Mars is stationing retrograde on the 30th, so we currently have a slow-moving and about to turn backwards (from Earth’s perspective) Mars in Gemini. I have shared an overview a few months ago you can see here, but want to speak again on some developing themes of the Mars retrograde and share some perspectives on how to work with it. Mars retrogrades can offer initiations to our inner-warrior – subjectively, that means we can be encountering challenging or confrontational situations that create a level of heat (Mars) that activates us and offers the opportunity for change. I learned in my embodiment studies* that stagnant patterns that we hold in our bodies can begin to shift when we add heat to our systems – arousal (movement, heat, turn-on, etc) can make our system more malleable. I think of metal forging with Mars, and the way that the metal can be bent when it is heated up. This isn’t to say we have a breakthrough or experience alchemy every time our body heats up, as it is possible to just re-enact a familiar pattern from an activated space. But there is a *possibility* of change within the hot, malleable place. That is […]