08/29/2026
Mars square Saturn 🚧🌋🌋🌋
Peaks Sept 1 : in play Aug 30 - Sept 3
Breaking Apart Unhealthy Structures or Faulty Foundations: The need to separate ourselves from unhealthy, energy draining situations, living environments, projects, jobs or people.
This is the 2 malefics meeting up for one of their twice a year square offs. A malefic is a planet or energy traditionally seen as bringing hardship, tension, and difficult lessons rather than ease.
While Mars represents our drive, desires, your capacity to make decisions and take immediate action; Saturn represents self-control, discipline, restrictions, past karma, time and responsibility.
Saturn: Known as the "greater malefic," it represents restriction, delay, discipline, and hard burdens.
Mars: Known as the "lesser malefic," it represents heat, passion, will power, conflict, anger, aggression and sudden disruption.
Malefic does not necessarily mean purely evil, but it does highlight where you must face resistance, have been building resistance, and will undergo deep personal growth through finding your own inner strength.
It is as if Mars is going before the judge to do a reality check or face consequences on actions (current + past), the direction you are going in and if the goals you are trying to achieve are heart guided (in alignment) or wounded ego driven (out of alignment).
Saturn and its activations will always bring forth the natural consequences of your disciplined efforts, or lack thereof bringing in karmic reward or retribution.
Saturns influence may also force a dark night of the soul and bring the necessary pressure tests. Simply put, Saturn makes us earn it.
With Saturn being the father energy of the zodiac, its influence truly wants the best for you, but sometimes that means sweeping away people and things who do not serve your highest good (and are keeping you out of alignment), even if you cannot see “why” at the time of loss.
Authority figures and superiors such as your father, other dominant men, teachers, and bosses, may put you down, restrict your ambitions, try to control your actions and generally try to stop you from achieving what you want - especially if it is your soul mission work versus old 3d work.
It may also just be that general circumstances prevent your progress currently. It can be a frustrating, challenging and exhausting few days, mainly to the ego who may not be getting its way or completely stopping it from going any further toward certain things.
Trying to forge ahead can be jarring due to blocks and obstacles. Do not lose hope but embrace a slow and steady consistent approach where possible. Take a look at what things you can do now that wood help you get closer to your goals moving forward.
This is not a winning transit and the best approach now is a defensive one or complete surrender. Instead of starting new projects or hunting down your desires, it is better to concentrate on holding onto what you already have.
Mars rules our adrenals and stress response, and when Saturn comes into conflict with Mars, there are prolonged periods of stress.
Rejection or limitations will internalize the hot Mars energy and this can result in problems, emotional rage as the anger builds or even bring on an illness.
Do your best not to hold this in, feel exactly what you feel but do not throw it project it onto others.
Risk-taking or trying to go around the blocks will only worsen any problems. It is better to work alone if possible now and concentrate on things closer to home.
It depends on the person, but this influence can trigger either explosive anger or someone finally just giving up (surrender to the needed endings).
The constant strain to get anything done, and the prolonged feeling of restriction can easily make one “check out” for a while. There can even be a physical breakdown.
This is not a good time for fighting, starting wars or conquering new ground. This is a good time to sharpen your blades and strengthen your inner defenses.
If you do feel anger rising within yourself or observer someone who is giving off angry monster energy avoid them at all cost! — sit with yourself to allow these emotions to be felt through and released.
Use the hot energy of mars to burn up the karmic density of theses lower emotions you had been carrying. This will make you feel sooooo much better.
This combo can really boost us with motivation and productivity, but only when we can embrace our own personal limitations or where we may need to stop and move in a different direction.
Reflect on how you can channel your energy constructively: what small, manageable steps can you take today to move closer to your goals?
Remember: Direction is so much more important than speed. Slow and steady consistency in the right direction wins the race!
Amy ♥️👩🏼⚖️
