Transit Mars Conjunct Natal Pluto: Intense Will, Deep Resolve

Transit Mars conjunct natal Pluto is a powerful few days in which the will concentrates and the wish to change something at the root grows strong. Mars brings action and desire; Pluto stands for power, obsession and transformation. When the two meet, half measures disappear. The effect is clearest two or three days around exactness and returns roughly every two years.

What happens when transit Mars conjoins Pluto?

The person locks onto a goal: clearing out a closet that has waited for years, finishing a tough project in one sitting, raising the issue that has been dragging on in a relationship. Energy is deep and durable; heavy training or an intense work marathon goes well now. The same intensity can also show up as jealousy, stubbornness and the urge to control.

Using power without imposing it

The shadow is the power struggle. A "who's right" fight with a manager, partner or family member can escalate faster than expected. Pluto hates to back down and Mars hates to wait, so it's worth asking what really matters before voices rise. On the approach pressure builds, at the exact conjunction a decision or confrontation arrives, and on the way out the remaining energy turns into lasting change.

• Use these days to finish, clear out or restructure something.
• Give strong emotion to the body: weights, running, martial arts.
• Change your own part rather than what you want to control.

During a Mars retrograde this conjunction can happen three times within a few months. Matters of the house Pluto rules, the one with Scorpio on the cusp, share in the intensity.