Transiting
Mars passing over the chart angles (Ascendant, Midheaven, Descendant,
and IC) often denotes sudden action taken or sudden activity
happening to you.
I've
known and written about this phenomenon that I like to call
the Mars
Attack for a long time, but it recently hit home (literally)
in a big
way.
Early
yesterday morning (4:00 am March 16, 2009)... as transiting
Mars in Pisces was passing directly over my birth Midheaven
squared
by the transiting Moon (which also happened to be conjuncting
my birth Sun and opposing my birth Moon)... I was rudely awakened
by neighbors (my angels) to alert me that the vacant foreclosed
house located next door was on fire and already fully
involved.
In
our historic neighborhood, the old houses all tend to be
located rather close to one another. With Mars in Pisces (fire
having
difficulty with maintaining boundaries) the threat to my little
house was very real.
In
my little home's favor, there was a total absense of wind
that morning and the ground was saturated with water after
several
days of rain.
For
the first hour or
so
I
was seriously
wondering if I would soon be numbered among the homeless. It's
strange the bizarre thoughts that race through your mind...
the night before I'd done 5 big loads of laundry... and
standing
there, expecting my house to go down in flames... I was slightly
ticked off that I'd done all that laundry for no good reason...
Long
story short... the vacant foreclosed house is no more. My
home escaped damage, other than a hairline crack in a storm
window. My neighbor on the
other side of the burning house, escaped serious damage,
as well. The cause of the fire is now being actively investigated
as
an act of arson.
I
suppose it likewise fits the theme of action over my Midheaven
(public image), in that one
of the local TV news crews showed up very late, and then the
guy literally begged
me for an interview. I'd hoped that no one I knew would see
it on the local evening news... but as I've discovered over
the past couple of days, my hopes were fruitless... and it
was, I suppose,
my 15
seconds of fame...
I
did coincidentally discover what I value the most during this
Venus retrograde in Aries (in opposition to my birth Mars),
as I
grabbed my
trusty laptop while exiting my home.
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