Pluto Conjunct Mars at 0 Aquarius: Learning to Trust Our Instincts

Also- Moon, Chiron, North Node conjunct between 15 -18 Aries.

What is alive for me on these Planetary Alignments are insights regarding stuck energy in the body, activation of the nervous system, and how to connect our personal energy with the flow of cosmic and universal energy.

Just past the Imbolc New Moon, all around are signs of awakening and quickening. As the Earth softens her grip and frozen soil gives way to clusters of snowdrops and the first daffodil buds, a new motion, upward and out, opens to receive the still faint rays of Sun.

Old energy stuck in our body can block our flow over many seasons and even years. In time the stagnant energy contracts our bodies making us rigid not only physically but also emotionally and mentally. The body tries to adapt to the contraction and our world, both inner and outer, becomes smaller and less alive; our innate spark becomes dimmer.

Pluto and Mars in conjunction speaks to transforming libido, activated will, an outward push, and a pulse to rise. After Her time in the underworld Persephone is released from the grip of Hades and freed back to the living Earth where along with Her mother the Earth Goddess Demeter, She will busy herself with the mysteries of renewal. It is a matter of sacred timing happening no sooner and no later than the divinely ordained moment, or “Kairos”.

I was thinking about how heavy layers of psychic sediment can trap our life force, blocking cells and preventing the cycle of regeneration. Those uncomfortable feelings and activated nervous systems, or “triggers” alert us to the presence of something trapped and unreachable by the light of consciousness (the Sun) It is a protection; beneath the calcified feeling body is a vulnerability, a part of us that never felt safe enough to feel the feelings and release the emotion.

With early Spring the energy begins to gently move; the invitation is to move with it. Maybe playfully is best, maybe slowly, and in ways that take care of our inner child… play is good, and creative expression. Dance is excellent.

With the Moon, North lunar node, and Chiron conjunction an awareness of our unconscious patterns and conditioning has a chance to be seen and felt. Have you noticed that you are more sensitive to energy these days? Chiron shows where our energy body is blocked; the Moon shows how our emotional body operates, and the lunar nodes reminds us of our soul’s intention.

With transformative Pluto working with Mars (our primal instincts, sexuality, and desire for life) we are prompted to learn to trust our instincts again. If something feels off, it probably is. Can we finally trust our inner voice above all the other external voices enforcing a reality that is not necessarily what our body and soul needs? Particularly sexually, it is a time to review what we need, what we are open to, what we are not open to, and what we are no longer available for. There is and has been a heavy cultural programming regarding human sexually; it has been repressed but it has also been reduced to something inconsequential and non-sacred.

From the body and soul point of view opening to and recovering sexual energy has a profound impact, as does the transmission of our sexual energy and becoming conscious of how we use it. Becoming more of the truth of who we are and trusting our embodied wisdom is a big step toward releasing the stuck energy. Sometimes there is a conflict between what we innately know and what we have been conditioned to believe.

Stuck energy is a feeling that was never felt or a truth that was never told, an instinct that was cut off at the root, or a hurt that was never held safely enough to heal.

A tentative unfurling.