Mars in the Last Gasp of Aries

It's been a long six months of Mars in Aries, hasn't it? It's not going quietly into that goodnight, what with rabid, Far Beyond Right and Gone Wrong Trumpeters storming the Capitol, inflamed by the almost-gone president's stolen-election speech. These wack-jobs interrupted the last bit of officialdom needed to declare Joe Biden the winner. Shots. Gas masks. National Guard. Civil War II, anyone? I predicted it over 20 years ago in my defunct astrology blog (sponsored by the defunct Webseed startup), and most readers thought I was crazy.

Maybe I am crazy anyway. Regardless, I can't see Mars's transit of Taurus being anything but difficult. I already wrote about the Mars-Saturn and Mars-Jupiter squares of January, as well as Mars conjunct Uranus: oppression, depression, illness, war, explosions. By the time Mars makes a beneficial trine to Pluto in Capricorn on 2/24, indicating a positive flow of regenerative energy of body, bank account, and the planet Earth itself, it may feel like too little, too late.

Mars (headstrong energy) going through Taurus (ruling the ears, nose, and throat) could very well mean that the new, more contagious strain of Covid-19 will rip through the populace as the vaccine rollout is bogged down. There may not be any half measures when it comes to lock downs.

The Senate runoffs in Georgia have provided some much-needed hope. That outcome could've been far worse. Still, I stand by my predictions made last month: at least in the US, we are in for a very cold, dark winter.