{"id":62053,"date":"2012-10-11T03:56:01","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T07:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=62053"},"modified":"2012-10-11T05:13:30","modified_gmt":"2012-10-11T09:13:30","slug":"mars-square-chiron-are-you-holding-it-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astro-daily\/mars-square-chiron-are-you-holding-it-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Mars square Chiron: Are you holding ‘it’ in?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

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Simplified chart section showing Sunday’s square between Mars (red circle with arrow) in Sagittarius and Chiron (orange key) in Pisces. Retrograde Uranus (blue ‘H’) is making a trine to Mars from Aries (fire sign to fire sign). Today Mars is only a couple degrees away from its position in this chart.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Officially, Mars in Sagittarius will square Chiron in Pisces on Sunday at 2:47 pm EDT. But it\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

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 \u201clike the way most of us feel about going to the dentist.\u201d<\/p>\n

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: \u201cChiron 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

In other words, if you insist on hiding under the covers, or holding back in some way in your life right now, you\u2019re 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 \u201cno,\u201d but if you fall in love with \u2018holding it in,\u2019 at some point you\u2019ll begin to realize life has actually become pretty empty. And as you realize that the \u2018it\u2019 you\u2019ve 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.<\/p>\n

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“A significant issue would be being a bully, or being bullied,\u201d noted Dale O\u2019Brien in an archived Planet Waves article<\/a>. \u201cPsychologists have done these studies in which the abused tends to become the abuser. So whenever I see Mars-Chiron in any aspect, I look for that as a potential issue.”<\/p>\n

That is a dynamic to keep watch for, both personally and in the news as we head into the weekend, but bullying and abuse are not necessarily going to pop up for you. How a transiting aspect behaves will differ some from how it plays out in a natal chart.<\/p>\n

On a more global scale, we\u2019re seeing this ugliness in the form of borderline war and rumors of war. For one, the latest development with the Syrian conflict may drag Turkey into the fighting, and the presence of U.S. ground troops and talk of NATO troops indicates leaders are preparing for it. War is one of the hallmarks of what Clow calls the \u201clow warrior energy\u201d of Mars-Chiron aspects — as opposed to the \u201csacred warrior\u201d archetype of a higher-consciousness use of this energy. Said another way, it\u2019s the difference between using our power to bully versus using our inner strength to protect.<\/p>\n

Think of it this way: Chiron\u2019s lower half was his animal half. Get the more primitive urges and lack of consciousness cavorting with the god of war, and things can get mean. Chiron\u2019s upper half was a wise, skilled physician and teacher. Apply that wisdom and skill to Mars\u2019 drive and libido, and you can really start going places. As mentioned already, however, these aspects in a square can feel overwhelming to a mere mortal, and avoiding the energy can turn it toxic.<\/p>\n

As luck would have it, that Uranian energy Clow mentions is available to us as a way out. Uranus, retrograde in Aries, is being trined by Mars at the same time as the square with Chiron. You have the option to be adventurous and productive if you\u2019re willing to open yourself up to a little transmutation. It can be scary, but it may be worth it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1734],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62053"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}