Mars + Venus Pluto Conjunction

Mind Marinade for the week February 12th-17th

Tuesday, the 13th, Mars enters Aquarius and immediately forms a conjunction with Pluto. By the end of the week, Venus also enters Aquarius, and also makes a conjunction. Pluto will be tucked between love and war.

The last time Pluto and Mars met at 0 degrees was in 1883—but in the sign of Gemini. Krakatoa exploded in that same year, and in Gemini fashion the volcano’s eruption is described by how far it could be heard. Gemini rules sound waves.

Similarly, Aquarius rules air waves associated with technology. Aquarius as the internet is the world wide web of information network. This transit preoccupies our minds, our thinking, our concepts of and for the future. Pluto in Aquarius is foreshadow—if Pluto is a shadow worker—which it is.

Still, because it is the first time we will experience this—the last time Pluto and Mars were in Aquarius at the same time was 1796—paying attention to what new obsessions, ideas, or passions that are prominent for you now will be a preview of recurring themes that will play out over the next two decades while Pluto is in this sign. We experience many Pluto Mars conjunctions, but never until the 13th of February, have we experienced it in Aquarius.

Mars is action. Mars is not all talk. Mars walks the walk. And that walk is aggressive, violent, assertive, warlike, protective, defensive, competitive, brut and motivated. Pluto represents power and control—intense, obsessive, possessive. Pluto is the ruler of the underworld—the shadow world—intense transformations—life after death.

Mars and Pluto together is destructive and dark—but together they get shit done. Together they are formidable. So, if there is something that has been holding you back, or blocking you, this conjunction has the potential energy to follow through with action towards a goal—especially a collective goal since both planets are in Aquarius. This energy is highly motivated and motivated by intellect. Our choices and actions are well informed—if not superfluously.

Mars in Aquarius is great in high intensity situations—in life and death situations because it can make absolute choices. Mars in Aquarius will have no trouble amputating your arm if it means saving your life. We can deal with the emotions of having one arm later. But for right now, what action needs to happen in order for life to be had? And so all of us can call upon this energy as we contemplate our immediate future.

When I think of Pluto as ruler of the underworld—I mean shepherd of souls. And the soul exists in both the under and over world. Pluto’s work is not done just through death. I’m not a believer of heaven and hell in the way it was described to me as a Catholic growing up. They aren’t landing spaces we are relegated to by being good or bad.

Pluto is the soul’s keeper—at least its decree. This transit for some of us will be an embodied choice that radicalizes our soul’s mission. This transit is the epigraph to the novel that is our next two decades.

For example, the last time Pluto entered a new sign (Capricorn in 2008) my death and rebirth moment was the reunification with my biological mother. The discovery was one moment, one email, one phone call with my brother who found her. But the transformation, the shadow work of rebirthing my identity (Pluto went through my first house of self) took decades to destroy and then rebuild.

And now, finally a new saga—a new transformation is initiated with action, with a choice we have to make. Knowing where Aquarius is in your chart will help to discern this focus—if it isn’t already obvious.

This week: if you’re feeling alone, then you’re not doing it right. Although Aquarius is not center stage in the group, it is the healer of the group, its cheerleader, its social anthropologist. And so a theme of this transit to me is the integration of groups, tribes, community into our identity.

Collectively it seems, myself very much included, we have been ushering the sentiment heal yourself before you heal others. Or, even, healing yourself is healing others. But this transit has me pondering: what if showing up in groups as unhealed was the healing you had to offer others? What does that look like?

Venus also enters Aquarius by the end of the week and makes a conjunction with Pluto—intensifying the newness, the grief, the cycles, the attachments with our relationships to romance, money or our own values.

Pluto has a great desire for Venus. This transit will have us inspired to be obsessive about our passions. Our crushes could get intense—whether that’s on a new hobby, a material item or a person. And with the energy all things Aquarius we may invite new crushes, new feelings, new loves.

Venus is Spring and Pluto is winter. Opposites attract as they say—but the deeper consistency is that opposites are extreme. This energy will be too. Pluto’s attraction to Venus had nothing to do with his own characterisitics. He didn’t see himself in her—he just saw beauty.

Aquarius teaches us the nuance between being an individual and being isolated. You don’t have to heal in solitude. Arguably, you can’t. Aquarius is an out of the box thinker and off the beaten path traverser but that doesn’t mean they don’t belong. Their role in the group is distinguished and well defined and never at the center but when there is a specific need—there is only Aquarius to call.

Lastly, Steve Judd’s take on the Mars Pluto conjunction in Aquarius is very interesting and here is a link to his video if you want to know more about the planets meeting at 0 degrees: Steve Judd on Mars + Pluto

This week is luminary. The light is the signal but the shadows are the message.

Thank you for meeting me here!! Tell me how this transit is going for you!!! Change is here.

Love,

The Poet Witch