We are approaching the Libra New Moon on Monday. But before the waning Moon gets to that sweet spot of cosmic balance and beauty, we experience an aspect that tends to be one of the trickier ones to handle in a natal chart: Mars square Chiron. One way it can manifest includes how people tend to deal with blocks.
Officially, Mars in Sagittarius will square Chiron in Pisces on Sunday at 2:47 pm EDT. But it’s in effect now, and Mars aspects tend to be quite palpable as they build. Part of this has to do with the assertive/aggressive nature of Mars. When we bring in the spiritual breakthrough/healing influence of Chiron, the sacred warrior archetype becomes available to us.
Mars-Chiron is incredibly powerful in most aspect patterns, but in the case of the square, the internal tension involved complicates matters. In fact, Barbara Hand Clow describes it as feeling “like the way most of us feel about going to the dentist.”
If that makes you want to hide under the covers until the weekend is over, consider why she describes Mars square Chiron in that way: “Chiron square Mars creates a tendency to try to avoid transmutation [in a natal chart]. The natives are very aware of the power of Chiron because of the square, and they develop all kinds of strategies for avoiding Uranian energy until they experience their Uranian opposition.”
In other words, if you insist on hiding under the covers, or holding back in some way in your life right now, you’re only shortchanging yourself out of the opportunity for a breakthrough of some sort. Feeling blocked — or actively blocking something in your life — is not the same as having integrity. Integrity can involve saying “no,” but if you fall in love with ‘holding it in,’ at some point you’ll begin to realize life has actually become pretty empty. And as you realize that the ‘it’ you’ve been holding in is not actually feeding any kind of creative exchange with anyone, things can start to get pretty ugly — and it may not be obvious to you why.