New Moon on Monday Astrology

10 November 2011

MARS moves into VIRGO at 8:15 pm (pacific daylight time). 

Mars represents our energy: drive and gumption - and also desire.  Mars is the warrior.  It can be aggressive, and angry, and argumentative.  Mars is competition and fire and speed and knives and absolutely anything violent.  

Mars is the slowest of the personal planets, and typically spends about two months travelling through each sign.  But due to a retrograde coming up this January, Mars will be in the sign of Virgo for eight months - not moving on until the Summer of 2012.  

Mars only goes retrograde once every two years, and it’s always pretty noticeable.

Mars brings energy to whatever sign it’s travelling through. It’s been in Leo since mid-September, and that’s been bringing out the bravado.  In Virgo, Mars is going to bring out the perfectionist in people.  Mars in Virgo is going to be very concerned about systems and methods.  It’s hyper-detail-oriented and all about getting it right the first time.  It’s going to tend toward crankiness. 

Remember, it’s just the weather.  There are totally ways you can use it to your advantage. 

Virgo is the sign of Service and Health (as well as your job - not necessarily your career or your passion, but what you do to pay the rent).  Wherever Mars is travelling at any given time will be the most productive place you can put your energy.  Mars in Virgo for 8 whole months is pure magic for people starting any kind of new health regimes or exercise ritual.  It’s also crazy good for anybody who’s deciding they need to buckle down and just work their ass off for awhile:  do that over the next few months and you’ll likely surprise yourself with how far you can go.  

If you know your chart, check the House where Virgo falls to see where this Mars Retrograde will be affecting you. 

Here’s the good news:

Mars in Virgo starts off on a super nice note.  Powerful Pluto and hella-lucky Jupiter are both in the earliest degrees of the other two Earth signs (Capricorn and Taurus, respectively).  Mars in the earliest degrees of Virgo will be opening up that energy and and driving us to find that power and that luck.  Those aspects will be exact over the next couple of weeks - right now’s the time to think about how we should be using them.  

Perfect from Now On, 

Adeline