A Soupcon of Je Ne Sais Quois
Transiting Mars Opposite Mars
Transiting Mars opposes my natal Mars this morning. The aspect is rather short-lived, but it has been influencing the last couple of days for me. I’ve felt both a burst […]
Transiting Mars opposes my natal Mars this morning. The aspect is rather short-lived, but it has been influencing the last couple of days for me. I’ve felt both a burst of energy and a nagging intolerance for idiocy. But like most Mars transits, these feelings are more like background noise as Mars is not personalized in my horoscope. Anyway, here’s what astro.com has to say about the alignment:
“During this time you have a very strong need to assert yourself, but you may do it in a way that provokes conflict with others. And if you try to suppress this need for ego-expression, you may have to contend with someone else’s attempts to be overbearing. On the other hand, this could possibly be a time of very vigorous and successful work, in which you succeed by asserting your own individuality toward others in some way. The lesson that you must learn is that your own success does not have to be at someone else’s expense. But under this influence you may feel that it does, and so you respond either by trying to dominate others unnecessarily or by reacting negatively to anyone else’s success. Work for your own interests, but not against someone else’s.”
To be honest, I already feel like a winner because when I look around I see so many losers. I suppose that’s what happens when you have both the sun and your ruling planet transiting your first house, and both Mars and Saturn transiting your tenth house. The only thing greater than my confidence in myself right now is my lack of confidence in almost everyone else.
Nevertheless, I do try to keep those thoughts to myself, and you wouldn’t know that I’m on this ego trip if you met me in person because I’m not a fucking idiot who goes around looking for a fight. In fact, I’ve made the following Mark Twain quote my mantra in this age of rage-baiting social media:
“Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”
So, I’m going to take a vow of silence over the next few days until this transit abates. Mars opposes my natal Venus next week just as my staycation begins, and that is a transit that I should be a little more worried about. More about that later . . .
