Mars Conjunct Pluto: Horoscopes for the Week of October 17th

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Tuesday, October 18th

0:01 AM PT – Venus enters Sagittarius

Wednesday, October 19th

4:18 AM PT – Mars conjunct Pluto in Capricorn at 15°

Thursday, 20th

0:48 PM PT – Mercury in Libra opposes Uranus in Aries, both at 22°

Saturday, October 22nd

4:46 PM PT – Sun enters Scorpio

Mars is the planet of action, assertion, direction, passion, desire, rage, war and wrath. Every two years or so Mars will make a conjunction with Pluto. Pluto is the planet of transformation, endings, death, underworld journeys, renewals, intensity, power and deep and abiding change.

When these two power houses come together, they make a very distinct mark on our lives. A Mars-Pluto conjunction signals a time of intensity, definitive action taken, drive beyond what might be necessary and a revealing of some of our deepest desires. We can use this combination to seek out the resources we need to succeed or destroy what is around us through our sheer force and ferociousness.

Since Pluto is in Capricorn for roughly 16 years, these two get to renew their vows in the productive, hard working earth sign of Capricorn more than a few times. Each time one planet makes a connection with another, they begin a cycle. When two planets form a conjunction, we can think of the occurrence much like a new moon. A refresh. A new start. The last time that Mars and Pluto came together was in November 2014. When you read your horoscope, think back to what happened in that area of your life two years ago, how it has developed and what you are transforming, renewing or being regenerated by. Each conjunction that Mars and Pluto make will build upon the theme that the two of them are constructing in the part of our chart that contains Capricorn.

This week, Venus and the sun also change signs, signaling a shift in tone and pace for both. Venus, bringer of connection, creator of beauty, the deity of love moves from the deep and intense waters of Scorpio into the wide-open spaces of Sagittarius. Venus hasn’t been in this sign in some time and wherever she roams she spread some good cheer and tends to create some ease and openness for us to enjoy. Sagittarius is a sign that has had a bit of a rough ride this year, what with both Saturn’s long-term stay there and Mars’s retrograde. Venus is bound to bring us some ease in the areas where there has been a lot of hard work.

On Thursday, Mercury opposes Uranus in the midst of all the shifts, promising to throw us an information curve ball. One might ask what else we could possibly be shocked by at this point, but we’ll have to wait and see how the skies are correlating with us creatures on earth.

At week’s end, the sun moves from harmony-centered, socially-inclined Libra to the deeper, emotionally energetic reserves of Scorpio. Scorpio season always encourages us to understand the power that we play with and reminds us that it’s always more satisfying to use our power to hold each other up rather than break one another down.

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Aries & Aries Rising

This week your ruling planet, Mars, rubs elbows with the powerful presence that is Pluto. This awakens your appetite for success. This highlights the kind of impact that you wish to have on the world. This might bring you some powerful players to play ball with. This might bring you into the realms and the rooms with the folks that you need access to in order to move forward. This week reminds you of the power of your ambition when it is aligned with your purpose.

Conquering isn’t cute when we are just trespassing on dreams that aren’t ours.

Know your purpose. Know the power of knowing it. Know the magnetic force that occurs when you have a clarity of purpose. A goal in mind. Know when you are seeking something out of vanity, just because you have the power to do so. Know why you are doing what you are doing. What’s the underlying reason? What about your career refuels you? What do you most want to be known for? What experiences do you most wish to facilitate for others through your work? What are you most proud of having been a part of to date? Keep in accordance with these nuggets of knowledge and put your drive to work for the greater good of your career, otherwise known as your soul’s calling.

Join me for my next lunar workshop, Awaken Your Witch: Rituals for the New Moon in Scorpio and the Astrology from Oct 30 – Nov 29 in which you’ll receive sign-specific rituals and reflections for the new moon and full moon, suggestions on how to build your new moon altar, and a ritual for ancestral healing.

Taurus & Taurus Rising

Seek it, sis. What you hold most precious and true. What means the most to you. What you care about, what you can’t do without. What you’ll move mountains to get to. It’s time to sync up your survival strategies with your soul’s need to expand. It’s time to risk a little comfort for your greater good. It’s time to make some long-range plans that you can get behind. While doing so, it would be helpful for you to look at whom you most want to work with, collaborate with and fold your energies into the mix with. When making your plans, consider the partners that are the most potent to work with. Consider who you want to be with longer term.

Try not to bite off more than you can chew in the planning process though. Try to temper your desire to assert yourself with the need to plan according to your situation. Try not to jump ahead of yourself. This week’s influences are strong and certain of themselves; it might help you to be so as well but it might also make you feel a little bigger than your britches.

Gemini & Gemini Rising

Use this week to work on the collaborations that will produce results. Use this week to parse out the important relationship issues you need to tackle in order to do so. Don’t let your unprocessed feelings get in the way of getting a project off the ground or making a lucrative partnership possible.

But do get to know your intimacy issues.

Do get to know the things that you fear losing in relationships, the things that get you tangled up in knots, the things that make it harder for you to show up and get to work. Get real about the fears that you have every right to have about a certain pairing and the fears that you have no right to let run things.

This week lends you a drive to get things done. That might mean developing strategies to clear your debt, clear your conscience or clear out your psychological rubbish bin. Notice what you still feel you need to do just to prove yourself right, worthy or respectable. Take advantage of the cleansing that can occur in regards to your deeper motivations and drives. Come clean about why you want what you want and then see if you still want it. Purify your power sources.

Cancer & Cancer Rising

This week powerful partnerships take center stage. Notice what you can get done with others. Notice what you have accomplished in your most important relationships over the past two years. Notice what business and love relationships have helped you to manifest. Notice what you have been able to make real because of certain people in your life that work with you. Think about what you’d like to do in the next two years.

Notice what influential people enter your life right now. Notice what power dynamics you play most with? Do you tend to steam-roll those that you find less sturdy than yourself? Do you tend to let yourself get squashed by those you deem more powerful than you? Do you see yourself as equal?

Notice what emotional depths gets unearthed in your relationships. Notice what raw emotions visit you. Notice what provoked them. Notice what you most want to compost; what needs to decompose in order for you to be able to get more out of your intimate connections. Notice what you want to demolish when you get caught up in a moment of fear and what you regret doing once that fear has subsided. This is deep work and deeply important to do. It’s nuanced and not always easy to spot before you get a chance to stop it. Be gentle and firm with yourself. Be compassionately unrelenting as you witness the work you have done, are doing and still need to pay attention to.

Leo & Leo Rising

Meditate on the ways in which you live out your days and what you need to get done within each one. Get out your schedule. Get real about what work projects you want to get to and what that would actually entail. Since this week brings to light what helps you get your work done and what hinders you from being able to do so, take note of your successes; they’ll most likely have within them a strategy for more of the same. They’ll most likely be a template for more triumphs.

Be careful not to burn out right now. You need some fun to help yourself refuel from all the big jobs that are relentlessly pulling on your sleeves to get finished. Take a look at what is on your list. Take a look at how you have ordered your chores. Put first things first. Make sure that the least important projects go last right now. Put what can go on the back burner on the back burner and recycle what can be recycled.

The drive to accomplish a hefty chunk of work is with you now. Just make sure that you apply it to the most important jobs first and you’ll be in fine shape to roar with pride very soon.

Virgo & Virgo Rising

This week might reveal an artistic appetite that you’ll want to own up to. You are in a moment where you can get quite a large amount of creative work done if you let yourself go there. Try not to waste time wondering if your impulse to create is valuable enough to act on. Try not to judge what you want to make before you’ve had a chance to get your hands on it. Don’t deny yourself the right to embody your passions. Remember that you have every right to self-express as your soul most wants to. Betraying how your creative energy runs through you is also betraying the world by not sharing it with us.

Your creative process deserves some time and space. Be generous and give it some when and where you can.

This week’s set up might also move a love relationship into do or don’t territory. It’s a week that serves up some urgency and intensity. It’s a week that puts us all in touch with our appetites for accomplishment and success. It’s a week that can awaken you to a situation in your life that needs a transformation. The more willing you are to be transformed by the circumstances in your current life, the more you’ll get out of this set up. The more you resist, the more it will persist.

Libra & Libra Rising

This week wants to help you to purge some of the older power struggles that you carry. They might be from your family of origin. They might be operating within your current family structure or within your home itself. Anyone in your private life that evokes strong feelings should be dealt with carefully, constructively and conscientiously. They are your entry way into a great deal of self-reflection and powerful personal transformation.

Emotions might tend to be extra raw right now. Dynamics that are difficult will be defined and impossible to look away from and it would be self-defeating to do so. Look at your relationship dynamics in-depth. Right now you have the ability to take a look at the roots of your roots. Understand where your idiosyncrasies come from and what fault lines you tend to stumble over. Understand what your ancestors didn’t have the luxury to. Understand the privilege that you have. To contemplate our psychological, spiritual and emotional needs should be everyone’s right, but most of us don’t have that kind of opportunity. Take it. Do something with it. Let the self-knowledge that you acquire and the healing that you get to participate in be in honor of all those that couldn’t and maybe still can’t.

Scorpio & Scorpio Rising

Your words have power. Speak the spells you most want to cast. Close your mouth when curses want to come. Unless you are willing to deal with the consequences, they aren’t worth uttering. Pay close attention to the emails, texts and letters that you have to send out. Craft them lovingly, clearly, confidently. Be decisive in your communications, but decidedly smart about what you are asking for. Be strategic.

Pay attention to any speaking engagements, writing gigs and all of your communications. Notice what you are being asked to speak on and speak to. It’s more than likely that you will need to address something of great value to you, something that is transformative in nature and connected to a deeper calling in you. Tell your truth. Tell your tale in a way that helps you value it more. Tell your side of the story so that you can get a deeper understanding of it.

Your days might be full of many important tasks to complete. You may feel more driven to keep up with the intensity of your schedule or find that there are things about your daily duties that you need to rethink. Some of your daily rituals might need a refresh, reboot or kickstart. With the sun entering Scorpio this week you should feel a little more able to take control of the aspects of your day that you have agency over and better equipped to work more gracefully with what you don’t.

Sagittarius & Sagittarius Rising

The funds that you need to find are there. You have the assets to make whatever it is you are working towards a success. You have the desire to drive your financial situation forward. You have ambition to move your work projects in a profitable direction. Your talent, when well-honed and consistently developed, makes your creative projects irrefutably valuable. Believe that.

Let your resolve be definite. Make your business plan as solid as it can be. Move definitively. You have the opportunity to take what you are currently holding and make a monument out of it.

Your natural charm and enthusiasm is amplified by the fact that the planet of love and pleasure is back in your sign. While Venus is in Sagittarius it will help you make the connections and the good impressions that you need to. Your hard work will start to pay off with what seems to be an unbelievable (compared to past months) ease. Use that ease to your advantage. Relax where and when you can. Have fun with the process. Play with the most serious of matters. Make a mockery of your fears and a fortune out of your ability to keep it light while encouraging yourself to go for what you know you need and helping yourself find the courage to do so.

Capricorn & Capricorn Rising

This moment is one to take a hold of. Your impact is felt. Your ambition is energized. You’re aligned with a force of nature that has the ability to create and/or destroy. And both. Or both.

Be bold in the areas of your life that you need to be. Be generous where you could easily be greedy. Bare witness to your patterns of self-destruction. Decide to do something different with the energy usually used to dismantle your dreams. Transform the personality traits that derail you into personally traits that channel that same energy into creative possibilities. Do what you normally hold yourself back from doing because you are too scared. Notice who you are envious of, inspired by and who you privately wish you could conquer.

Envy is a powerful emotion. One that we are usually ashamed of. One that we are usually afraid to admit to. One that we want to be above. But we shouldn’t be so quick to want to detach ourselves from such a powerful signal. Sometimes in order for us to know what we really want for ourselves, we need to understand what we resent about what others have. We need to know what we desperately want for ourselves.

Let yourself want what you want. Let yourself see it and, in that seeing, let yourself be revealed to yourself. Then align your energy and ambition accordingly.

Aquarius & Aquarius Rising

We are not self-made. We did not get here on our own coat-tails. We came into this life and this body by the grace of Goddess-knows-what and that same force has kept us here to date. It would not be inappropriate for you to get all kinds of grateful about that fact this week. It would not be a waste of time to set aside time for the practices that keep you humble and remembering that your life is a co-creation.

Part you, part mystery.

This week you might feel like taking a bit of a break. A disco-nap. A mini-retreat. You might need to refuel. You might need some transformative self-care strategies. You might want to get quiet at times, check in with yourself and see what it is you need most right now.

There might be a tremendous turn-over going on in you. An internal need to compost certain aspects of your ambition. Not that you are giving up on any one desire, but that the nature of your attachment to it is changing. Maybe you can have what you want and need but in a different form. Don’t be afraid to let your yearnings be reshaped. Don’t be afraid to let one aspect of your plans go so that another, more important component can come about. Don’t forget about the mystery that is at work within you, that works through you and that wants you to work with it.

Pisces & Pisces Rising

The power struggles that show up in your community, in the groups that you are a part of, with friends and in the gatherings that you go to are important to take note of. Who do you give your power away to? Which friend or what group are you transforming your relationship to? This week something comes to a close and something begins anew through those that you are connected to.

Deep friendships also come through this week. The ones that help you remember your strength. The ones that help you to reclaim your power. The ones that remind you that you are capable of a lot more in good partnership than simply on your own.

The week bodes well for coming into contact with folks that inspire you to do what you do best. Especially in your career. Especially in regards to your work in the world. This week wants to remind you that a little charm can go a long way and that receiving help is just as important as giving it when it comes to what you want to get done. Look for what is easy. Look for the things that are coming to you on their own. Look for what helps you feel less alone in the world and in your work.

Mars Conjunct Pluto: Horoscopes for the Week of October 17th

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