Mars in Taurus Squares Pluto in Aquarius: 5 Things to Watch For

Hey everyone, this is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology Happy Monday everyone. Today we are off to the races because this week starts with Mars squaring Pluto, which is an incredibly dynamic, very powerful often explosive transit in fact, but one that can create change and can can push us where we need to be pushed. So, a lot to explore with this one.

Today, we're going to take a look at it. And I'm going to give you a list of five things to watch for, given the archetypal combination. There's a lot of other stuff this week that I'm looking forward to as well. So, I'll talk a little bit more about the other astronomy of the week here at the outset of today's video content to give you a sense of where we're going as the week goes on.

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Again, if you stick around after today's content, you can learn more about it. Okay, on that note, you can see Hilda behind me. I think you can see her. She's passed out, in case you're wondering if it looks like there is a dead deer on my carpet. No, that's till then. She's just she's sleeping. Let's look at, um, it's a particularly morbid thought given Mars is squaring Pluto; I guess it's appropriate. So, let's look at this aspect. Here we have Monday, June 10. You can see that Mars has entered the sign of Taurus and is moving into the square with Pluto in Aquarius.

If I move this forward, one day, you will see that by tomorrow, June 11, Mars will be just passing through the square. And if we speed this up a little bit, we'll get all the way till about Saturday, June 15, before Mars is out of the three-degree range of the square to Pluto. So, if we wanted to put a timeline on this for this week, you might have been feeling this come in over the weekend, especially since yesterday when Mars entered Taurus. That's June 9, June 10, and 11th. Certainly, the most intense days, and then 12 1314, maybe even into the 15th a little bit, you're still getting the sort of, you know, the sort of afterglow or the sort of slow separation of the transits. You're still feeling it as the week goes on. Anyway, some other things happening this week that I think are worth mentioning.

One is that we're going to as the week goes on, we will have a Mercury Saturn square. And then Mercury will be at the heart of the sun on Friday. And then very shortly after that, we're going to see by next week, Venus and Mercury conjoined in early cancer. So, some interesting trends are coming up. So those are some of the things we'll be exploring as the week goes on. All right, let's go ahead and get into our list of things to watch for or so. Within this list, I think the most important thing to understand is that we are dealing with the fundamental archetypal combination of Mars and Pluto. But we're also dealing specifically with Mars and Venus ruled sign in Taurus. And that matters because the difficulty that Mars has in Taurus comes down to the tension between Venus and Mars. When Mars is in the sign of Taurus, it is in one of Venus's domiciles.

When Mars is placed in either Libra or Taurus, it struggles. The reason that it struggles is because you have Mars, who is assertive, aggressive, and competitive, often surrounded by conflict and requires perseverance and sacrifice. Those are Mars themes that are not exactly in line with the values of a sign like Taurus-Venus ruled sign that privileges peace, ease, flow, sensual gratification, stability, harmony, and a kind of earthy, sensual, luxurious quality.

So it's just not that there aren't any beautiful or interesting significations for Mars and Taurus; it's just that there is a natural kind of tension built into Mars with this placement in the sign. So once we understand that, and there's a phrase that I'm using down this list, which is the bull in the china shop, you've heard astrologers use this for as long as I've been doing astrology with Mars in Taurus. And it's true; there's something about Mars that is more blunt and rude. And sort of, it doesn't always make for an easy experience when Mars is in Taurus, so we have to keep that in mind. And then, of course, Mars is in a square. Squares are of the nature of Mars, so we add a little bit more Marsy ness to the situation, and then it's squaring Pluto and Aquarius.

So we're going to look at these five things. This list of five things to watch for is generally speaking applicable to all Mars-Pluto interactions, especially the squares ' opposites and conjunctions. But this list also has we there are some specifics here that have to do with the placement of Mars and Taurus and Pluto in Aquarius.

So, let's go ahead and move down the list. Number one is moving heaven and Earth. When Pluto in Aquarius meets up with Mars, one of the things that happens well during any Pluto-Mars dynamic is the the kind of explosion of willpower and action when Mars hits Pluto, the power of the will and the drive the driver urge to act and do and accomplish and assert becomes really terrific. I mean, you're talking about it's like a very particular and strong kind of fuel for Mars. If Mars wants to accomplish something, Pluto gives it this kind of primordial power and force to go and get it done.

However, if there's a conflict, it also feels sort of primordial and very charged and very intense. If there is a purgation, explosion, destruction, conflict, and hostility, it all can take on a quality of such tremendous depth and power because Mars is being so intensified by Pluto. And that's true for all Mars-Pluto dynamics. I use the phrase moving Heaven and Earth because Mars and Taurus, at their best, want to move Earth for the sake of something Venusian: peace, beauty, enjoyment, luxury, wealth, a sense of security, and comfort, and Mars in it's kind of funny, because, you know, again, this is this goes back to the tension of Mars in a Venus-ruled sign. Mars will sort of act and compete and will make its way to the creation of those Venusian values. It's like a bulldozer that's going to come in and move the Earth in order to create the space to build the garden. As someone you guys know, over the past couple of years, you supported us in building a community herbal medicine garden. We've been hosting free events, and I remember when, you know, little Bobcats came in to clear the space, and then they built the garden in it. That's it. That's Mars and Taurus. Mars and Taurus. At its best, it is like I will, I will use energy and will and force and power to move Earth around for the sake of achieving something that is ultimately Venusian, but I'll sort of work on behalf of that kind of thing. My grandfather had Mars in Taurus and Jupiter in Taurus as well. And he was, uh, he had some rank in the military. I forget exactly what his rank was or whatever, but when he came back from the military, most of his career was spent in land development. And he had his own lady about 100 acres.

He had kept an apple orchard and a Christmas tree farm, and he kept bees. He was able to find artesian wells, tap them, and build ponds. Like he was just such a mover on Earth. And you could tell everything he wanted to create was sort of beautiful and Taurean. But, like that man was basically an attractor. He was basically just just like a little, a little tractor chugging around. And so it was funny because, to me, he was never a person that felt peaceful. It never felt as luxurious as the land that he developed felt, you know, as a place that I went as a kid, his land and his Christmas tree farm and there's a pumpkin patch, and like all this stuff, and like, I, I never felt like he resembled the piece that the land did, even though he built all of that, you know, so it's very Mars and Taurus. But where does the vision come from? Mars and Taurus might be the tractor or the bulldozer, and it might be the literal moving of rocks and Earth and the shifting of forms in time and space to match a vision of beauty. But it gets the layout, it gets the vision from Pluto and Aquarius, Pluto and Aquarius are Olympian, and it has the sense of the blueprints laid out on the table of the gods, somewhere high and far away. In a place where the ideal triangles were first forged in the mind of God, right? That's Pluto and Aquarius. And there's some crazy stuff up there, too.

You know, there are all the ancient alien shows that exist in that territory. So Mayan calendars, the I-Ching astrology, it's all these massive paradigms of time and space, musical theory, you know, that that realm of abstract systems of wisdom and understanding physics, you know, this is in a sense Aquarian. So when Pluto and Mars and Taurus get in touch with Pluto and Aquarius, the idea is that we're trying to take some kind of heavenly vision a sort of paradigmatic ideal or idea, especially one that we consider to be progressive or lofty or, you know, again, sort of like Olympian this is, this takes us to a better place than we are currently. This is the next thing, and it comes down, and the plans are delivered to the guy in the bulldozer, Mars and Taurus, who says, Okay, let's move some stuff around. So that's one way of looking at this Mars-Pluto dynamic.

Number two is the bull in the china shop. This is where the China shop is when I think of a place that sells it; by the way, is it offensive to say China shop anymore? I don't. I just thought of that. I guess my understanding is that the reason that people say they have fine china as a phrase is because the first porcelain, a lot of it came from China, is that I don't know. But anyway, if that's an offensive thing, forgive me. I don't know if that said anymore.

Anyway, that fine dinnerware that you have or whatever if you think of a shop that has nothing but fine ceramics, or whatever it is, that's been, you know, artistically forged. You think about someone who is in that setting, like my kids, who don't have the wherewithal, the bodily control to navigate that without potentially knocking things over and breaking things. That's definitely something to be concerned about. With Mars and Taurus squaring Pluto and Aquarius, you have the world's most progressive ideas and plans and visions, but then again, like you have something as crude as a bulldozer, and maybe, maybe you're going to the potential to, to be like sort of strong to strong and blunt and dull, and heavy-handed with something that requires a more sensitive, subtle, you know, manipulation from an ideal into form.

It's like thinking about the process involved in creating, you know, like a potter creating a beautiful vase, firing it and painting it, and all this stuff. Think about the level of care and meticulous attention to detail that take that from an ideal into a form. So, is Mars best suited to enact something on behalf of Pluto and Aquarius? That's what remains to be seen. Mars can be a little heavy-handed and destructive. It's kind of like, do we have the wrong tools for the job, if that makes sense? So you could look at it moving Heaven and Earth, but you can also look at it as if there may be tools needed that are more sensitive than a bulldozer. You know, number three, beautiful but domineering.

So, anytime Mars gets into Taurus again, one of the things that comes to my mind is that Mars will be compelled to act on behalf of things that are very Taurean, which, again, luxury, peace, beauty, stability, harmony, flow, sensual gratification, wealth, a kind of a feeling of pleasure. But Mars can act in the name of those things or with the desire for those things in a way that is very aggressive, too assertive, heavy-handed, domineering, and oppressive. I mean, I will never again think of my grandpa because he was just such a caricature of Mars and Taurus for me as a kid. And, like, I just remember that he meant well; so many of the things that I know he valued were really beautiful. A lot of them were very not nature-based. But he just couldn't help but be, and he had Mars and Jupiter in Taurus; he just couldn't help but be sort of like a, I don't know if a bully is the right word. He couldn't help but fill the whole space and kind of crowd out other things and people, and I think that that's a bit like Mars and Taurus; maybe Jupiter, too, right?

Mars in Taurus has the right to most of those beautiful aspirations and will act on their behalf, and you know, a shovel needs to hit Earth. But at the same time, you can imagine if someone is, you know, you're trying to eat dinner with someone, and they're using a shovel, you know, so beautiful but possibly domineering, a moment of reluctant change or transformation this one is interesting because Mars-Pluto can be very explosive and very transformational. If you need to do something, and there needs to be momentum and a sort of charged-up can-do energy that says, let's go do this, you know, I'm going to act and get something done. Well, Taurus is a sign that loves habits, habits that are related to ease, pleasure, enjoyment, beauty, and stability.

I mean, your morning cup of coffee is very Taurean, and your routines sustain and support a healthy biorhythm like that, you know, oh my god. The Mars-Pluto dynamic can be so effective. Because here's the thing: Taurus doesn't love to change. It's one of the signs that love staying the same the most. This is why it's so interesting to have Uranus in Taurus for so long, especially me as a Taurus rising to my God. Mars hits Pluto, and Aquarius will say, here's a different idea; Here's a different vision of your life. And you're going to have to break some habits; you're going to have to change fundamental aspects of your physical earthly reality.

So the amazing power to change habits or patterns that are very biologically rooted, I'm going to work out I'm going to change my diet I'm gonna change my sleep pattern, I'm going to change my whatever the power to make changes, and the idea that appears, hey, this is a higher vision of what my life can be very Pluto and Aquarius. An ideal image from the realm of the gods. It's this is an idea that came that it beamed itself into my head straight from Olympus. And now, I have this power; even though it's uncomfortable to make a change to patterns and habits that are so ingrained and entrenched, I'm going to make that change.

Now, it could be that there's a kind of reluctance to change or an unwillingness or stubbornness to change that's also getting addressed somehow. That could be new. It could be in people around you or situations around you. And then, finally, this is probably the one I like the least. Mars-Pluto can be incredibly, like I want to say, Machiavellian in the sense that it's like I don't care what the ends justify the means. I'll do whatever. So power, power, hunger, oppression, bullying, domineering attitudes, get it done, get what I want, no matter what the cost, no matter who I have to bulldoze.

And I can justify it because I can cloak the vision or the value in something that sounds or looks beautiful. So Mars and Taurus of Venus ruled sign I am going to do something with a sort of ruthless power-seeking, you know, drive and, and I'm going to I'm going to try to get away with it because I can, I can sort of cloak my fanaticism or my fundamentalism in some vision or value that is beautiful or luxurious or something like that. We can delude ourselves by thinking that the end is so beautiful and that we will be so healthy and happy that whatever we have to do to get there does not matter. That doesn't mean that there aren't sacrifices that have to be made for beautiful things.

It's another Mars Pluto dynamic with respect to these two signs, Taurus and Aquarius; sometimes beautiful things require that we, you, have to burn a little to get what you desire, like if you, I don't know, like I've tons of clients over the years who come in and, you know, maybe they go through a Mars first house, transit, or Mars Retrograde in the first house. And they literally have to burn off fat; they lose 10 pounds, and they lose 20 pounds.

I had a client one time who lost about 150 pounds and became seriously obese. And it all started with the Mars Retrograde in the first house. So you know, Mars Pluto? Yes, you may have to sacrifice tremendously for some vision of value, some vision or value of beauty. And it requires that you know, you burn, that you purge, that you transform with effort and sweat. At the same time, be careful that you're not going so far that you're willing to justify cruel, ruthless, or dark, shadowy stuff. You know, you're not; you're not tapping into that to get what you want. And compromising yourself karmically in the long run.

All right, those are my five things to watch for. I hope that they help you to make the most out of this energy this week and notice it around you. That's it. If you stick around after our sign-off, you can learn more about the horary program, which begins later this month. Your one starts later this month and needs to be based on tuition available for everything.

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