Mars Leaves His Shadow 2025

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good

When last we met here on SO'W, we discussed The Path of Mars Dec 2024 into Feb 2025 and due to unavoidable interruptions, I had to cut short my typing time, promising to add the third horoscope in the planet's retrograde process, the chart that shows the moment that transit Mars reaches the end of his Shadow period on May 2, 2025 and begins to move ahead unencumbered.

Then the planet of motive, energy, and action in proud Sun-ruled Leo can move forward through tropical Leo and reach his Mars Rising position in the natal horoscope of Mr. T. on June 11, 2025 - very close to his Solar Return 2025.

Shown in the astro-notes penned on the May 2, 2025 Horoscope there are suggestions of decreased value$ (see Venus), speculation, fraud, squandering (see Sun = Jupiter-Neptune), and/or quarrels (Sun = Mars-ASC). These are all things we don't need Astrology to forecast since we've been informed by the predatory perpetrators of Agenda 47 (or the Project 2025 purge, if you prefer) to expect negative consequences from the implementation of their authoritarian policies of austerity and hardship. The crypto-currency Ponzi scheme is said to be an objective as they loot our nation and cause a deep recession or depression.

Obviously, the 8 South Solar Eclipse of October 2, 2024 @10Libra, with its energies running in the background of society, is playing an outsized part in events into 2025 with its themes of loss, partings, and separations (B. Brady).

So below you see a dual image of DC Horoscopes: lower left Mars Rx December 6, 2024 (this very evening as I'm typing) @6Leo10 in 2nd hou$e, and the moment that transit Mars reaches his own Shadow degree on May 2, 2025 (upper right) at the same Rx degree (which is how a shadow period is timed for any planet). Then below the dual image, I'll add a few general notes concerning Mars in Leo:

On the positive side, Mars in Leo tends to act confidently with great self-assurance and with zeal for the work at hand. A spirit of enterprise may be evident along with enthusiastic striving for possessions and wealth; positions of responsibility and power are often sought, and leadership skills shown. Negatively, Mars in Leo tends toward speculation, gambling, taking risks (perhaps foolish ones), and may often exhibit traits such as me-first egoism, unvaunted self-regard, unbounded passion, predatory behavior, and a large appetite.

Note that the Mars 2 Shadow Horoscope of May 2, 2025 with aspect grid is viewable by following the link to The Path of Mars Dec 2024 into Feb 2025 provided, above.