Mars Opposite Pluto - Cerberus at the Gate of Aquarius
Mars bursting into Leo anoints our days with the Fires of self-sovereignty & a beastly, big-hearted passion.
Mars in Leo strikes an immediate opposition with Pluto in ︎Aquairus, & both the Warrior & our Dark Lord square BFG Jup in Taurus ︎. A Fixed t-square can feel like elephants in a boxing ring.
The Heavens are wired with high voltage intensity. Pluto in the Water Carrier is a slow, deep creep - ionically charged. Our mycelial body electric wherein consensus rules.
Austin Coppock describes ♇ as the “site of our collective horror”. When ♇ arrived in Aquarius, the image that came to me unannounced was that of a Cerberus - the 3-headed Hell Hound who in Greek mythology, guards the Gates of Hades. In Harry Potter the Cerberus popped up as one of Hagrid’s pets, named “Fluffy”.
Our rx Pluto is indeed a fierce guardian at the entry point of ︎. Now we hear the NYPD plans to use robot dogs to maintain, erm, law & order. Perhaps this spectre of Pluto in Aquarius ︎ (just one of many delineations) is a cyborg Cerberus. Patched from the echoes of older stories of Frankenstein, written by Mary Shelley at the tail-end of Pluto’s last clomp through the Water Carrier ︎.
︎ Taurus Season saw every planet entering the Garden of Gaia initiated by a crushing square from Pluto, testing our embodied wisdom, material values & our desires, against more abstract, future-oriented ideals.
The animal in us is being challenged to wake up with each degree-seeded moment. To look to our warm-pelted-&-blooded, lion-hearted, green & tendriled bodies; dwelling as we do in the sensory & muddy abundance of a deeply storied Earth.
May your soft muzzles catch the subtle scent of “progressive” hubris, claiming to be evolution. We’re at risk of being caged & de-clawed.
The Sun now in ︎Gemini is winged, sparkling, & agile. Though unable to see its healthy host Hermes in Taurus ︎, the Sun upon arriving in ︎Gemini was swift to respond to a diplomatic crisis. Deft hands extended in sextile to both Mars & Pluto. Mars in Leo looks to the light of an intelligent & socially adept Sun for cues…
What is worth fighting for, or cleaving to as the new gods clamour for or endless attention & passivity? How do we calm the ferocity of Cerberus? With the might of Mars? Or with music, as Orpheus with his lyre?
Hold close your wolf-or-sealskins. Step into the night; see Venus high & bright. Kindly One. Welcome the brilliance of Gemini Season.
