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In this episode of the Astrology Hub podcast 🚀
Christopher Renstrom explores the astrological impact of Mars retrograde, a rare and powerful transit occurring between fiery Leo and nurturing Cancer. Christopher delves into the multifaceted expressions of Mars, from its assertive drive to its moments of introspection during retrograde. With insights tailored to each zodiac sign, this episode offers profound guidance for navigating this 11-week journey of reflection, courage, and self-discovery.
What You’ll Learn:
🔴The symbolic meaning of Mars retrograde and how it influences assertiveness and action.
♌︎Why this retrograde is unique as Mars transitions between Leo and Cancer, and how it impacts personal and collective energies.
⚖️The different expressions of Mars in each zodiac sign and how to harness its energy effectively.
🗝️How Mars retrograde can bring opportunities for reflection, healing, and resolution of past conflicts.
💡Practical advice for managing the potential challenges of this transit, including feelings of complacency, self-doubt, and unresolved anger.
🔮Specific guidance for each zodiac sign on how to navigate the retrograde period and align with its transformative potential.
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Transcript:
00:00:00:09 – 00:00:17:22
Christopher
Hello. My name is Christopher Renstrom I’m your weekly horoscope columnist here on Astrology Hub. And this time, I wanted to talk to you about Mars turning retrograde on December 6th.
00:00:17:24 – 00:00:44:06
Christopher
Now, this particular Mars retrograde happens to be quite remarkable. First of all, because it will be retrograde from one sign. Leo back into another sign cancer. And second of all, this retrograde is going to last 11 weeks. Now, before you all grown in despair and and misery, saying, oh no, a retrograde 11 weeks, what’s it going to do to my life?
00:00:44:08 – 00:01:10:24
Christopher
Well, it’s not all bad and it’s not all difficult. And indeed, there will be many opportunities presented to you, along with times of reflection and really getting back in touch with the things that you really want. But first, let’s talk about what a mars retrograde is. Mars in astrology is named after the Roman god of war. This is why Mars has such, noxious reputation.
00:01:11:01 – 00:01:38:00
Christopher
It has, it’s the sort of planet that whenever one hears about Mars moving through one’s, stellar horoscope, it can cause great anxiety and trepidation. That is, if it’s not making you feel romantic and passionate and want you to find love in all sorts of places. Mars can be associated to that, too. But Mars is pretty much generally considered as a bit of, troublemaker.
00:01:38:02 – 00:02:02:12
Christopher
As as a planet that’s connected to strife and with difficulty. It’s true that Mars is the planet that will fight for what it wants. All right, so if you have a strong Mars in your astrological chart, you will fight for what you want. There will be no moment of hesitation. There will be no quarter given. You will fight for what you want, and you won’t give up until you get it.
00:02:02:14 – 00:02:28:22
Christopher
And sometimes this can be seen as heroic. And sometimes this can be seen as a bit bullying and a bit dominating. It depends on how Mars is positioned in the astrological chart. So Mars Mars is chart basically in your astrology chart is to get you what you want. All right. If you were to be like, oh, I, you know, I’d, I’d really like that position at work.
00:02:29:02 – 00:02:45:03
Christopher
I know that if I try it out, I could get it. You know, if you have a strong and healthy and and vigorous Mars in your chart, it would be like, okay, Betty, let’s do it. Let’s go after that position. Let’s let’s go and make that happen. You can do it, you know, and you can be like, oh yes.
00:02:45:03 – 00:03:05:05
Christopher
No, I know I can do it. I’m ready to go and do it. Let’s go and give it a whirl. Okay, so that’s Mars in a very sort of healthy, wonderful way. It makes you get up and go after what you want. It puts you at the head of the line. If you have to use sort of sharp elbows or stomp on people’s feet to get what you want, you won’t think twice about it.
00:03:05:07 – 00:03:31:02
Christopher
But not everyone has such, well positioned Mars, and not everyone has such a healthy relationship to Mars. Sometimes Mars can show up in a way, in your astrological chart in which it’s more dominant, dominating you, rather than you getting what you want, where it’s actually working more on the side of other people in your life who are pushing you around or moving you to one side.
00:03:31:02 – 00:03:56:14
Christopher
And so your Mars might be like, oh no, I don’t know what to do with this. And and it may feel in some ways defang or unable to fight back. So not everyone really has the same caliber of Mars, the same quality of Mars and Mars, which talked about the way that we, fight for what we want, what we want, and pushing ourselves forward.
00:03:56:16 – 00:04:28:15
Christopher
Mars can also be associated to, anger, to getting angry and furious. But there are 12 different expressions of Mars, just like there are 12 different zodiac signs. All right. So you can have maybe a very, fiery and and in-your-face Mars, you know, if it’s in a zodiac sign like Aries, or you can have a sort of round about Mars if it’s in a zodiac sign like cancer, it’s not a mars that’s going to face things.
00:04:28:17 – 00:04:49:06
Christopher
It’s not a mars that’s going to lock horns, but in Mars, it’s going to sort of like figure out how it can get what it wants by taking the indirect rather than the direct route. Or maybe you have a mars in Libra. And so you, you set up an alliance with someone else. You, you you feel like you can’t get what you want on your own and that you have to partner with someone else.
00:04:49:11 – 00:05:09:11
Christopher
And this is the way that you go, and you do things. Maybe you have a mars in Capricorn, which is you walk over everyone and climb to the top and and you throw off anyone on the ladder of success. Now, and I’m making a joke, but, that was actually a quick reference to Mars being exalted. Most powerful in the zodiac sign of Capricorn.
00:05:09:13 – 00:05:26:18
Christopher
So you have different Mars expressions according to the zodiac sign that it shows up in. So Mars, when it’s moving forward in the sky with what we call a direct motion, is like, oh, that’s what I want. And it goes and it gets it, okay. And it may go and get it. Like I can do that, you know, like a Chorus Line.
00:05:26:18 – 00:05:44:14
Christopher
Like, I could do that. Or it could be like, get the hell out of my way. I want to like, get that, you know, so, so, so there are different ways that Mars is going to achieve its objective, its different ways that Mars is going to achieve its end. So what happens when Mars is traveling backwards through the sky?
00:05:44:16 – 00:06:12:15
Christopher
Okay, we know that Mars will turn retrograde on December 6th. So what happens when it turns backwards in the sky? Do people suddenly become on Mars? And in a way, that’s that’s pretty true. They kind of do, but not always in the way that one might expect. Like, for instance, what we all know is that when a planet is retrograde, it’s acting in a reverse way to the way that it normally behaves.
00:06:12:17 – 00:06:38:07
Christopher
We’re all pretty much familiar with Mercury Retrograde. I just talked about Mercury retrograde. Mercury is the planet of transactions, of shaking on a deal of buying and selling. And so when Mercury is moving direct in the sky, meaning it’s going from one sign to another and another and it’s zodiacal order, then, then Mercury is forming. These transact making these transactions, doing these deals, buying and selling.
00:06:38:07 – 00:07:06:24
Christopher
And and this is a wonderful thing. When Mercury is retrograde, that means it’s kind of slow down in the sky and not now traveling back over the signs or into the signs that are just left. There’s there’s this feeling that Mercury is undoing the transactional trust. That, sales and deals are falling through, that purchases one purchase something, only discovered that it was a lemon or defective in some way.
00:07:07:01 – 00:07:35:17
Christopher
So mercury instead of moving over smooth transactions, selling, buying and selling is now introducing all kinds of, flies into the ointment to all, sort of all sorts of difficulties with, with a transaction, a purchase or a sale, which is why you will hear many astrologers say, don’t sign a contract or don’t make a big purchase or major decision during the period of time that Mercury’s retrograde, because it may come undone.
00:07:35:19 – 00:08:08:01
Christopher
Venus and Mars just to sort of Venus and Mars just to pick two out of the air. Okay. It’s like I had every intention of talking about Venus and Mars. Okay, but Venus and Mars, when they turn retrograde, Venus retrograde is seen as a time. What? Okay. Venus is named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty. And so, everything is harmonious and beauteous when Venus is, you know, spreading her aura and her grace through the heavens so that when Venus’s retrograde, instead of bringing love and beautiful things, she brings the opposite.
00:08:08:03 – 00:08:34:14
Christopher
This this is, often regarded as a time of breaking up or people not getting along or things that were once harmonious, becoming in harmony as what I’ve seen over the years, over the decades, what I’ve seen over the years is that when Venus retrograde, Venus is powers the power of love. Venus is power is the power of peace or of prosperity.
00:08:34:16 – 00:09:04:01
Christopher
And what can happen during a period of time when Venus’s retrograde is that she has withdrawn that power, she has withdrawn that love, she has withdrawn that peace, she has withdrawn that prosperity. And so by withdrawing, a rule of the heaven, so to speak, of of a planetary deity exercising her power in the heaven by withdrawing that then all sort of all sorts of hell can break loose.
00:09:04:01 – 00:09:26:12
Christopher
In other words, you can have wars, you can have skirmishes, you can have break ups, you can have splits and fissures and fights and combat, because Venus has withdrawn those energies that have held those forces at bay. Okay. That’s that’s that’s a way of looking at Venus retrograde. When Mars is retrograde. We know that Mars is named after the Roman god of war.
00:09:26:12 – 00:09:45:15
Christopher
It’s about conflict and combat and fighting. Fighting for what you want, getting what you want. When Mars is retrograde, one might think like, well, you know, could this be like a peaceful time? You know, even if Mars is retrograde? Mars is named after the Roman god of war. Doesn’t it make sense that this might be a time of peace?
00:09:45:17 – 00:10:20:12
Christopher
And that could be. That’s possible that that that could happen. But what I’ve seen occur is that when Mars turns retrograde, it’s almost like Mars loses its nerve. Mars loses its verve. Mars loses its its gumption and its and its drive and its power. It sort of becomes declawed or defanged in a way. Another thing that I’ve seen sort of show up with the Mars retrograde is this idea of a complacency.
00:10:20:14 – 00:10:39:23
Christopher
You know, that Mars is the struggle. It’s the fight. It’s I want that, or who wants a piece of me? Or, you know, it’s kind of like, I’m going to struggle, fight, resist, you know, campaign advocate, champion, you know, to get what what what I want, what what I think is best, whether it’s for myself or for cause or other people or whatever, have you.
00:10:40:00 – 00:11:10:09
Christopher
When Mars turns retrograde, when Mars becomes sort of defanged and declawed, it becomes complacent. It’s not at its fighting form. And some people might be like, Christopher, what’s what’s wrong with that? I mean, a little complacency nowadays in a world where everyone is so angry and so shrill and, and people are picking apart people’s, you know, statements or positions or just, you know, really kind of maybe even almost looking for a fight.
00:11:10:11 – 00:12:00:19
Christopher
What’s wrong with a little complacency? And that’s an interesting idea. But when you become complacent in a mars retrograde sort of way, it’s because you didn’t resist when you should have resisted. It’s because you didn’t fight when you should have. But it’s because you didn’t go after something when there was something to go after. All right? You said to yourself, I’m not good enough or, or I’m going to get rejected, so why go and get rejected again, you know, or I’m so tired of having this same fight, friends that I never have and friends that I just don’t see why I should have to go and fight again.
00:12:00:21 – 00:12:31:00
Christopher
But Mars retrograde can kind of become a path of least resistance in terms of evading a confrontation in terms of ducking out of something that needs to be done in terms of, shirking something that you are honor bound to do. All right. So, so during a period of time when Mars turns retrograde, it can be almost this feeling of walking away from a fight.
00:12:31:02 – 00:12:51:04
Christopher
Avoiding a confrontation or saying that’s okay when it’s not. And again, one might sort of ask, well, what’s wrong with that? I mean, like, do we all have to do we have to live in a world where we’re all arms akimbo and, you know, like saying, I want this and making all these outrageous demands and things like that.
00:12:51:06 – 00:13:16:14
Christopher
No, no, not at all. I mean, believe me, we could use a lot more peace and quiet and a turning down of the volume in the world that we live. I mean, if anything, it could be, said that there is too much Mars energy that’s going on in the world that we live right now. But I’m not interested in talking to you about the world at large or what’s going on, you know, with with forces that are larger than we are.
00:13:16:16 – 00:13:43:09
Christopher
When I’m interested in talking to you about is how Mars is active in your chart, how it appears in your chart, how it shows up in your chart, and during this period of time, maybe in the last couple of weeks in the time leading up to December 6th, when Mars is going to be turning retrograde, maybe there was a conflict that you walked away from.
00:13:43:11 – 00:14:07:17
Christopher
Maybe there was a confrontation that you avoided. Maybe there was an opportunity for you to go after something and you talked yourself out of it, or you said you weren’t good enough or something along those lines. Now, again, one has freedom of choice. You have freedom of choice in life, in the universe, and you have freedom of choice in astrology.
00:14:07:19 – 00:14:44:12
Christopher
But what we can see happen in astrology is the question, okay, which is really all I’m asking you to sort of think about the question did avoiding that confrontation? Did not standing up to the plate? Did not going after what I wanted? Did not engaging in a fight? Has that resulted in more tumult? Has that resulted in more, emotional distress, you know, or do you have this feeling like you should have you didn’t.
00:14:44:14 – 00:15:18:15
Christopher
And now you have to sort of make yourself accept that all of those things can become fired up when Mars is, is retrograde in the sky, when it’s traveling backwards in the sky. And so you can be full of remorse or guilt, or maybe even self negativity. You know, putting yourself down, getting angry at yourself like, I can’t believe you, you did that again, you know, or I can’t believe you didn’t speak up when you had the opportunity to speak up.
00:15:18:17 – 00:15:44:05
Christopher
And so this can become almost like an angel that you wrestle with, you know? And given that Mars is going to be retrograde for 11 weeks, it may be an angel that you wrestle with for 11 weeks. Now, I’ve not just, like, sent you, you know, and astrological prison sentence of wrestling with an angel for 11 weeks or anything like that.
00:15:44:07 – 00:16:17:07
Christopher
A lot of times, you know, I’ll hear from people that say like, oh, you know, I went through a bad time. I can’t believe it’s another bad time or something else. Astrology is like life. It’s always changing. It’s always unfolding. You’re going to have your good times and your bad times. You’re going to have your plateau periods where nothing’s going on, and you’re going to have those periods of time in which it’s, oh my goodness, it’s like one spinning top crisis after another, or, or those times in which it feels like you’re whitewater rapids rafting through, you know, your life or where it’s one good thing after another, after another, another, and it’s leaving you
00:16:17:07 – 00:17:05:20
Christopher
all just exhausted by it, you know? So, so the planets in their courses can enliven, they can slow down, they can excite, they can stimulate, they can confuse, they can give us extraordinary focus. And this is an ongoing exercise. This is an ongoing experience. So when I’m talking about this idea of Mars turning retrograde in your chart and maybe having sidestepped a conflict or not having spoken up when you had the chance to speak up this journey of the next 11 weeks is either going to be sort of circling back to find that, circling back to find to rediscover what should have been said, what should have been done, and setting up a situation in
00:17:05:20 – 00:17:50:10
Christopher
which you’re in charge of that. You’re proactive, you’re going to bring about perhaps that that confrontation or that encounter, or speaking up in such a way that it wasn’t done in the moment, but just because it wasn’t done in the moment doesn’t mean it can’t ever be done again. All right. So that’s one idea. Another idea, maybe you having to come to terms with a situation that you’re tired of fighting, you’re tired of having, a problem with this, and that might lead to you finally sort of taking yourself off the hook, maybe accepting the situation for what it is, or it may lead to you leaving a situation and saying, you know what?
00:17:50:10 – 00:18:20:23
Christopher
I’m I’m fed up with this, and I’m moving on to something new and different. Because I fought the good fight, I gave the best effort. And, I’m not getting to where I want to get in this situation. And this may feel like I’m walking out or giving up, but maybe what I’m walking out or giving up on is, is is, you know, hitting my head against the wall over and over and over again, and maybe I want to go in a different direction, or I want to do something different.
00:18:21:03 – 00:18:50:11
Christopher
So there are different ways of directing or harnessing this Mars energy. And that’s something that I want to demonstrate by talking about Mars through the 12 zodiac signs. As I mentioned before, Mars is turning retrograde in one zodiac sign, and then it’s moving backwards into another sign, right? So on December 6th, Mars turns retrograde in the zodiac sign of Leo.
00:18:50:13 – 00:19:24:07
Christopher
But on January 6th, Mars leaves Leo and enters the sign that precedes Leo, which is the zodiac sign of cancer. All right. And so there’s going to be a switch. There’s going to be a change in Mars’s disposition. More often than not, a planet will retrograde in just one zodiac sign. And so we’re talking about, oh, I don’t know, Uranus in Taurus Uranus has been interest since 2018 and has been moving forward and retrograde in Taurus since 2018, but it’s always been in Taurus.
00:19:24:09 – 00:19:54:03
Christopher
And so when we talk about Uranus retrograde, it’s retrograde in one sign, Taurus, because it spends, Uranus will spend eight years in one zodiac sign. In this particular situation, Mars is in fiery Leo. And then on January 6th, it moves into watery cancer. And so there is a definite change in terms of temperament and disposition in that retrograde or that backwards motion either.
00:19:54:03 – 00:20:22:06
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00:20:39:21 – 00:21:04:19
Christopher
Let’s say that you’re born under areas, or you have Aries rising. What you’re going to have experienced in the past couple of weeks with Mars and Leo is a real affirmation of who you are. You know, Leo is a fire sign, just like Aries is a fire sign. Aries has a tendency more to, struggle with contests and obstacles, to to show off what it can do.
00:21:04:21 – 00:21:30:05
Christopher
But when you have your ruling planet Mars and Leo, it’s more the ownership of that. You know, as an Aries, you’re going to have felt recently less like, I have to prove myself and more like I am myself, you know, because Mars is in Leo, okay? And Leo is a very self-confident fire sign. And so, you know, you may have felt recently that, you know, it’s not about proving myself.
00:21:30:05 – 00:21:51:02
Christopher
It’s about being myself. I am myself. And and if you like it, great. And if you don’t get out of my life or something like that, live. So, but what might have happened? Because in the stellar horoscope, the position of of cancer, what might have happened is that you might also have drawn a line in the sand.
00:21:51:04 – 00:22:15:14
Christopher
If you’re born under areas or have Aries rising, you might have drawn a line under in the sand about what you’re not going to put up with anymore, or what you’re not going to, tolerate anymore. This might be things that you’re not going to put up with or tolerate anymore about yourself, or this may have something to do with not putting up or tolerating things that are happening with a loved one or friend.
00:22:15:16 – 00:22:48:18
Christopher
Maybe this person has really been out of control. Maybe this person has really been difficult to get along with. And now you’re going to practice tough love. You know, maybe this is a member of your household that loved one who’s battling with different psychological, issues. And now it’s time for tough love. It’s time to draw this line in the sand, and we’re going to stand by this line when Masters retrograde in in Leo, there’s going to be a feeling like that line isn’t holding.
00:22:48:20 – 00:23:11:16
Christopher
There’s going to be this feeling like, it’s not doing what it was supposed to do. The tough love isn’t producing results now being born under Mars ruled sign, you may feel like, you know, just hey, Aries, just tough it up. Just just become even more, you know, about this, you know, don’t go soft sort of thing.
00:23:11:18 – 00:23:34:11
Christopher
And what you may feel, particularly when we get into January 6th, is that this is not working, that this line in the sand, that this tough love stance is not working, it’s not taking into account, the very real pain or suffering that’s going on in the life of someone close to you, and that it’s not really proving itself to be successful right now.
00:23:34:11 – 00:24:04:07
Christopher
What this may leave you with the feeling of is two things. This may leave you with a feeling, a recognition that the person who’s going through a difficult time, maybe it’s, self-sabotaging. Can’t change. They can’t stop it, you know? And so that might leave you with the feeling of you can’t do anything to turn this person around.
00:24:04:09 – 00:24:28:23
Christopher
Or it may produce a new, feeling that you can’t help this person. You know, Aries is the superhero of the Zodiac. They want to fly and rescue the cat from the tree, you know, or the baby from the burning building and go off to the next superheroic exploit. And so realizing that you can’t help someone is a very hard thing for an Aries sign to realize.
00:24:29:00 – 00:24:56:10
Christopher
And so, again, that might make you even more fortified. Like, I have to be even tougher on my love. But what happens with Mars going into cancer? And it’s going to be there from January 6th, until it comes out of retrograde on February 24th, is that you may come to terms with your emotional shortcomings and might not be the best way of putting it, but your shortcomings as a loving person, you know you can love someone.
00:24:56:10 – 00:25:25:19
Christopher
You can want the best for someone. You can now turn and be tough, love or whatever. But these are shortcomings are not working, you know, and that perhaps what’s needed here is a truer understanding, a deeper understanding of love, in terms of an acceptance of where that person is in their lives, and less about disciplining them and getting them more on track and more just about meeting them where they are.
00:25:25:21 – 00:25:56:00
Christopher
And with that understanding that might cause a different way of looking at the situation to emerge, and certainly a different way of looking at a situation, a situation that we thought was set in stone is one of the great beauties to one of the great blessings of a retrograde. If you’re born under Taurus or you have Taurus Rising, what you may have experienced in recent weeks is really, conflict really being at odds with someone.
00:25:56:02 – 00:26:17:03
Christopher
All right. That’s because Mars is in Leo. Leo’s in zodiac sign that squares Taurus. And squares, by the way, are an aspect in astrology. And they’re they’re of the nature of Mars. Their character is Mars. And so you might have really felt like, you know, you’re at odds with someone that that you’re not going to budge, that person’s not going to budge.
00:26:17:09 – 00:26:45:09
Christopher
Different people have come forward to plead and say, what about options? Alternatives, you know, and you’re like, no options, no alternatives. And they’re like, next sign. And so and so you may be like, I’m not going to budge. And maybe it’s this person’s fault. They’re the ones who need to budge or they need to relent, you know, and again, people come forward and they’re like, well, what about being accommodating in some way or coming in at different hours or maybe looking the other way on this one and you’re like, no, no, I want to look the other way on this one.
00:26:45:09 – 00:27:11:22
Christopher
There’s like no fixed sign. And so you’re very fixed and the way that, you know, win or lose, this is the way it’s going to be. And what can happen when we’re involved in this kind of a contest, what can happen when we’re involved in this kind of a wrestling match with, with someone else is, is that we put more and more energy into the fight and really more and more energy into the overcoming of the other person.
00:27:11:24 – 00:27:38:15
Christopher
And we can miss the human side of what’s going on. All right. And it just it doesn’t have to just be locking horns with someone. It can also be based on a perspective, a point of view, a belief. I don’t know if you’re familiar with The Christmas Carol, but A Christmas Carol very quickly is a story of a man named Scrooge who’s who, you know, is very penny pinching.
00:27:38:17 – 00:27:55:23
Christopher
And, he’s got, someone who works for him named Bob Cratchit, who he wants to, you know, come in and work on Christmas Day. And Bob Cratchit is like. But, it’s Christmas, you know, and Scrooge is like, And I expect you. You mean to be paid for it? I mean, like, Scrooge is, like, really awful.
00:27:55:23 – 00:28:15:05
Christopher
All right. And so Bob Cratchit, like Merry Christmas, says Scrooge. And Scrooge is like, bah, humbug, you know? And he slams the door and it’s Bob Cratchit, you know, goes home. And so Scrooge is just obsessed with Bob Cratchit is just like, taking more money out of me, and I. And I pay him well. And the reality is, no, he doesn’t pay Bob Cratchit well at all.
00:28:15:05 – 00:28:35:19
Christopher
Like everyone’s wondering about why Bob Cratchit is still working for him. But, you know, Scrooge is very, like, involved in, you know, people just want things from me. People just want money from me. And so he’s visited by three Christmas spirits and and they get him to see the light of day. And he turns around and his heart, you know, opens, his mind opens.
00:28:35:19 – 00:28:58:23
Christopher
He has a realization of really how much, how much miserly ness has become a prison, based on his fears and anxieties and how it’s choked off his life. It’s choked off his heart. One of the key moments here is the Christmas, the Ghost of Christmas present takes Scrooge to Bob Cratchit house. And that’s where, Scrooge.
00:28:58:23 – 00:29:19:05
Christopher
See that? Sees that Bob Cratchit has a child named Tiny Tim who’s a cripple and isn’t expected to live very long, you know, but nevertheless goes to church with Bob Cratchit and sings hymns and things like that. And he’s he’s a child full of joy. And he’s the one, of course, who gives us the phrase, God bless us, everyone.
00:29:19:07 – 00:29:42:01
Christopher
And and so and so. Scrooge sees through the visitation of the Christmas of the Ghost of Christmas present a side of Bob Cratchit he hadn’t seen before. He had seen. Bob Cratchit is just taking his money. But now he sees how majorly the crotchets are living and that there’s this child, Tiny Tim that Scrooge actually really quite identifies with.
00:29:42:02 – 00:30:13:00
Christopher
You know, he’s not, a cripple like Tiny Tim, but he’s emotionally crippled. He’s he’s forlorn. He’s he’s been rejected by society. But Tiny Tim doesn’t accept that rejection. He still has joy and love. And that’s the thing that moves Scrooge’s soul. That’s the thing that moves Scrooge’s heart. So that when the Ghost of Christmas Future comes and shows that Tiny Tim will expire within, you know, a year or two, you know, that, and that he will people are weeping over him and he will be missed.
00:30:13:02 – 00:30:45:11
Christopher
That’s when. When Scrooge’s heart breaks, it opens up. He feels grief for the child, and he wants to change his life. This is my way of demonstrating what this Mars retrograde will be doing for you. If you’re born under Taurus or or have Taurus Rising, you may have a very entrenched view about someone. Maybe they’re an adversary or an opponent, or maybe it’s someone that you think you know is is riding on your coattails or using you for your money or or something along those lines, or someone that you just can’t stand.
00:30:45:11 – 00:31:26:13
Christopher
We can throw that on in to. What you may have during this 11 week period is a glimpse of the humanity of this person. You know, seeing that this person has a loved one, a child, a favorite, pets, something, something about this person or this person goes to church or is charitable or giving in some way, or that this person is suffering something, which is very difficult or very challenging or has gone through challenging circumstances, is something that’s going to move your heart and in your heart being moved, you’re going to go from sort of repeating these things that maybe you’ve been repeating about this person, or people like this person for far too
00:31:26:13 – 00:31:51:22
Christopher
long, and suddenly having your heart melt, having your heart open, and you seeing the human element, the human quality of this person. And of course, when you see someone in terms of a shared humanity, the person no longer is an adversary or an other or a stranger. The person is a brother or sister. The person is, is, is a friend.
00:31:51:24 – 00:32:17:04
Christopher
And that may be something that you may be experiencing taking place over the next 11 weeks. Now, if you’re born under Gemini or you happen to have Gemini Rising, this Mars retrograde is going to be really intriguing, for you or it’s intriguing for me talking about you. Okay, it’s probably a better way of putting it. The Mars is turning retrograde in the zodiac sign of Leo.
00:32:17:04 – 00:32:41:04
Christopher
Leo’s a fire sign. Gemini is an air sign. And there is a shared. There is a shared sympathy between the two zodiac signs. We used to call these masculine signs air and fire signs for masculine signs. And the feminine signs were water and earth. Sometimes they were. The aggressive signs are and fire and passive, were water and earth.
00:32:41:06 – 00:33:05:18
Christopher
Nowadays, the terms of yang yin and yang are being associated with these forces just to sort of take them out of the gender. Gender, you know, blinders, you know, and sort of open it up to more of a give and take between energies, which are often portrayed if they’re masculine or feminine and feminine, as being more oppositional than complementary, especially nowadays.
00:33:05:20 – 00:33:35:03
Christopher
So, so what’s going on here is that the Mars is in Leo. It’s, it’s, it’s it’s inflamed to the Gemini energy in your life. It’s accelerated your Gemini energy. And what you may have experienced recently is having gotten together with a like minded group of people. You know, maybe it’s a new set of friends, maybe it’s a new set of colleagues, maybe your team, one you know, at your bowling league or something along those lines, and now you’re going on to the next level of championships.
00:33:35:09 – 00:33:55:22
Christopher
Okay, I don’t know. I’m bringing bowling. Okay. So but something in which you’re feeling very like, you know, camaraderie, you know, with, with, with like minded people and you feel like you’re really going places, you feel like you’re going to really get what you want. And it’s based on the people you’re socializing with, and it’s based on the people you’re fraternizing with.
00:33:55:24 – 00:34:26:14
Christopher
With this Mars turning retrograde on December 6th and moving backwards in the sky, and Leo, you may be questioning yourself as to whether, the ends justify the means. Mercury ruled signs are very much ends justify the means. In other words, whatever I need to do to get to where I need to get to is worth doing. And in some regards, this is seen as very Machiavellian.
00:34:26:14 – 00:34:50:01
Christopher
You know, there’s like, you know, the ends never justify the means. And, and it’s just about manipulation, getting what you want, but honestly ends justify the means comes out of this idea of what what’s the most effective approach? What’s the best way to get from point A to point B? And okay, some people are going to suffer. Or, you know, if someone wins a contest, someone wins and other people lose.
00:34:50:01 – 00:35:13:01
Christopher
Not everyone can win. And so it’s this idea of like, you know, not everyone’s going to be happy at the result, and maybe you want to be on the side that’s happier than the other side at the end of the results. So so, so ends justify the means can sort of take on, a bit of a vigilante quality or a bit of, you know, maybe an or a moral quality.
00:35:13:01 – 00:35:38:14
Christopher
It’s often portrayed that way, but it can also talk about efficacy and efficiency. And and if these are good means, then then really it’s about setting up good ends, you know, maybe it’s less about the ends justifying the means and the means being good leading to good or positive, ends. And so that might be something that’s been very much on your mind.
00:35:38:14 – 00:36:17:19
Christopher
And you have like minded people and you’re feeling maybe, we went too fast. Maybe we didn’t take into account other people’s thoughts and feelings or positions. Maybe we weren’t detail oriented enough in some ways, and maybe we might have Mark Mars over at some people. Maybe we mowed over some people on the way from here to there, or the way of getting to what we want and what you may find yourself really starting to experience when Mars switches from Leo to Cancer on January 6th, is you might find yourself asking yourself if you’re still on board with what’s going down.
00:36:17:19 – 00:36:43:15
Christopher
In other words, that there were shortcuts, that there were people cut out. That okay, it’s a game and and yet and you play to win. But maybe there was a way of winning that wasn’t so, sportsman like, and so there going to be some real questions coming into your mind as to whether you can really still be on board with this.
00:36:43:17 – 00:37:10:18
Christopher
And this, to me, is going to create more of a sort of opportunity for self-reflection. I think you may find yourself after the January 6th crossover from Leo to Cancer, of being more involved in a moral quandary. More involved in like, well, I got what I wanted by, you know, forging alliances with this group of people. I mean, do I really feel like passing that back?
00:37:10:20 – 00:37:40:12
Christopher
You know, or, is there any way that I can secretly contribute to a charity without anyone knowing it’s me, you know? And so you may find yourself really questioning, whether this was okay, the way that you, achieved your ends. And then you may find yourself involved in a situation in which that’s going to repeat, or there’s going to be a continuation of this, and this is what’s really going to bring about the prick of conscience in you.
00:37:40:14 – 00:38:03:10
Christopher
Okay. This is the thing that’s going to really make you wonder if this is all right. And that’s kind of where I want to leave it with you. Gemini. If you’re born under Gemini or the rising sign Gemini, because you guys really respond to questions, Gemini is a sign that doesn’t like to be told what to think.
00:38:03:12 – 00:38:35:09
Christopher
But Gemini wants to do the thinking, and a lot of times Geminis do their best thinking when they’re posed with a question that isn’t so easy to answer. And so that’s why I’m saying for you, that this Mars retrograde is going to introduce a moral quandary that you might be very uncomfortable with. You know, that you might find yourself coming up with all sorts of excuses or explanations, but it’s going to make you look at the results of your actions in a cancerian way.
00:38:35:11 – 00:39:04:15
Christopher
And what I mean by that is the result of your actions in terms of people who may be hurt or wounded, or who are paying a, a price for you getting what you want. Okay. And that’s something that that’s something that I think you’re going to be thinking about wrestling with. And I’m going to be very interested and going to be very intrigued as to what emerges.
00:39:04:17 – 00:39:32:21
Christopher
Myanmars comes out of retrograde on February 24th. If you’re born under cancer or you have cancer rising, this Mars retrograde is going to be very powerful. It turns retrograde in Leo on December 6th, but then it reenters your own zodiac sign on, January 6th, where it will remain until, it turns direct and leaves your sign again.
00:39:32:23 – 00:39:56:07
Christopher
What I find fascinating about this for you is that. And I don’t really have any other way of describing it that comes to mind. You may have found that you have just stepped into the parental role. All right. Now, that could be literally you could be a parent right now. You might have just become a parent right now.
00:39:56:09 – 00:40:30:16
Christopher
Or it could be that you’ve taken on a parental role, perhaps more allegorically. Why I’m using the word parent is because Leo and cancer are parental signs. In astrology. These are the two parental signs, Leo, because of its association with, Hi. Summer is is is the good father and, cancer. Because if it’s association with the summer solstice here in the North and again, all, zodiacal sign temperaments are described seasonally.
00:40:30:16 – 00:40:55:20
Christopher
And the seasonal palette that we use in astrology, in Western astrology is based on the experience of the seasons in the Northern hemisphere. Astrology comes out of the Middle East. That’s in the Northern hemisphere. And so that’s why the disposition of the planets, are described in the way that they’re described. So in the northern Hemisphere, the, summer solstice is cancer.
00:40:55:22 – 00:41:21:15
Christopher
And so that’s seen as a good mother. And so what you have here is good father Mars is turning retrograde in the sign of the good father losing back to cancer, which is the sign of the good mother. And what this is talking about to me is having recently stepped into the parental role, as I said, you might have just become a parent or you might be in a parental role regarding a parent.
00:41:21:21 – 00:41:48:07
Christopher
Maybe you’re taking care of a parent or or helping a parent out financially, in some way. Maybe you’re making decisions or helping a parent to make decisions in which the parent has become more the child and you are more the parent. And so this may be something that leaves you feeling, you know, am I ready, hesitant, reluctant, questioning, maybe even self-doubting.
00:41:48:09 – 00:42:13:02
Christopher
And then, you know, this may also be something like, okay, well, someone’s got to step into this position. That person’s going to be me. Now, with the retrograde Mars retrograde, there’s going to be loss of courage. There’s going to be a loss of them in vigor, a loss of confidence. And you may feel over the 11 week period, the next 11 week period, a real struggle with can I do this?
00:42:13:02 – 00:42:36:06
Christopher
Am I capable of doing this? Who am I to suddenly take over my parents finances? Or or who am I to be, like, taking care of this child, you know? And so there may be some real question about that. What’s also interesting is that there may be issues with the mother of the father that are going on right now.
00:42:36:08 – 00:43:09:00
Christopher
Well, I’ve already referred to that, but you may be feeling a shift. In other words, when Mars was in Leo the last couple of weeks, you might have some more fatherly, you know, more like the, the disciplinarian or the this is the way things are going to be type of figure. And as it moves backwards into the lunar realm of the moon, you may reconnect more to that sort of lunar or that motherly nature inside of you, and you might be like full of second, second thoughts and doubts.
00:43:09:00 – 00:43:33:05
Christopher
Like maybe I came on too strong. Maybe I was too infantilizing in the way that I spoke to this person. All I want to do is be supportive and encouraging, but even in you’re wanting to go back to that mothering or supporting, encouraging role, there may be something retrograde about that. That may be the person that you’re dealing with needs some direction.
00:43:33:11 – 00:44:08:19
Christopher
Maybe the person you’re dealing with needs some discipline, and maybe you’re the one who has to get comfortable with that idea. In any case, this would be the journey of your journey over the next 11 weeks. And on February 24th. I’m not saying that you’re going to be comfortable with the kind of role that you’re taking on, but you’re going to be much more mindful, you know, on one on in one regard, I think you’re going to be much more accepting that you do have to take on this parental role, that you are taking on this parental role, that as a parent, you’re going to do the best that you can do.
00:44:08:21 – 00:44:41:07
Christopher
But at the same time, maybe being a little bit more in your corner, you know, and, and maybe a little bit more supportive of you, less focusing on all the things that you’re doing that are wrong and more focusing on all the things that you’re doing that are right and really taking this moment, you know, having a child or being a parent to your own parents, these are moments that are really, life crossroads moments, you know, rite of passage moments is a good way of, of referring to it.
00:44:41:09 – 00:45:23:16
Christopher
And these are transitions that we have to really absorb and take in with, in ourselves and in our own bodies and in our own lives. You can read all the books that you want to on it, but it’s really kind of come out of you. And I think perhaps what, what may help you is more of a reconnecting and a trust in yourself as being a really wonderful parent, even if the person you’re parenting is you, if you’re born under Leo or you have Leo rising, Mars turning retrograde in your sign on December 6th, you’re going to feel that, okay, Mars is very much about connection and drive, and it’s very much about a
00:45:23:16 – 00:45:45:16
Christopher
service asserting itself. Leos are the zodiac sign of the lion, and we all know that the lion is associated with courage. And so, you know, with Mars moving forward through your zodiac sign, you’re feeling very triumphant. You’re feeling very confident. You’re feeling, you know, like you can’t possibly lose. You know, you’re you’re on a roll. But this isn’t this isn’t a lucky streak.
00:45:45:16 – 00:46:04:20
Christopher
I don’t want to go down that path. That’s not what’s going on here. What it is, is that you’re feeling very confident in who you are, very motivated, very driven and who you are, and you’re feeling very supported by that. You know, people are saying, yes, you are this person. This is a wonderful thing. You are generous, you are warm, you are kind, you are loving.
00:46:04:20 – 00:46:29:02
Christopher
These are all wonderful things. And and you stand up for people when they can’t stand up for themselves. Leo, you, you you’re no Cowardly Lion. You’re you’re well, De Leon. You are. You are to be celebrated in your in your in your courage and your vitality. Well, Mars turning retrograde brings a sudden halt to that. Okay. And then it turns around and it starts moving backwards in the sky.
00:46:29:04 – 00:46:54:22
Christopher
And so what you may feel in the weeks that follow, December 6th is a loss of confidence. And especially when we get to January 6th, the Mars passes from Leo to Cancer and January 6th, you may at that time start feeling more and more like a nest of insecurities, like your second guessing everything that’s going on that you’re not sure of yourself, that you’re very emotional.
00:46:54:24 – 00:47:16:08
Christopher
And, and you may be even looking for someone to take you away from where you are now. Some Leos may react to this, by becoming more having lost their nerve and their courage. You know, having an experience of cold feet and wanting out or to go back the way that you that you went, like I thought I was up for this and I’m not.
00:47:16:08 – 00:47:38:09
Christopher
And how do I get off this horse, you know, and other Leos might actually clamp down with it. You know, you may be wrestling with these feelings that are going on underneath, but instead of it becoming humbling, humiliate. And you’re going to double down on the lioness. You’re going to double down with the shaking of the man. You’re going to double down on the raw.
00:47:38:13 – 00:48:01:06
Christopher
You’re going to say, you know, you may think I’m defanged and declawed, but I still have paws. And they can take a knock. They can knock the wind out of you. You know, you’re and or you become even more, ferocious. That can happen to all sorts of compensatory behavior, can exhibit and present itself with a retrograde planet.
00:48:01:08 – 00:48:32:20
Christopher
And so that might be what’s turning on underneath with you. But what we’re really dealing with here during this period of time that Mars and Leo has lost its nerve, and during this period of time, these 11 weeks when Mars will move into, cancer, which has a tendency to be much more timid than Leo is a real examination of what it means to be brave and what it means to be strong, and what it means to be courageous.
00:48:32:22 – 00:48:56:08
Christopher
Now one you know, brave, strong, courageous. I don’t know him automatically start thinking about Boy Scouts or something like that, you know, but we’re brave, strong, courageous. You know, it’s the expanding of the chest and the roar and and all those sorts of things. But that isn’t real bravery, that isn’t real courage, that isn’t real strength.
00:48:56:10 – 00:49:27:10
Christopher
A hero isn’t someone who just beats their opponent senseless and has a life and goes off to have a drink about it, you know, after kicking sand in their faces or something along those lines. There’s nothing heroic in that. That’s just real domineering, you know, that’s just dominating. And people might watch that in kind of like a bloodsport way, you know, Gladiator or something like, you know, oh, you know, beat beat the other gladiators or the Christians.
00:49:27:12 – 00:50:04:06
Christopher
Bread and circuses in ancient Rome, you know, when men have that kind of, of experience. But what we look at as heroic isn’t always a winner. You know, we’re taught nowadays that, you know, you want to be a winner, not a winner. You know, winner. Not a loser, you know? But winners aren’t always heroic. You know, winners can have a way of, like, high one, you know, and they can come across almost as spoiled children, you know, as people who are just sort of like, okay, you won again, you know, or you’re winning and then you’re just gloating in the most obnoxious way.
00:50:04:09 – 00:50:21:14
Christopher
Now, I’m not saying that this is what’s going to go on with you. I don’t think it’s going to go on with you at all. But you may feel like you have to grab for those masks. You know that you may feel like you have to grab for that. Kind of like, you know, I’m bigger than you. I’m stronger than you were or whatever.
00:50:21:19 – 00:50:41:10
Christopher
During this time, when you’re questioning your own strengths, when you’re questioning your own courage, you may feel like you need to be tough guy or tough gal. You know, now that Mars is is is retrograde, you know, because if you’re not, then people are going to take advantage or they’re going to take you down or walk all over you.
00:50:41:12 – 00:51:09:14
Christopher
That feeling of walk all over you, those fears and anxieties that are associated with if I don’t show a single minded leadership. Those are wonderful opportunities to get to know what real strength is. Those are wonderful opportunities to get to know what real courage is and with what real leadership is. People don’t respond to someone who just yells at them, you know?
00:51:09:14 – 00:51:29:19
Christopher
I mean, they may at first, but it’s exhausting. You know, what people respond to is someone who shows the way, you know, and they show the way through a shared humanity. You know, they respond to someone who’s like, I know what it’s like to have been through what you’re going through. You know, I know what it’s like to struggle.
00:51:29:19 – 00:51:55:10
Christopher
I know what it’s like to fight the good fight, to lose that fight and somehow come back and fight again. I don’t know why I’m fighting again, but I am. That’s heroism, you know that. That struggling to be better, to make the world better, to make society better. To make people a better. To not play into fears and anxieties, you know, saying that you can’t be better.
00:51:55:10 – 00:52:20:00
Christopher
Don’t expect anything more than this, you know, go and point the finger at other people and blame it on them. You know, there’s there’s a I take responsibility for my life. I take a responsibility for my position in society. I answered the call to make the world a better place. That’s a heroism. And sometimes that heroism even brings self sacrifice.
00:52:20:02 – 00:52:51:09
Christopher
And self-sacrifice isn’t going to be experienced if you’re pounding your chest or, you know, going on and on at the pulpit or decrying other people and that’s not self-sacrifice. It’s not heroic. It’s not a real leader, you know? So with with Leo, that heart and you have a big heart knowing what it’s like to have gone through things that are difficult and also having a good sense of humor about it.
00:52:51:11 – 00:53:19:11
Christopher
That’s the father figure that everyone looks for, you know, that’s the person that, you know, the person who can tell you, you know, yeah, things are bad. And let’s talk about that person who has the presence of mind and heart to do that, to provide a shelter, even if things feel like they’re not going to be sheltered or turn out well, the person who, who, who make sacrifices in order for the kid to get ahead.
00:53:19:13 – 00:53:41:01
Christopher
These are the attributes of Leo. These are the wonderful attributes of Leo. And if you can find that that if you can share that, if you can find that in another person, you know that weakness isn’t about saying I can’t win and then giving up, but that it makes you identifiable to someone else who’s like, yeah, I’m scared too.
00:53:41:01 – 00:54:21:18
Christopher
But but let’s keep believing that in that dream or let’s keep going for something better. That’s the thing that summons the spirit. That’s the thing that ignites the fire. And that’s the thing that you may find making a lot of sense. When Mars comes out of retrograde on February 24th. If you’re born into Virgo or you have Virgo rising, you may start to feel resentful about being, I don’t know, used, taken for granted, or overlooked this period of time that Mars was moving through Leo, which was the last couple of weeks, you might have felt very emboldened.
00:54:21:21 – 00:54:53:02
Christopher
You might have even been promoted to a new situation. Or maybe you’ve been promoted to a new situation recently and, you know, you’re the person in charge and you’re giving orders and things like that. And, even though you’re the person in charge who’s giving orders and things like that, you may find that you’re still the person going out and fetching coffee for everyone, that you’re still the person who you know is going out and getting things, for your coworkers or your employees or something along those lines.
00:54:53:04 – 00:55:17:14
Christopher
And you might find yourself wondering, is this something that someone in charge should be doing? I mean, shouldn’t it be someone else who’s going out and doing this for me now? Virgos. Virgos have always had a status problem. It’s the sign that follows Leo and Leo, as you imagine, has no steps problem at all. Leo is top dog, you know, top on the food chain.
00:55:17:14 – 00:55:38:04
Christopher
You know Leo’s have no problem with status or being, you know, at the top. Virgos have a great deal of problem with status. So much so that they really prefer the, the power behind the throne, placement, you know, they and other. And what am I saying with that? What I’m saying with that is that they prefer to be the counselor, the advisor, the guider.
00:55:38:06 – 00:55:57:00
Christopher
You know, the person giving guidance. They don’t want to be the person who’s sitting on the throne itself. But there are certain times in which a Virgo has to go and sit, sit on the throne. There are certain times in which a Virgo has to go and and enter into a status position, and you may find yourself wondering, how is that supposed to work?
00:55:57:02 – 00:56:13:06
Christopher
Right now it may be coming across more along the lines of like, why am I fetching coffee for everyone, you know? And shouldn’t they be getting it for me? You know, and then there may be another part of you is like, what’s wrong with fetching coffee for everyone? It’s not a big deal. But, you know, and you might be like, yeah, yeah, yeah, I don’t need that.
00:56:13:06 – 00:56:45:07
Christopher
But there’s still something that’s irking you about the status position. Maybe it’s under threat in some regard. Maybe it’s being challenged in some regard. Maybe now that you’ve achieved it, people are just listening to you in the same way that they listened to you before. And so this is really more about your confidence, you know, and the way that you give direction or the way that you delegate responsibility, an impossible task for all the Earth signs, Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn.
00:56:45:08 – 00:57:09:21
Christopher
Anyway, but but that problem or that issue, that challenge may lie within you. Now, what I’d like to sort of think of as an image when I’m talking to a Virgo client about this sort of status image is, we all know the story of Cinderella, right? She, she cleans out the cinders in a fireplace belonging to a home that she lives, which is dominated by her wicked stepmother and her daughter.
00:57:09:21 – 00:57:43:23
Christopher
So Cinderella has a wicked stepmother and wicked stepsisters and now the father’s out of the picture altogether. Or the father is just a, you know, useless. And so Cinderella is very giving and very loving and very honoring of her mother’s memory, who passed when Cinderella was just a very little girl. And the father, although things are sort of rackety and ragged around the edges, still has a noble title and so the father is invited to the ball or the stepmother because of her allegiance, her marriage to the fathers, and invited to a princess ball.
00:57:44:02 – 00:58:00:12
Christopher
A prince is having a ball where he’s going to choose. A wife. And Cinderella really wants to go to the ball and like, you know, the sisters where they’re like, you know, tacky fashions, you know, and they laugh at Cinderella and they’re like, oh, go back to brushing dissenters out of the fireplace. You’re not going to come to the ball.
00:58:00:14 – 00:58:26:19
Christopher
So, and so she does. And she’s visited by a fairy godmother who may be the ghost of her own mother, and she’s transformed into beautiful, a beautifully mysterious, lovely lady who’s taken to the ball in a pumpkin carriage drawn by mice who are now horses and frogs who are now coachman. And she captures the prince’s heart and and but at the stroke of midnight, because the godmother says you have to run away at midnight, you’ll revert back to your old self.
00:58:26:23 – 00:58:49:06
Christopher
So she does, she leaves behind a glass slipper, which the prince then uses to go and identify who she is. And, when he finds out that the slipper fits the foot of this raggedy, And girl, it’s not like, oh, my God, what am I marrying? But transported, you know, because he recognizes in her the woman that he had fallen in love with.
00:58:49:06 – 00:59:11:22
Christopher
That’s the story of Cinderella. Well, what they didn’t tell you about the story of Cinderella is kind of like what happens afterwards. And it’s always assumed afterwards that Cinderella is going to become a princess and she’s going to, I don’t know, eat chocolates out of the box and, and, and stroll around the, along the grounds of the kingdom and look at peacocks or something like that.
00:59:12:01 – 00:59:34:08
Christopher
And we all know that that’s not true. You know that Cinderella, right after the wedding and the night together with with the Prince, the nuptials and things like that, we all know that the following morning, she’s going to start cleaning out the fireplaces. The castle, you know, before she had one fireplace and, you know, but now it’s like, you know, she will clean out every one of the fireplaces in the castle.
00:59:34:12 – 00:59:56:02
Christopher
And that’s probably going to cause a bit of a scandal. And hopefully, we hope that our wishes of them living happily ever after, that the prince has a great sense of humor about it, and he lets Cinderella do it. It’s just like something she’s got to do. This is kind of like Virgos and accomplishment and achievement. You know, you’re you’re you’re you’re working really hard for that Cinderella transformation.
00:59:56:04 – 01:00:20:11
Christopher
All right. And even if you get the set up to read the transformation, the following day, you’re going to go back to work on the fireplaces of the castle. And maybe that castle has 350, you know, which, of course, would delight any Virgo secretly. Okay. But what I’m saying here is the real question with this retrograde isn’t really, you know, careful what you wish for.
01:00:20:11 – 01:00:41:02
Christopher
You might just get it. No, that’s not it. What it is is that you’ve been moved into a position of status, a position maybe of leadership or of management or something along those lines. And, and maybe there’s a protocol and you should be barking orders and people should be following them. And that’s not really happening. And you’re not really comfortable with that.
01:00:41:04 – 01:01:26:13
Christopher
Instead of trying to invest again over the next 11 weeks, you know, ways of getting people to listen to you come out of your Cinderella nest, it’s, you know, come out of the fact that you know, what it’s like to labor. You know, what it’s like to work really hard and that what you’re looking for or what you’ve been wanting, perhaps along the way isn’t really status, but it’s more meaningful, more work, purposeful work, work that you do with other people, you know, puts me in mind, I was raised a Catholic during Vatican two, but it puts me in mind of street ministries, which were a big thing, in the 60s in, in,
01:01:26:13 – 01:02:00:03
Christopher
in Northern California, which is where I was raised, where, it wasn’t the church, you know, where people had to go to the church and find solace or confession or give money to the church or something like that, sit in a pew. But street ministries, where the church would come to, where people who were suffering or having difficulty were and they would provide shelter, they would provide solace, they would provide a place to come and to, to be in the body of Christ, whatever that was.
01:02:00:03 – 01:02:19:15
Christopher
I mean, it wasn’t always going to be a sermon or here’s a Bible or this is our doctrine or something like that. It was really the true charity of of Christianity. And so now I’m not saying you’re going to go in and do that, although Mother Teresa was a Virgo. That’s saying that you’re going to go and do that.
01:02:19:17 – 01:02:47:01
Christopher
But what I’m saying is that maybe there’s a different way that you can exercise management, a different way that you can exercise leadership, because a different way of exercising status that doesn’t have to be up and above and removed, but can be sort of like, you know, pulling up the sleeves on the, on the shirt and rolling up the sleeves and getting to work with others that getting to work with others creates such a bond.
01:02:47:03 – 01:03:25:18
Christopher
It creates such, solidarity that you’re going to find, you know, that nobody worries about who gets who coffee or anything along those lines, but that this has been something that you may very well be looking for is it’s not the status in the work, but it’s being reminded of what the purpose is of the work, and that it’s really more coming from a place of all being in it together, you know, which is a more cancerian take on it than it is on, you know, ordering people around which can be a little bit more leonine.
01:03:25:20 – 01:03:51:09
Christopher
If you’re born under Libra or you have Libra rising, then what you’ve been experiencing the past number of weeks is Mars, asking over the solar midheaven point of your solar chart? Okay. So the charts are basically, set up with the sign in the rising position of the sun sign itself. And it’s what astrologers like myself used to do.
01:03:51:11 – 01:04:20:17
Christopher
Some time predictions. But they can also be interpreted it just as easily for rising sign predictions as well. In any case, you’ve had Mars, the planet of named after the Roman god of war contests, combats and battles arcing over your, over your Midheaven. This changed, just a couple of weeks ago. And so, when Mars entered the zodiac sign of Leo.
01:04:20:17 – 01:04:42:08
Christopher
Let’s finish that thought. Christopher. Okay, so Mars is marking over cancer, which is the prominent place of the midheaven of a Libras chart, and it moved into the zodiac sign of Leo when Mars was over. That cancer place, that solar midheaven place, that peak. It’s the peak place of the chart. Think of a clock. A wall clock, and with with hands, you know, 12 noon.
01:04:42:08 – 01:05:03:19
Christopher
That’s that’s that’s the solar midheaven. It’s as high as you can get in a chart. And so with Mars, there was, there was some sort of battle over status, some sort of battle of accomplishment, some sort of battle over over achievement. This is a top dog position, you know, and you might have found yourself battling for that position.
01:05:03:21 – 01:05:35:14
Christopher
You might have gone into it voluntarily, or you might have been drafted into it for some reason. But during this period of time, there was a result. So either you, earned that top dog position. Okay. So so as a Libra, you’re either like in the top dog seat right now, you know, as we’re talking, or you might have experienced the opposite, which is what Mars can bring when, it’s traveling over the solar midheaven you might have experienced, you know, going from top of the, heap to bottom of the barrel.
01:05:35:14 – 01:06:06:14
Christopher
You know, that might have also been an experience. So in the past few weeks, there’s either been an experience of triumph or perhaps even of, of of of failure. And with Mars stopping in Leo and turning retrograde and going back over into cancer, there’s going to be a lot of second thoughts about that. Let’s say your top dog, let’s say you won the fight for the kingdom or the throne or the, you know, the hand of the Pharaoh, major.
01:06:06:14 – 01:06:30:15
Christopher
The hand of the fair fellow. Okay. You got what you wanted then, you know, as we say, you know what follows that has been sobering. It might be this feeling of like, what did I sign on for? I’m not a top dog or, you know, this was fine when I was battling for this, but now that I have it, I don’t know if I want this anymore.
01:06:30:17 – 01:06:59:04
Christopher
That might be some of the regret or the second thoughts or the loss of courage that, Leo turning retrograde. That. That Mars and Leo turning retrograde could bring. Or it could be, fall from from the top, going from the top of the heap to the bottom of the barrel. And it can be sort of, sort of getting yourself back up on your feet and, and taking care of your bruises and your wounds, you know, let’s say you were forced out of a position.
01:06:59:06 – 01:07:20:00
Christopher
You know, you may have people laughing, you know, at you and jeering at your, at your fall. Or you might have people who were like, you know, okay, but we still love you or something along those lines. But there may be this very bitter taste of, of, failure going on. And this is something to really sort of think about.
01:07:20:00 – 01:07:43:05
Christopher
We often think of Mars as being just about triumph and winning. But Mars, especially in a mars retrograde, can also be the opposite of triumph and winning. And what is that? That’s failure, or fall from grace, or a fall from a very high height, and that can require amazingness from us as well. Now our first reaction might be like, oh, you know, if I failed at something, I need to have a stiff upper lip, you know, take it on the chin.
01:07:43:05 – 01:08:10:00
Christopher
You know, something along those lines. But what if it’s really about examining what the failure has to teach you? You know, a lot of times people look at failure and they’ll be like, oh, I want to be away from failure. I want to go be with the winner, you know, type of thing. But failure can teach you a lot about not how to do it better next time, but about what happened, you know, did I really want this?
01:08:10:02 – 01:08:32:10
Christopher
Did I go about this the right way? Why did things not work out? Maybe they weren’t supposed to work out. Now, one can do a lot more broad based thinking. After having tumbled, rather than being on the top of the heap. When you’re on the top of the heap, you have to keep fighting to maintain that place.
01:08:32:10 – 01:08:48:10
Christopher
You know it’s king of the hill. If you ever played that as a kid, you have to keep shoving all the kids off, you know, the top of the mound, you know, because you’re a king of the hill, you know, and so you have to fight to hold on to that thing. But if you’ve fallen from that, that actually brings a lot more profundity.
01:08:48:12 – 01:09:10:15
Christopher
And I’m not just talking like profundity in life. Like life is full of victories and failures. No, it’s not like that. It’s more profundity. In did I want that? What did wanting that turn me into? Who did I become? Someone else? Did I become a different person? Did I fail and okay, I failed? Can I accept that?
01:09:10:15 – 01:09:45:04
Christopher
Can I love myself? Can I be in my own corner? You know, when you fail, sometimes you’re the only friend you have. You know? And what’s that like? You know, and maybe that, you know, gets you away from self-recrimination or getting down on yourself. And maybe it introduces, I don’t know, humor, you know, and maybe it introduces a search, you know, a search for what you want, you know, and it may lead you back to this contest that you might fight again one day, or it might lead you somewhere else.
01:09:45:06 – 01:10:08:05
Christopher
But the idea of a search, rather than recrimination, the idea of humor, rather than getting down on yourself, you know, these are the things that are to be associated with this period of time. You’ve got 11 weeks to kind of like, soak it in. Maybe what you’re dealing with right now is a real big decision about career or status in your life.
01:10:08:06 – 01:10:28:08
Christopher
You know that you made one choice and now you’re beginning to rethink that choice that you made and beginning to think more and more. It should be a different choice. And ooh, what’s that going to mean when you tell the person you wanted to be with? I don’t think this is a good idea. Or when you tell the person who hired you, I don’t know if I want this position.
01:10:28:10 – 01:10:59:15
Christopher
You can imagine the kind of soul searching that’s going to go on. Well, Libra, that’s your adventure for the next 11 weeks. But there’s a reason why humility and humor are linked, you know, and searching for oneself, finding oneself. Let’s let’s go more with finding oneself, rediscovering oneself. That can’t happen if you’re still on that ladder, throwing people off as you’re trying to get to the top.
01:10:59:17 – 01:11:25:24
Christopher
It can only happen when the rules of the game have been completely changed. That’s when you get the peace and quiet, the solace to really connect to yourself and to what you really want. If you’re born under Scorpio or you have Scorpio Rising, this prolonged period that you’re ruling planet Mars is traveling backwards in the sky. This is going to be a very revealing period for you.
01:11:25:24 – 01:11:50:22
Christopher
Now, you were born under a mars ruled sign. A lot of times people think, well, why isn’t Scorpio ruled by Pluto? Pluto is Scorpio’s modern ruler. The traditional ruler of Scorpio is Mars, so you’re just as driven and ambitious as an Aries, and you’re just as Scorpio forward as an Aries is going to be Aries forward. And so what?
01:11:50:24 – 01:12:17:08
Christopher
But Mars turning backwards, moving retrograde, reversing its direction in the sky. What it’s going to do is that it’s going to take away the motivation. It’s going to take away that drive. It’s going to take away that single minded focus. All right. Scorpios really get a lot out of that sort of single minded focus. And that’s because of the Plutonian aspect of the rulership of your sign.
01:12:17:10 – 01:12:45:06
Christopher
Everything. As far as a Scorpio is concerned, is for life and death stakes, you know, winner take all or you lose everything, you know. So there’s a there’s a ferocity. There’s an intensity to Scorpio in the way that they’re going to want to engage some sort of combat or contest. Now does that apply to all Scorpios? Are they all, you know, the gladiator going into the ring and looking around for other people to, you know, go at it with, you know, with swords and shields and things along those lines?
01:12:45:06 – 01:13:13:12
Christopher
No, there are other Scorpios who practice a different kind of strength, the kind of strength and power that comes from not engaging in what’s going on. You know, it can it can take a great deal of willpower to not engage in the contest or the fight and to simply say, I’m not playing, or these aren’t the rules that I’m going to be playing by Scorpios have the capacity to do that as well.
01:13:13:17 – 01:13:46:12
Christopher
Some Scorpios walk away from the arena, and some Scorpios embrace the arena. So with this Mars turning retrograde in the zodiac sign of Leo as a mars ruled sign, and Mars is malefic, which basically means ill intentioned or wanting the worst for other people. It’s an awful way of thinking of a malefic Malefics to me are the planets that provide strength in the tough times because they know what it’s like to live and be in a tough time.
01:13:46:14 – 01:14:20:20
Christopher
Okay, so when you’re going through a tough time in your life, you’re going to be summoning your Mars. You’re going to be summoning your Saturn, because that’s the planet that’s going to get you through it. The other planets like the Benefics not not necessarily, but the tough planets, the Mars and the Saturn’s. If you can invoke and direct that energy, that will give you the perseverance, the single mindedness, the determination to get through whatever is difficult and to problem solve and to rate even as a result.
01:14:20:22 – 01:14:46:13
Christopher
So with this Mars turning retrograde in Leo, this may be a sort of rethink or revisit of the way that you exercise Mars in your life. All right. Mars, we we know is going to fight for it for what it wants. And you may be like, you know, I absolutely fight for what I want. And and Mars again engages an opponent, and you engage an opponent, and you go at it, you know, and all these sorts of things.
01:14:46:15 – 01:15:15:03
Christopher
But but you may have a realization that your previous Mars strategies aren’t getting you anywhere, okay? Or they’re not getting you anywhere that’s constructive or anywhere that’s good. Now, Scorpio has a very different temperament than Aries does. You know, Aries is a fire sign. So of Aries is angry at something. It’s like, you know, they flare up in anger and then the flame comes back down and they’re over it.
01:15:15:03 – 01:15:35:24
Christopher
You know, they’re fine. They’re good to go. Scorpios have a sort of seething anger that can take place underneath. And that’s because bad things have been done to Scorpio. So they, they, they remember that they feel those wounds of those old emotional pains. But the other thing is that Scorpios, because of their watery nature, are naturally sensitive.
01:15:36:01 – 01:15:58:21
Christopher
And so they feel like they have to be tough and unfeeling at times, you know, because that’s the only way to be strong. There’s a little bit of a parallel to what I was talking about in the Leo, horoscope pilot, that’s going on here with Scorpio. The thing is, with what the Mars and Leo is going to remind you of Scorpio is that you really do like it when people like you.
01:15:58:23 – 01:16:16:23
Christopher
Okay? It may be your big guilty secret. You know that that that people liking you, you may always put on the, air the, the idea, you know, like, I don’t need anyone liking me. I can, you know, I can like myself and, you know, whatever that you don’t need other people’s approval or other people’s support or other people liking you.
01:16:16:23 – 01:16:40:14
Christopher
There can be that kind of a hard edge to to Mars. But today, your Mars is turning retrograde in the zodiac sign of Leo. Leo really cares about people liking them a lot, and this might be something that you’re wrestling with underneath, you know, of, like, you know, you know, why should I care so much whether that person likes me or not, you know, or respects me or not, and you might find a part of you answering.
01:16:40:19 – 01:17:03:02
Christopher
You should care. You know, because it matters. Because it’s nice when someone likes you. It’s nice when someone looks up to you. You know, love is not a battlefield, you know? Oh, who’s saying that? But anyway, love is a battlefield. Okay, anyway, so love doesn’t always have to be a Pat Benatar, okay? Love doesn’t always have to be a battlefield.
01:17:03:04 – 01:17:27:04
Christopher
Life doesn’t have to always be a battlefield. And this is where taking a cue or page out of Venus rule book during this time that, Mars is traveling backwards in the sky for you, until February 24th. This might be a time in which that might help you out a lot. Venus’s rule is always you get more flies with honey than you do with vinegar.
01:17:27:06 – 01:18:00:15
Christopher
All right. So in other words, by being an amenable presence and approach, you know, an approachable person, okay, you actually get more likes in your column. Now, is the Scorpio part of you might be like, I’ve never needed that, you know, but we all know Scorpio. Underneath you’ve secretly longed for that. Now, this doesn’t mean you have to start being nice or putting on nice, but what would be nice is if you were to be more kind, you know, and I’m not saying that you guys aren’t.
01:18:00:15 – 01:18:23:22
Christopher
Scorpios are incredibly kind and they’re, they’re they’re I don’t think any sign beats a Scorpio for being consoling when you’re going through a rough or a difficult time. But Scorpios do have these internal rages that come out and, and, and it comes out of that tug of war between a natural love and sensitivity and a feeling like you can’t be soft like that.
01:18:23:22 – 01:18:41:08
Christopher
You’ve got to be hard. You’ve got to, you know. And that’s where sometimes Scorpios in a bad moment can lash out. That’s what the that’s when the stinger comes out, you know, if you have been more on the ball, we wouldn’t be in this position sting, you know, or you, you know, trundle out a secret that someone told you.
01:18:41:08 – 01:19:07:19
Christopher
And there’s a reason why you’re alone. It’s because of this. And the person’s like, I trusted you, but it’s a secret. I can’t believe it. And you’re like, you know, because you’re in a Scorpio rage. So? So during this time, instead of going into remorse and guilt and apologizing later for it, you have an opportunity to just sort of turn that Mars energy around so it doesn’t have to go there, right?
01:19:07:19 – 01:19:33:13
Christopher
It doesn’t have to get like that. You know, you don’t have to act out your anger in that way. You can you can be angry, be an Aries, be angry, scream at the top of your lungs, but don’t hurt someone as a result. You know, or bring out some, you know, like like like like like throw a secret back in their face or something along those lines, only to have to apologize to it later.
01:19:33:18 – 01:20:05:12
Christopher
Let’s let’s change all of that. You have an opportunity to change all of that. And that comes from a belief that caring and sharing and feeling is a truer strength. It’s a more powerful strength. You know, forgiveness will always be a tall order, and forgiveness will always be a strength. But forgiveness isn’t, you know, you don’t forgive overtaxed any more than you break up overtaxed.
01:20:05:18 – 01:20:30:23
Christopher
Okay? You don’t forgive overtaxed or like I forgive you for like, not being a great friend. You know you don’t do that. But forgiveness, when you’re ready to forgive, when you’re in place, when you can do that. But what brings forgiveness is a recognition that you and the person who’s the person who had hurt you or betrayed you, or let you down, you draw from the same emotional pool.
01:20:31:00 – 01:21:14:01
Christopher
You draw from the same emotional, well, you know what that is like. You’ve been hurt. And so if you’ve been hurt, why would you ever say anything hurtful to another person? Okay. And that comes from panic. Anger. You know, that comes from panic. Anger. I’ve been hurt. So I’m going to lash out. But but let’s let’s redirect that energy during this period of time that Mars is traveling back and forth between Leo and cancer, I think you’ll find that not only can you redirect that energy and redirect that anger, but that it’s going to give you a much more solid sense of yourself because there’s a more compassionate you, a compassion that you show to
01:21:14:01 – 01:21:37:09
Christopher
other people, and a compassion, of course, that you show to yourself. If you’re born under Sagittarius or you have Sagittarius Rising, this period of time when Mars is traveling backwards in the sky from December 6th until it comes out of retrograde on February 24th of next year, it’s going to be a bit odd for you. Why is it odd?
01:21:37:09 – 01:21:59:16
Christopher
The reason it’s going to be odd is that just recently, you’re going to have felt like you’ve just found your way. You know, that you found your footing, that you found your path, that you, that you know where you’re going and you know, being a fire sign. Why wouldn’t you believe that that’s going to continue? You know, that that that you weren’t going to continue, to, on the path or the road that you’re taking?
01:21:59:18 – 01:22:29:13
Christopher
But with the Mars in, turning retrograde in Leo, it’s going to stop in the sky. And then Mars starts to move backwards in the sky, and there may be a loss of faith. There may be a loss of conviction. There may be a loss of confidence. And what’s going on now, that could be a matter of cold feet that you get, you know, and and maybe all you need is to boost your morale or boost up your spirits or something like that again.
01:22:29:15 – 01:22:58:03
Christopher
But I think what’s going to add to it is because the Mars continues from what we would call the cellar ninth house in, in this kind of of, of astrology, forecasting to the solar eight. And so when Mars moves back into the zodiac sign of cancer on January 6th, you might find yourself battling with demons that you thought you had put to rest before.
01:22:58:05 – 01:23:31:12
Christopher
Okay. You may find yourself dealing with difficulties that you felt. You know, I thought we settled this. I thought we got past this. I thought this was all done and this could affect you, financially. Let’s say you’re living with home repair and something like that, and you’ve you’ve done all the home repairs, some things, and then, you know, on that January 6th, Mars goes back to cancer and you find yourself having to deal with that again or, or let’s say you had and had reached to a legal settlement or something and everything’s ready to go.
01:23:31:12 – 01:24:04:10
Christopher
And then now another factor has shown up that’s brought you back down into that again. Maybe you’ve gone through a difficult emotional time with someone, someone who’s needed you emotionally or physically. Maybe you’ve you’ve gone through some real life or death situations, because the eighth house is such a powerful house that it can deal with that, only to find yourself, you know, having to be there for someone else again in that capacity.
01:24:04:12 – 01:24:32:09
Christopher
And so this is going to really feel like, like you’re getting ripped off by the universe, okay? It’s going to feel like, why? Why give me the sense of going forward in my life, a sense of true direction after the weeks, months, the years that I have not had it. Why take something which felt so good and like I was making headway?
01:24:32:11 – 01:25:01:07
Christopher
And why take it away? You know why pulled the rug out from under me like that? And if that is indeed your experience, you know that that that sense of like, you know, the path has disappeared. And worse, I’m finding myself back in a situation that I had struggled with before. I want you to have a good scream and a good yell at the universe.
01:25:01:07 – 01:25:31:09
Christopher
It’s loud. And I want you to feel the full volume of of feeling betrayed or let down or disappointed. I want you to even feel like you’ve lost faith. Like you’re giving up, that you’re throwing in the towel. The wonderful thing that Mars can do is Mars can get us to purge ourselves of those emotions that are so enraging.
01:25:31:12 – 01:26:02:23
Christopher
You know, if we feel rage, Mars is like, feel rage. If we feel despair, Mars is like, feel despair. If we if we feel despondency, feel it. If we want to curse God or the world or the universe. Mars is like, like like, let’s grab bullhorns and curses together, you know, and and, and I think that that’s where Mars can work as this wonderful purging energy, you know, it knows what it’s like to be hurt.
01:26:03:00 – 01:26:20:06
Christopher
It knows what it’s like to be betrayed. It knows what it’s like to have the rug pulled out from under it. And it knows what it’s like to be really pissed off about it, you know? And this is what this is what may be going on with you. You get to feel the hurt of all of those things.
01:26:20:08 – 01:27:00:02
Christopher
Now, is this condemn you? Two years of bad luck, you know, fortune and things like that? No, no it’s not. In fact, you’re really on the threshold of that. But just because we’re going through an upturn in fortune, or just because we’re going through a good period doesn’t make us care free. You know, it doesn’t mean that everything’s all right with your life or or it may mean that not everyone’s going to go with you to their, you know, that some people in your life may reach the border of their lives at that point.
01:27:00:04 – 01:27:34:24
Christopher
What’s important is to not abandon you. Okay? It’s not what’s important is to not give up on you. You’ve gone through this extraordinary journey. You’re rounding the bend. You know things are getting better. But sometimes when things get better, we have losses that may be happening to you emotionally, financially, physically, something along those lines. And this isn’t about being tough about it, you know, or getting over it.
01:27:35:01 – 01:28:00:01
Christopher
It’s about letting yourself feel that, you know, letting yourself feel that because in that is your humanity, in that is your faith in life. And in who you are. Faith isn’t, you know, I’m going to have faith in something. And and if I do, then bad things don’t happen to me. That’s not faith. That’s like school child’s ideas stage.
01:28:00:03 – 01:28:45:13
Christopher
You know, faith is I go through things that are disillusioning, things that are hard. Things are tragic. And the universe is still alive. I’m still alive. Things are still going on. And life, you know, and not giving up on that because there’s wonder and there’s joy in that. And that’s what I’m talking about. You may be dealt a blow or wrinkle or something that really sucks, you know, get angry about it, the furious about it, but don’t get down on yourself about it.
01:28:45:13 – 01:29:10:09
Christopher
And don’t abandon yourself like a like a vehicle on the side of the road about it. You know, the beauty of faith and the beauty of the universe is that you can lose faith in the universe, but the universe will still carry you. You know, you don’t have to have that faith for the universe to still carry you.
01:29:10:11 – 01:29:38:05
Christopher
And this is something which is testified to in astrology and in horoscopes. So put your trust in that. Put your faith in that. You know, you may have felt like you were on the road. You’re going places that you’ve lost your way. You’ll find your way again. You’ll find a way, your way again. But if you want to feel a sadness or an anger or whatever the response you have to that disillusionment, to that disappointment, feel it.
01:29:38:07 – 01:30:03:03
Christopher
Let yourself feel it at full force. Because not only are you going to feel a lot better afterwards, but you’re going to see the world so much more clearly. If you’re born into Capricorn or you have Capricorn Rising, then Mars will be turning retrograde, in your solar house and then tracking back into the soul. The seventh house, the House of partnerships.
01:30:03:05 – 01:30:22:15
Christopher
The seventh house is the house that partners with the first house in astrology. The first house is connected to our ascendant. So, when we talk about rising signs, we will often talk about how we show up in the world, how people perceive us or see us. That’s a rising sign. A rising sign, to me, is the face of the horoscope itself.
01:30:22:17 – 01:30:43:16
Christopher
So what’s the seventh house? Why is it talking about partners? Why is it talking about other people? What the seventh house is, is basically how the world shows up in your life. Okay, so if the first house is how I show up in life, in the world, the seventh house is going to be how the world shows up in your life.
01:30:43:18 – 01:31:08:03
Christopher
So there are going to be times in which the seventh house is connected to your partnership or your relationship UPS, but there are a lot of times in which transits through the seventh house may have little, if anything, to do with you, and they may have more to do with people who have shown up in your life. Now, the one that we’re used to traditionally is the partner.
01:31:08:09 – 01:31:29:05
Christopher
You know that maybe there are difficult transits going through your seventh house, and so your partner is dealing with difficulty. Okay. Or maybe there’s wonderful transits that are going through your seventh house and you’re like, why? Why am I not getting any good anything out of this? You know. But so but the people around you are having wonderful things happen to them, okay?
01:31:29:05 – 01:31:58:06
Christopher
It’s the world showing up in your life. So where are you are right now? With having emerged after Pluto, having been in your zodiac sign since 2008, 2009, having gone through a very long, arduous process in your life, a long, arduous passage in your life and this feeling, and in some ways it’s not too dissimilar from Sagittarius, this feeling that now that you’ve entered into the new you, you want a new life to go with it.
01:31:58:08 – 01:32:21:19
Christopher
And with the retrograde of Mars, having gotten into, Leo and then moving back down into cancer, you may feel like you’re being brought back into old obligations. Old responsibilities? Old? I can’t believe I’m dealing with this. I had to deal with this for the last 15 years, you know, all these sorts of things. And so there may be a feeling, because it’s a retrograde.
01:32:21:19 – 01:32:43:17
Christopher
It’s a mars retrograde of a regression, of a return to old situations. As you know, you can return to old situations, but it’s not the old you. You’ve changed your different. You know, the world’s changed. I mean, that’s why we have sort of these repeating things that happen in history, but we’re not what came before were different. Okay.
01:32:43:17 – 01:33:07:19
Christopher
So we can make different choices whether we want to make different choices or not. Well, let’s take it in the context of your astrological chart. You can make different choices, so you may feel yourself, you know, moving back into, you know, a previous relationship. Maybe it’s a relationship with an ex in which this person becomes very important again or or need to again.
01:33:07:21 – 01:33:26:10
Christopher
Maybe it’s going to work for someone you used to work with before, in which they call you up and say you were the best at this, you know, why did you ever leave? You didn’t pay me enough money. Now, why did you leave? And, you know, I need you or whatever. And you may feel like, you know, you’re being drawn back into old situations.
01:33:26:10 – 01:33:52:11
Christopher
Maybe even old familial situations where you’re being asked to take up the role that you took up when you were 7 or 12 or something. Along those lines, you can answer the call to a responsibility. You can answer a call to an old obligation, but that doesn’t mean that you lose who you are. Now. If anything, you should answer with who you are now.
01:33:52:13 – 01:34:14:12
Christopher
You know. Now some people might say, don’t take that up again. Don’t answer that phone call. Don’t whatever. But you’re a Capricorn. You feel responsible, and nine times out of ten you will. But that doesn’t mean you have to become diminished as a result. That doesn’t mean you have to become infantilized as you deal with the situation, you can take the things that you’ve learned.
01:34:14:14 – 01:34:34:11
Christopher
Let’s say you have an, parent who can never show you approval. Okay. And what you’ve learned is my parent can’t show me approval. Well, when you go back and help that parent out with the situation and the parent doesn’t show you approval, you can just change the subject of conversation. You know you like. That’s not what you came for.
01:34:34:11 – 01:35:02:03
Christopher
You came to under an obligation or responsibility. And it doesn’t matter if the parent never learns. You know, that that that they, you know, never showed you approval. If that’s going on, chances are it’s because the parent has used withholding approval to get you to do the things that you do. You may return to situations in which, old conversations are coming up, and it’s just it just doesn’t do it for you anymore.
01:35:02:03 – 01:35:32:22
Christopher
It’s not a conversation anymore. It’s of been there, done that, you know, and you may graciously decide to change the topic of conversation again or to change the subject, you know. So even though retrograde sort of acts as a time machine, it takes you back to a situation. It doesn’t take you back to the old you. Now, another thing that might be going on during this period of time is there may be difficulties that your partner is facing, or that people close to you is facing.
01:35:33:00 – 01:35:53:03
Christopher
We often will talk about partner as being a spouse, but it can be a business partner, or it can be someone who’s a creative collaborator, someone who’s really close in your life. And they could be suffering difficulties, things that are going on in their families that are really hard or harsh. Or maybe it’s time to resolve an issue that’s that’s never been resolved.
01:35:53:05 – 01:36:17:05
Christopher
You may find yourself wanting to sort of pick up the what if you drew better boundaries. You know, it’s sort of the Mars you know, if you do better boundaries or why do you need that person’s love or whatever, you know, that that rant that maybe you were on the past X amount of years, but instead of going back to that just maybe accepting, you know, maybe you’re never going to get that approval and maybe you’re never going to get that love.
01:36:17:05 – 01:36:41:16
Christopher
And you know what? You’re great as who you are. You don’t need it. You don’t need it, you know. And and so as a Capricorn, instead of feeling like you have to have the answers or being in that person’s corner, you may feel like you’re able to just be there with that person in their hurt. You can be there for that person in their realization.
01:36:41:18 – 01:37:12:20
Christopher
You can be there for that person in there, turning over the leaf, rounding the corner, moving on to something new and different. You know, and by you having that belief in that person, that that person is able to do it. And of course, that’s going to help you feel like you could do that as well. Another byproduct that you might get with this Mars retrograde is realizing that you’ve outgrown fears.
01:37:12:22 – 01:37:34:18
Christopher
You know, there are certain fears in your life that have just dominated you for too long and that you’ve outgrown them, and that the answer isn’t being bigger than your fear or or yelling back at your fear or or mastering your fear or anything like that. But just, you know, am I afraid still? Yeah, but it’s not the fear that it used to be, you know?
01:37:34:20 – 01:38:08:06
Christopher
And that can be a terrific, ennobling and empowering realization. If you’re born into Aquarius or you have Aquarius Rising, this is going to be an interesting time for you. This this Mars turning retrograde in Leo. Like what is sort of talking about a little bit with Sagittarius is that you’re going to feel like a new path or new way of doing things had just opened up and you were just traveling down that in the past few weeks, and then all of a sudden you’ve lost the momentum.
01:38:08:11 – 01:38:47:17
Christopher
Maybe that path got, you know, disappeared, or maybe you got dragged off that path to go and deal with all of these attending responsibilities and obligations. And so there can be this feeling of disappointment and disillusionment. You know, maybe, maybe the company you’re working for with, you you guys finally got to a place where you’re financially solvent and now you’ve discovered a whole new, array of things that are going to become, that are going to threaten that financial solvency, a whole new, sheaf of debts that you didn’t know about before.
01:38:47:19 – 01:39:16:06
Christopher
And so this could become kind of, dispiriting or disappointing. And again, you may feel like, you know, did we work that hard to only end up here again? And the thing is, as you’re asked to revisit these old problems, these old snack foods, maybe snack foods made on other people’s part, that you do it from where you are now and not from where you were before.
01:39:16:08 – 01:39:38:11
Christopher
A lot of times when we’re hit with things that bring us back to past obligations or problems or difficulties, we go into a past way of thinking, right? We we we we go back into the past triggers. We go back into the past responses. We go back into the past thinking. And it’s really important that this is something that’s really wonderful about Aquarius.
01:39:38:13 – 01:39:57:19
Christopher
You guys can put the brakes on that thinking and you can stop it in time. You know, it’s kind of like The Matrix where people are like zapping one another or shooting one another and throwing things at one another. And like matrix person is like, and they like, stop in time. Okay. Aquarius has that way of doing it.
01:39:57:21 – 01:40:19:12
Christopher
Now. It’s kind of the great irony of a song, of a sign that can be as anxiety driven and nervous as an Aquarian can, but they can also find the peace of stopping something in time. And one of the things that you can stop in time can be a realization of that was the old way that I used to do it, and that’s not who I am right now.
01:40:19:14 – 01:40:41:14
Christopher
Okay, so you you really and this is a beautiful expression of air, actually, if you think about it, it’s a beautiful expression of mind over matter. It’s really mind over circumstance. You know, you can stop time and you can say that was the way things acted before or done before, but we’re not changing that when we’re going in a new and different direction.
01:40:41:16 – 01:41:09:11
Christopher
And so these are going to be less about challenges to what you’ve created or built or established for yourself, and more about you as you revisit these previous predicaments, kind of tossing the ones that really didn’t need to be looked at or dealt with, you know, tossing aside things that really took up a lot of emotional or mental space in your life and like that just that’s not relevant.
01:41:09:11 – 01:41:35:13
Christopher
That’s not, you know, just throwing it away, okay. And sort of having an exhilarating freedom involved in that and then going back and looking at a situation, but then having a fresh perspective. A lot of things have changed, since now and then. Okay. And so having a fresh perspective and you being able to sort of okay, let’s try doing it this way and let’s try this avenue.
01:41:35:13 – 01:42:05:08
Christopher
Let’s try this approach. And so instead of just feeling like you’ve been derailed, like your progress has been derailed, or that you know, you’re on this pendulum swing between moving towards the future and, you know, falling back into the past. You actually can bring the future and the past together in the present moment. And you can make decisions that may feel radical, but when you think about them aren’t too different from the way you’ve gone before.
01:42:05:08 – 01:42:27:21
Christopher
What it is now is that you have the information or the gumption or the drive that you didn’t have before. You have the presence of mind that you didn’t have before to go ahead and and act. And so this kind of weird being derailed and being dragged back into past situations is actually going to pave the way to your future.
01:42:27:23 – 01:42:56:15
Christopher
When Mars comes out of retrograde on February 24th. Now, if you’re born under Pisces or you have Pisces Rising, this Mars retrograde takes place in a weird kind of corner of your chart. It takes place in your solar sixth house. And so this is this is a house which can be associated with a lot of work and, you know, basically work health service.
01:42:56:15 – 01:43:25:15
Christopher
It’s a house of work and health and service. And then it moves backwards into the. So the fifth house, which is associated with cancer in your solar horoscope on January 6th. So what’s going on here is that you can maybe feel right now like you’re under the thumb of someone else, that that that there’s someone who’s maybe taking up all the oxygen in the workspace.
01:43:25:17 – 01:44:02:07
Christopher
Maybe it’s a colleague. I don’t really feel like it’s an authority or someone in charge of feel. Maybe more like it’s a colleague or something that you’re work with, someone that you’re working with, that you should be equals, but this person is just taking up a lot of space, you know? You know, they’re they’re they’re, you know, I’m having such a hard time with this job or or this project or I can’t do it, you know, and you may find, like, they’re either dominant because they’re the loudest person complaining about the work that needs to be done, or they’re dominant in a different way that they’re coming to you with, like,
01:44:02:07 – 01:44:24:05
Christopher
can you help me with this? I can do this. You know, like, can, you know, you were so good when you showed this to me before. Can you show me again? Actually, can you sort of like, take over this assignment? Okay. So people can be dominant in their weakness, by the way, we we often think of people as being dominant because they’re bullying and and they’re very forceful and powerful, personalities.
01:44:24:10 – 01:44:48:16
Christopher
But people can be weak and just as domineering. You know, I think the word for it is passive aggressive, but it doesn’t really quite get it. There’s a kind of like, I’m weak and I can’t do this, and I’m helpless and you can help me. I know you can help me. And so like and so you get stuck with doing their work or and and putting them back together while listening to their life problems.
01:44:48:18 – 01:45:10:20
Christopher
So this might describe a situation that you’re dealing with right now. One in either you’re dealing with someone who is an equal and is being very domineering, maybe insisting that you do it their way. Or they may be domineering because there’s so attention, you know, they need all the attention in the room, or they’re domineering through their weakness, their helplessness.
01:45:11:00 – 01:45:34:09
Christopher
And this is forcing you to step in and do more work than you should possibly do. So this may be something that is really making you kind of like, roll your eyes and, you know, it’s a story of my life. Or why am I always pulling people’s fat out of the fire? Something along those lines. But it stopped being cute.
01:45:34:11 – 01:46:14:07
Christopher
Or it’s going to stop being cute or something that you have to live with, or put up with. Over the next four weeks, it’s going to actually start becoming something more detrimental. Something that’s more exhausting. You taking up too much time, or it’s compromising your work or your ability to deliver. When Mars moves back into, cancer on January 6th and starts going through that part of your of your solar chart, this is going to bring you back into contact with people in more emotional attachments.
01:46:14:13 – 01:46:57:15
Christopher
Okay. This could be children. This could be family members. This could be very, very close friends. And you may see in a strange sort of weird way, some of what you’re dealing with, that work situation that I was describing going on in this personal aspect of your life that I’m describing, okay, in which you may find yourself wondering, am I being kind of plagued by a loved one, or am I being, kind of, used or a loved ones kind of like dumping their stuff on me.
01:46:57:17 – 01:47:27:08
Christopher
And I’m supposed to carry this, so you might have this kind of weird split screen thing going on where it’s a work situation which is marrying, mirroring a personal situation, and maybe it’s a current personal situation, or maybe it’s a personal situation that that became a pattern in your life. And any regard is going to get you to start asking, when did I give over my Mars in my life?
01:47:27:08 – 01:47:49:19
Christopher
When did I give that over to someone else? Mars, as I said before, is associated to the Roman god of war combat. It’s how we fight or something. It’s how we strive for something. And Pisces kind of kind of has more fluid relationship to that. It’s kind of like, I could strive for it. I could be, you know, I could go for it, but I’m not going to, like, hurt anybody, you know, to get that.
01:47:49:19 – 01:48:08:19
Christopher
And and there’s more than enough to go around and, you know, no one has to be thrown over the rail and roller derby or something along those lines. Pisces can have a much more benevolent and maybe even at times laid back side. Even though they can have a stormy side to their personality. They could they can have that.
01:48:08:21 – 01:48:38:03
Christopher
But what can happen is that if you don’t own your Mars, then your Mars will come looking for you. Okay, as I said, Mars is about drive. It’s about being motivated. It’s about winning that prize. And if you don’t own that, that’s what you want to do. You know that you have a motivation in life, that you want to win a prize, that there are things that you want, that if you don’t own, that you will attract people into your life who own that for you.
01:48:38:05 – 01:48:57:06
Christopher
You know, people into your life who are going to tell you what your motives are, people into your life who are going to tell you how to live and how to be, people into your life who are going to make you a part of their project of winning a prize or getting to someplace that they want to to go.
01:48:57:08 – 01:49:20:20
Christopher
And as a Pisces, you can maybe start to feel like you’re kind of along for the ride and that they’re not really caring that much about the things that you want. Because that what they want is more urgent, what they want is more important, what they want is more dire, what they want is more defined or better articulated.
01:49:20:22 – 01:49:54:02
Christopher
And so you may find yourself in this period of time going from the well, that’s okay. Or maybe I didn’t want it that much to. That’s not okay. And maybe I did want it that much, but you’re going to have to do more than say, well, wait, what about me and what I want? You know, because, you know, if you if that pattern has been set up in your life and someone else is playing your Mars, they’ll just shout back at you, get back to work or, you know, you never fulfilled, you never finish a project, or so what?
01:49:54:03 – 01:50:24:16
Christopher
And and if you’re kind of like, I guess they’re right, you know, then you’re playing into that. But if there’s a part of you which is like struggling to own that Mars idea, kind of like a sleeper struggling to wake up, this is what I think your Mars retrograde over the next 11 weeks is going to be. Now, that doesn’t mean you have to go and smack someone over the head, you know, like in one of those, lunatic cartoons where they get each other and and exercise all of this violence that we laughed at as children.
01:50:24:16 – 01:50:49:06
Christopher
But anyway, it doesn’t mean you have to do that. What it does mean is that you have to own that you want something. And this is what Mars is doing in this really peculiar placement in your chart. It’s saying, well, if you want it, you have to own it. You have to own wanting it. If you’re motivated by that, then you have to own it.
01:50:49:10 – 01:51:10:20
Christopher
You have to own being motivated by that. If someone can talk you out of that, if someone can out shout you, if someone can bring up a new diversion or new crisis that they’re going through. So you’re going to put your things aside, then maybe you don’t want it that much, you know, and that’s okay, too. I mean, a retrograde Mars deals with those things.
01:51:10:20 – 01:51:36:19
Christopher
I mean, there are there there are times in our life in which it’s like, I don’t feel like fighting that fight. I don’t feel like, you know, maybe one time in my life was motivated, but I don’t know if I’m motivated that much. It’s going to sort of sit as an uneasy realization with you. And again, the point of this Mars retrograde isn’t to retaliate or to get back or say, you know, you stole my life away from me or someone else.
01:51:36:21 – 01:52:03:13
Christopher
It’s to claim ownership of your Mars. And when you claim ownership of your Mars, there is a winning of the prize. You know, you’re saying that prize is mine, but when you win that prize, there’s going to automatically be someone who challenges you for that prize. You know, that’s why Mars is always kind of associated to a self-improvement or coming back to fight that fight again.
01:52:03:15 – 01:52:32:22
Christopher
You may find that that owning of that doesn’t have to bring cacophony into your life. It doesn’t have to bring turbulence or distress. What it can bring is a sense of fulfillment and a sense of drive and a sense of saying, yeah, yeah, that’s what I want. And, and and by saying even that, that being a moment of personal triumph.
01:52:32:24 – 01:52:57:00
Amanda
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