by Robert Wilkinson
On December 2, we have a powerful Sun square Mars from 11 Sagittarius to 11 Pisces which has already activated in a big way right now! What does this mean?
Well, first it means there’s more agitation in the air than usual. While the square is frictional and releases a lot of energy, it’s also good for turning corners and putting the brakes on old momentum. A transit to transit square can be difficult, but it also can be used VERY productively if you know how to use the energies of the planets involved in the square. This square will be most active from now through December 9, and stay in very close orb between 10-14 Sagittarius and Pisces, so please refer to this information as needed!
I gave you the basics of how to use squares and oppositions to greatest benefit in the article “Transmuting Squares and Oppositions in the Birth Chart.” When you’re done here, please take a new look at that article. And in a fortuitous turn of events, I was requested to create a longer article for Horoscope Magazine based in the principles I introduced in the original article, due to be published in the Spring! So you may want to gift yourself with a subscription to that magazine if you want to read the extended version I wrote for that publication.
Anyway, with this Sun square Mars, it throws voids into 11 Gemini and 11 Virgo. These indicate “the problem and/or the solution” where they fall. So avoid excessive criticism, worry, and getting too scattered or indecisive, while opening to “new vistas of conscious, concrete development” while learning “Imagineering” skills, combining imagination with engineering to bring forth more perfect forms of individual or spiritual self-expression.
The houses where the square falls in your map is where you’re most likely to take a jolt, or accelerate your lives in some ways. It’s a “turning of the corner” in those areas, with a need to act with precision and adaptability. Get your energy focused so it may express your Light, and you should do fine.
Of course, it can mark a point of crisis for those parts of us symbolized by planets near 9-13 Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, and Pisces, as well as 24-28 Cancer, Libra, Capricorn, and Aries. Again, it all depends on how you’re expressing those planets, what you have to work on to transmute the dysfunctional to the functional, and the spiritual level of your self-expression and self-realization.
Remember we have a personal level of expressing our planetary functions, an interpersonal or social level of expressing our planetary functions, and an individual, transpersonal spiritual level of expressing our planetary function. We can have it together on one level but not another, as there’s always something to learn, regardless of how well we believe we’re expressing ourselves. I covered a lot of this in Saturn: Spiritual Master, Spiritual Friend, and also elaborate on some of these principles in the upcoming Horoscope article.
We can also use this square productively by looking at how each planet in the square aspects the other planets in your chart. The productive, specializing, or spiritual aspects made from 11 Sagittarius and 11 Pisces to planets in your chart show you how to use the energy wisely, releasing it through the other planet in square.
For example, I have Venus at 14 Taurus. It is being sextiled by transiting Mars at 11 Pisces. So my Venus is now in a productive angle with transiting Mars, showing current conditions. To the degree my Venus is in harmony with the moment, I can use the productive sextile from Mars to release Light through the Sun in Sagittarius.
Going further, my Sun is at 12 Aries and my Ascendant is at 11 Leo. That means the transiting Sun, the Light, is in a Grand Fire Trine in my chart! This is a very favorable, harmonious, and stabilized understanding of how the current Light/Life is allowing me to express it in the here and now. So I can use the current Mars squaring the Sun to direct the favorable power of the Grand Fire Trine through the Mars quality of Mutable Water.
So my Venus in Earth favorable to Mars in Water can express that productivity through the Fire of the transiting Sun, and my Sun and Ascendant favorable to the transiting Sun can express that harmony of Light/Life through the Water of the transiting Mars. That makes this transiting square extraordinarily harmonious energy in my life, as long as I am expressing the planets in the way perfect for this time and real-world conditions.
Yes, there will always be multiple aspects made to all our planets, so of course what I just gave you is not the full picture. Besides sextiling my Venus, Mars also is novile my Mars, quincunx my Ascendant, triseptile my Pluto, pentelftile my Saturn, and biquintile my Neptune when moving through 10-14 Pisces. Each of these also generates resonant degree patterns showing us even more about how well our planets are functioning in all kinds of ways. The study of how certain degree zones make simultaneous aspects to our various planets is essential to master The Art of Synthesis.
While you’re doing all of this spiritual level work, please remember to slow down or speed up as needed, taking care to note what’s going on and how it fits into an order. Decrease reactivity, don’t jump to conclusions, and be clear and precise when you need to act decisively. Use it wisely, and you can get a lot done during the next week!
© Copyright 2018 Robert Wilkinson
Congratulations on the extended article publication. Well done!
Blessings be to all.
Posted by: Nic | November 30, 2018 at 04:42 PM