Mars, Venus & the Morning-Sky Dancers
I’ve remained uncharacteristically silent during the recent and ongoing Aries in-rush of planets. Now that the Sun and Mars are each in Taurus, it seems time to share some glimpses of what’s up from behind the Sacred Mars and Venus lens. › Read more…
Birth of Mars
April 15, 2011. Today is the Birth of Mars.
For Mars to ‘birth’ means quite a number of things Mars’ Birth Phase:
….visually means that today is potentially the first time you can place your eyes on him after his conjunction with the Sun on February 4 (Mars’ Self-Conception Phase), so long as your local horizon and weather conditions grant their permission. You’ll catch him just before sunrise if you look low over your eastern horizon. For most of us, it will take longer to see him. You can thank light pollution, high horizons or your own latitude for the delay.
…orbitally means that Mars is significantly distant in his orbit from the Sun for us on Earth to see him. He’s separated enough from the Sun after conjunction to return as the symbol of our masculine drive;
…collectively means that our current masculinity is just beginning – and I mean barely out of the gate – to get our head on straight enough to know what in the worlds he/we are supposed to be doing now.
…sexually means it’s time to come out of the closet and get on with being the BEST lover and receiver of love you can possibly be. It’s time to unsheath yourself from fear, shame and stereotypes so that you can give and be given to in ways ecstatic, gorgeous and leave you wuntin’ for nuthin’.
…astrologically means that it’s time for us to act in the direction of our Desire (notice the capital ‘D’). I’m talking here about the larger Desire at the heart of your Life, not the next craving from your tummy or genitals. Desire = that portion of Universal Purpose which you are wired to be the one and only translator and activator for something tangible, something real, something personal, accomplish-able and meaningfully juicy…to you. This guarantees that the right people – the ones served by your particular brand of genius – will take notice.
Collective Crock Pot
Since 4 February, we’ve been collectively stewing in our own doingness juices. Between then and now, Mars has passaged through his Gestation Phase, still invisible to our eyes and aptly through the sign of invisibility, Pisces. This has positioned our current, cellular relationship with confusion and transcendence within a context of “hurry up and do it!” Not fun for most of us. It’s forced us to deal with not knowing, being thoroughly confounded by our own inability to clarify, and/or to puts lots of energy into non-material efforts (ie, meditation or spiritual adventures). Be not surprised if the fruits of your recent labor turn into nothing or something radically different or over-delayed. Oh, you’ll see results for sure, but they will align with your hopes if they serve something bigger (Pisces) then you are imagining.
Add to this picture a host of more popular transits – Mercury retrograding into conjunction with Mars opposite Saturn in Libra square Pluto in Capricorn, as well as the Jupiter Saturn opposition – and the lesser knowns – Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune and Chiron in the relative beginning of each of their own new Journeys, Mars contraparallel Saturn and soon Chiron – and the outlook becomes anything but organized. Every bit of your material life – each parcel of which is a holo-extrapolation of every bit of your inner life – is being put through multiple sieves simultaneously.
So one aspect of your shadow – your hidden, repressed self – may believe it got away again undetected from you and everyone else, while one facet of your light – your conscious, expressed self – may feel secure yet again in its familiar accomplishments, but what’s really happening now is that your shadow is being dragged closer to your aware self while your light self may be standing on the abyss of a terrifyingly foreign version of who you are.
As well there is so much new now, so much that we can’t put our fingers on that we simply cannot know for sure what’s “new”, what’s to “know” and what else is a flat-out “no more and not ever again.” It’s like our bodies – our gross physiologies – are in a perpetual state of catch-up with the latest upgrades to our changing lives and hurry-up-and-integrate from the most recent fall-0ut from our healing process. If we ever thought we knew what was happening, it’s time to cut the b.s. to ourselves. A full Venus cycle ago (8 years), I taught a series of workshops I called “Becoming Best Friends With Your Personal I Don’t Know”. Was that ahead of it’s time or what?
The Sky of it All
Right around the time the Birth Phase becomes the Explorations Phase (29 April – 1 May), Mars will meet up with Jupiter just inside the huge, celestial cords of the Fish constellation (Pisces).
This is like the over-serious actionaholic and the loopy “it’s all good” partier at loose at an open bar…not enough structure, contrasted styles and a beyond ability to access higher states of consciousness with little interest or no ability at remembering anything the next morning. And yet, there they, and we, are.
So begins this Journey of Mars, 4 February 2011 into 17 April 2013. This is the ARIES JOURNEY FOR OUR COLLECTIVE MASCULINE where Aries is the domain of complete consciousness through which humanity moves closer to embodying our Sacred or Divine Masculine. We will do this Journey together through Mars’ 13 Phases over the next 24 months (2 are already complete). With Mars birthing into our view now, set your intentions for how your own Sacred Masculine wants to be made more alive, more powerful, more here through you. Look at your your own masculine self and qualities; examine your relationship to ‘him’. What’s he saying or screaming or crying about? What’s he feeling? What’s he needing? What does he want to do now?
To track with the current Journeys of Mars (Aries) and Venus (Scorpio), go here >
For an article on the Journeys of Mars and Venus, go here >
For a whole lot of juicy Mars Venus resources, go here >
To get in with your own Mars and Venus phases and journeys with Adam, go here >
For the next Mars Venus Live Meditation, go here >
Mars & Venus Dancing Journeys
August Astroview
This round of the cardinal T-square will include Mars, Venus and the asteroid Vesta by the time of the New Moon in the wee morning hours of August 10. The astrology of this event strongly suggests personal effects of the more global T-square event. Mars and Venus are conjuncting for the 3rd of 4 meet-ups during this Venus Journey and, with Vesta and Saturn in the mix, this is a prime window for those devoted to both inner and outer evolution. In this potent astro-symbolism, we have the fires of our passion fueling deep change to our former social roles and responsibilities which we realize are in fact now dried-out and stale. The kind of change this complex event describes will not be taken up by many, as it would require too much release of seemingly “perfectly useful beliefs.” Yet, we do know better. If it feels that jumping ship will only land you in the terrifying unknown, look closer. That dark place is merely yourself, playing hide and seek for perhaps the last time.
Venus’ Strange ReBirth
If you were a part of the most recent Mars Venus Meditation which generated more responses – calls and emails – than any other in recent memory, this wee post will be something in addition to the info shared there. If you weren’t…well, you missed ou– oh, wait a minute, we posted it online…go there now to listen. Lucky you!
If you’re sensitive to the feminine in life, perhaps you feel the very beginnings of a re-warming going on. A better sense that things between people are juuuuust beginning to soothe out. Maybe arguments which ended things then, now become the reason for apologies or more civil convo’s. Well, believe it. Venus is now becoming visible to any locale on our planet with clear views of the western horizon. Sure, she’ll be dim but you’ll catch her if do a bit of research about where to look.
Venus’ return heralds her ReBirth Phase. It’s a time of celebration and of finding that deeper breath in the be- and relief that she never really left us at all (the Goddess that is), she just took a sabbatical in a hellacious way: her Transmutational Underworld. But now, as I write, Venus is right there with Uranus, planet of all things chaotic, futuristic, new and next. And they’re meeting up right at the RIGHT fish of the Pisces constellation. What to make of this?
We’ve got three variables here:
- Venus’ ReBirth Phase – the larger theme
- Venus with Uranus – the inner and mundane alchemical formula
- Venus/Uranus in the Fishes
Mashing them up, we see this ReBirth may not be smooth sailing, may be filled with more confusion even if we finally get the facts we’ve been waiting/searching for, and just may result in really unexpected results leaving us scratching our heads how things ended up the way they did. It will NOT be lacking, however, in originality and apparent confusion. On a larger view, Venus’ alignment with Uranus at her ReBirth blesses us with yet another injunction to prepare for the unpreparable – extra stockpiles of love, patience and understanding. And keep stuffed into pockets and be ready to whip out your ability to help out another if you’re both willing.
An altogether and not-untoward Feminine ReBirth (of ourselves) to us all!
Back from Boston
The national astrology conference (NCGR, for National Council for Geocosmic Research) in Boston was big success. My definition of success, here, not the organizers, though i’m sure they’d check the same box but for different reasons. Success, to me, because there was a palpable sense of community, of connection. BIG GRATITUDE to the organizers for their thoughtul and heartful shaping of the weekend for everyone: Madalyn, Gloria and the others whom I don’t know.
For my part, I had a new experience. I was to lecture at the last time slot on the last day, along with my colleagues in other tracks lecturing in different rooms. Yet a few hours before the lecture was to begin, I felt quite tired and ‘complete’ in terms of the weekend experience – with the banquets, dinners and Mikey Lutin’s hysterical-and-profoundly-insightful musical one evening. For this very reason, I was relieved and grateful when about 30 people still managed to make it to my lecture and sit through the whole thing. I was told people really liked it and appreciated the beauty of the slides I prepared – photorealistic images of the night sky, Mars, Venus; new info like the “Mars Flower” – the celestial pattern Mars makes with its retrograde loops; and the astronomical info about the planets themselves. One respected colleague from Chicago later complimented the lecture as being “revolutionary”. My Aquarius Mercury really liked that!
I attended the lectures of some awesome astrologers doing excellent work to illuminate both our past and our future: Gary Caton, Wendy Stacey and Christopher Renstrom.
For someone who’s been largely in a ‘professional closet’ when it comes to interacting with colleagues, the conference experience offers me something I receive nowhere else: a meaningful exchange of ideas with others speaking my language (astrology). It’s like finding the perfect beverage to quench your thirst. I feel fulfilled and supported. HIGHLY recommended for anyone working in a specialized field: make sure to spend time with colleagues to compare notes, check your thinking and offer your insights for others.
Venus’ Transmutation: Tiger loses his roar
I’m honored that my recent article for the Mountain Astrologer Blog site was responded to so well. This week’s article is by TMA’s online editor, Mary Plumb, who took inspiration from mine in crafting hers. Her piece bridges my theoretical template with excellent mundane alignments by Robert Blaschke to socially frame Tigers’ downfall as iconic American hero. Definitely recommended >
Gate is Opened
A looooong overdue post here. Thanks to everyone who’s been writing to ask about my blog (or lack thereof) since August! And welcome to the new subscribs…hope i don’t bore you too much.
GREAT news: for the first time, my 7-year and running research, writing, and teaching on the Mars and Venus cycles has been exposed to the worldwide astrological community. Check it out on The Mountain Astrologer’s blog site. It’s a piece on the Venus Journey in January…pretty amazing stuff if we consider that she’ll be ‘dying’ – radically transforming down and inward – while Mars will be ‘dying’ – or radically transcending up and outward. Equally terrifying experiences from both sides of our inner feminine-masculine fence. From the piece: “With Mars highest, brightest and visibly reddest, and Venus invisible behind the Sun, it’s time to devote to our deepest desires (red Mars) which emanate from our deepest heart (invisible Venus)”
New Venus Journey begins
Title: New Venus Journey begins (more…)
Location: Eastern horizon before sunrise
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Description: Welcome to the new Venus Journey in Aries! Each Venus Journey is the grand cycle of feminine development within us personally and collectively. We\’ll be journeying this Feminine Path together through October 2010. Click here to learn more about the Journeys of Venus and Mars >
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Date: 2009-04-02
Mars Journeys
Maybe I’ve been working with the Mars Journey too long – though I’m not sure such a thing is possible in this Goddess-infused universe, but…..may i suggest visitors to this blog NOT MISS the upcoming Jan 31 – this Saturday – Mars Journey Birth tele-celebration. Astrologer and great friend Gary Caton and I are hosting! Visit the Event Calendar for details.
New Mars Venus Partnership with Gary Caton
Great news for everyone who’s written in to let us know of your interest in the Mars Venus work. Today marks the beginning of a new partnership dreamastrologer.com Gary Caton to create the astrology world’s first-ever Personal Synodic Report for all the visible planets! Based in part on my Mars and Venus synodic work, this Report will be just the first among several more collaborations between us. The goal, in no uncertain terms, is to establish the core delineation models and interpretive basis for a re-infused astrology of the future. Details coming real soon…