Guidelines for Interpreting Mars Pluto Opposition in YOUR Natal Chart

hello everyone in this video I'm going to offer some tips and guidelines for interpreting this Mars Pluto opposition in your needle chart so let's just take a look here on November 3rd they will in exact opposition at 29° 45 minutes Capricorn Cancer at the time of this video they're about two degrees away from each other so it's going to take a whole week for Mars to cover those two degrees this is a very in tense energy let's just appreciate Mars is slowing down getting ready for this retrograde Journey so whenever a planet is slowing down

there's an intensification of focus so when we think about this Mars in your needle chart where it's transiting we should appreciate besides for the fact of it being in opposition to Pluto which we'll talk about there is a very deep introspective quality we are reworking and analyzing kind of getting underneath and introspecting rather what is the core of how we're choosing to respect to make choices to the content of our life right now Mars in that phase of slowing down becomes very internal of course it can also be very visceral we can feel very triggered

but the underlying evolutionary intention is there's something that's being reworked right now and it's helpful to appreciate that that archetype is very much at play right now being that this is the first of three oppositions and that it's the only one that will happen in the cancer Capricorn axis at the very very end of this access just before Mars goes retrograde further add to this deeply introspective contemplative culminative quality to this opposition I think it's helpful to say to introduce what I'll speak about today that however this is landing in your own needle chart for

all of us collectively and individually there's a sense of something essential is coming up right now something essential is wanting to be integrated and understood it's very much at the edge of your your seat where are we going to go with this kind of vibe okay so appreciating this is an evolutionary transition I made a couple of videos just speaking to the psychological nature of this Transit I'll be sure to post those um we can really have some compassion and patience for how deep this actually is where things feel unclear where things feel stuck can

really be just held in a space of okay this is a part of the process this year we're here to evolve we're going somewhere we haven't yet been okay so what I'll soon do is offer a bunch of tips for working with this in your own needle chart I'm actually going to make a Pluto Mars Transit through the houses video very soon I'll be posting that within a day of posting this video but this is a helpful Prelude because I want everyone to feel empowered to kind of contemplate all right we're dealing with Mars we're

dealing with Pluto how do you work with these energies together together and to actually bring it together in your own needle chart so I'll also be speaking to what does it mean in general for Mars and Pluto to be in opposition to each other how do we understand that personally in transit okay so before I jump into that a couple announcements I often will write articles in tandem to these video teachings I actually wrote an article um highlighting this Mars Pluto opposition through the 12 house polarities it's a very long article um so if you

want to receive that and all future teachings you can subscribe to my newsletter below I also have an archive on my newsletter page where you can access all past recordings and I want to make sure everyone knows about my upcoming class series I'm going to be teaching a series on planets that square the lunar nodes this is based in the technique and the teachings of Jeffrey wolf green when a planet squares the lunar nodes in astrology both in transit and needle charts speaks to a very essential core karmic Dynamic that want to be integrated and

resolved and until that happens there's a flip-flopping between both nodal polarities so working with this especially in Needle charts is an incredibly helpful and Rich interpretive technique and wisdom teaching for applying something that is actually pretty common many of us have at least one planet or a point in the chart squaring the lunar nodes so we'll learn about the meaning of this Square Dynamic each series each class will be focused on a different planet in it's Square to the nodes how to identify the specific karmic issues how to work out its resolution we'll work with

a variety of combinations of noal ruler situations like when the noal rulers are conjunct or opposite each other or when you have a stellium of planets squaring the nodes or two planets opposite each other both squaring the nodes as we continue to work with various charts and bring forward these teachings we'll be able to encounter a diversity of learning examples this class begin in just over a week I taught a free intro class a week or so ago and this is a requisite so if you want to join this class series you have to watch

this intro class it was a very in-depth intro class I highly recommend it and you can access it for free and I'll put a des a link in the description below as always I'm available for one-on-one sessions for individuals couples and discounted long-term Soul to- soole companionship sessions for those that want to work with me more long term all right let's jump into today's topic let me first introduce the archetype of opposition polarity when you have two planets opposite each other Adam gainsburg one of my first teachers described this brilliantly he described an opposition as

a backwards facing conjunction why is that meaningful well when we have a conjunction the intention the underlying archetype is to unify there's a a new cycle beginning a new process relative to those two particular planetary functions when we're in opposition the challenge is we tend to be bound by these perceived opposites right the stress of an opposition between any two planets is this tension between here's one facet of life and then this is in confrontation to another facet of life we can feel tugged in our social experience in our outward relational experience relative to what

we're trying to work out within oursel and the teaching isn't to find some kind of balance between the extremes but a complete integration that trans sends the duality of being divided in the first place right like the teaching of the opposition is to bring a unification of where we might be bound or stuck in these dualities it's a helpful way to think about it because otherwise polarities are often going to feel like a tension of irreconcilable opposites or irreconcilable needs things like that so when we contemplate this with Mars and Pluto obviously that's going to

be intense Pluto corresponding to underlying desire deeper subconscious psychological content the sort of imperative motive that brings us into this life and what we're working out as a soul and Mars is Will desire consciously what we're choosing where we're directing our life moment to moment and where we're instigated so what I'm going to do here is take us through several steps of interpretation we can contemplate each one of these for our own needle chart and we're going to do it step by step so we're going to start with Mars right think about Mars where it's

transiting in cancer what house it's in as corresponding simply to activity Mars means activity what does that mean things are happening either this activity is manifesting in the external right people places events things that are stimulating experience or we're being internally stimulated relative to feelings desires or Impressions that are happening in our life one way or another something is moving and thus where there is activity it's always going to impel some kind of response right so whatever is happening wherever the stimulating content is arising we become mindful of how are we perceiving it and how

are we choosing to respond to it if we feel that our Essential Safety is being triggered we might act from a very reactive and triggered place so there's a calling for some level of self-awareness and mindfulness relative to whatever is arising for us it can be very easy with a Mars Transit like this to be very protective and defensive and to act as if we are under threatened fact Mars and cancer can feel like a mother protecting her Young on the premise of seeing a very real threat right and our most defensive harsh protective qualities

can come out relative to the tender places within us Behavior can actually become very visceral and reactive and not necessarily take us where we're wanting to go if we're just being reactive to our Impressions okay so now we go into look towards the evolutionary intent see where Pluto is to indicate where on a fundamental level the purpose is to evolve into our greater soulle potential of strength and resiliency Pluto here is pointing to our potential to stabilize even more in our agency wisdom and the strength that is within the soul itself so you can contemplate

this house position of Pluto as an absolute statement of Truth so where's Pluto moving this is pointing to where we're evolving and accessing a greater dimension of strength and resiliency fundamentally okay that's one level of Pluto so holding these pieces in mind Mars is activity and our response to that activity Pluto is where we're learning this greater strength of our soul and thus where we haven't yet evolved into it and thus we're going to go to the next piece which is Pluto is also going to in part mean resistance to Evolution right this same house

Transit of Pluto points to our very resistance distance where we do not yet know the depth of our own power and thus this is where we can feel ourselves stuck entangled in conditions beyond our control and not in touch with our agency of choice right the psychology of entrapment and entanglement is a big part of the Pluto Dynamic this is where we thus might feel a very deep loss of power in our lives so you kind of feel where I'm going with this Mars is reactivity right relative to content arising Pluto while it's about so

Mars while it is about our leadership to make conscious choices can be about our reactivity Pluto while is it is about Evolution towards our deeper Soul agency can also be fundamentally where we don't know ourselves to be free and don't know our agency and our psychologically entangled and unconscious content that we don't know how to get out of right so imagine what happens when you combine the two so Mars will trigger and push the button of The evolutionary intent potential of Pluto this is what polarity does the activity that's being instigated here relative to Mars

is ultimately serving to push us into our Evolution it's helpful to contemplate how is this experience this event this challenge this perception helping me to evolve and remember that Evolution means becoming that which we have not yet realize ourselves to be right so it's it's a real inner change what we're changing is not external event or we're changing ourselves there's a fundamental shift happening on the internal level of the Soul itself this means we will never quite understand what we are becoming until we've become it thus we need to have a soul focused attitude and

be determined not to get sucked down by the Temptation to stay in our sense of littleness right this means life is actually pushing us through the sense of being pushed and triggered into our greatness the Grandeur of our soul being so let's spend more time on analyzing this idea think about the unconscious dynamics of Pluto where we think we're stuck we think we're trapped we think we're entangled we don't know our own power right in evolutionary astrology there's a lot of teaching on the polarity point of Pluto so take Mars out of the picture for

a moment and you can think of your own needle chart too it's a helpful practice right transiting Pluto the point opposite Pluto is actually going to represent a point of high stress and Trigger relative to where we're going to hold on to the our greatest unconscious security patterns because Pluto is where we're going to resist change Pluto is where we're afraid of letting go fruto is where we don't know how to Source our own internal power so relative to that the opposition Point says if you can integrate that polarity you're going to be able to

face your deepest point of resistance let's just contemplate that in general Pluto and Capricorn as an archetype what is the deepest uh fear right we can become psychologically entangled and suck in the structural realities in the agreement and the roles that are defining us me the roles of our life are defining us and we are enslaved to a structure or to an authority or to a power outside of ourselves that we cannot control this can include patterns or things that have a hold of our own life force that are dominating us we can be overly

identified by who we're supposed to be or the roles or the meeting the expectations of the world and lose a touch with our own soul the pressures the demands the overly being overly concerned with being judged or how we're being perceived needing external approval these are all points of deep psychological imesh and entanglement what's the cancer represent here what does that teach well think about what are you not going to do when you're stuck in the addiction of Pluto and Capricorn take the story of someone that is so consumed with making sure they do everything

right that their projection of their father mother figure their boss how they put it on their relationships how they put it on everyone around them in their life and their children and their family their parents is always reflecting back to them am I okay am I good am I acceptable am I approved of so this soul will get into all kinds of relational experiences in life to work out where they power is being sourced in that external approval and validation if they're entangled and stuck in that they're not going to be accessing their emotional body

they're not going to be connecting to how do I feel I'm doing these things I'm making these agreements I'm working really hard or I'm holding these harsh judgments or I'm allowing myself to be identified with these forms of control but how do I feel am I being nourished do I feel connected to my soul on the inside am I discharging my emotion do I feel worthy and safe enough to actually connect with the the underlying core of my inner being if we're in these roles of responsibility and we're overly focused on what we're supposed to

do we might lose touch with the heart of why we're doing it in the first place and there are many other examples that I can give it hopefully that demonstrates in general how that cancer polarity is just like a stress to that Capricorn no I'm not going to go into and feel my feelings no I'm not going to focus on what's going going on I'm not going to take some therapy I'm not going to unravel because I'm needing to be this I'm needing life to be this I'm needing things to be this way and so

we might miss out on the inner World cancer so we can say relative to Pluto and Capricorn that cancer polarity that opposition point the Pluto polarity point in cancer becomes a point of integration we can say The evolutionary learning the growth for this soul for all of us collectively and you can imagine this in a needle chart too is to concentrate on the fundamental state of inner security come home to your soul right here and right now regardless of the comings and the goings of social approval acceptance or the judgments or the identifications you have

with who you are and what you're supposed to be can you feel how that's a powerful statement of evolution that cancer polarity point my soul I am at home in my soul right now or my soul is is my home right now right it's a coming home to oneself which takes us away from whatever capricornian entanglement so now move Mars and cancer that polarity point that point which is otherwise a very important integration point for evolution is met with an actual planet and this is why we can really understand and appreciate that Mars via all

of the cancer stimulation am I safe am I loved am I wanted is it okay am I being threatened is pushing up against the structured roles the conditioning and the entanglements and the entrapments that are so defining and restrictive of our soul and our agency of Pluto and Capricorn so it's helpful to contemplate and just take some time to breathe that in how is this Mars and cancer Transit triggering the deepest subconscious and fear patterns of this natal Pluto and thus how is it instigating our own Evolution relative to polarity this Mars Pluto opposition is

going to bring up a high level of stress we're going to feel threatened and challenged or pushed in some essential way and relative to where we don't know our agency we won't know how to meet that it's going to feel many for us for many of us like a rock in a hard place okay so it's just helpful to work that out the answer to that rock in the hard place is evolution the answer is you don't know who you are the answer is there's a there's a solution to all of this beyond the threshold

of what you have yet to realize and understand okay the next piece here is in the face of Temptation we strengthen our desire for truth right so in virtue of this Mars position poking poking at what is most vulnerable and unrealized within we appreciate that if we are tempted to act or behave in certain harmful or destructive ways it must mean that there's another way and that we have not yet understood this other way can we get that just if there's a temptation to ask from fear from victimization from I'm unstuck or I am being

attacked there's something fundamentally taking my freedom away it must mean there is another way that we have not yet understood if we are quiet this can become a point of gratitude perhaps just in the recognition of there is in fact a path of true empowerment available in this very place that we are currently perceiving ourselves to be not in that empowerment a moment that we see as totally contrary to a state of security and empowerment see life as inviting us to learn like a training ground that is intentionally pushing us to grow up it is

not actually here to hurt you if we can only understand this this is a way to work with that polarity whatever deeper psychological subconscious content this is don't give into the temptation of identifying with our perceptions and with our impressions and if someone asked me this this YouTube comment and challenged me to make a video on this I ended up writing an article it's a Blog if you want to see the blog I'll post it in my description but it's not really an astrology article so I didn't know where to put it um but the

question was like you know what if you're being push or trigger by people that are actually being intentionally hurtful and deceitful or manipulative and I think that's a really good question and I want to give a moment for it because this happens right like there's nothing spiritual about about pretending that people sometimes don't try to do hurtful things I think about Jesus on the cross he wasn't like God forgive them because I think they're trying to kill me but really they're not you know it's like no they're they're they're trying to kill me they're trying

to crucify me but what he said was forgive them for they know not what they do and I think that's really beautiful I don't really think this was really in my interpretation a matter of Jesus speaking to God I think it was him working with his own mind let me not see them and identify them in their ego I think a lot of times life is just this opportunity for us in our relationships are this opportunity for us to recognize beautiful teaching in a course in miricles there's either a Love or calling for love and

all fear if properly interpreted is a calling for love and if we interpret fear as a reason for attack or defense we're making a statement to who we are but if we interpret as a call for love we're making a statement that we are that love we we affirm the fact of our resilienc and strength in actually choosing to see the calling for Love from our brothers and from our sisters that are just in their ignorance just like we are often in our ignorance we remain in our ignorance in our refusal to step up into

our greater strength as love this is a threshold that of course we're all working on right it's not an easy path this is what evolution is about and so we're going to have really strong perceptions and I think it's not useful to spiritually bypass and ignore sort of the egoic level and I think the teaching here in not identifying with those perceptions of I am being hurt or attacked or manipulated is not to ignore that obviously someone's doing something harmful and oftentimes very intentionally so this happens all the time but where do I want to

direct my mind What story do I want to create taking responsibility for our person perceptions is really more a matter of not changing the story but the story that we're choosing to tell about another person yes they might be acting this way or doing this thing but do you want to identify them as that right do we want to put them in this box essentially deeming them as a bad person a manipulative person it's really hard I find to to authentically judge another and get to that place of absolute certainty they are bad they are

this and yes there is evil in the world and I am not naive to that and I think there's value in actually being able to identify it and call it out sort of speak the truth for what it is right but that's a different topic and I think most of our relationships are not that and most experiences in our life truly are a matter of us needing to take responsibility for our own perceptions but let me just say one more thing on this this never means lacking health boundaries we Pluto and Capricorn Mars and cancer

this is all about boundaries mostly boundaries are for us we determine what our boundaries are and we let others know that simply by the way that we're choosing to respect ourselves I think a big part of our empowerment is really recognizing oh I have a place I have work to do I need to take care of my soul take care of my sole purpose our boundaries and our purpose and our our alignment with our soul is for us to cultivate and tend to and then you know I find the world does what it does people

act the way they act and there's only so much that we can do to push up against or fight up against or wage war against what we can't control but there's an immense amount of healing coming back to what is my purpose and I do find there's a natural diminishing of concern of what I might gain or what I might lose when I know that I am who I'm supposed to be when I know that I'm back on track that I'm doing my work I'm holding myself and choosing to be the person that I want

to be I'm less prone to victimization and concern with outcome okay so that's what I wanted to say about that the last point that I would want to make is just contemplate where is the placement of your Mars um of your moon and your Saturn right Moon rules cancer Saturn rules Capricorn so in your own needle chart this transit's actually instigating this and that's going to speak a lot to how we're going to be internalizing and meeting this on a basic level let's say you have a moon in Taurus okay so there's a lot of

emotional trigger and confrontation and stress and you're being pushed to grow but the issue with a Taurus moon is a Taurus Moon might Resort towards avoiding confrontation or conflict numb out and move in the direction of what feels safe and secure and thus resist growth versus let say you have a Scorpio Moon Scorpio Moon might get further IM mesed in the conflict in the entanglement and become very emotionally identified with the things that are happening and kind of lose themselves in that so you kind of work with the moon in terms of you know what

is the way in which we're learning to embody that self- leadership and integrate emotionally integrate all the content that's arising and relative to Saturn fundamentally Saturn ruler of Capricorn at Pluto at the end of Capricorn there's so much right here with your needle Saturn position in terms of where you're learning those boundaries where you're learning to claim the strength and the clarity and the agency of where you're cultivating your terrain long term the discipline and the commitment to building the life that you want to build contemplating that in your needle chart is really helpful because

that's a way to come back to yourself that's a way to come back to I got to do what I got to do I can't control what's happening on the outside there's only so much that we can control in terms of people places and experiences but we have an amum of the Free Will and agency in terms terms of how we're choosing to structure our energy and our time in this life of course you can work with the moon and the Saturn together see their phase so this is of course a dimension that takes a

little more astrological skill but meditate on it right I think a lot of what we can learn here can just be through a sort of intuitive contemplation of these archetypes okay so that is it for this video I'm going to again make a video highlighting this Transit through the houses I look very forward to that as always thank you for watching watching