What is ultimately more satisfying: maintaining a pervasive sense of intrigue and the unknown, or diving into the mystery with your curiosity and facing what you meet there head-on? Are the two states necessarily mutually exclusive?
Wednesday at 4:50 pm EST the Sun moves into Sagittarius, handing Venus the keys to the Scorpio vault on its way out. Venus, the receptive planet of attraction and love, enters Scorpio at 8:20 pm EST on Wednesday. Where the Sun has been shining its light into the shadows, Venus prepares to receive the secrets about our erotic energy that we’ve unearthed.
Before we get there, these last hours of the Sun in Scorpio are likely to be thick with a sense of intrigue, or a generally ‘odd’ sensation describing this very interesting place and time.
Adding to that sense of intrigue is the conjunction of Mars and Pluto in Capricorn. The subterranean is heating up like a pressure cooker, thanks to the drive of Mars and the deep rumblings of Pluto. In a less-encouraging manifestation, consider the conflict between Israel and Palestine to see what ‘intrigue’ can look like: a powder keg sitting in a roomful of pyromaniacs. Only one of them has a lighter that works — and no one is sure when (or necessarily if) he’ll use it.
But Mars in Capricorn on its own can equal hard work for work’s sake (rather than for personal ambition). And the energy of Saturn (ruler of Capricorn) provides some much-needed balance for Mars’ drive in the form of a little restraint, structure, and a check on the animal energy.
On a more personal level, the potential messiness of Mars and the Uranus-Pluto square could be useful. Mars and Pluto are the traditional and modern rulers of Scorpio, respectively. So their conjunction is vibrating through Scorpio, adding a deeper, hotter layer to the activity of planets in that sign.