Mars and Pluto will oppose each other for the rest of the year. This energy is inordinately powerful, for good or ill.
I was stunned when I saw the chart of the new moon in Scorpio on November 1st. Like, what kind of fresh hell is this? Scorpio is co-ruled by Mars and Pluto. On the day of the new moon, the planets are exactly opposed at 29 degrees, which is skittish in it’s own right.
I felt unnerved, as I mentioned in the thread. It’s just a fine point in time, shown there, but I’ve had a chance to think this over. I know see the opportunity here. I want to lay this out.
It begins with my premise, the rest of this year is taut… it’s fraught with pain and danger and disabling fear. I am not into any of that, so of course, I look for an out.
The Jupiter Saturn square helps here. You can work to stay above it all; pressure yourself to maintain a positive perspective. But it’s not quite enough. It’s leaves this very dangerous energy to operate off-the-chain. The mind pictures this brings up for me are not good. I realized it’s better to get involved.
At first I thought this energy might be used to not get triggered. Mars Pluto, triggers, for sure. But these are Cardinal signs and Mars in particular, represents, YOU. What if you tapped your deep internal power and took control of your own impulses? An extreme (Pluto) boundary (Capricorn) of sorts. Extreme self-control?
Choosing a focus like this can channel the energy in a positive way… and literally prevent it from manifesting in a way that’s destructive, I think. This is something I learned in astrology, early one, but it can’t be verified. Proving a negative?
I continued to mull this and realized “trigger” has a very broad definition. For example, a person is triggered to overeat? What if you were to choose one (or more) of your harmful, self-defeating behaviors and use this energy to cut it out of your life?
You may very well be successful, but also consider the “collateral benefit”. You won’t be out there, stabbing people. You won’t be raging around, flying off the handle and such, because you’re applying all the energy in way that heals.
This is what I am going to do. It will leave me no time for election rage and hate of “the other”. No time to seethe. No time to project my shadow on the poor scapegoat.
This is going to be my Mars Pluto anthem. Oh, hell yeah!
I’ll wrap this up with a weird anecdote; something that captured my imagination. I have a friend who does not eat chocolate. She is not allergic to it. She simply vowed to never eat it again, when in her 20’s. She’s in her 60’s now and dying of dementia; point being she kept this vow.
She does not disclose why she made the vow in the first place; she has a Scorpio moon, so hey. None of your business. But I’ll tell you what I think it was.
I think she LOVED chocolate. Like it was her favorite food. I think she gave it up for some type of penance, perhaps having to do with her marriage. She’s been married all these years.
I don’t know, but when I think of her, I know these things can be done, so I offering you her story.
What do you think? What do you KNOW you need to do? What if you quite screwing around and did the damned thing?
Full moon is in my 6th house – I did a major diet detox this week – tomorrow is the last day, so yep used this energy to do it because I’ve been down on myself for the last year for gaining so much weight (for my frame).
Mars/Pluto is in 9th/3rd though
This is definitely what I intend to do. I’ve really closed myself off these past sixteen years. It’s weird, but it’s almost like (and this is a metaphor, I’ve never done and do not do drugs, not even pot) if one picked up an addiction to cope with being abused and at the end, the addiction is actually the bigger problem (thanks, Pluto!). It has been TOUGH. I know we have all felt it in one way or another, and I hope all of us can open our hearts fully to life again. I have done my best to do that the entire time, but I have certainly not always been successful.
I lost 65 lbs with in the last 5 years and put 30 back on. Going to try again.. geez. Up until now I have been very calm during this election year. The anxiety is starting to get to me. I have had life threatening statements made to me because of my politics. Never in my almost 69 years have I felt fearful about expressing my views before. Our country has gone crazy.
Channeling this into focusing completely on myself. I’m pregnant for the first time ever and completely absorbed in what my new world is going to be like. Been waiting on/ facilitating an over haul.. switched out a career I had long outgrown, my relationship leveled up, stripped everything in my life down to the studs essentially. In what felt like a week. And now it makes sense. I get what I’ve been waiting for.
Hearty congrats! I’m happy for you!
Thanks, Elsa. 😊 me too
Hi Elsa,
A couple of notes, I literally thought of this about a week ago and made a decision to start changing the way I react to certain situations regarding my children. You know me, the boss at home and at work. I suddenly saw the disfavor I was doing to them and I made a decision to change this and see what came of it. I love controlling everything and I need to stop doing it. I recently read something a priest said, “a good scare is fun when it’s in the right context, but to scar is completely different.” I want to scare sometimes, give good advice, words of wisdom, but I certainly don’t want to scar. And with the changing world and how people take such offense at things, I don’t want to scar anyone. I have a grandchild now and I don’t want her growing up thinking I am a scary grandma and be scarred by this, both she and I. I love this blog post so much, it takes a lot of gumption to write so honestly and with good intent as you do. You are doing the right thing in your writing. I keep repeating it because it is so important. To take a good look at oneself and see where one can improve and evolve is challenging. In a new age kind of way, or in a spiritual leaning towards who is it that I become in this life? If God brought me into this world, what am I to be? Your life will let you know and one needs to pay attention. It takes a few years to get into it, that is why we scramble for so long, like kittens. My value is not determined by my accomplishments or people’s opinions. My value is what God really wants from me and I see where I am needed and where I do my best. I find my comfort in the most unexpected places. Thank you Elsa!
Thank you, Dena! I appreciate the encouragement.
Great article.
Thank you!
I was planning on this Scorpio new moon to focus on doing some really hard things for myself. My solar return ascendant for 2024 is 10 degrees Scorpio so I had been planning on this. It is one of the hardest years of my life with outer planets kicking my ass. Saturn is stationing on my natal IC, Uranus is opposing my natal ascendant, Neptune is trining my ascendant and Pluto is sextiling it. The north node is on my natal mars/venus opposing my natal moon, bye-bye to the family I grew up in. I am pregnant. My progressed moon is on my natal mars right now and I’m excited for it to move on to my Venus in a couple of months. I’m hoping the fighting dissipates because I think this kid is gonna be born with boxing gloves on. I feel alone and overwhelmed. I’m hoping this scorpio new moon helps me attend to matters that have been really hard for me. If not I’m screwed. I have my sun square my Jupiter Uranus conjunction in Sagittarius and usually I always have hope, lol probably too much. Right now not so much, I feel like a dammit doll that the universe is using to beat out its frustration. It feels like the world is done with me.
Congrats Liz, Best part of your life on the way and Opalina
I’m around a lot of young people they seldom understand sugar is inflammatory and can make their tissues swell. Make them feel like they’re gaining weight. They’re not look to the anti-inflammatory foods hummus is a life changer. It has great protein and fiber you need fat with it avocados I try to tell the kids only fast, it’s not so much about not eating certain foods as it is adding more foods of color into your diet. I listen to a man one time say how you needed a combination of 47 different fruits and vegetables each week and I thought that’s near impossible and then I remembered Herbs spices they were plants good luck Day?. I think the rest will speak for itself 16 hours and we really commit to five colors every three hours you’re chewing something and I really believe people aren’t hungry as they need to chew to take the stress out of their life and relax , I’m big on pumpkin seeds have melatonin, tryptophan, serotonin and dopamine so I believe chewing takes stress away adding color shed pounds. Good luck. And thanks Elsa for the music that’s what makes my day a good day sound I got a tune out anything that doesn’t fit in my hula hoop I guess as you get older or I think it gets so darn easy cause you don’t have to let things affect you and you don’t have to comment Smile and wave guys
“Smile and wave”.
Such good advice. Thank you!
Thanks, Raerae 😊
Right now I am feeling this acutely: social situations coming up that I have to attend, where I have to eat. I don’t want to see people, I don’t want to eat. I want to be alone. Is that Mars in Cancer opposite Pluto in Capricorn or what?
I am seething with this right now, trying to use your insights to leverage my way out of this nutcracker. Thank you for identifying the energy!
I have Pluto opposite Mars in my chart (by 2 degrees). I’ve spent a lifetime learning that this powerful energy is optimal ‘when directed’ and way more unpredictable if left to be ‘triggered’. Much easier said than done… which is why it’s been a life-long lesson.
You’re a hero with your Mars. No flattery. I’ve see this so many times! And I still owe one of your peeps that consultation!
I’ve been playing the hero in my own life lately! Been using this energy- along with the last year’s eclipse cycle (Aries rules my 6th house) to quit my addiction to alcohol. It’s been a very healing process.
I’ll check in with my peeps on that consult. 🙂
What could be negative manifestations of natal mars 7th pluto 1st opposition?
Right here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZHYoj4S7zk
On top of the transiting Pluto Mars in my chart Mars conjuncts my Uranus and thus squares my Neptune.
And transiting Pluto also squares my Neptune.
Hell when I do ‘nothing’ I feel less if even the positive transits so might I be lucky by just doing very little?
Taureans can freeze themselves into mere moments in time when we want to.
lol.
Everything just seems the same to me.
I pull myself away from the disagreeable.
It’s stressless.
I do whatever needs be done then I hover the hell outta there
I am nit sure if it’s what you’re talking about, Elsa, but what popped up for me was, I was in my early 20’s, trying to stop smoking. I’d get it down to 1 a day (morning coffee ritual), then, well…
It wasn’t working.
But one evening I was sitting at a bar waiting for a friend. Looking down the bar, there was a line of — pure coincidence– awkward & unattractive people (me, judgmental?? 🤣). It flashed into my mind, sympathetically, Oh! They’re all smoking a cigarette because they feel so awkward & they’re trying to look cool.
And then I thought, Oh, and so are ***you!
And I never smoked again– once I got my own motivation clear, there wasnt any energy there to drive the impulse to smoke
This is excellent. Thank you!
The new moon will be in my 6th house and the Mars Pluto opposition from houses 2/8.
I have two storage units full to the bursting point that need to be sorted, curated and sold off. That’s one big project.
I’ve been wanting to detox/cleanse for a while and start skating/ballet again. To stick to a concrete schedule. Quite simply, I want my body back.
My finances are steady now thanks to student loans (I’m in grad school) and because of that I can really focus on my own art business instead of working like a slave for someone else. I’m sooo done with the service industry. That was a hard shackle to shake.
I’m single for the first time in ages too and don’t have the responsibility of a relationship to distract me from these goals.
Mars will trine my Scorpio planets, and Pisces Moon while Pluto is still trining natal Pluto. All the tools and the power is there. The only wild card is Uranus across from my Scorpio, for eternity.
My SR in January is a trip for sure.
Thank you Elsa for sorting this out for us and providing a roadmap.
I was really wondering what the eff to do with this. Now I have a plan to be unavailable if someone around me goes postal.
I had been hoping you would find a way to put a positive spin on this as I have heart surgery on Oct. 31st.
Thanks, Elsa!
Well that is perfect, actually. Cut (Mars) to heal (Pluto).
Good luck honey I’m sure it will work out just fine 🙏💗🙏
So happy/relieved!
Pluto right on my Ascendant has triggered me in an extraordinary way. I’ve felt literally, compulsively, bursting out of my skin compelled to announce to several of his associations that my previous incarnation was the author Conan Doyle. ( I was told this long ago but wasn’t interested.) He died 1930 and I appeared on earth 1943. I even wrote to the spiritualist church where he laid the foundation stone for their church not fifty miles from where he would eventually be reborn. They sent me a nice email and said they’d put my communication with the records of the church–perhaps humouring me I don’t know. Also, suddenly I’m agorophobic. Just need to be quiet, still, stay in my pyjamas. Staying calm has been my hobby since retirement 20 years ago. Sheeesh! I’m a nutcase.
I’m loving this Mars/Pluto stuff – at least for now. I feel super-charged, energetic and ready to tackle what I call the ‘awfulizing’ or putting off of dreaded tasks, such as clearing out, organizing and cleaning. My apartment has never been cleaner or better organized. I cleaned and organized my cluttered garage. I’ve detailed my daughter’s old car and defrosted her standing freezer. lol. I’ve run out of things to do and am actively looking around for something else to dig into.
Im feeling scatter-brained – New Moon will be in my 12th(with Neptune) and the Mars-Pluto will be 8th opposite 2nd (natal Moon). Not feeling keen on this.
I’m unsure how to even read this.
Anybody have any thoughts off the top of their intuitive heads? Could certainly use insight.
I have had a lot of SR’s with Mars square Pluto. It was about every second year or so.
Every time it came up, I was assaulted professionally (Pluto in Cap in my 12th) so it was all about being powerless and being attacked by either female bosses (Natal Pluto in Venus-ruled Libra) or jealous people. This summer was nothing different, when Mars in Gemini, late August, made a mess of my mother in law.
I have this opposition transit now on the cusp of my 1 degree Aquarius ascendant, and with Mars crossing over my 6th/7th house. It will be… Challenging, I guess. My partner and I went through a crisis ever since The Mother attack, and we could not see eye to eye.
Today it was finally resolved, and by some freak streak, my partner relented, seeing the truth for the first time.
Me? I was so.. DONE. I was so ready to call it quits. (Sun transitting my Saturn/Pluto conjunction in Libra, the point in my chart of “Relationship Endings and spiritual sh*t”)
And, then, I was suddenly seen, my POV acknowledged.
Never happened before in a relationship, especially not in a significant transit like Pluto squaring itself and my squaring my partners Moon/Pluto conjunction.
Saturn tranits my antivertex, showing people and relationships that are working or not working. Meaning: of they don’t change or can’t change, they will show it, and thus – it can be released.
I was aware of this.
But apparently my partner and I is meant to build something together, because we keep going through these passages of sh*t transits, and yet – we manage to work through our issues somehow. Bloody beats me, huh!
Im trying to figure out how to use this energy and not have a melt down.. i live in an addiction recovery home… with 13 other women.. its a delicate dance most days no matter what.. so the thought of power struggles backhanded fights and all that kinda makes me want to RUN.. but I cant because, I need this time to recover my life.. I am new to astrology and Im not sure I understand how to use this correctly.. HELP
Post your chart in the forum, someone will help. You sound quite sophisticated. You’ll be all right!
Funny, im addicted to meat like most and yesterday decided im done with it i just can’t keep destroying myself with the pleasure i am obsessed with what im going to eat all day i want to feel clean
Welcome, Hazel,
Mars (NN 6th) Pluto (SN 12th) opposition exactly on my nodes.
Welcome!
Yea Am learning a new job going out and about in community and the trainer is nice and fun but at same time can be a bit negative and bullyish. I am using my strength and my faith in God to not be taken over/controlled by this. Mars 9th /Pluto 3rd