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| Artist Francis Bacon has Mars in Pisces Part of an obsessive series of Screaming Pope paintings over years, initially inspired by Velasquez’s Pope Innocent X portrait in Rome but constant reworking may have been psychological turmoil over his homosexuality. 13th March 2013, Argentinian Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglia announced as Pope Francis 1st in Rome |
On the 2nd February, 2013 the warrior planet Mars packed its kitbag and set off on its journey into the water world of Pisces, where it will encamp, compelled to love and be loved until it begins to spring into action and gambol and jump onto the energetic trampoline of fiery Aries on the 12th March, 2013.
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Author, broadcaster, comedy scriptwriter and UK Labour politician John O’Farrell has Mars in Pisces He wrote for UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown who also has Mars in Pisces On the 28th February 2013 he is standing as Labour candidate in the Eastleigh by election ‘Suddenly, I feel really lucky to have an outlet for the profound sense of outrage I feel about this coalition government. This is the most important and interesting byelection for years, with the bizarre situation of Liberals and Tories fighting each other for the right to vote for exactly the same terrible policies. How could I not want to get in and help Labour stop both of them? |
While Mars is here, swimming in the oceans of Pisces, it will be mutable, mobile and malleable on any number of ‘issues’ whether personal, social or universal. During it’s stay in Pisces it floats and gets pulled by the strong currents and tides although it is also muscular enough to swim against the flow should it so choose.
Footballer/Model/Sex Symbol/Icon David Beckham has Mars in Pisces
‘Everyone’s been so quick to say that Im really thick or I haven’t got a brain… I have got this obsessive compulsive disorder where i have to have everything in a straight line or everything has to be in pairs..People react to criticism in different ways, and my way is definitely to come out fighting.’
Mars the planet of action will be driven to rescue and provide a raft for those who may be drowning or engulfed in conflict. We may find ourselves torn between intervention and laissez faire or just full on or full off. We may want to help then at the same time feel equally powerless to do justice to our ambitions. Whether split in two, torn asunder or just dithering and juddering on the spot, our actions will not be quite so clear cut or simple.
‘There is a very famous saying among Tibetan Buddhists: ‘If the student is not better than the teacher, then the teacher is a failure.”
Mars love a good fight and whilst it was in humanitarian and freedom loving Aquarius some real battles played out on the global stage. ‘The People’ elected in a new government in both Japan and Israel. The USA watched and listened to the inauguration speech by President Obama speaking for ‘we the people‘, sparking up heated debate about the meaning of liberty and liberalism as well as bringing into high focus those in the minority or outposts of society. ‘We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths—that all of us are created equal—is the star that guides us still; just as it guided our forebears through Seneca Falls and Selma, and Stonewall.’
On a truly sad note, the tragic shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School also sparked up the issue of freedom and the cost to safety in daily life of the American citizen insistence on the right to bear arms and the protection of their children.
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| America’s former child star sweetheart later Ambassador Shirley Temple Black has Mars in Pisces Temple was a toddler as the New York Stock Exchange crashed on ‘Black Tuesday’ leading to the Great Depression. In her 80’s he has seen ‘Black Monday’, another global financial crash triggered by the US housing market bubble and the lowering of the US financial triple A rating. ‘I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph’ |
Facing the future what can we expect of Mars as it now clammers, trying hard to keep its shape and find its form in the transparent opaqueness of water? When looked at directly water will both reveal and distort the image beneath it and in much the same way Pisces can be both unfathomable whilst appearing transparent. Pisces emotions and feelings appears to be on display and yet Pisces can often absolutely confound any further attempt at questioning or analysis. Mars in watery Pisces will actually feel what it is like to ‘be there’ and it’s actions will be visceral and emotionally driven. However, the Pisces fish do swim in different directions and get pulled into eddies that can get very murky.
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| Radical Islamic cleric Abu Usamah has Mars in Pisces Due to visit Reading University’s Muslim Society in February 2013 amid protests and cancellations from several other UK universities. An American convert to Islam and last seen on Channel 4 ‘Undercover Mosque’ ‘Whoever changes his religion from al-Islam to anything else kill him in the Islamic state.’‘Allah has created the woman, even if she gets a PhD, deficient. Her intellect is incomplete, deficient. She may be suffering from hormones that will make her emotional. It takes two witnesses of a woman to equal the one witness of the man.’ Also calling gay people ‘perverted, dirty, filthy dogs who should be murdered.‘Do you practise homosexuality with men? Take that homosexual man and throw him off the mountain.‘ |
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Stylised Counter-culture Icon/Sex Symbol’ Ernesto Che Guevara has Mars in Pisces ‘Better to die standing, than to live on your knees.’ Universal image of Marxist revolutionary Guevara ‘Guerrillero Heroico’ by Cuban photographer Alberto Korda is seen in a myriad forms around the world. February 2013 a billboard outside the 5 star W South Beach hotel in Miami had to be removed as Cuban-American guests continue to be offended by the image which turned out to be yet another self-portrait pastiche of Guevara this time by UK artist Gavin Turk. |
Check out the Pisces zone in your own chart. This area will see the passing of a zealous compassionate avenger or defender through it and used wisely this energy can be healthy and much needed. For instance if Pisces is your 6th house zone you could save a work colleague from a situation that they are struggling with by listening or counselling them through it. Or is it passing through your 4th house zone of family and you need to open up your home to people or even creatures who need rescuing.
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| Actress/Author, eternal bun hairstyle Princess Leia Star Wars Icon, Carrie Fisher has Mars in Pisces She may even return in Star Wars Episode 7. Her complicated family situation drama involved her mother, actress Debbie Reynolds, Mars in Pisces and iconic beauty actress Elizabeth Taylor, Mars in Pisces |
Conversely, used more negatively you could get lost in a sea of endless possibilities. You could feel unable or too fearful to choose an option and act that may cripple all your best intentions. If it is moving through your personal 11th zone people you value as friends may eventually drain you or take advantage of your good nature.
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| Actor Heath Ledger playing legendary lover Casanova, both have Mars in Pisces ‘When anything is blocking my head or there’s worry in my life, I just go sit on Mars or something and look back here at Earth. All you can see is this tiny speck. You don’t see the fear. You don’t see the pain. You don’t see thought. It’s just one solid speck. Then nothing really matters. It just doesn’t.‘This is the way he always was. He was always a thought ahead. He was the hardest person to play chess against.’ N’Fa, close friend of Ledger who was a chess fanatic. |
Pisces going through your 5th house zone and your kids will be testing out your No! maybe feeling that it does not really mean No! but really ‘well maybe’.
posted by pippa ponton & jphibbs