Mars in Pushya ~ Fight to find meaning

Mars, a planet of drive and action, enters the nakshatra of Pushya within Cancer from October 28th, 2024 to January 12th, 2025.

This extended transit is due to Mars’s retrograde motion on December 7th and takes on the quality both as a major challenge and opportunity. Cancer is the sign of Mars’s debilitation, where you are subject to changing moods and may only act decisively when you truly feel like it. Certainly, your ambitions take longer to achieve than expected, and it’s better to plan ahead for a possible change of direction.

Pushya’s symbol of the Udder is all about caring and nurturing, and your motivation and desires are bound up with looking after the people closest to you. You are in a battling and protective mood, and may also be drawn into a caring environment like a hospital, hotel, or retreat, or simply tap into your instincts about people’s needs. The Shakti of this asterism, ‘The Power to Create Spiritual Energy’, gives you a strong and tenacious style and wisdom and charisma that inspires others to follow you.

Pushya’s rulership by Brihaspati, or Jupiter-Guru, also gives you a drive towards philosophy and deeper meaning, plus a way of fighting fair even when a dispute or competition gets tough. From December 2nd to 28th, Mars gazes directly at idealistic Venus, where you fight to gain somebody’s attention or revisit a relationship a second time around. You feel romantically competitive and take positive steps to circulate socially and draw a special person closer to you.