re thinking needs to get done immediately and you need to lead the charge, even if you are the only person taking on the objective.
You do it. Be cooperative. You assert. Listen to and accept relevant input from others not seeking to thwart your plans. Take the reins from the shotgun who dozes off as your stage bounds through the desolate landscape. Declare to the copilot (as is protocol), “I have the airplane!” And with that declaration, mean it and pilot the airliner of life. Competently navigate, manage the throttles, and constantly revise the trim en route for the smoothest ride to your destination. Mid October, just around the next time warp of “Jeez, the Spirit Stores are open.” For those of you not in the U.S., these are discount Halloween stores that widely populate the landscape for but a few months every year, and the local home improvement store now features huge monster figures for your yard to celebrate Halloween. At this time of year, with minimal expenditure you can assume a scary identity.
Let’s assume you take on a scary identity. Okay, maybe not scary, but something that Ceres in Aries would be proud you wear. Ceres stands out as distinctively formidable in the planetary line up. Per capita, according to mathematical comparisons of her mass, diameter, gravity and density, Ceres wields more influence than the other planets. Yes, that’s per capita, but don’t forget this fact either. Ceres is a force with which all the other planets must reckon. In the third week of November, Ceres stations as she reverts direct, virtually opposite Mars’ current position. This is a major check point in consciousness. To complete your real world objectives satisfactorily, Ceres must be included in the planetary march around the Sun. Here, she asks you to remember what you were feeling and thinking now. Are you overwhelmed? Crushed with the specific gravity of life? Can you find the Aries fire starter spark? Are you capable of intentionally grinding forward as if there is no tomorrow? Are you willing to be the clear protagonist in your life and take on presumably impossible odds along the way no matter what? That’s the spirit that Ceres endorses and inspires Mars to action.
Mars is in Libra. If you require support and positive feedback from others, seek out those who support your best interests. If you seek out peer review, Mars and Ceres offer the question: Is this a lateral opinion only? Do you need positional guidance from someone further down the road with far more experience and wisdom than you currently possess? You getting that in peer review? Are you rewarding yourself for successfully completing tasks? In case you might think that to be shamelessly bribing yourself, Ceres says, “So what? You respond favorably don’t you? How do you train a cat? Positive reinforcement.” Okay maybe it’s better to ask how you train a dog. Thus, during the lingering days past the northern hemisphere’s dog days of summer, grab the metaphor and self motivate.
Sedna is part of the plan. A new realization that comes to mind, especially with her current aspects to Saturn and Neptune in Aries, is that while she may appear to be impulsive, what if she has long affirmed for opportunistic circumstances to appear? What if the current moment, in her consciousness, she decides that the fork in the road may be the answer to a prayer? Is selecting that choice impetuous? Hard to say, but if she accepts the fate that results from those choices, who can argue with that objectively? She knows she’s got to move on to better straits. She’s been mulling this over for what feels like eons to her psyche. When push comes to shove and she engages, the intention is change for the better. If the intention is fulfilled, bravo! If it is not, she shakes it off, adjusts, chooses a new course to destination, and moves on from there.
Back to now. If Mars in Libra does want support, consider the current double bind of the Sun and Mercury occupying the space of Leo. While you may want others to praise and/or sanction your actions, frustration occurs when those mired in their own lives do not shout your name in praise to the heavens. If you ask for support or seek some level of affirmation from others and they offer it, is your reaction that others only offer compliments because you asked? Is there no right answer here? There is. That answer is you and you alone must believe in the path you pursue without abandon.
With self belief intact, and through the determination that every day you engage life in ways that advance your spirit’s causes, at the end of the day when you survey if there is more you could have done today, you simply add that detail to the list of things that must be done soon, without regret and lament.
Keep in mind the centaur who rules healing of regret, grief and despair of isolation, Hylonome, currently squares Chiron in Aries from her position in Capricorn. This is a long, ongoing trend. This suggests that constant reminders need to be reinserted into ones consciousness, declaring that all gains made are gains. Figure that this process must be ongoing until Ceres completes her Aries retrogradation and lines up with Chiron and Eris for a trinity in the first sign as February 2026 concludes.
At that time, Saturn and Neptune both have clawed their way back into Aries. Hopefully, this concurs with the time that these bodies also stand opposite to your notations of life circumstances carved onto the cosmic clock with Mars in the primal degrees of Libra happening in the near future.
It’s true. Things Might Work Out Yet. There’s no telling what intentional action aligned with consciousness might resolve.
More soon.
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