Mars-Pluto Semisquare

(Transit Mars → Natal Pluto)

Avesalom Podvodny. Aspects

Mars semisquare: The sledgehammer of official ideology does not so much shatter as it compacts subversive thoughts of citizens. In the areas ruled by the Planet, the individual has limited means for expressing their activity, although this is not immediately obvious. If one manages to find a combination of these means suitable for one’s purposes, the effect can be excellent; more often, however, the person will feel a certain discomfort, the causes of which remain a complete mystery to them at low and medium levels of processing. For example, the Mercury-Mars semisquare produces poor motor coordination, yet some individual movements may be perfect, and with effort, by combining them, a person might even achieve success in certain sports, although becoming a champion with this aspect is difficult. A person with an unprocessed Moon-Mars square will be crude in personal perception and expression, sensitive, harsh, and generally quite difficult to deal with, as long as they demand that external reality adapt to them; whereas when they set themselves the goal of serving reality, they gradually gain broad channels for self-expression and constructive activity, although initially they will, of course, be awkward—though sincerity and selflessness will greatly mitigate this. At a low level, especially with strong energetic activation, the individual tends to subjugate the world in the planet’s spheres to their (perfectly certain) ideas about how these spheres should be, and resistance to this can be very difficult. For instance, the Mars-Mercury semisquare (particularly if well-aspected) confers great cunning and agility, which at first glance may appear as wisdom or intelligence. Pluto semisquare: The mafia should be buried in bulletproof coffins. At a low level, such a person tends to ruthlessly eradicate evil in the planet’s spheres according to their clear conceptions of it, and precisely in the clarity and definiteness of these conceptions lies both their strength and their limitation in evolutionary development, which they will understand much later. For example, the Moon-Pluto semisquare may produce a great censor, an oncological surgeon, or a psychotherapist, but in any case, this person will have a clear image of evil and well-practiced techniques for its destruction. In inner life, this aspect brings rigidity and uncompromising attitudes toward certain personal flaws, which strangely coexists with the ignoring of others, and here the individual should act indirectly, working on improving the external world in their interest or other areas of inner life, and only then will their Plutonian tools be properly engaged—be it a set of toothbrushes or clothing brushes, depending on Pluto’s position in the first or fifth house, respectively. An unprocessed aspect may cause deep inner traumas, as well as fatal disharmonious circumstances in external life, which will be karmic reactions to the conscious or unconscious cruelty displayed by the individual in attempts at crude “cleansing” of the planet’s spheres without understanding their true problems.