Mars enters Scorpio at 0° on September 22nd and the shift is immediate. Virgo’s sorting and testing hand off to Scorpio’s uncompromising hunger for what lies beneath. Mars is finally back in its own sign, where it will stay until November 4th, and it does not waste time. This is not about appearances. It is about the pull to go deeper, to dig past the surface until the core is exposed. Mars in Scorpio moves with precision, secrecy, and instinct sharpened to a blade. Desire turns into strategy. Action carries consequence.
And right away Pluto is waiting. On September 24th Mars at 1° Scorpio squares Pluto at 1° Aquarius. Two rulers of Scorpio facing off. If Mars is the trigger, Pluto is the force behind the detonation. The square is exact, tense, and unyielding. Power struggles rise, hidden or pushed aside issues surface, and the pressure breaks in ways that cannot be taken back. This is the kind of confrontation where no one walks away untouched. Mars takes the step. Pluto decides how far the ground falls out beneath it.
All of this lands inside the eclipse window that opened September 14th and closes September 28th. The Pisces Lunar Eclipse revealed. The Virgo Solar Eclipse enforced. Mars with Pluto strikes the match. This is not a side note to eclipse season but its ignition point. The chain reaction pulls both personal and collective events into motion and ties them to the Pisces Virgo cycle running 2024 through 2027.
Collectively this is the week when governments crack, leaders topple, and systems of power are tested for their weakest points. Secrets cannot hold. Alliances fracture. The air is confrontational and final. Personally it cuts into the houses where 0°–1° Scorpio and Aquarius fall. Those are the arenas where the fight shows up. Mars will not compromise. Pluto will not negotiate. You either take control of your output and energy or it takes control of you.
Mars in Scorpio is the blade. Pluto in Aquarius is the need to get it all out. Together they carve away what cannot survive and force a new order. Inside eclipse season, nothing about this is temporary. The cycle stretches years, but this week is the strike point.
Do not expect to feel balanced. Look for where the system caves in and decide how to use it. Mars in Scorpio is not interested in comfort. It is interested in power, survival, and raw truth. And if you are honest with yourself, so are you.