VIDEO: MARS PLUTO OPPOSITION MAKES FOR AN INTENSE TURNING POINT MOMENT & Venus Retro Asks Us To See With Love What We Have Not Wanted To Sept 27 Oct 3 2026 Horoscopes for each sign

In considering what metaphor I wanted to use to describe this week, well, I kept coming back to one that's kind of played, kind of overused, and I'm so sorry for that, but there really is no other better visual for what a lot of us are gonna be feeling other than a pressure cooker.

As we're starting the week, the energy still might feel rather easy, but especially as we get to the very end of the week, and just start dipping into next week, well, that's when tensions might feel like they run really high.

A pressure cooker essentially heats up your food through steam.

It is a tightly lidded metal device.

It's got a valve in it.

And that's what you want to trust, that there is a valve, there is some modulation, there is some regulation.

And yet it is sometimes pressure that makes diamonds.

And it's sometimes pressure that shows us something about what we're really made of.

And what we see, well, it has the potential to stay with us in a positive way for a long time to come.

When we're able to navigate situations where maybe it's on the inside, we're feeling the stress.

Maybe it's an external matter.

But the turning point moment very often comes because of how we deal with it.

Once we navigate further into next week, and it won't take long once we enter next week at all, but the energies bring some sort of a reward for what right now might seem like anything but.

And so what's happening as we get to the end of the week, we have got Mars opposite Pluto.

Now that in and of itself could feel super stressful.

That in and of itself happens about once every two years and it's always this moment with a lot of emotion and a lot of passion and sometimes even anger as well.

It's being confronted with our own frustrations and where we are powerless.

I often think of Mars as connected to the serenity affirmation, which is grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

So that's three points of power right there.

And yet sometimes we really wish that one of them wasn't what it has to be.

We really wish perhaps that we had power over the thing that we're powerless over.

We really wish that we didn't have to take responsibility for something we do have power over.

And whatever that might be for you, there is a feeling here of some urgency.

you add to it the fact that mercury is facilitating a t-square so this isn't just going to stay energy that is on that visceral level that a lot of us are going to feel it you know those feelings like your stomach is turning and you can feel it in your palms you can feel it as you're moving through the world But we get Mercury facilitating a T-square, and there's a real opportunity here to actually talk things out, to actually understand, to have those difficult conversations even when they're hard, to face some difficult truths, but in a way that still brings with it healthy detachment.

Now, healthy detachment might seem like the last thing that could be available to us, but it actually is.