Ideas About Desire: Mars is Calling, from Virgo

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Ideas About Desire:
Mars is Calling, from Virgo
Published by rachel, By Eric Francis, Daily Astrology


Dear Friend and Reader:

Human beings are not mechanical devices, but sometimes they sure do act like them. What can I say, we have a lot of diverse potential and one distinct possibility is to temporarily morph into a windup toy. Another is to pop your spring.


People who study neurology and brain chemistry have some excellent, useful mechanical models for how cognition (or the lack thereof) functions, but none of them explain or even begin to sketch the odd phenomenon that is a human being, in total. Neurologists can explain why we can get our buttons pushed by a relative, but not how we came to exist and take up an identity unique in all the world.

Astrology, too, can tell us where we are dragging around the past, but it can’t explain where we came from. As long as we understand the limits of a paradigm, we can work with it honestly and with grounded expectations for what it might reveal.

I have consistently taken a positive and optimistic view of Saturn in Virgo (2007-2009); at the least, I view it as a constructive energy. Mercury, the ruler of Virgo, and Saturn, the ruler of Capricorn and Aquarius, are great friends and they work well together. But then I look around me at the world and see so much stuck energy on the level of ideas; good ideas that take people decades to accept: energy saving, money saving ideas that take a century to catch on; simple, effective ideas about life that could save us untold misery — and people treat them like they are a steaming heap of poo.

I assure you I am not projecting this. What I project specifically are ideas, and I get to observe their effects to some small extent; and I observe the introduction of the ideas of others to the world, and I watch people respond…and I can assure you, most people have a lot of difficulty with new ideas. And with unfamiliar ones. And with simple “common” sense.

Now, the inscription on the plate glass storefront window of my studio, where I’m sitting right now, says, “We don’t see things as they are. We see them as we are,” this being variously attributed to Anais Nin and a Yiddish proverb. So maybe I’m projecting and I am the one who can’t grasp anything new. I admit to being only marginally optimistic about the world, if only out of self-preservation.

Anyway, Saturn in Virgo represents a lot of old ideas. It can also represent a process of clearing away old ideas, as Saturn often makes way for the future and is one of the most effective cosmic fork lifts, windshield wipers or front-end loaders ever created. Either way it amounts to the same thing: we are confronted with a lot of old, wedged in ideas, and we got those ideas not from ether or from eating a plum, but from our predecessors.

Usually we are way too enamored of our parents and grandparents to subject their ideas about life to a fair critique. Or as is more often the case, we are way too intimidated, we feel guilty, we feel like we are literally usurping the power of god because whether we admit it or not, we made our parents into god and goddess as children — with all their faults, their gifts, their wisdom, their backhanding us with the engagement ring on, their sexual abuse or leaving us in the company of a sexual abuser; we hold them as god and goddess.

Much of what we inherit are ideas about sex that go back to Adam and Eve, literally. We are lucky if we’ve cataloged those ideas, much less being versed in them. We are hilariously, famously famous for denying the connection of sex to nearly everything that is connected to sex, though you can’t blame us because we tend to lack the vocabulary, the concepts and the boldness of spirit to see the basic facts and make the connections.

Now we have Mars himself working to break through the jam. Mars is, and is often, the clue that what we’re working with is sexual energy; desire energy in particular, but what I now describe simply as “go fuck the girl” energy contained in the testosterone, symbolized by the cock-and-balls glyph of Mars.

Much of that Saturn is some form of negativity. And I firmly acknowledge we have all been injured by sex, most of us repeatedly. Many of us have no reason to trust sex or sexual relationships whatsoever, and behold, many of us don’t. The number of people who have been sexually abused defies comprehension, belief and credulity. The number of people who have had sex used against them as a weapon, be it physically, mentally or otherwise, is nearly unanimous. And these experiences all add up to a vast cultural and individual database that is popping up just about every 15 seconds or so.

And now Mr. Mars is here to remind us of what is primal; of what is natural and necessary; and to move some of that stuck energy, whatever it may be. I don’t think Mars represents new ideas (Saturn will oppose Uranus later in the year, and that is definitely something new). Rather, Mars represents moving out of the way that which is blocking us, and the agent of movement is desire itself. Desire is an idea, and it’s a physiological force. Right now, it’s talking. Some of us are listening and some of us are wedged in our camp. Some of us who are wedged in sincerely wish we were not here. Most of us have not figured out that it is primarily ideas that are holding us back, or holding us down and holding us to the past.

Most of those ideas come from before our own lifetime; they may be memories transmitted verbally or via DNA; but they are ideas. Here is a clue. I think that somewhere into the high 90th percentile of the population is trying to figure out the difference between sex and rape, and if not that, between sex and masturbation.

Let’s see what the Mars-Saturn conjunction has to say about these topics. I would love to hear your feedback at editorial - at - planetwaves.net (add your own @ symbol in the right place).

Yours and truly,

~Eric Francis


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