Evolutionarily speaking, a balsamic phase of 329 degrees speaks of culmination and completion. Especially with regards to Mars-Pluto, it’s a soul level culmination cycle.
Mars is currently in Capricorn while Pluto is in Aquarius. From an evolutionary perspective, this balsamic mars-plato phase speaks about your soul wrapping up a cycle that began back in 14 February 2024. While this may be focused more on the house/topics associated with where you have Aquarius in, where you have Saturn and Uranus in, as well as its aspects. But this will also be about your own natal Pluto placement, ruler’s position and its aspects. All of which are speaking about your soul’s intentions for the current now, to experience, in order to grow.
Here’s a quick summary if you know your rising sign.
Aries Rising – 11th House of Friends, Hopes, Wishes
Taurus Rising – 10th House of Career, Higher Self
Gemini Rising – 9th House of Overseas Travel, Philosophy and Religion
Cancer Rising – 8th house of shared finances and gains/losses
Leo Rising – 7th house of spouse and 1-1 partnerships
Virgo Rising – 6th house of daily routines, health, pets
Libra Rising – 5th House of Romance, Children, Hobbies
Scorpio Rising – 4th House of Home, Property and Parents
Sagittarius Rising – 3rd House of Communication, Siblings and Short Travel
Capricorn Rising – 2nd House of Finances and Inner Values
Aquarius Rising – 1st House of Self
Pisces Rising – 12th House of Subconscious, Isolation
Detachment and Dual Life Phase
It’s about detachment, being able to look backwards and objectively see all the reasons which have denied the past. But concurrently being aware of new seed thoughts. Temptation to say ‘okay I’m done now, I don’t have to do this thing called the past anymore, wanting to rush into a new cycle’.
But at this present time, up till 27 January 2026, we have to continue the completion of this aspect of cycle. We can’t dive into that ‘new cycle’ even though we’re somewhat aware of it. One example, is someone appearing perfectly normal on the outside but as they go home, they’re studying astrology books, doing what they enjoy doing ‘behind the scenes’.
After 27 January, this person could actually be starting a new cycle where astrology becomes more present in the person’s life where they’ll want to actively pursue it even if it seems to be ‘different’ from other people. In effect this balsamic phase requires us to live sort of a dual life in preparation for a new cycle.
Collective Consciousness
Aquarius is also about the collective consciousness. On a collective scale we’re ending a cycle where we became more aware of our connection to each other, forming communities and experimenting with new information that we may not have been previously aware of. Discovering what we identify with and what we did not identify with, in order to go into a new cycle where we now have opinions and information that we acknowledge. This new cycle however, may still just be based on personal opinions from a variety of different sources. We’ll then need to again learn about how to synthesise the information we have, identify one overarching theme or system in which we can base it upon.
So from now till 27 January 2026, just continue in the direction you have been in, while preparing for that new cycle. From 28 January 2026, when Mars-Pluto starts a new cycle, you’ll be prepared for new thought forms, new connections and renewed value systems that align more with your soul.
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