Astro-Therapy: Time to start moving!

This week is a big one. Action-oriented Mars — ruler of Aries, the cardinal fire sign that marks the beginning of the zodiacal year — enters Aries on the 9th, where it rules And when Mars is home, he hits the ground running, and With this, the only planet left in the mysterious waters of Pisces is Mercury, the messenger of the gods — and he exits his post-retrograde shadow on the same day! The fog lifts, though it's still in pisces where the message remains elusive.  But If you've been confused, second-guessing yourself, or struggling to find the words — clarity is slowly returning. What you couldn't articulate before may find its voice soon. 

As we have a stellium (5 planets) in Aries, this week, is the moment to stop processing and start moving!

The cosmic lovers: Venus and Mars are both in rulership (as of the 9th)—  governing the full spectrum of human experience, from love and sex on an individual level to diplomacy and war on the world stage. Both operating at full power simultaneously. In healing terms, this is the sacred masculine and sacred feminine in authority — desire and receptivity, action and harmony, in balance and restored. 

But the bigger picture is even bigger: 

All planets are direct through May 6th. The Sun exalted in Aries. Jupiter exalted in Cancer... so Four planets in dignity. This is the kind of astrology that comes around rarely — and the collective feels it even without knowing why.

And the 9 activates the recent Saturn-Neptune conjunction at 0° Aries — the signature transit of our time: where Dreams materialize, reinventing Identity. The boundary between vision and reality is thinning until what you imagined becomes what you build. This is destiny aligning: so Start the project. Make the call. Launch. Reach out... Take the first step, ride this cosmic wave! 

With Mars this energy is rushing us before it even arrives, but by the 13 it meets with the fog of Neptune, where we wanna go, go, go, yet we lost the north, so we don't know where to, and the energy of momentum gets momentarily derailed. 

On the 17 we have the New Moon in Aries, is a seed of manifestation of all things Aries that will emerge in the next 6 months, but it's conjuct Chiron, the wounded planet, where we will be insecure, and uber sensitive, and a wounded warrior has a harder time fighting. So for now, leave you issues for a later time...

By the 19 Mars meets with Saturn, where we get a big stop sign... as we have a foot on the gas, the other one hits the brakes at the same time, so we're slowed down to get clear in our intentions, and the question is: what do with all this horsepower when we lost the direction? this is a cosmic re-routing.

Mars is the warrior, and the highest expression of his vibration is the hero, the capacity to make something happen, to building something that makes a difference, but the lowest manifestation is it's total opposite: anger, aggression and the destruction principle, hence the name: the lesser malefic. 

Mars encompass What in psychology we call the Eros and Tanatos!  the creative principle vs. the destructive principle, they are 2 side of the same coin, like the yin and yang of that TAO.

But why people often gravitate to the later when they want the former? 

Because Thanatos is easier.

Eros requires vulnerability. It asks you to create, to risk, to invest yourself in something that might fail, to love something enough to build, and stick with it. Eros is then exposed, it can be rejected. Eros demands that you show up fully and that takes courage!

Thanatos requires nothing except reaction. Destruction is always available. Rage is always available. Tearing down, criticizing, abandoning, self-sabotaging — these are all Thanatos dressed up as action. They feel like movement but they consume rather than create. 

The psychological trap: When Eros is blocked — creative energy has nowhere to go, so passion has no outlet, when purpose feels out of reach — that same life force doesn't disappear. It inverts. It becomes Thanatos. 

The same intensity that would have built something magnificent destroys instead. This is why the most passionate people can also be destructive when blocked.

The creative principle vs. the destructive principle, are 2 side of the same coin, like the yin and yang of the TAO. Freud understood this as a fundamental human tension — not good versus evil, but the Life drive versus the Death drive. 

The cruel irony is that often Thanatos can disguises itself as Eros:

• Obsessive relationships, it can feel like love but are really destruction of love and freedom.

• Workaholism that feels like purpose but is really self-erasure.

• Anger that feels righteous, is really dressed up grief that hasn't been acknowledge and addressed. 

So how to elevate this energy to its highest manifestation to offset the lowest expression of its vibration? 

The key during this times is to channel this energy into your mission, and focus on what I call the PPP: your passion, your purpose and your progress. 

The Mars lesson: Mars doesn't care which way the energy flows — he just aims whichtever direction you point him to. the Hero or the destroyer. The Builder or the arsonist. It's The same fire, so let's take advantage of it:

Which is exactly why having a mission — your PPP — is not just motivational, it's intentional: It's protective. It gives Eros a destination. And when Eros has a destination Thanatos has nothing to invert into... unless someone gets in your way! lol

So put on that superhero cape, and tell me later.

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