Mars returns to Leo, the sign where it began its retrograde way back on December 6. It’s a revisit of themes from January as well as November 2024. After a long reevaluation of our wants and needs, power and desires, we’re stepping into new inspirations.
As I’ve been saying in my weekly video, 2025 can roughly be divided into three parts. The first runs from the beginning of the year to the end of May. The second follows June through August. The final chapter starts at the end of August and takes us into 2026.
Mars is the dominant energy in this first part of the year. Between Mars Retrograde and Direct and the Aries solar eclipse, Mars sets the rhythm and focuses the energy over a six month period. But it’s really Mars’s opposition to Pluto that is the defining aspect of this first half.
Mars opposite Pluto is one of the more intense aspects to navigate in astrology. And while I don’t believe that there are “good” or “bad” aspects in astrology, we still have to see Pluto for what it is — a non-negotiable demand for change.
Pluto holds a mirror to us and our Mars. It makes us look at our relationship with power and control. It reveals what has been hidden, rejected. It shows our true motivations, even if the realization is uncomfortable. It helps us to refind our courage. It clears the emotional and psychic landscape with a volcanic intensity. Herein lies the alchemy of change.
In its highest expression, Pluto helps us to find the consciousness, turning shadows into light, lead into gold.
Next week’s final opposition between Mars and Pluto on April 26 shouldn’t be underestimated. And yet we have already been navigating its energy since last November. Something has shifted within. Now we will need to live it externally.
If you are in AUSTRALIA or NZ, this forecast applies approximately for April 19-21, 2025.
Read More:
Mars in Leo: Sign by Sign
Pluto in Aquarius: Sign by Sign
Pluto in Aquarius: Transforming Humanity
Neptune in Aries: A New Dawn
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