Mars in Taurus ♂ 2024

artist: Lindy Kehoe

June 8 – July 20, 2024

Mars rules Aries, so he has been “at home” for this most recent transit, and holy shit he does not fuck around when he’s hanging at home, silhouetted by dry, blood red plateaus. Emotional and sexual energy surge. The ego balloons to ridiculous proportions. Mars in Aries is pure fire and adrenaline. Aries is reactive, arrogant, impatient, restless, stubborn. He is both man and child, as capricious as they come. He is deeply romantic, driven by a primal need to know and love his partner, his Libra Queen, his counterpart for life. But he is a fighter, full of rage, and peace does not come easily in his world. He is a warrior until the very end, until he sees that rage & violence only beget more of the same; that love is the one true answer.

There have been some incredibly frustrating moments with some uniquely headstrong individuals but we – are – going – to – let –

alllllll of that go now

woooooooooshhhhhhhhhh

Slow it down, slow it down. Watch the flames fade back, into the earth. Coals cool. Here comes Mars in Taurus, stretching and yawning, fresh from the garden of the sensual earth queen. Mars in Taurus is perfectly peaceful and soothing, just the balm we need for the burning heart within. Peace in the heart. Peace in the body. Peace in the mind.

Mars in an earth sign speaks to patience, determination, abundance, pragmatism, and stability. Mars spins with vigor in Taurus until all of our energy has been properly channeled. Then we become a boulder: sublimely grounded. When we decide to move, enormous amounts of work will be accomplished. Once Taurus sets to work, she moils with impressive force.

Taurus comes from Hathor, the Egyptian goddess of fertility. Hathor holds the entire cosmic cycle in her being. With one hand Hathor delivers babies, and with the other she welcomes the newly dead with delicious ethereal food and drink. Hathor is the goddess of music and happiness, dancing joyously across the necropolis; protector of miners and turquoise; guardian of the desert; rattler of the sistrum; steward of the earth, nestled in a papyrus marsh beneath the Milky Way, Nile of the Sky.

During the Age of Taurus in the third millennium BC, the Milky Way aligned at the fall and spring equinoxes so that its ends touched the earth exactly where the sun rose and set. It was at this time that Hathor became intimately associated with the Milky Way. Our ancestors saw a sacred cow in the sky, funneled into the earth below, imbuing humanity with her gentle power for eons to come.

June 11: Mars square Pluto Retrograde in Aquarius. This one always gets me down on my knees, praying to gods I don’t believe in. Intense af. Emotional shitstorm. Tension, anxiety, malfunction. Prep very very well for this one. Think of it as an incoming storm.

June 20: Summer Solstice / 1st day of Cancer Season

July 15: Mars conjunct Uranus in Taurus. This conjunction is – and will continue to be, for as long as Uranus is in Taurus – the apex of all current Taurus transits, in my humble opinion. It’s never what we expect. Think all things technological, social, and Uranian-Aquarian. Things are not necessarily going our way. Miscommunication likely. Avoid screens; spend time outside instead. Drained feeling. Need to recharge on all levels.

If you were born with Mars in Taurus, this transit is your Mars return. To find your personal Mars sign, click here.