Mars Stationing Retrograde: A Life of Have-tos
As Mars stations over the next week (going Rx on 11/15), you have the opportunity to see how you might have let your life become a series of have-tos that has eclipsed how you’d really like it to go. Mars goes and does, and cannot be held down, and yet we each make lives based in commitments to ourselves and others.
The planet of desire and motivation, of initiating new things, is going to retrograde in the sign of Cancer, the sign of needs, nurturing, rootedness and connectedness. It’s time to check in with yourself about the direction of your life, and how you feel about it. While Saturn is the one that does the sustained heavy lifting, Mars is the one that gets us instinctually pointed in one direction or another. During the retrograde, you get the chance to see if the directions you picked at various times to point yourself in are still working.
As it stations, become aware of whatever arena in your life offers the most Marsy tension. The house Mars is transiting will offer a vocabulary for this. In the 3rd house? Where does what you think, hear and say get you? Are you so invested in communicating something that you’ve lost sight of something you have to say that’s truly important? The 7th? How is your style of relating creating relationships that don’t serve you? What corners of the “boundaries” and “equality” conversations can you clear the cobwebs out of and be clear about your intentions and needs, and assert them with another? The 9th? How does the big idea that you use to run your life not fit in with the reality of the present moment and your need to participate in it? How does what you want differ from what you think you want?
Mars on one level is our instinctual response. During the retrograde the energy is turned inward, so it’s the time for retooling the pointer sense, not necessarily charging ahead with new directions. Give yourself time and space to gain perspective on your Marsing; see how you currently use your drive and what response from you the moments of the present (as opposed to the pasts when you set yourself on the directions you’re now headed in) are asking for.
During the retrograde period (11/15-1/30/08), allow yourself space to gain clarity on where your efforts have been getting you, and what kind of new directions might be called for. I invite you to see if you can view any frustration about Mars issues over the coming months as needed information for you as you unfold yourself along your journey. It can be easy to feel that since we’ve been headed in the “wrong direction,” that we’ve wasted time. This retro period offers the opportunity to shift where we’re putting our energy, and if you can remember that whatever it is, “it’s all part of the show,” you’re in a much better position to progress with what you’re learning without a lot of self-inflicted bruising, metaphorical or otherwise.
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November 8, 2007 By Tom Jacobs