Dear Friend and Reader:
As I write, the Taurus Moon is square the Mercury-Mars conjunction. Many astrologers would say this is an inherently unfriendly aspect; that it connotes conflict. It’s always helpful to take astrology in context, and to size up your predictions after the fact. I would say this is an opportunity to work through conflict internally, despite the opportunities we may have to dramatize it on an outward level.
The aspect the way it’s set up looks like tension between individual values (Moon in Taurus) and collective ones (Mercury and Mars in Aquarius). This could shake out a lot of ways, but if we’re conscious that what happens today could manifest internally or externally, we have an opportunity to make a choice in the matter.
As Mercury departs Mars and moves toward Neptune, Mars is moving toward Chiron. The Mars-Chiron conjunction happens about once every two years. It happens Thursday, March 5 at 7:23 pm ET.
Contacts between Chiron and personal planets are often profound, and speak to the deepest levels of our journey on the planet. In a recent comment to a post below, someone suggested that men are expected to be like women. I would concur with that, and add that women are increasingly expected to be like men. Both of these are different than being an individual. Adopting the traits of the opposite gender is different than living out your own psychic composition in a balanced way, though it can seem like a thin line. Social pressure or the drive to conform (Aquarian themes) are different than inner exploration.