Mars goes into Leo on October 17, 2009 and stays there until June 9, 2010 so I hope you like your fire hot!

Mars is at home in a fire sign, ego driven in Leo so this will be interesting.

As to effects on the individual, note the house in your chart where Mars will be transiting for the better part of a year because it is going to be hotted up like nobodies business.

Continue reading Transit Watch: Mars In Leo… For 9 Months! October, 2009 – June 2010

Remember this:

Mars is in Cancer and will go retrograde in November. When it’s all said and done, Mars with be in either Gemini or Cancer from now, Oct 1st until May of 2008. Gah.

It occurred to me we ought to track this transit. A lot of people who read here are studying astrology and the best way to learn is to live and pay attention, so… what house is Mars in at the moment and how is this manifesting? I’ll go first. Continue reading Mars Transits Gemini and Cancer for 7 Months! Fire! Fire! Fire! Let’s Update…

Mars is in Cancer and will go retrograde in November. When it’s all said and done, Mars with be in either Gemini or Cancer from now, Oct 1st until May of 2008. Gah.

So figure out which houses Mars will be transiting during this time because they are going to be super-heated for a prolonged time. And this is not much fun really, especially if Mars happens to be hanging around your 7th House which it hates. I had Mars stuck in my 7th for 5 months in ’94 and the memory still has not faded. Just think of an iron.

An iron works well as long as it’s in motion. It’s when it slows down and stops things burn to a crisp.

What houses will Mars be transiting in your case? Any idea how you’re going to deal?

From Monday night’s Moon in Scorpio. This is the soldier trying to make it through my book:

“P, I’m reading this and my God but you’re bold.”

“Bold?”

“Bold. How can you write this? How can you admit… people think like this but they don’t tell anyone.Everyone is going to read this you know. Everyone.”

“What? Everyone? Who is everyone? And how should I care about everyone when I don’t even know who they are? I don’t care who reads that and what are you talking about anyway? What is upsetting you?” Continue reading Mercury in Aries vs Mercury in Libra: Under the Scorpio Moon, With Mars in Taurus

Mars represents raw make energy. Sex, violence, aggression, etc. Mercury represents communication, also cars. I have these planets fused in my chart so I can’t have one without the other, and currently Mars in the sky is transiting in aspect setting the whole thing off.. flaring it, you could say.

Yesterday I had way too much energy. I started the day wailing to HQ, lamenting the ugliness in the world. And when he probed for more information and clarification, I came back with a fierce swearing diatribe filled with sexual imagery as my Mars Mercury conjunction is prone to do.

“That’s more like it,” he said, and I had to laugh. It’s as if I go off and all my friends think. ‘Whew. She’s back.” Continue reading What Happens When Mars Transits My Natal Mars Mercury Conjunction – A Day In The Life