Mars in Motion
A quick clip from a very early Shakespeare history play?
Mars his true moving, even as in the heavens,
So in the earth, to this day is not known.
Late did he shine upon the English side;
Now we are victors, upon us he smiles.
- The Dauphin of France in Shakespeare’s
Henry VI, part 1 (2.1.1-4)
For many years, other than a source of “cherry-picked” quotes, I avoided Shakespeare’s Henry 6 trilogy, Parts 1, 2, and 3. The bleak suburban San Antonio landscape and commute to Austin necessitated an audio entertainment. While I cannot claim total competency, I do have a better understanding of much of both the hostility and the action in the individual plays.
—The Mars Minute—
Since February, Mars has occupied a very narrow slice of the heavens, from 23/24 Scorpio to 8’54” Sagittarius, then back, and now, from basically “stationary” to a more forward–moving energy, rehashing material we all previously covered.
Mars is definitely in motion, but is it good or bad? There are no “bad” or “good” transits. Some would suggest there’s a positive and negative, again, not an attribution I would choose, as there’s heavy connotation in the choices.
Mars is moving forward, but not out of its narrow slice of the sky, spending the last few months occupying a slim section of the heavens, from less than ten degrees of Sagittarius to the last five degrees or Scorpio, in effect, pummeling and roasting a narrow, slightly less than 15 degree arc of the sky. In turn, this ratchets up the heat in certain quadrants of charts, involving both fixed and mutable energies, essentially, touching on the the points that Saturn hammered home, a year ago.
Mars goes direct June 29, 2016 at 5:28 PM.
Mars doesn’t escape its shadow position until August 22 —
So that’s Feb. 17 to Aug. 22. 23 Scorpio to 8 Sag. About 15 degrees of the heavens. That’s a long haul.
In the words of an Austin–based, high plains lyricist, singing his tunes, “Are you listening, Lucky?”