the biggest little planet in the world

I write today about that Reno Nevada of astrology, Mars. Of all the personal planets, I think Mars is the most underestimated, and that is because we would only come to understand it in a post-Copernican world, and moreover in a post-Plutonic world. In fact I do not believe it can be understood without a...

walking with the wolf

There is something pleasant about planets in retrograde motion. Who wouldn't love it, or at least be curious, when Nature goes backwards. Go ask Alice, when she's ten feet tall (or through the mirror). The one that is happening this Summer (now in fact) is Mars. A few other planets are also going retrograde over...

red as rust and sweet as honey

quite a bit going round about Mars going retrograde today – this is a reflection on Mars from 3 years ago

Summer Thunder

Probably due to the conjunction between the Sun and Mars that occurred this week, I have had some reason to think about the red planet, though I actually feel some real curiosity and interest about Mars in any case.

There’s a lot of traditional bad vibes attached to Mars, he’s a bit of a bad guy to a lot of people really, as the litany goes something like: war, violence, aggression, murder, rape, destruction and the kind of wildness that people don’t consider romantic and noble. But is that really the story?

There is a clue in astrology of course, for though he is traditionally the “lesser malefic”, he is in modern astrology associated with energy, vitality, drive and sex, as well as aggression and conflict and accidents. When we say sex of course, we don’t so much mean flirty, toying eroticism and all the refinements of love making…

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