A Divinatory Read on Mars’ Square to Uranus

Hey everyone, this is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology, and today, we're going to take another look at Mars's upcoming square to Uranus. Mars is in the sign of Aquarius, making a square to Uranus and Taurus this week; I'm going to pull up the Real Time Clock to show you when it's forming when you'll probably be noticing or feeling its presence, and then today, as we already looked at Mars-Uranus in a kind of archetypal vacuum, we're going to take a look at a Tarot Spread and an I-Ching reading that I did that I use in order to refine and shape my understanding of this upcoming transit and that I think you'll find interesting and useful.

I use these secondary techniques as an approach to understanding different angles of the archetype. It does not tell me what this means. When I approach the tarot, when I approach the I-Ching, I say, help me understand something about this, and maybe I'm not thinking about it already because I have a million ideas about Mars-Uranus. I've covered that transit, you know, so many times squares opposition's conjunctions, trines, etc. Seen it in transit a million times.

So, I have my set of ideas, but when you ask another Oracle, hey, help me understand this in a new way in a different way, you'll often find that the symbolism of a complimentary divinatory language will shed some new light. So that's what we're going to do today, and hopefully, this will enhance your understanding of the transit that's coming through this week. Give you some new angles to look at it through anyway before we get into it.

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Okay, well, on that note, let's now turn our attention to this Mars-Uranus transit, and then we're going to get into the readings that I did in the main, maybe one major takeaway that I got from these readings. So we have it right here as the week begins.

We've got Mars in about the three-degree range of Uranus, and what we're going to do is just gradually take this forward so you can see the aspect comes through about Saturday, March 9, into Sunday, March 10. So let's say that again, Saturday, March 9, Sunday, March 10, you're at Mars's square to Uranus, and that transit will be building all week and then give it three degrees of separation; you can take this forward to about March 14, Thursday, when the two planets are three degrees apart, which is usually the separation range, anytime, therefore, this week into next week, you could be feeling this with an epicenter around Saturday and Sunday.

So, I talked about this to start the week. But today, what I want to do is take you into one of the two of the different divinatory tools that I use to help fill out my understanding of transits. It's not that I sit down going home; what does that transit mean? It's that I want to consult other divine languages and think about, you know, how does, how is the same concept or idea of these two planets? How can it be related to a different set of symbols? That activity is fun for my brain. I absolutely love it, and to me, all that it does is shed light on some aspect or dimension of the transit that maybe I'm not; it's not at the forefront of my consciousness, either that or if it amplifies something that's already there.

That's also helpful because they'll be like, Oh, yep, My instinct is right; it's really this Tarot Spread; I did the I-Ching reading; it is really amplifying the same thing I've been thinking about, which then makes me feel a little bit more confident to go in that direction.

So it's always interesting to see what the secondary Oracles bring, right? And it's an exercise that I think if you're the kind of person who gets easily spaced out and overwhelmed, maybe it's not for you. But if you're the kind of person like me, who likes creating associative pathways between different symbolic languages that I love and that all kind of inform one another, then it's really useful most of the time for years; I have done this in the background and not necessarily exclusive. I have not explicitly shown it to you guys. But I've been doing more of that lately, so I hope you will enjoy this.

So we're talking about Mars-Uranus. Let's just refresh on some of the most basic themes. You got the planet of action, war, conflict, perseverance, challenge, action, right, Mars, meeting the planet of revolution, defiance, originality, innovation, and sudden disruptions. So that's where you get that don't suddenly rip or tear your anus. Remember, you guys remember that video when I said that randomly? Still cracks me up. But yeah, you have the sudden, like an accident or the cosmic punctuation mark that is disruptive and distinct, and maybe even kind of aggressive, or what's the word I'm looking for? Invasive. That's what I'm thinking of.

So those are the things that people get freaked out about, and I've already talked earlier this week I already talked about, you know, why I don't think we ought to be afraid and why we need to be careful of thinking that the literal language of astrology will be present in the events that mirror. So watch that first episode on Mars-Uranus this week. But anyway, those two come together; they can also create moments of defiant originality and sudden, strong actions taken on behalf of breaking the mold or breaking the pattern.

When someone says that's it, I've had it, and I'm done. I'm walking out like in Jerry Maguire. When he says who's coming with me? It's very Mars-Uranus. So think about those things that are in the air right now and the light and dark of them, and here is what I came up with on the tarot level. So, this is a story about the way I approached the tarot. It is different in different formats that I use, and in this one, I wanted to tell a story. So I said the story is going to happen in four parts. The first part is going to be about the first thing that happens in the story.

Okay, so it's like a linear story that's being told. So the first thing that happens in this Mars-Uranus story that I'm asking the tarot to show to me is the Six of Pentacles. This card can be read in a whole bunch of different ways. It can be looked at as charitable, and someone who has more giving to people that have less the providing of opportunity, or have money or have wealth, or have yeah, like charity, a kind of maybe some leveling or balancing of the karmic scales, someone who has more is giving to those who have less and is it maybe there's this is an image of virtue, on the other hand, you know, maybe this is a kind of like, someone who's taking pride in being the big person who has so much to give and look at, you know, the special opportunities I can give to you and someone who builds their ego on generosity. I mean, you could go that way feels a little, you know, most of the time when I see the six of pentacles, it's usually not about someone who's being charitable to build their ego, but it can happen.

So anyway, you have this interesting card; the story starts there. I like that for Mars-Uranus, in Aquarius and Taurus, I think, yes, this kind of progressive, action-oriented move, maybe on behalf of the underdog, feels like Mars and Aquarius square, Uranus, and Taurus, let me give to a charitable cause or something like that.

Okay, so the next card that I drew was the four cups. This is interesting because, by contrast, you can see someone who is giving generously to people who are, you know, eager to be in receipt of whatever he's giving, it looks like in their hands out and then on the other hand, you have someone who is like, not really, what do I want to say? This guy is that he's, I don't know that he's too; he may not even be aware of something that's being given to him.

So if you compare and contrast this, you get almost like a story of, I'm giving something generously, and these people are, these people are very, like aware of it and eager and happy to receive it. This guy's being given something, but he may not be able to recognize what he's being given. Or he's too proud or complacent. He's staring at what he has and not recognizing what's being given; you get the kind of sense that this guy might not he might be given something special and may think that he's better than it or not appreciate it or not see it or not recognize it, because he's so fixated on what he has, and maybe what he feels is lacking or what he feels he's owed. So really interesting, aren't these interesting pictures of what people feel that they need, or have or want or desire, what they can give, what they need, what they can receive, maybe what they're incapable of receiving, what they feel they're owed. Fascinating, right? So I thought that was interesting.

So the story continues, is again, one of the things I do is I say, Okay, let's tell a story in four parts; the first part is going to be the first part of the story. The second part is the four of cups.

So the way I started reading this, creatively, there are many ways you could read it, don't get me wrong, but I started reading this as like, someone is going to be giving something, there's the opportunity to there's, there's an opportunity to be gifted something, you could miss it because of pride or ego or arrogance, or not feeling like you want to bow down to someone, you know, it's like, sometimes it's hard to be receiving gifts from people, especially when you feel like maybe there's jealousy or resentment or you feel like you are just as capable as they are or something. There's something that is making this four of cups gentleman. He's struggling to accept what's being given and might be missing it.

Okay. The next thing that comes along is the Page of Pentacles. It's really interesting when you compare these two images, right, and I start to think, Gosh, these two images really show if the page of if the four of cups represent someone who's not able to receive what's being given, and the Page of Pentacles represents someone with initiative, a young new person with a fresh idea, I actually see these two cards is sort of similar. The four of cups might say, You know what, thanks for offering, but I'm gonna go in my own direction. I have my own project. Maybe that's foolish, right? Maybe that's foolish because maybe you're missing out on something that's been given because you think you can do it alone or you should go your own way.

But on the other hand, maybe you're sitting there and going, Yeah, I mean, it's a nice thing that's being offered. But I don't know; I think I want to strike out on my own. Do you see how you start to get the Mars-Uranus feeling from this, when something's being given very Uranus and Jupiter and Taurus, by the way, some resources available to and you deny it out of pride, complacency, ego, and a sort of false place sense of needing to be sovereign and independent. You could miss what's being given and go off on your own, and then does it work out or not? You know, maybe not.

On the other hand, maybe you take a hard look at what's being given, and even though it is a gift being given, you say, No, it's too important that I have some freedom that I'd be able to go in my own way. Right. There's the that's interesting. You're really getting right into the heart of Mars-Uranus, where questions with separation and independence and individuation and revolution are very important.

Of course. Uranus in Taurus Jupiter kind of close by could be offering or providing some kind of meaningful, valuable resource, and then the question of independence relative to what's being given comes up, you know, do I want to enter into something where I'm beholden to someone else, karmically energetically, am I being so arrogant and independent, that I'm missing an opportunity and then the final card is the Wheel of Fortune.

This, to me, suggests that there is likely this story; as I read it now with this as the final card, it sort of suggests that, again, think about the resources and opportunities available and you're evaluating them, you're either receiving them or taking them, it could generate a kind of complacency or an inability to see the opportunity for what it is, and you could miss it.

Because you get too hyper-independent and filled with hubris and thinking, Well, I can do this all on my own, I don't need that, and what happens, the Wheel of Fortune turns, takes you off in your own course, and it could be that I mean, the Wheel of Fortune is really such an ambiguous card in some ways, let's just read it negatively and say, the Wheel of Fortune turns, and you miss an opportunity, you miss an opportunity because of, you know, pride, and, you know, not being able to accept something positive when it's being offered.

On the other hand, the Wheel of Fortune turns, and it takes you into this new space in your life where you're more of the creative master of your own destiny. You know, it's sort of like, I could see the sequence of cards coming up when someone gets a promotion. But it's going to come with more work and responsibility, and you go, you know what, thanks. But no, thanks, I'm going to start my own company.

Okay, on the other hand, it could be that an opportunity comes up, and you think, well, this is too slow, I should have more available to me quicker, there should be more of an opportunity, I deserve more, and so you go off your own way, you pass up the opportunity, and you try to do things on your own, and you fail, you fail, because you should have taken a little bit of help, you should have taken a little bit of help and more been more patient to receive what's being given and to grow, and mature and develop over time into what you think you are worth or being in receipt of what you think you're owed, or do or capable of. Right.

So it's really an interesting sequence, and it gets right to the heart of one of the main things about Mars-Uranus, which is the desire to do things on our own. I want to be independent. That's the Mars-Uranus theme through and through, I want to do things without anybody's help. Or I want to do things quickly and without any help to my own detriment.

So you see how the card sequence kind of mirrors that dimension of individuation. It's like, you know when you're parenting, there are times when you have to step out, you're trying to help your kid, and I don't want your help. You go, Okay, no problem. You let them go. They fall on their face, they turn to you, and they realize instantly they should have taken that help. On the other hand, there are many situations in which it's exactly the opposite. I don't want your help. Okay, I'm sorry, I'll step back, and they do it, and they prove to you I can do this on my own. But you see how it's a fine line, and I don't know if there's a right or wrong. I don't know if we can even discern when it's the right time to learn. Either way, don't wait.

Isn't that an interesting thing to think about, though? Right now, it is like what opportunities are in front of us, which require patience, which are good opportunities, but ones that may require us to be a little bit humble. On the other hand, what are the opportunities in front of us to step out on our own in more bold or more daring ways? The I-Ching reading that I did came back with no lines changing hexagram 46. I'm gonna read to you a little bit about Hexagram 46 Because it's so interesting. It is sometimes called pushing upward. The word in Chinese, I believe, is Shang, and I'm not sure if I pronounced that correctly, probably not. The trigrams there are six lines in an I-Ching hexagram, and the trigrams are actually known. I'll bring it up so you can see because it's kind of neat. Here, I'm going to bring up a blank document, and I'm going to draw what the lines look like.
Okay, here we go. So the lines look like this. If I can, No, here we go. Blue bit lines.

Okay, so the lines look like this, and the hexagram is broken and solid; sorry, my lines are a little crooked, solid, and then three broken. So that hexagram ends up lower hexagram is the three lines on the bottom. Sorry, it's kind of messy, but it gets the point across.

All right, so now the broken lines are considered Yin, right, and the young lines are solid, and so you have the singular and the dual, the one and the many reflected in the lines. So here is what we have when you have three broken lines on top that represent Earth. So you have Earth above, and the bottom trigram is called wind or wood. So when we have wind or wood beneath Earth, it's sometimes called the gentle, and the upper trigram is called the receptive; you have the image of wood pushing up gently through Earth, which is why we have the name of the hexagram, pushing upward.

So here's the reading that I like, and this is Richard Wilhelm saying the lower trigram soon represents wood and the upper Khun means Earth, and again, please excuse my pronunciation, linked with this idea, linked with this is the idea that wood in the Earth grows upward. So that is what this hexagram, although it is connected with success, is associated with the effort of the will in slow, moderate, slow, moderate efforts that lead to gradual pushing upward and success in progress. The emphasis is on expansion pushing upward, indicating a rather vertical ascent or direct rise from obscurity and loneliness to power and influence.

So, do you see how when we pair this with the Tarot reading, we get a similar image of someone who wants to push up from a lowly position to a more powerful one in the story we have that I told with the tarot? We have the beginning of someone in a high position with money given to people in a low position. The next card shows someone who's dissatisfied with a gift that's been given from above, which may suggest hubris and may suggest that someone wants to push upward to be in a prominent position.

Okay, then we had the Page of Pentacles, perhaps representing that person who's going to go and try to become the successful, the successful person, they're going to start a business that they're going to take off on their own, and then we have the final outcome, the Wheel of Fortune, which could indicate, depending on how this goes, you know, depending on the intentions, it can, it can get indicate, you know, rise a fortune or fall a fortune. If someone is trying to push upward from some kind of lower position, whether that's knowledge or wealth or power, or status, and they try to push upward because they want to be equal to those on top, and there's a kind of hubris and pride and ego involved. Likely, we're talking about the beginning of a cycle or activities that will lead to some kind of downfall or less than about hubris.

On the other hand, if the person is taking the initiative and saying, I'm going to grow and build something, and I'm going to, we're going to do something more independently. There's an individual, maybe entrepreneurial instinct, that's leading the way and saying thank you. But I think I'm gonna go in a different direction, and there's no pride, there's a kind of self-led conviction and modesty, then maybe they reach success, and that's what this hexagram is all about. Let me read you more.

So remember that the hexagram starts off by saying that when you push upward, using your willpower, but with a kind of moderate humble attitude, you reach success. Pushing upward has supreme success; one must see great people. So that would be like, model your effort and your will after people have great virtue. Fear not, and don't be afraid to do something on your own. If it's the time to do it, and you're modeling your efforts on virtuous, humble examples, then you have nothing to fear of going on your own.

Anyway, it goes on to say that pushing upward of the good elements encounters no obstruction and is therefore accompanied by great success. But remember, it's the pushing upward of good elements. There's a difference between the person who says; I'm going to pass up an opportunity that's been given to me from heaven to empower me from the gods to empower me, because I think I deserve more quickly, or something like that, okay, be careful, pushing upward as made possible not by violence, but by modesty and adaptability. Since the individual is born alone with the propitiousness of the time, he advances; he must go see virtuous people; he can't be afraid to do this because success is a shirt.

So, asking for help is also a part of this hexagram. Look, go see people who have influence, power, and ability, who are also virtuous, and if you need to ask them for help, ask for help. But don't be demanding. Don't be pushy, don't be. Don't expect that if you're not given everything you think you need right away. That means that you should just burn bridges and go off on your own. I mean, so there's a lot of advice here about will and ambition, and let's see here. Within the Earth, wood grows the image of pushing upward. Thus, the superior person has devoted character and heaps up small efforts in order to achieve something high and great. Adapting to obstacles and bending around them, wood in the Earth grows upward without haste and without rest. But almost imperceptibly, you don't just see a bamboo stock shoot up in five minutes. That's to say, the superior person is devoted in character, and this never pauses in progress. Isn't that interesting? I love these kinds of things, guys; they really helped me think about the archetypes at a deep level.

Do I know that Mars-Uranus has a lot to do with individuation, individual effort, willpower, and sometimes a kind of frustrated, arrogant lashing out because you feel like you are more and should be in a better place? Or no, I knew all of that stuff. But isn't it amazing to see the way the tarot tells the story? And the way that the I-Ching does? Yeah. So what does? What does it look like when we feel like, Oh, I could be doing more, I could be achieving more, I could have more. I want to grow in a certain direction, and what does it look like to go in that direction with, you know, a certain kind of humility, modesty, and virtue? And what does it look like to have to be, you know, to be humble? I mean, you know, I'm not someone who's like, you know, you should start off scrubbing dishes in a kitchen for 30 years before you get an opportunity to, you know what I mean?

It's like, I don't have to be that extreme. But isn't it true, though, that along the way, I mean, let me just tell you, when I first started doing astrology readings, there were several years in which, you know, I literally had to take any and every type of situation that came my way. I worked some birthday parties with people who were disrespectful and drunk and learned from those opportunities. That paycheck was a paycheck, but also that in time, I hoped that I wouldn't have to do certain things like that, you know, and I didn't.

But I had a teacher say when I really griped about it early on, that said Look, any opportunity is a good one for an astrologer. You learn about people, you learn about charts, and you learn about them in different settings, and I was in a kind of self-righteous complaining mood because I didn't like working at this particular birthday party; I had to work out, you know what I mean? And you've I'm sure all of you out there know exactly what I'm talking about. Not that that's exactly what Mars-Uranus is about here, but it is about that fine line between pushing forward and doing so modestly and understanding that you have to be adaptable if you're going to grow into something lasting, strong, virtuous, and spiritually solid, you know.

So anyway, I think some good teachings are available to us in this, and I hope this was enjoyable for you guys. It's just another way of looking at the same symbols that we started off the week looking at. I'm gonna leave it here.

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