Your horoscope for Mars in Pisces 🌊

Mars has entered Pisces. Find out what this means for you. [View this email in your browser]( [CHANI logo] Horoscopes for Mars in Pisces [Collage for Mars in Pisces]( After weeks in a tense confrontation with Saturn, Mars joins the rest of the planets soaking in the Piscean hot springs on April 14th. Of course, Mars being Mars, this newest development might agitate our serene waters a tad. Remember passion? How could you not? “Passion” has had us by the shirt collar for months. And now that we’ve perhaps come to terms with how to prioritize the heart (versus treating it like an afterthought), we are invited to participate in the immersive, full-body experience of what that actually entails. The ocean of love is still an ocean of divinity when the waves become a little choppier. A daydream becomes an inspired call to action when you mix in a dash of urgency. The edge of eroticism brings the ecstatic into even sharper relief. In Pisces, Mars takes the form of pathos. The waters of our collective sentiment, elation, imagination and suffering become a carving tool for the most stubborn rock formations. Imbuing our actions with feeling, and a shared sense of meaning, thickens the sauce with full-bodied flavor. From April 14th through May 10th, Mars is enlisted as an apprentice of Jupiter in Pisces. After Jupiter enters Aries on May 10th, Mars and Jupiter are exchanging home signs, but with no direct throughline to the other. Our exuberance bursts into bloom, though we’re not necessarily sure where to apply it. It’s a classic case of “all hyped up with nowhere clear to go.” The disorientation peaks when Mars conjoins Neptune on May 17th. We might be able to conserve our energy by letting the universe take the wheel for just a moment. It’ll all come out in the wash soon enough. Your Mars in Pisces horoscopes are meant to be read as inspiration. If you know both your rising sign and sun sign, please read both horoscopes. You’ll know which one resonates more for you. Take what works for you, and leave the rest. If you want to share this work, please credit the source by quoting it and providing a link to this post and website. Thank you for your support and for spreading the work around. We really appreciate it and you. The following horoscopes were written by Steph Koyfman (Lady Cazimi). [Aries glyph] []Aries & Aries Rising Not every courageous action is overt, or out in the open where the rest of the world can see it. For now, your mission lies in going boldly where no previous version of you has gone before. It’s not so much that you’re launching yourself into the abyss. It’s more that you’re positioning yourself to surrender to the disintegration of your complexes, which we all have as humans. These must come before you’re able to hold your own entropy in a state of grace. The intrepid heart performs the occasional rite of self-annihilation on its quest for infinite love. You can be “all in” for the process and remain skeptical of the fact that ego death can look like redemption and self-effacement at the same time. You start to sense your edges again after May 10th, and you perceive how eager they are to grow. Still, continue to hold vigil for yourself as you sacrifice some of your deeply held defense mechanisms around May 17th. You wouldn’t want to accidentally sacrifice some of your agency in the process. [Taurus glyph] []Taurus & Taurus Rising The urge to merge is strong right now, but this is bigger than any sort of lateral impulse to join someone else at the hip. You are learning to move with the instinctual intelligence of a single fish swimming in unison with its school, or a bird swooping into formation with its flock. It’ll be easy to get carried away with the collective, but if you let it, this can translate to a healing experience of belonging to something big, beautiful, and meaningful. Still, it never hurts to keep your bearings about you, lest you lose yourself at sea in a rush to set sail toward the promised land. The cohesion of any movement you belong to is only as strong as its guiding ethics. Any rallying cry you amplify will travel further across water. Tapping into the shared emotional undercurrent not only clarifies the purpose of what you’re doing as a group, but it also quite reinforces your interconnectivity. You might feel like you’re losing the plot somewhat around May 17th, or at best, getting swept up in some friend drama where no one’s really sure who they’re mad at. Stay focused on the big picture, even when it flickers in and out of the frame. [Gemini glyph] []Gemini & Gemini Rising So much of what animates you, what rouses you to attention, is directly tied to the community you’re in service to. The inverse of this is that your motivation typically lags when you don’t have a clear sense that your actions are ultimately helping people. Right now, you have an opportunity to put your whole body, heart, and soul into your latest passion project. This is an opportunity you will likely seize because you can finally see the totality of your impact. In the midst of a professional glow-up that has stretched you in generous ways, Mars helps you get over any remaining hesitation to dive completely into your becoming. You’ll start to see the ripple effects of your efforts fanning out into the collective after May 10th. While it’s exciting to sense the building momentum of more people getting on board with your vision, you might also notice that certain things get lost in translation the more people join the game of telephone. This is a necessary distortion you’ll have to grapple with if you’re ever going to put your work out into the world. A temporary sense of disorientation peaks around May 17th. Don’t give up just because you lost the thread for a moment. [Cancer glyph] []Cancer & Cancer Rising The past few months have presented you with a gentle opening toward enlightenment, toward a renewal of your faith, toward a heart-opening large enough for the whole world to fall in. Now, Mars joins the holy chorus to stir your discovery process into rapture. Eroticism is a perfectly fine thing to bring to the table when you’re experiencing your own divinity. Passion is not just something you perform, but something that you allow, that you endure. Being enthralled by knowledge is different than merely acquiring it. It might be up to you to pursue it like a wave in the beginning, but at some point, you have to let it carry you. It will be easy to lose yourself in an immersive experience of travel, spirituality, study, and theory. This can be profoundly healing to the part of you that was existentially running on empty, and stimulating for your creativity and your ambition. Still, keep an anchor tethered to the sea floor, if only to help find your way back, and thus complete your odyssey. You might feel a little shipwrecked around May 17th, but disillusionment will only make you run out of steam when you’re unwilling to adapt. Reposition your sails, and above all else, keep going. [Leo glyph] []Leo & Leo Rising You, yourself, are frequently a trendsetter of generosity. Isn’t it kind of nice to be on the receiving end of that for a change? Isn’t it also kind of terrifying, even upsetting to your ego’s self-concept as the giver of all light? The last few months have provided you with gentle encouragement to allow others in, to gracefully and gratefully surrender to the vulnerability of being a person who occasionally needs support, too. The added influence of Mars in Pisces might mean that both your eagerness for these types of exchanges, as well as some of your fears around them, intensify. The networks of inter-reliance that ensure our mutual survival are riddled with debt. And yet we take those debts to our graves as evidence of love. Pushing through your hesitancy looks a lot like diving directly into an oncoming wave, despite the impulse to try to outrun it. It’s counterintuitive, yet safer at the same time. Your fears will either disperse into a fine mist around May 17th, or that’s just when you reach peak confusion around this process. It’s still fine and necessary to keep your guard up in this vast intimacy soup, but you might have to listen closely to tell whether your defenses are protecting you or getting in the way. [Virgo glyph] []Virgo & Virgo Rising Maybe these past few months have amounted to a gradual encouragement to expect the best from other people. Maybe your heart has opened up in ways that are both subtle and profound. Now, Mars gives you both the courage and desire to wade into the deep end of meaningful intimacy with another. If it feels troubling to let your guard down, let it provoke you in all the right ways, and into questioning what you’re really afraid of. If this next level of closeness introduces some passionate conflict into the otherwise gentle bonds you’re developing, take it as a sign that there’s enough trust between you to contain it all. It seems as though the next step will involve eagerly embracing the risks that come with merging your lives together, depending on each other in more concrete ways, and even collaborating more deeply. You’ll start to sense the excitement of where this could go after May 10th, but there’s still a bit of confusion to navigate before you charge ahead. The disorientation peaks around May 17th. This might be a good time to surrender to the current, or let the momentum carry you when you momentarily lose your sense of direction. [Libra glyph] []Libra & Libra Rising There’s so much magic in the mundane, it turns out. There are so many ways to make your world feel bigger by merely giving yourself space to breathe inside the tedium of your day-to-day existence. Self-care doesn’t always make it onto the highlight reel of your life, but your life expands the more you do it. These are lessons you’ve been witnessing and internalizing for the last few months. During Mars in Pisces, investing in your wellness is investing in this process wholeheartedly. Fully immersing yourself in this work means riding your own energy reserves like a wave that ebbs and flows. Achieving balance means embracing uneven expenditures of effort. To some extent, it might mean making work feel less like work. Turn chores into magic rituals. Dive into the after-work social function. Commit time now to making your life easier down the line. In fact, don’t assume you have to do it all alone. Your primary relationships may have room to grow with you in this direction too, and some of that potential will be more palpable after May 10th. However, you’ll still have to guard against the burnout and squandered willpower that can result, especially around May 17th. Doing less can be doing more. [Scorpio glyph] []Scorpio & Scorpio Rising The pool party has been beckoning to you this whole time, and right about now is when you cast aside your hesitation and join the fun completely. When life opens up, it merits stepping into the art director’s role, casting yourself as a participant, and enjoying whatever creative chaos ensues. The bacchanal can only tilt over into full swing with you fully present for it. The upswing in your erotic life, fun pursuits, creative energy, and playdates ramps up to new heights on the swell of your enthusiasm. You might get a lot out of simply observing the miraculous imagination of children at play. If you can, get on their level and actively engage with the wonderland around you. Diving into an ecstatic experience can sometimes look like diving into the deep end, so keep a flotation device handy in case you need to come up for air. You might feel ghosted by your sense of creative direction around May 17th, but it’ll return soon. In the meantime, see if you can co-create with the entropy of letting yourself drift. [Sagittarius glyph] []Sagittarius & Sagittarius Rising Compared to a year ago, “home” is a concept that’s expanded to encompass much more than you ever dreamed possible. That, plus a little more emotional generosity toward your ancestors, caregivers, and early upbringing, have all been patient teachers of what it means to center forgiveness in your own heart, versus thinking of it as something that you have to give away to people who may not deserve it. With Mars joining the whirlpool that’s quickening at the foundation of your chart, a sense of urgency and intensity raises the stake a little higher. Questions of lineage, and which traditions you want to carry forward, demand your full emotional presence. You are not just the song that wrote you into existence, but also the verse you intentionally add to it. You may be keenly aware that liberating your creative energy might require you to dissolve some old resentments. Starting at home is always a sure bet. Go directly to the source, and use your anger as a means to the end of existing in a state of grace. You’ll feel even more buoyant and aware of the blank slate in your hands after May 10th. Still, don’t abandon the process of cleaning up your own house before it’s complete. Your grudges reach peak dissipation around May 17th, but so might your sense of direction. It’s okay to feel a little aimless for now if you don’t know who you are without your anger. The generative impulse abhors a vacuum. [Capricorn glyph] []Capricorn & Capricorn Rising You’ve been hanging out at a spoken word poetry mixer that’s been climbing toward a euphoric pitch. Once Mars joins the function, the gentle wave of ideas, dialogues, and skillshares gains a slight edge. Being a little provocative can actually encourage your imaginative capacity to balloon even further. Gather yourself in front of the mic once more, but with feeling this time. This will generally be a productive time to write, learn, exchange, and discuss. Leaning into your daily rituals and practices with renewed vigor can also open up through lines to an ecstatic experience. The point is in the purpose, though. Your inspired word has world-building capacities right now. Your habitual movements are brimming with resonance. Your closest friendships are not just holding you together, but bringing you back to wholeness. Engaging with everyday miracles on purpose has a way of actively accelerating them. If you fall in love with a new neighborhood during a whimsical adventure around town, don’t be too surprised if you can quickly see yourself putting down roots there, especially after May 10th. You might have to wade through a little fog, particularly around May 17th, before you nail down the exact location of your foundation, though. [Aquarius glyph] []Aquarius & Aquarius Rising Some of your most daring ideas and ambitious plans might cost you a little up front. Fortunately, you’re having an easier time trusting that the money and energetic resources you release into the flow of circulation will eventually find their way back to you. Though your spending activity might balloon during this period, it hardly needs to be a mindless consumption grab. It’ll be easy to get carried away on a swell of enthusiasm, but imbuing your expenditures with meaning and purpose has a way of amplifying their intangible value. Actively engaging with your abundance mantras makes them less of a theoretical exercise and more of a praxis. Stay grounded in the big picture of what it’s all for, and you’ll be less likely to wake up with a hangover of indulgence. You might be more prone to losing the plot slightly around May 17th, so this would be a good time to steel yourself against acquisition without a clear purpose in mind. Instead, let yourself become just a little undone in the name of widening your capacity for havingness. [Pisces glyph] []Pisces & Pisces Rising It’s all good to float in an ocean of limitless potential when the vibes are this good. But what happens when you become an active participant in an interactive exhibit of divinity? Where would you take this party if you had to choose? The past few months have encouraged you to bring your best self out of hiding for the world to see. Perhaps it took a long period of doubt to see the vitality and importance of your generosity of spirit, the welcome of your embrace, the bounty of what you multiply. Yours is a warm hug, but you don’t always have to be the one absorbing it all. Don’t forget you have plenty of agency around where you direct your dream mobile. If anything, inviting your values and principles more directly into the process will give you a more resoundingly clear sense of where to go with all this momentum you’ve gathered. Especially after May 10th, you might feel a mounting sense of hype around being resourced, and particularly what you can do with what you have. Try to stay focused on the big picture of where you ultimately see yourself in the equation, however. You might feel a little burnt out, scattered, or confused around May 17th, so protect your energy. Even oceans have finite supplies. 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