Mars-Uranus Square

Mars-Uranus Square — Intense Frustration

"It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail."

— Lech Walesa

A Mars-Uranus square near the end of this week suggests significant frustration will build throughout the week. Nonetheless, under the waxing lunar cycle, begun with last Tuesday's Aquarius New Moon Eclipse (4:00 AM PST 28-deg Aquarius), there are 'breakout' moments and plenty of help to find answers to the questions that have been raised over the past few weeks. The week begins with a marvelous Venus-Jupiter trine grounded and mediated by the Taurus Moon's sextiles to both planets. However, the enthusiasm of the Venus-Jupiter trine may actually feed into the week's impatience and building frustrations. Attempts to apply logic to the situation doesn't address the emotional elements that are bubbling up all around us. In this context, Mercury's retrograde station in Pisces on Wednesday actually seems to offer help to find some empathy, compassion, and much needed balance through a process of reflection. Ultimately, although the confusion is quite palpable and seemingly intractable, Mercury's retrograde process will offer a number of opportunities to find some of the emotional clarity that seems to be lacking this week. The Sun conjuncts the Pisces North Node early Friday morning, just before the Mars-Uranus square completes, potentially softening some of the intensity. We are offered the possibility of finding deeper compassion and setting aside harsh self-righteousness and judgement in favor of stronger connections and deeper empathy. Mercury will retrograde back to station direct exactly conjunct the North Node on March 20th. Essentially, this is a cleansing, growth process, spurred on by individual determination to move beyond past restrictions and jettison the emotional baggage that has become increasing irrelevant to our current situation. Energetic initiative is guided by intuition, offering unlimited potential for new growth. Certainly, the energy that we find this week may also stir fresh waves of impatience. Nonetheless, with the arrival of Mars into Pisces on Monday of next week, and Jupiter's direct station the following week, we will begin to find unexpected resources coming into view — both material and emotional or spiritual. While the frustration and impatience that is swirling in this week's atmosphere may very well seem important and justified, we'll do better to do whatever we can to maintain our balance. We need to be willing to detach ourselves enough to stand in the uncertainty. Pushing too hard is only likely to result in missed opportunities to further expand our overall perspective. This week's 'leading to' energy is likely to find more definitive expression once we move beyond next Tuesday's Virgo Full Moon Eclipse (3:37 AM PST 12° Virgo/Pisces). There is a marked intelligence and much discernment offered at the Full Moon if we are able to avoid being misled into ungrounded idealism. This waxing lunar cycle is helping us to find answers to the questions raised under the last lunar cycle. Whatever idealism that we're holding on to needs to be tempered by what we can actually see right in front of us — 'the facts on the ground'.

Intuition is particularly well supported on Sunday. Perseverance and courage are important to maintaining our stability. Monday's impatience, irritability, and disruptions are likely to have us looking for someplace to hide while the dust settles. We may not believe that we have the capacity to fully explain what we're seeing or feeling. We seem to be driven to try to apply an intellectual perspective on Tuesday but feel frustrated at every turn by emotional elements that aren't easily satisfied by our 'logic'. We need to be willing to detach ourselves enough to stand in the uncertainty at least long enough to establish some stability. The confusion of not knowing exactly what questions to ask in order to actually gain clarity feeds directly into the frustration that is building on Wednesday. We are offered the possibility of finding deeper compassion and setting aside harsh self-righteousness and judgement in favor of stronger connections and deeper empathy. We find the beginnings of a new and expanded perspective on Thursday but the insights are erratic and generally disorganized. Responsibility is key to avoiding jumping to irresponsible conclusions based on unreliable or incomplete information. Friday's atmosphere does not make it easy to honestly open up and effectively process the emotion and frustration that is underlying all of the activity. While violence and devastating disruptions are certainly suggested by the environment, we aren't likely to find as much decisive movement as we are looking for. Avoidance and escapism will only lead to discouragement on Saturday. If we aren't paying close attention, we may tend to be lured towards tempting distractions that can quickly derail the review process that is getting underway.mportant to be prepared to respond quickly to any unexpected opportunities or surprising shifts in circumstance.