With Mars going into Aries and a new moon about to break we’re feeling a movement to new action. The new moon occurs opposite Saturn in Libra so doing the right thing in relating is on the menu. Venus sextiling Pluto presents the opportunity to go deeper in love. Mercury retrograde in effect slows down communications but offers the occasion to revisit issues of unfinished business. This is more likely to be successful if you can go deeper and nurture that connection on a primal level. If you’re gonna fight, fight for love. Mercury retrogrades are rotten for breakups because so often you end up readdressing when it goes direct. Instead, put on “your song” and see if you can’t dance it out.

What are your weekend plans?

Saturn just went through my son’s 11th house and he’s seen his circle of friends tighten. Friends without integrity have fallen away. At the same time Pluto is transiting his Uranus Sun opposition. He’s had a somewhat distant relationship with his father but I see him actively reshaping it. In synastry neither of their Mars aspects anything in the other’s chart. However, they both have Mars in fire, my son’s in late Aries and his father’s in early Leo. They both have an active physical drive. My son’s attempts to engage his father have all fallen rather flat until he hit on this latest strategy: he challenged him to play raquetball. Now they’re meeting weekly and hanging out afterward.

A Leo Mars in the 11th house rarely shrinks from a public challenge. My son, with his Aries Mars in the 6th worked straightforwardly, trying one thing after another till he found a solution. Who will win? Who cares; as far as I’m concerned they both win.

How do you get what you want? Where is your Mars? Does it hunt?