Mars-Pluto Sesquiquadrate
(Transit Mars → Natal Pluto)
Avesalom Podvodny. Aspects
Mars sesquiquadrate: In general, things have turned out such that if what resulted can be called relationships, and what occurred—addition. This person finds it difficult in the areas of the Planet to direct their energy with flexible responsiveness to circumstances and to react subtly to external force. Foreign aggression triggers in them a counter-response, often inadequate in both intensity and relevance to the matter. At the same time, they may fail to react for a long time to weak influences, then suddenly, in response to a minor irritation—the drop that overflows an entirely unrelated cup—explode with outrage: subjectively perhaps justified, but objectively unjust. This person will suffer from the brutality, energy, and aggression of the external world directed at them; it will be difficult for them to deal with these forces in a sufficiently civilized manner. Yet at the same time, their aggressive instincts in the areas of the Planet will be particularly coarse and poorly controlled, and their activity will often, without their own awareness, take on harsh forms. For example, an unprocessed Mars-Saturn sesquiquadrate brings, along with vulnerability to aggression, excessive rigidity in demands toward others, which may escalate to implacability; such a person must understand that high demands of others are usually subconsciously motivated by dissatisfaction with oneself, and become aware of their own failures and shortcomings. Here, working through the aspect provides perfect instruments and enables operation at high vibrational levels of energy. Pluto sesquiquadrate: The flour that pours from beneath the millstones of history is usually raw—from blood. At a low level, this aspect produces an overly schematic perception of flaws and vices in the areas of the Planet, overly direct methods and crude tools for their elimination, which, with strong energy, can turn a person into a merciless tyrant, relentlessly driving a people desperately resisting toward a bright future. Yet the same harsh instruments, the person will also feel turned upon themselves, and here they will have to confront one of the most unpleasant year variants—a mechanical one, where the real causes of irreversible losses remain far beyond the person’s perception, and they are powerless to oppose fate. The karmic tasks of this aspect are to recognize the imperfection of one’s own cleansing tools in the areas of the Planet and the crudeness of one’s perception of flaws in these areas, and above all, to illuminate one’s evolutionary remnants in the sphere of the Planet and destroy or transform them; only after this does the person find subtle instruments and perception in the areas of the Planet, enabling them to separate wheat from chaff without crushing a single cow from the collective herd with their winnowing fan.
