{"id":42860,"date":"2011-08-09T00:01:11","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T04:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=42860"},"modified":"2011-08-09T12:30:09","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T16:30:09","slug":"anger-drive-and-desire-navigating-mars-square-uranus-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astro-daily\/anger-drive-and-desire-navigating-mars-square-uranus-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Anger, drive and desire: navigating Mars square Uranus"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today is Tuesday, August 9, 2011. <\/strong><\/a> The Moon is in Sagittarius until about 4:38 pm EDT, when it enters Capricorn. But the big news is that Mars in Cancer makes an exact square to Uranus in Aries at about 12:33 pm EDT. This puts it into a volatile grand square that includes Saturn in Libra and, more precisely today, Pluto in early Capricorn. This configuration (which we sometimes describe as the cardinal cross) has gotten a lot of attention on Planet Waves. The Uranus-Pluto square is the astrology at the heart of 2012, and at the root of much recent upheaval on the world stage. <\/p>\n

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Note that the Mars-Uranus square is classic accident astrology, so it’s necessary to be patient behind the wheel, and drive like a professional. With Mars now involved, the energy heats up the inner conflict and the underlying sense of anger many of us are carrying; in Cancer, we are going to feel<\/em> it. This has been brewing since well before today — witness the riots in London over the weekend — and it will hold for the rest of the week as Mars makes an exact opposition to Pluto in Capricorn. <\/p>\n

When there’s a lot of Mars in the sky, it’s good time to ask yourself: What do you do with your energy? Or more specifically, what do you do with your anger? This is not a simple question for some, given how many are cut off from feeling real rage, or want to be \u2018nice\u2019, or fear their own power. Does one or more of those descriptions fit you? You are not alone. Rage is not an emotion we are taught to handle well in many Western cultures. Even the most basic anger rarely finds a home, and is often directed inwardly as guilt.<\/p>\n

Nor are we taught healthy ways to deal with our sexual desire and drive — another attribute of Mars. In fact, it is actively held down right now in our society, but done so in a rather contradictory way that serves to keep people confused, cut off from themselves and cut off from true intimacy with others. And this repressed sexual energy is likely fuel for much of the violence we\u2019re seeing.<\/p>\n

Complicating the Mars-Uranus-Pluto T-square is the conjunction between Mercury retrograde and Transpluto in Leo opposite Neptune. Eric wrote about this aspect in yesterday\u2019s edition<\/a>. One characteristic of Mercury-Transpluto is narrow-mindedness and obsession; one characteristic of Mercury opposite Neptune is the potential to be deceived. Given the self-investigatory nature of a retrograde Mercury, there are a couple more questions you may ask yourself. One: Have you stopped to ask what you\u2019re angry about and why? And two: Is it even true?<\/em><\/p>\n

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The latter can be especially hard to crack, given the blinding quality of rage, and it is essential in getting anywhere with the current astrology. If you already know you tend toward obsessive thought loops and ungrounded assumptions, take every opportunity to check yourself. Eric is fond of saying the first rule of journalism is \u201cknow what you don\u2019t know.\u201d Perhaps it should be the first rule of the current astrology, too. Look for the gaps in your knowledge before you proceed.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Sagittarius Moon is conjunct the Galactic Center at the same time that Mars makes its square to Uranus. We\u2019re nestled in one of the galaxy\u2019s far-flung arms as it floats through the universe. We are far from the core; we cannot even see the center due to all the dust in the way. But it is there, it has a powerful attraction, it sends out radio waves, and most importantly for our purposes, it has the feeling of being \u2018behind everything\u2019. <\/p>\n

Moon conjunct the Galactic Center focuses that mysterious invisible energy. Think of it as a question, asking what a spiritual solution would look like in response to all the people raging and wanting with no appropriate way to express it. But since it is \u2018behind everything\u2019, maybe it is the thing that is too big to see around, too big to get around, to make meaningful contact with our anger. You don’t need a lot of contact by the way — just enough to get the sensation, and to enter a dialog. The same is true with desire. Feel its subtle expression and relate to it in a conscious way.<\/p>\n

Anger. Drive. Desire. These three keywords for Mars are very compelling emotions, and as mentioned in the lead paragraph, they are playing out on the world stage in dramatic and sometimes convoluted ways. But since, as Shakespeare made famous, we are all players on that stage, I thought I\u2019d take a page out of my acting training. Most directors and teachers I have worked with do not ask the clich\u00e9 \u201cWhat is your motivation,\u201d but rather, \u201cWhat is your objective?\u201d That is, what does your character want<\/em> in this scene? We are driven in our actions, on stage and in life, by what we desire. Anger can be a useful tool to point us to what is not working in our lives, but only if we notice what it is pointing to rather than becoming enslaved to its blindness. So if you feel yourself coming to a boil, pause just long enough to ask yourself what you truly want from the situation. I\u2019m not saying not to express your anger, but I am suggesting making sure your expression is in line with what you ultimately want.<\/p>\n

So how are you going to express your Mars energy today? Keep in mind Mars-Uranus can also be an accident-prone aspect. So if you get in a car, harness your drive, but drive the vehicle consciously and like a pro.<\/p>\n

Amanda Painter with Eric Francis <\/em><\/p>\n


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