We have been talking about this "war comes home" thing for MONTHS.
The War Comes Home - Part I is HERE, Part II is HERE - Don't Burn the House Down Trying to Protect It, Part III is HERE - The United States Election, Part IV is HERE - The King Comes Home, Part V is HERE - The LA Fires | Fires of Rome
We are in the final leg of the 2024-2025 Mars retrograde that started back on October 4th and finishes up on May 2nd.
We are approaching the THIRD Mars/Pluto opposition - exact on the 26th - destined to end this chapter with an empowering/dis-empowering LIFE CHANGING DEVELOPMENTS and new beginning with major FATED consequences.
The first Mars/Pluto was within a day of the United States election. That one was in a T-Square to Juno. The second Mars/Pluto was on January 3rd (different signs with Mars retrograde) - we had the death of President Carter around that time, were approaching the January 6th anniversary of the Capitol riot when Trump lost that second election, a truck plowed into crowds in New Orleans, the Chinese government hacked a Treasury Dept office, Zelensky said he thought the war would be over when Trump took office, WHO urged Israel to cease attacking medical facilities in Gaza. These are the headlines from NPR that day. So, pretty much everything now was in the news in another form then.
If we keep in mind the lunar cycle we are in - Full Moon in Libra with a need to make things that are out of balance more fair and balanced - which is what Trump is doing/thinks he's doing or wants us to think he is doing with these tariffs - it seems most likely this will include the tariff situation with China, but Mars/Pluto is volatile and powerful energy and powered up with the energy of previous 4/19-4/20 events and with Trump playing egoic Mars in Leo and fighting with pretty much EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING, there is alot that can happen and that includes some pretty dangerous stuff.
But, also, situations where we are empowered by challenge and positive things come from it.
A news headline this morning said, "Trump has finally met his match as he faces THREE unwinnable wars" - this about sums this whole thing up.
Sometimes astrology is more figurative than literal and sometimes, and quite often I think - it plays out quite literally and when two planets oppose each other someone is playing planet A and someone or something else is playing planet B.
Trump, with his natal Mars/Ascendent in Leo (where Mars is now) and the United States with her natal Mars in Gemini situated exactly between Trump's tight Sun/North Node conjunction is almost certainly playing Mars here (lots of people and situations are playing Mars here, too). Jupiter, the ruler of the United States, is in his detriment in Gemini, making one into two and then two into three.
The world is used to the United States playing Jupiter and the United States playing Mars is tossing everything on its head.
We could be playing Mars in our personal situation (if this is touching our chart and some part of it almost surely will be at some point over the next 10 days) or we could be playing Pluto or even the Sun who steps in to bring a reminder of what is at stake and maybe to help Mars HOLD THE LINE. I don't know. It will depend on where things are.
Personally, and collectively - we will be either EMPOWERED by challenges or DISEMPOWERED by something/someone more powerful than we are. Something outside our control.
Life's intention - create permanent change.
One thing we can be sure of - we will want to have agency/be OWNING our own power here (however much we have in whatever situation we are facing) and not giving it away or projecting it onto someone or something else.
We can't control Pluto, but we can control our Mars/our ego/our heart/our anger and the way we RESPOND. Be strong and confident. Stay humble.
By Sunday night we move into the middle of a Grand Fixed Cross, the likes of which we have never seen in our lifetime - yes, a Grand Fixed Cross on EASTER night!
Life is forcing the unbudgeable to BUDGE.
The Sun at 3 degrees Taurus, Mars at 3 degrees Leo, Pluto at 3 degrees Aquarius and Black Moon Lilith (!) at 3 degrees Scorpio.
This is the Sun - our ego, our heart, what we are here for. Mars - the way we take action, how we get what we want, the way we hold our masculine energy, our motivation and our anger. Pluto - transformation through death and rebirth, power, big money, plutocrats and Black Moon Lilith - where we carry the wound womb we were given by our mother, the stuff we are shamed for wanting/needing that we are perfectly entitled to be wanting and needing.
AND, at the same time we have Venus, exalted in Pisces sitting with the North Node of Fate (our best path forward/in Pisces those bigger hands than ours that have the wheel) and Saturn. Plus, we have Neptune just moved into Aries for the first time in over 180 years. We can't just keep on keeping on, something has to give.
Pluto is in early Aquarius. I would say 'minding his own business' but Pluto's business is literally 'transformation via death and rebirth', so he is not exactly sipping a lemonade on the porch. He is EXACT on the Moon of China's most commonly used natal chart (the people) and EXACT on their leader Xi Jinping's North Node of Fate. They are already feeling the pressure. Old fears. Life and death. Mars comes in via bombastic Trump and his tariff/imbalanced trade threats and this triggers the Plutonian transformation/death and rebirth of Xi Jinping destiny and the people of China who are not here to be the world's workhorses
(the people of the United States and the people of Ukraine are also both represented by Aquarius Moons in their country's natal charts, although Pluto is not conjunct like China's Moon which is exact, Pluto is in the house and sign bringing an impact).
If you have a planet/point in very early Aquarius, Pluto, by transit, is already applying his very special kind of PRESSURE. Intensity with whatever is going on. Fear of loss. Situations feeling like life and death. Very early degree Scorpio and Taurus placements are getting the tense squares and very early Leos are getting the oppositions. When Mars in Leo reaches his opposition to powerful Pluto, PLUTO WILL BE TRIGGERED - whatever he is holding and Pluto holds very important cards very close to his vest - is going to come up and out. This stuff is very old and long buried and pretty it will probably not be.
This is about LIFE CHANGING EMPOWERMENTS AND DISEMPOWERMENTS.
We might start to feel the intensity start to notch up a early as APRIL 18th when Mars re-enters Leo. Fiery Mars in fiery Leo, now that we are older and wiser (after his retrograde and this is Mars third time over this same ground) - sounds good on paper. We are ready to stand out. Ready to do something that has been postponed. But we can see - with the benefit of astrology - a roadblock up ahead in the form of the grim reaper, but someone has to face this guy, someone has to play Mars.
On APRIL 19TH, Mars is going to trine (brakes off) Neptune who is in Aries answering to Mars.
This is probably MEGA IMPORTANT and could be a great gift. Neptune has never been in Aries in our lifetime/never answered to Mars before and Mars is strong in fiery Leo plus older and wiser than he was 'the first time' whatever this means to us and our particular situation.
So, before we get to that Plutonian roadblock up ahead we have Mars in a smooth flow with Neptune.
Is watery Neptune here to cool things down? Dissolve some of Mars in Leo's egoic bluster? BRING A MIRACLE - it is Easter and Passover season! Stuff has been resurrected before.
Is Neptune here to confuse things which pushes us to rely on our intuition, our inspiration, on faith? Does Neptune show up with delusion/illusion/lies? These are all in Neptune's wheelhouse, too.
Neptune adds creativity. compassion, connection, anesthesia and sometimes a kind of DISSOLVING and lessening to whatever he is touching. Neptune pulls in stuff that is behind us/done behind our back. Very old stories that have been long forgotten by our conscious self. He says, 'there is something bigger going on that you can't see'. We have talked about all this for weeks with this stellium in Pisces.
With the North Node - our best path forward - sitting with Saturn (authority, stability, structure, time, karma) and Venus (money, resources, values, self-esteem, women) in Pisces and answering to Neptune - Neptune's role is mega-important here.
Prayer would be very powerful right about now. Maybe it is a blessing to be happening during Easter weekend and Passover. Can this final opposition bring the end/resolution to an "unwinnable war" or situation? Yes.
Neptune is in a sextile to Pluto along with this trine to Mars. Our way through is Neptune - he is in Aries, so this isn't about zoning out and escaping. This is about new compassionate and connecting actions, but, in Aries there is likely to be some fighting, some anger - that isn't something to be stuffed. This is something to offer compassion to, too.
On the night of APRIL 20TH, Easter Sunday, the Sun in Taurus is going to walk right into the middle of the bruhaha that is BUILDING between Mars and Pluto.
In early Taurus the Sun forms a T-Square focused on him. The struggle for stability/resources is challenged by ego expressions, a need for attention/appreciation, anger, stubborn refusals to BEND. Also, what is done behind-the-scenes, groups, big money interests, POWER. This is tension/frustration and the need to take SOME KIND OF ACTION. Keep in mind Mars in Leo is answering to the Sun in Taurus. This helps. Restraint. Limits are not a bad thing. Maybe the Sun in Taurus says, "look at what we have here Mars, we don't want to risk/lose everything we have. You are older and wiser, what have you learned?"
The Sun in Taurus is answering to Venus and his T-Square pulls her into the mix. Money. Resources. Values, WHAT WE ALREADY HAVE. Venus has just completed her own retrograde/is older and wiser, TOO. Venus is EXALTED in Pisces and sitting with Saturn - stability, structure, authority, maturity and the North Node of Fate - our best path forward. The Sun moving from Aries into Taurus with everything else that is happening - is divine timing.
April 19th and 20th are days with ALOT OF HISTORICAL FIREPOWER connected to revolution and rebellion and even tragedy, probably most of which has been lost to history. Maybe this is connected to 0 degrees Taurus or maybe this is connected to the 29th anaretic degree of Aries.
Last year on April 20th we had a rare Jupiter/Uranus conjunction at 21-22 degrees Taurus (exact trine to 2020's HUGE "time runs out" 21-22 degree Cappy chapter).
This conjunction started a new cycle that merged luck/expansion with change/disorder/chaos and our resources and values and money and self-esteem and will be in play for many years. Fortune has always favored the bold, but now when it comes to resources and money, fortune also favors the future, FAST CHANGES, maybe even chaos. Resources and money may change hands many times over the coming decades.
(with Trump being Uranus and Jupiter being the United States - the Jupiter/Uranus conjunction last April 20th, might have also foreshadowed his election - bringing chaos ie Trump to the King ie the United States and the Kingdom to the Disruptor-in-Chief)
That post is HERE. I wrote about this by sign which is rare for me. It was HUGE and connected back to 1941.
From that post - "The conjunction of Jupiter and Uranus in Taurus on April 20th, 2024, takes us back to the spring and summer of 1941 (the last time these planets met in Taurus). World War II was raging across Europe and the world. The United States had just passed legislation to provide resources to the countries involved, primarily England and Russia, but the United States was not physically involved in the war until the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941. On Pearl Harbor Day, Saturn and Uranus at 23 and 27 degrees Taurus, surrounded the hot Jupiter/Uranus conjunction degree of 25 Taurus from the Jupiter/Uranus conjunction of six months earlier (this put everything tightly conjunct arguably the most malevolent star in our Milky Way Galaxy - Algol, the third eye of Medusa, of 'losing our heads' 'turning men to stone' fame). The date of the Jupiter/Uranus conjunction in Taurus in 2024, April 19th-20th, is the anniversary of such things as - the start of the American Revolution (shot heard round the world), the Warsaw ghetto uprising, the Columbine shootings, the Oklahoma City Bombing, the Waco siege, the first studied use of LSD, 420 has some obscure connection to marijuana, the date of Mandela's famous "I am prepared to die" speech during his trial, and, Hitler's birthday."
On APRIL 23RD - the Sun in Taurus reaches his exact square to Pluto. Tension and frustration can bring out the best or the worst in us. On the one hand the Sun is motivated and determined and empowered through contact with power and on the other hand what is pushing us is the fear of loss and the fear of death. This is a DANGER WILL ROBINSON energy. It's most exact here on Wednesday, but in play as soon as the Sun gets into Taurus at Easter.
On APRIL 26TH - Mars reaches his EXACT opposition to Pluto. A conflict/confrontation between how we go about getting what we want/what we are doing and POWER.
The 'meat and potatoes' of this opposition - which is an ending, a PERMANENT ending - may have already happened at this point.
On APRIL 27TH - we get the New Moon at 7 degrees Taurus. That will be its own post next.
At the New Moon, Luna is going to come into Taurus, the sign of her exaltation - and at this point she is answering to Venus in Pisces, which is her exaltation, too, so the Moon is strong here - and Luna/the Moon is going to square Pluto and then square Mars and then meet the Sun (fresh start). Luna will then go on to meet Uranus (change, the future) and then sextile Saturn (stability, authority) and finally make an opportunistic sextile to ruler Venus (beneficial, love, money, resources, self-esteem).
Luna tries to give this thing a good ending, but I can't help noticing that the Sun, moving along with the Moon, but taking about two weeks to do what the Moon does in two days - will meet Uranus on May 17th, sextile Saturn on May 20th, but never does get that sextile to Venus who has moved on into Aries.
In fact, I couldn't find an aspect from the Sun and Venus throughout the rest of 2025 and all of 2026!
How unusual this is, seems like it would be highly unusual, unless I missed something (?) I can't say with 100% certainty, but it does seem to be an indicator that benefits will be a LONG TIME COMING (or benefits might be more emotional than tangible or might indicate that any benefits that come over time benefit the people - the Moon - but not the rulers - the Sun).
Keep this in mind if you are the one blowing something up this week. THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS GAME.
On MAY 2ND, Mars reaches the degree in Leo where he turned around and started this whole 'war comes home' thing and this chapter is finished. Of course, we know nothing is ever really 'finished' - we are always in the middle of the story/the book. There are always ramifications and consequences.
This degree, is also the United States North Node of Fate. Did Mars bringing the war home change the fate of the United States? Yes, almost certainly. And maybe for the rest of the world, too. Are we re-setting something from 1941 and the United States rise to power from U.S. involvement in World War II? Time will tell.
Back on December 6th, 2024 as MARS STATIONED RETROGRADE right on the United States North Node of Fate (this was during the manhunt for US Healthcare CEO shooter, Luigi Mangione, we talked about HERE), the chart was amazingly similar to the Pearl Harbor Day chart.
Look at all the connections between MARS STATIONING RETROGRADE on December 6th, 2024 and the chart of PEARL HARBOR and December 7th, 1941. It is amazing. The planetary positions during the Pearl Harbor attack are shown inside the circle and the planets in 2024 when Mars stationed retrograde are shown in blue (their symbols).
We can't see what is going to happen here but can see it is happening with Venus stuck like glue to Saturn. Commitments are REAL. The goodies/the benefits will TAKE TIME. Take your money seriously. We can't get everything we want - could feel alone, old, limited - and it could be our discontent with THIS that is helping/hurting us. Pushing and coaxing us toward new action. Take your time to respond and not react. Venus is merged with sober Saturn and she is in a creative OPPORTUNITY aspect with Uranus. Change is our friend, but so is caution. Landing in mystical Pisces - our intuition, our dreams are very important. Pisces also tells us there is a lot going on we can't see.
The best aspect of 2025 is the sextile of Saturn/Uranus - the ancient and moder rulers of Aquarius. The old and the new WORKING TOGETHER. The chaos supporting the stability and the stability supporting the chaos. This is the background buzz until next January. Trust that the crazy/the future/even the technology (that is the hidden story at this point - what is AI doing as we mere mortals toss and turn?) is leading to something more stable. And of course, this sextile works BOTH WAYS - we get the best future when we set limits with the tech/the crazy/the change. Saturn will be out of Pisces in ONE MONTH (although he will drift back in, in September) - dad drops his margarita on the beach, rubs his eyes and says, "where the hell am I?". There's a new sheriff in town.
Bottom line - the end of this week and next week look like a WILD RIDE.
No dark alleys guys. Seriously. Slow down. This whole astro makes everyone more short-tempered and accident prone. Maybe with the T-Square to Taurus/the Earth it will be a weather event that will break this energy up. Or just as likely with Taurus ruling both common sense and common cents/money/resources - what we have and need - the Pluto/Mars opposition is set to shake up our financial system and we can see that is already happening.
Sunday night (EDT) looks kind of dicey. Everyone can be dug into positions and tempers can be short. I plan to get home early, although, of course, we bring our charts home with us :)
We are just building and building to that Mars/Pluto. The final aspect in a group of three, because it acts as a completion/conclusion - most often brings some kind of CLOSURE. Something might need to blow up for something to end.
If you have early fixed degree placements you will likely have some kind of POWER STRUGGLE building once Mars gets into Leo, and, of course, we have been here before, so this won't be a totally new story.
In our personal lives - if you are Mars here (early degree Leo) this is a culmination. You can't beat Pluto, but you can choose your response to any losses. There might be a kind of ego-death for you in whatever house/area of life this is happening - and then you will have to rebuild. Maybe from the ground up. Keep in mind if you have an early degree Leo placement - Pluto is ALREADY opposing that planet/point - Mars just comes in and ACTIVATES/triggers what is already there. You probably already know what this is. If you are Pluto in this explosive drama (early degree Aquarius) you need to step into your power. Maybe you can swat away Mars like a fly, maybe not, BUT, know there will be consequences if this 'swatting' isn't all above-board. Manipulative bullsh*t can come back to bite you, even when it works. Be smart about this. Plutonian power is very strong and must be yielded very carefully. You can be the last man standing, but then you are the LAST man standing. Also know, Mars will get past you. Know that Pluto is sticking around a while, doing his back-and-forth thing over your natal planet/point which is being TRANSFORMED via a kind of death and rebirth and this Mars opposition is part of a process.
This is more about you than anyone. How do you deal with power Aquarius? I hope well because the world needs you. The world needs all of us.
I hope something here is helpful.
I can't look at all the countries' charts, but every chart I looked at had planets/points involved - Israel (Mars on their Moon), Iran (Mars on their Jupiter, Pluto on their Mercury), UK (Mars on their Jupiter), Germany (Pluto on their Jupiter), United States (Mars on their North Node and Pluto of leader, Pluto on South Node), China (Pluto on their Moon and NN of leader), etc.
Back with the New Moon in Taurus post to see what we can learn from that!
Also transiting Uranus has just moved closer to Algol and his change of signs into Gemini in July and we are going to look at what that might mean in all of this.
xo all - please excuse any typos :)
Here are some dates and times, but really things can activate at any time once Mars gets into Leo and this is already happening anyway.
APRIL 18TH - 12:21AM EDT Mars re-enters Leo
APRIL 19TH - 3:56PM EDT Sun enters Taurus
6:53PM EDT Mars trines Neptune
APRIL 20TH - 2:20PM EDT Venus sextiles Uranus
5:39PM EDT Mercury sextiles Pluto
9:34PM EDT Sun squares Mars
(Grand Fixed Cross with Black Moon Lilith and Pluto Activated!! trapped)
APRIL 21ST - 7:31AM EDT Saturn conjuncts North Node (commitment)
APRIL 23RD - 1:10PM EDT Sun squares Pluto exact (feels like life and death challenge)
APRIL 24TH - 12:35AM EDT Venus conjuncts North Node (values/wants/resources path forward)
8:02PM EDT Venus conjuncts Saturn (values/wants/resources commitment, reality checks)
APRIL 26TH - 9:05PM EDT - MARS OPPOSES PLUTO
APRIL 27TH - 3:31PM EDT - New Moon in Taurus
MAY 2ND - Mars leaves retrograde shadow - chapter over (Venus meets Neptune in Aries, Uranus/Algol sextiles North Node)
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