This week we experience yet another shift in the psychic climate, as the Moon builds to full phase on Tuesday, synched up with Virgo letting go of Mars for the first time in almost eight months. Mars ingressing Libra is, on one level, about being an expert in balance. Know your limits, know what you want, recognize the conditions of your environment (particularly people), and work out a scenario that honors all of them as best you can. When in doubt, lean toward less rather than more. Notice when you have a need or a desire, and respond to it. Go gently on the people around you; most of them have no clue what’s going on.
Virgo the Virgin has spent a lot of time in the company of Mr. Cock and Balls, amidst much other unusual activity. This has been a kind of anger management program, an extended course in understanding the nuances of desire and an opportunity to learn how to override emotions with intellect without sacrificing being able to feel. Indeed, actual balancing of mind and emotions specifically requires being able to feel.
If you associate this phase of time (November 2011 to the present) with a sexual healing project, it’s now time to take a step forward and see how you do in the world of relational experience. This may feel like a rather sudden energy release; Mars changes modalities (mutable to cardinal) and elements (earthy to airy), leaving a sign famous for its ability to deny relationships and ingressing one that’s entirely based on them. Mars on its own in Libra could indicate wanting a relationship with burning desire. You are likely aware of relationships of others, having a diversity of responses. This is all one environment, one seamless expanse of emotional flow of which you’re part, regardless of your current ‘status’.
Go gently with your desire; it’s potent and reactive, as indicated by other aspects Mars is making. If you try to get your way all at once, that probably won’t work out so well. Mars changes signs at 8:33 am EDT on Tuesday, right in the midst of a Moon-Pluto occultation (the last one we had was during the transit of Venus). This series of events, in Capricorn, seems to be about working through old emotional patterns layer by layer, reaching for the deeper passions that are only available in the present moment.
If once again you are experiencing a relationship situation is out of your control, you might feel some peace in letting it be so, assuming, of course, that you feel physically safe.