Starcodes Oct 18, 2024

Find a good use for irritation, let it propel good works and creative solutions, or at least a good walk around the block.

Underneath a few creative and inspiring aspects, the past speaks to us this week, old confrontations or complaints, ongoing struggles or unfulfilled ambitions- both small and large -could call for our heroic behavior. It can be more of a challenge to treasure our beloveds, easier to speak of our irritations, easier to be painfully aware of the problems in our life. It can also be easier to try to rally the voters against than it is to speak of a vision for improvement.

Some contests, campaigns, or confrontations, particularly ones with old or long history, old scars, activate this week as a lingering square between Sun and Mars begins to talk to Pluto, while the Sun squares Pluto on Tuesday and then joins Mercury in Mars- ruled Scorpio. This martial energy resonates as Mars approaches an opposition to Pluto on November 3rd, right before the November election. But we can steer this boat, we can consciously choose to direct this energy and look for the opportunities, beauty, the potential in the person or situation, and help that grow.

Mars loans us energy, if not patience, heroism and courage, endurance, if a tendency to act first and then think out the consequence. Pluto encourages us to ask what is the right use of power and…