From: lmpm@teal.csn.org (L. M. P. McPherson)
Subject: Re: Mars stationary
Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 03:03:17 GMT

In article <Carole-231192121909@cis_staff-kntx53.cis.brown.edu> Carole@brownvm (Carolyn Egan) writes:
>Where in your chart (or of friends, lovers, family) is Mars by transit? 
>Pay special attention to 28 degrees of Cancer in those charts.  Mars is
>approaching a station (is 27 deg. today) and will retrograde on Sunday,
>11/28.
>
>Since this Mars energy is so very potent, I would advise all who are
>reading to analyze the potential of transiting Mars in their charts and be
>very cautious about handling the action it will bring into your lives.  If
>you are receiving a direct hit to a planet or point ...

The wise will heed these words!! I have Uranus at 28 Cancer, and
Mars will do its station mightly close to that point. The
conjunction is pretty close now. In the past few days, I've been
breaking glasses, banging into things, inadvertently starting
fires, and I even crashed my boyfriend's car into a curb during a
severe snowstorm (although it survived without visible damage --
whew!). But today was the worst so far. It was snowing all day,
and near sunset (near a trine of the Moon and Mars) the snow
became lighter, so I invited my boyfriend to go outside and play
in the snow. After a good snowball fight, we were standing near
the garage, and I leaned over to wipe snow off the steps to the
garage. While brushing snow off the bottom step, my feet very
suddenly gave out from under me, apparently due to ice on the
ground. I went down so fast, I didn't even have time to realise
what was happening, let alone stop my fall. (This suddenness and
speed is characteristic of Mars-Uranus contacts.) I landed with
my chin on the bottom step, and my left arm got twisted in such a
funny way that my shoulder became dislocated. OUCH!! It popped
back into place as I turned over, but the accident left various
tissues and nerves strained and sore. Given that I almost never
have any serious bodily injury, this incident is very unusual for
me. The worst injury I have had previous to this one was a
sprained ankle. Fortunately, my very kindly boyfriend is taking
good care of me. (Transiting Venus is conjunct my descendant).

So why did this accident occur today rather than, for example, on
the day of Mars' retrograde station? Because today there is a
stellium of four bodies in late Scorpio/early Sag (Sun, Moon,
Mercury, and Pluto) trining the conjunction of transiting Mars
and my natal Uranus, forming a Grand Trine with my natal Sun in
late Pisces. In numerology, the number 3 is associated with
Jupiter, so I view the trine as Jovian. As such, it tends to
expand/augment. It does not necessarily bring "good luck",
although an expansion involving one's bank account might be
experienced as good fortune. But in expanding the Mars-Uranus
conjunction, it just makes accidents more likely.

This transit reminds me of the transit of Uranus to my natal Mars
a few years back. At that time, I had the first car accident I
had had in nearly 20 years, as a result of a sudden and rash
movement I made of my vehicle (I backed quickly into a parking
space for which I had been waiting while someone vacated it
because I saw another car trying to steal the space from behind;
in backing up, my bumper put a nice dent in a truck sitting in
the adjacent lane). While this transit was in orb, I attended a
seminar given by Donna Van Toen, an excellent interpretive
astrologer, on transits of the outer planets to natal Mars. The
seminar was pertinent for me because in close succession I had
Saturn, Neptune and Uranus conjuncting my Mars by transit, and I
also had transiting Jupiter opposing my Mars (and boy did I get
itchy feet; I spent six weeks driving around the states). As
Donna was discussing the transit of Uranus to Mars, a pane of
glass in its frame, part of the window, came crashing down,
landing on its edge and making an awful noise. (The glass did not
break.) I was closest the window. Donna asked who was having a
Uranus-Mars transit, so I sheepishly put up my hand and
apologised to the group for the incident.

During conjunctions of Mars and Uranus, accidents and
catastrophes don't just happen *to* you, they also happen
*around* you. Donna claimed that during the transit of Uranus to
natal Mars, computers and other machines in your vicinity would
spontaneously break down. So far my computer has not failed me.
But my boyfriend did break a copper water pipe yesterday while I
stood next to him, through a rash action. I'm sure it was my
influence.

Keywords for Mars-Uranus transits: Crash!! Break. Jolt. Oops!
Wham! Bang. Yow! Slam. Ouch! Zap. Oh-no! Yikes! Aaaaaaaaaaaa!


Maggie

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