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• Ruthless Efficiency • Crisis Management Agen• Quiet Acts of Resistance • Fixation on Flaws • Workaholic Martyrdom • Battlefields of Bureaucracy • Overfunctioning Under Fire • Compulsion to Correct • Action Paralysis Under Scrutiny • Scrubbing the Apocalypse Clean • Surgical Rage • Tactical Withdrawal • Control as Self-Protection • Perfectionism as Trauma Response • Micro-Doses of Heroism • Resentful Service • Integrity Under Siege • Cold Burnout • Holding the Line When No One’s Looking •
Progressing on from the bombast, bluff and bluster of Leo, Mars in Virgo immediately demands that our actions be acknowledged as being right all the time, and we can do no wrong. We’re on a mission to correct the entire world with a pointy red Sharpie, and here’s where the lessons begin. Yeah, that’s the nag here: we start taking everything, especially ourselves, too seriously, having to deal with others’ incompetence is personally insulting, and their every dumb move or careless word is an affront to our sacred order of perfection.
Ruled by Mercury, Virgo is very mental, which means Mars will tend to inflame the nervous system as our first line of defence. Under this period, watch how we snap back like a neurotic little mutt when someone offends our conceited sense of what’s “the right way to do things”. Consequently, we may come off as being in the wrong by trying to prove we’re right, ironically by being curt, dismissive or downright bitching how everyone else is wrong. And when folks (just like us) don’t meet our exacting standards, we’re likely to turn into a micromanaging tyrant. It’s a vicious cycle. The thing is, all that nitpicking kills the natural flow of activity, effectively ruining any chance for a compelling outcome, and hence why Mars here is often better at starting scraps and fallouts than actually getting the job done.
“I’m Winston Wolf. I solve problems.”
However, if we’re not just in it for the arguments, looking for a genuine improvement, a surgical operation, a thorough little clean-up exercise, a “system upgrade”, then Mars in Virgo actually thrives when it’s being useful. If we could just put down that torturous weapon of mental hyperscrutiny, ie, stop wielding that red Sharpie like a sword and start handing it to someone else with a “here, please let me help”, then miracles may happen. If we can take initiative not to dominate but to assist—to actually chip in help others sort their chaos, edit their mess, streamline their bullshit without the condescension, then that’s when something weirdly beautiful happens. When we stop having to be right about everything, stop playing martyr, doing everyone’s job for them, and start collaborating, Mars in Virgo sees us resonating in top form.
We might even discover the holy grail of Virgo Mars—efficiency without resentment. When we apply that fire with a bit of heart, when we stop judging and start guiding, our energy actually multiplies. We become a walking system reboot—restoring order, not through control, but through competence that actually makes others feel seen, not small.
That’s the sweet spot: disciplined, discerning, and finally getting shit done—without being a dick about it.
THE 2025 PASSAGE – 17 June – 7 August 2025
Mars’ journey through Virgo will not be easy. There’s no easy way to rationalise this world right now, to make the odds and ends tie together neatly. With Saturn/Neptune fresh out of Pisces and about to form a conjunction in early Aries, all logic has run off with the faeries. We get an ungodly sense of urgency and impatience from Aries, which, ruled by Mars, can inflame matters into a premature anxiety and nervous tensions. And then there’s Pluto, Mars’ higher octave—or should we say lower—as both are intrinsically involved with survival. On initial entry, Mars is about to find out why helping others can be so stressful, as he is immediately confronted by a double quincunx, effectively a yod.
Mars in Virgo usually thrives on precision—fixing broken systems with methodical care, achieving a sense of clarity through earnest service. But in June 2025, he’s immediately thrust into the choking grip of a Yod—cornered between Pluto retrograde in Aquarius and the Saturn–Neptune conjunction in Aries. Instead of refining chaos, Mars is overwhelmed by it. Pluto imposes a compulsive need to reform outdated work routines and health systems, collective breakdowns in tech and ideology; Saturn–Neptune blurs authority into spiritual gaslighting. Mars, the detail guy, is handed an existential mess—no clear enemy, no clear rules, just overwhelming pressure to do something. Every effort feels wrong: too little, too late, or utterly disconnected. The tools that once brought order now betray him. Logic becomes madness. Action becomes paralysis. Feeling an overwhelming sense of pressure, he teeters on the edge of a nervous breakdown.
This isn’t just a rough transit. In certain ways, it becomes a rite of passage, an initiation into a new level of consciousness. Mars is forced to confront the terrifying truth: you can’t fix a system designed to break you. The institutions we once served now appear vampiric, feeding on effort without end. Yet a faint sextile to Jupiter in Cancer (Jun 22) whispers: retreat, not in fear, but in care. Nourish what’s near. Anchor in the real. The martyr gives way to the quiet radical—Mars no longer burns to correct, but to sustain one’s footing.
But the story doesn’t stop with the Yod. By mid-July, Mars hits a grinding semi-sextile with a stationing Mercury in Leo. This is when irritation sets in like grit under the skin. The Virgo drive to correct gets louder—but so does the world’s refusal to be corrected. Mars wants clarity and method; Mercury in Leo wants to dictate. Arguments emerge not from disagreement, but from pride, tone, timing. People snap. Communication turns coercive. Leaders bark rather than listen. It’s a moment where being right becomes weaponised—and it backfires. Mars in Virgo risks alienating the very people he’s trying to help, unless he remembers: precision doesn’t have to mean pedantry. Authority demands competence with humility.
Then, just as Mars prepares to exit Virgo, he makes one final, ragged stretch—a quincunx to Chiron and Eris, conjunct at the end of Aries. Mars, already stripped down by the Yod, now faces the raw wound of inadequacy and abandonment. His nervous system frayed, and he cannot go back to who he was. An identity crisis emerges. Eris forces the question: Who gets left out of your solutions? Chiron asks: Why do you keep fighting the same battle over and over? Mars in Virgo has to reconcile his compulsion to help with the pain he cannot heal, both in the world and in himself. There’s no neat mathematical solution for betrayal, no SOP for dealing with grief. What’s required now is not analysis and KPIs, but atonement—not for being imperfect, but for pretending perfection was ever the point.
By the time he limps into August, scarred and sober, he’s become something rare: a warrior who doesn’t chase glory, who holds the line with grace, making quiet miracles in a collapsing world. Not to win—but to endure.
In total, this Mars in Virgo journey becomes a sobering dismantling of our most cherished assumptions on action, efficacy, and order. From the initial overwhelm of the outer-planet yods, through Mercury’s combative pride, to the Chiron–Eris confrontation with invisible suffering, we are each being reshaped—less as warriors, more as humble stewards of what’s left. The aim is no longer to get ahead. The challenge is to stay human when the world forgets how. And if Mars in Virgo can still serve, still mend, still hold integrity in the midst of this firestorm—he does so with grace, at least leaving the battlefield a little cleaner than he found it.
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Ah my mars/virgo return at 3 degrees 🙂 back then it was in a hard conjunct with pluto…
fun times had by all *haha