Hello, a Personal Step, on Mars in Leo
A warm welcome, an experience of the divine when facing something I have been avoiding and transiting Mars in Leo + Prompts for reflection.
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Now what I want to share with you today… A personal step.
Today, I felt called to look into a topic of Hellenistic Astrology that I have shied away from for a while: the methods of calculation of length of life. I still don’t have much figured out as of now of course, so I haven’t got much to lay out about that in this post. But many things happened today that made me felt that this is all very timely:
I stopped buying flowers for a while as I easily get attached to them and I don’t enjoy seeing them wilt. Today, I walked into a florist this morning and did something I haven’t done for a long time: I bought myself a bouquet (see the picture above).
I got a message today from a friend telling me that a friend of ours was diagnosed with diabetes very suddenly and needs surgery for glaucoma. This friend of ours became cranky. They are not ready to admit that health does not last forever.
Another friend of mine (yes, on the same day!) told me that their dog was diagnosed with the same a life-threatening heart condition that slowly brought my beloved dog/daughter Pepper to the end of her life. This conversation reminded me of the process I went through as I was watching Pepper become weaker day by day.
(Possible point 4: My partner also left town today, so I’m mulling over all this by myself. This felt like a death to me too…)
There is something cosmical/comical here that made me feel welcomed into studying the topic of length of life by inviting me to contemplate the finitude of life itself.
The Astrological Piece of this Puzzle: Mars in Leo
As astrologers (we all are), when something happens, we look for the transits the speaks to it. And today Mars transits over Mercury in my 8th house. (You can’t make it up!) Let me break it down for you:
(This is in my own chart) Mercury rules over communication, studying. Mercury also speaks about moving through boundaries: as the psychopomp, they travel between the realms of the living and of the dead unscathed. Implicit is the acceptance of the non-dual nature of our reality.
(This is in my own chart) The 8th house is associated with topics such as death and letting go. Facing down towards the 7th house, the setting place, the moment of passing, this house represents what we feel when we become aware of the inevitable ending of all that lives.
(This applies to everyone) Currently in the sign of fiery Leo, Mars is the god of war and what ends life (Mars is exalted in the sign of the symbolic winter solstice, Capricorn, which in the Thema Mundi is located in the 7th house, in opposition to Cancer in the 1st house of life). We can look out for actions of courage or events that require courage to move through. If there are bridges we always knew we need to cross, this is the time to do so. Just like the flower, our friends, and our beloved fur babies, when we feel the calling to love them, we don’t remove ourselves from future pain. We step up. We bolden our hearts. Even though the end is unavoidable.
Transiting Mars moved into Leo in the past week, stations retrograde on Dec 6 at 6 degrees of Leo and then move back into Cancer on Jan 6 2025. Here I invite you to reflect on the following questions/prompts:
Are there topics you have been experiencing fear or anxiety facing? How can you bring up the courage to look after them and take action on them?
Which house is Leo in your chart? And do you have planets or relevant points in the first 6 degrees of Leo? What can they be associated with?
Were there times in your life that you took up the courage to do something and noticed some conversation or things happening around you that helped you feel the moment was right?
Sending love and courage to you! I appreciate your presence!
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