In the lead-up to the ‘Aries Point’ Aries Full Moon, with its cardinal grand cross making everything political personal and vice versa, there is also a grand fixed cross early today. With Venus and Mars the main players, you could say, sometimes the personal really is personal.
Squares are felt as internal tension and ask us to take action to resolve it; Mars and Venus are the male and female archetypes at play when sex and love are on the agenda. Right now the deep, steamy, instinctual, stubborn Mars in Scorpio is pushing up against the dramatic-yet-warm-hearted Venus in Leo, with her finger on the desire on/off switch.
In other words, this could go a couple of ways. If there is unexpressed sexuality and desire in a relationship, or the sense that giving is not being reciprocated, the energy could come out as argumentative. Where there’s already healthy expression in a relationship, there’s likely to be more harmony as desires and needs are stated, individuality asserted, and reciprocation offered. Are there significant hidden tensions in your intimate relationships? They want out now.
A square between Venus and Mars also heightens interest in physical sex. It calls on us to be explicit; don’t leave desire unsaid — yet be aware and judicious. The potential for sexual appetite to become indiscriminate is exacerbated by Nessus, which is in Aquarius exactly opposite Venus and square Mars. Nessus could darken any ‘unconscious’ or careless sex into the realm of inappropriate, karmic or related to undesired family patterns.