Read your horoscope for Mars in Sagittarius
Lonesome Cowboy
In the somewhat fallow space between Scorpio and Capricorn — signs where Mars has a sense of authority and purpose — the hunter hangs up its gear and straps on a backpack. In Sagittarius, discounting the last few degrees where it gathers its strength, Mars is considered “peregrine.” That is to say, it’s neither dignified nor debilitated. Instead, Mars passes through this sign as some lonesome cowboy.
The peregrine nature of Mars in Sagittarius feels worth mentioning, because Mars is in a period of low activity bookended by periods of greater consequence. Coming down from the high of its recent primetime boxing match against Saturn and Uranus, Mars is doing its proverbial gap year.
It’s no longer sure what it wants or where it’s going, for the time being. However, it reassures us before leaving that, “not all who wander are lost.” Mars makes very little contact with other planets as it treks down the pilgrimage route. When it does, it’s essentially to buzz its head (via a conjunction to the South Node on December 15th) and walk into the fog (via a square to Neptune on January 11th).
In the uncultivated space between past victories and future mountains, you need to set down some of the equipment that belonged to yesterday’s plans. In this roaming time, you might as well amble in the direction of what makes you feel hyped.
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The following horoscopes were written by Steph Koyfman (The Daily Hunch).
Aries & Aries Rising
The road ahead might appear as a long, empty stretch, but somehow its vastness makes you more excited to depart. As you rev your engines for your next adventure, a sense of possibility infuses all that you set out to do next.
You also can’t expect to get very far with your trunk overloaded with baggage. Early into your quest, as Mars purifies itself in the quicksands of the South Node, you have an opportunity to release any motivations or grudges that won’t be useful anymore. Pressing onward in your newly unburdened condition, you assume the shape of what you don’t yet know.
In the days leading up to January 11th, when Mars makes a disorienting square to Neptune, your GPS sends you on a goose chase. Relinquishing your need for a set destination helps you center the experience itself. Sometimes it takes losing yourself to retrieve what you didn’t realize you’d lost.
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Taurus & Taurus Rising
Exploring the complicated terrain of your trust issues doesn’t, on its face, sound like a great time. But what if it was? What if trolling the monsters in the closet with laughter helps you become more intimate with your fears?
Lightening the mood might have to start with lightening your load. On December 15th, Mars begins its experimental rummaging through the mixed bag of your finances, collaborations, and interdependencies. The first step is relinquishing your need to be right or have all the answers.
If a relationship has been the seat of drama, surrendering yesterday’s war clears space for tomorrow’s trust falls and undertakings. In some ways, it could help you move forward with a clearer head if you’re in the process of disentangling yourself from things not yours to hold.
If setting down this load leaves you feeling directionless, a sense of tangible progress winks at you around December 29th. Unburdening yourself is paradoxically what prepares you to take on the weight of the new responsibilities in the world.
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Gemini & Gemini Rising
Every vagabond craves an accomplice. Mars giddying up through Sagittarius might lend a daring spark to your Bonnie and Clyde adventures over the next while. Oh, the places you’ll go through the wilderness that is any meaningful relationship.
If you want to get off the beaten path together, though, you’ll enjoy greater freedom if you travel light.
On December 15th, when Mars passes through the purifying fires of the South Node, you have an opportunity to leave some baggage at the door. Surrendering your need to be right or have the last word can be a road-opening spell for a familiar conflict. Letting another person help you with your workload requires off-loading your need to control the outcome.
Around January 11th, some of that verve you started out with gets diffused and scattered to the winds. Whether it takes the form of wasted energy or an offering to the gods remains to be seen.
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Cancer & Cancer Rising
On the one hand, these next few weeks might manifest as a garden-variety busy spell. On the other, an ambient sense of aimlessness nudges you to explore the routines that prop up your existence. Crunch time can be play time. Self-care can be an open-ended support ticket you attend to through a process of trial and error.
Even workhorses long to feel the thrill of the wide open pastures. Granting yourself the spaciousness to not anticipate the final outcome can provide you with some much-needed breathing room. It’s not “going through the motions” if you treat the motions themselves as a warm-up exercise for spontaneous discovery.
On December 15th, you find the opportunity to let some of your goals fall off your overburdened shoulders. It’s hard to resist the siren song of burnout culture. However, shedding your more misguided sources of motivation can help distill what it is you actually want to accomplish.
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Leo & Leo Rising
After the fencing session between Mars, Saturn, and Uranus, you’re coming down from a few weeks of family drama. What better way to do so than cut loose on the dance floor to blow off steam?
For the next few weeks, your mission is to enjoy yourself without getting hung up on the shape your enjoyment takes. Make art and love with wild abandon. Join the kids on a scavenger hunt. Desert what you think you know in pursuit of an experience.
Around December 15th, you release some of the adrenalized tension you may have needed in recent months. You get to come down from fight or flight mode with some of yesterday’s grudges scrubbed off of you. A sense of freedom beckons to you in the guise of aimlessness.
With Mars sextiling Saturn on December 29th, whatever you’re up to is bound to be constructive for your relationships. Tending your inner flame keeps the people next to you warm too.
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Virgo & Virgo Rising
If your restlessness craves a house on wheels, consider giving yourself the space to roam. Don’t be alarmed if the recent fixity of your purpose starts to disperse or scatter to the winds. Just make sure you cover wide enough ground that your meanderings eventually lead you back home.
With Mars ambling through the most subterranean reaches of your chart, you might find yourself itching to take off on a more purposeful quest to discover the abiding nature of your roots.
Whether through research or road trips, your journey begins with you leaving most of your baggage in the foyer. On December 15th, Mars scrubs off the residue of its previous battles in order to tread with a less encumbered gait.
Letting go of your anger, no matter how historically deep-seated its origins, doesn’t have to take the form of forgiveness. It can simply look like refusing to carry it on your own shoulders anymore.
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Libra & Libra Rising
You know that feeling where you just want to get in the car and drive with no particular destination in mind? This is more or less the spirit of the times. It can find you on the road, on your regular commute around town. Through your shuffled playlists, or the books surrendering themselves to the entropy of your living room.
During these next weeks of feeling amped to go everywhere and nowhere in particular, let yourself be okay with uncertainty.
When Mars takes a purifying bath in the fires of the South Node, you realize the ways truth can be played with like a Rubik’s Cube. Although your ideas might be on fire, you’ll feel lighter if you abandon the need to be right.
In case you thought none of this was going anywhere, Mars shakes hands with Saturn on December 29th. Together, they ensure your ambling amounts to something concrete, or at least builds on your existing creative output.
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Scorpio & Scorpio Rising
In a way, you’re setting off on a quest to recover your version of a holy grail or treasure chest. Except suddenly, you question what it’s all for. In your pursuit of more security or abundance, your journey becomes epic when you abandon the trail and go off-road.
On December 15th, as Mars scrubs the residue from its recent bout of sustained effort, you too emerge feeling lighter. Chances are, some of this baggage never belonged to you in the first place.
Other people’s expectations around the shape your thriving should take are fine to leave behind at the trailhead. Especially if they involve doctrines around money, consumption, and acquisition.
You might have to forge ahead with a less clearly defined map, but the thrill of an open-ended question helps you define what it means to feel safe or secure.
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Sagittarius & Sagittarius Rising
If you thought you were exhausted from internal power struggles or spontaneous combustions, Mars is ready to saddle up. The red planet hands you the reins, pumps you with a renewed zeal for life, and lends you the courage to venture boldly where you haven’t gone before.
The trick to redirecting yourself is letting yourself be directionless for the time being. If you want to travel far, you’ll want to travel light. Even if your anxieties are fuel for your creative output, a touch of therapeutic cleansing can be just what you need to renew your artistic license.
You have an opportunity to scrub some of that dirt off your windshield on December 15th. Don’t mistake a sense of being temporarily deflated for defeat. If anything, it is through this process of surrender that you’ll widen the terrain of your open roads.
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Capricorn & Capricorn Rising
It would be easy to let some of last month’s drama weigh on you, even if it’s not your burden. It would be harder to release some of that pent-up tension in the sauna of your psyche and let your fight-or-flight response dissipate into the steam. Fortunately, there are cosmic headwinds available to help you do that now.
On December 15th, when Mars meets the South Node, the built-up residue from some of your recent battles gets oxidized. If you need to give up a little first, surrender the need to be right. If you have to get some distance from a friend or family member, give yourself enough distance to escape from everyone else’s demands for a while too.
Within this newfound spaciousness, the point of having more elbow room is just to roam for a bit. You might encounter one or two fanged beasts in the wilderness of your mind, but laughter helps the load stay light.
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Aquarius & Aquarius Rising
Your caravan of dreams is taking off, but it’s veering onto an indeterminate track. Perhaps freedom to roam is something you’ll welcome right now?
As you come down from some crucial turning points in your life’s trajectory, you’ll need to check in with yourself and let your body know it’s no longer in fight or flight mode.
On December 15th, some of the adrenalized energy that got you through November is gratefully released into the steam. However, some of your intensely focused direction dissipates along with it.
With a recent victory under your belt, you’re freer to admit you don’t necessarily know where you want to go next. However, you’ll probably be happier going there (wherever “there” is) with your squad by your side.
As Mars marches onward to link up with Saturn on December 29th, a sense of palpable progress grows. In the process of building yourself, don’t be too shy to ask for a little momentum from your friends.
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Pisces & Pisces Rising
It’s one thing to be ferocious about what you believe in. It’s another to assume the mantle of becoming a leader or a spokesperson for that thing. If in the process of becoming what you preach you start to waver in your certainty, remember that faith is a blade you sharpen by allowing it to occasionally come undone.
When Mars walks through the purifying forge of the South Node on December 15th, some of the certainty that helped you through November is released from your system. In your less encumbered state, you’re free to try on various hats for size without committing to any particular one.
You might feel you’re being put on the spot while making it up a bit as you go along. Especially around January 11th, when Mars gets into a disorienting mixup with Neptune. Sometimes, real leadership looks like admitting that you don’t always know the answers.
In this moment, honesty is the purest form of bravery.
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