Mars-Pluto Opposition 2025: Navigating Power, Conflict, and the Grand Cross Energy

Mars-Pluto Opposition 2025

Mars entered Leo and immediately got wrapped in conflict with Pluto - tension is growing and muscles are being shown off, locally and globally. On April 26 we get to experience the peak of Mars-Pluto Opposition 2025... and Grand Cross, loose but still transformational as hell. Let's dive into analysis.

Mars-Pluto Opposition 2025

About Mars in Leo I said just enough in previous entry - what he wants from us is to take that personal power and express it unapolegetically, with passion, confidence and joy of standing in own light.

So... Pluto in Aquarius represents collective, systemic, revolutionary power. It does not tolerate falsehood, it exposes the truth, mercilessly striking the ego points that do not resonate with the authenticity of one's truth. This serves the awakening of raw potential. If your pride and expression are just a mask to hide complexes — Pluto will tear them to shreds to provoke you to work with this Shadow, to transform and integrate it.

It can be an explosion — a sudden revelation of weakness, anger, frustration. Or an implosion — the burning out of ego under the pressure that what we are showing is not rooted in our authenticity. It’s not real. But if we act from the heart — this very moment, April 26, can become a breakthrough, the liberation we’ve been waiting for. A true chance to reclaim personal power, based on truth, not on the theatre of masks and illusions.

At first, we may feel anxiety connected to such a change, but Mars supports us with impulses, courage, and the passion of a lion's heart, full of childlike bravado and drama. 

Pluto exerts pressure not to destroy us (if we allow transformation), but so that we join the the revolution — a change in systems, values, the form of being together as a collective. It seeks builders, leaders with personal power who can draw a vision of the future for others to see. Creative and ready to stand in the spotlight not to shine for themselves, but to become a star pointing to ideas that are important for emerging groups and collectives.

Mars wants to strengthen creativity, our “I” and our desires — Pluto wants us not to do this only for ourselves, but for the world, which needs authentic leaders, not loudmouths in golden masks, pretending to be sages on a pile of gold, oracles of truth, and saviors of the world.

Mars in Leo gives us all the chance to become visible. And not because we want to shine, but because our presence carries value and truth. Pluto, on the other hand, demands that we know why we are on this stage. Our task is to decide: will we keep playing our role as we have so far… or will we express ourselves authentically and take on a role in the future of a community that serves truth?

The Influence of Lilith in Scorpio

Lilith in Scorpio, during the opposition, forms a very strong square to Mars and Pluto. With her presence, she speaks the visions of dark goddess, uncompromisingly revealing the deepest shadow, which exposes what is suppressed, repressed, forbidden. She does not negotiate — this is the force of anger, shame, trauma, and unwanted power, which was buried because it didn’t fit into ego narratives, social norms. This opposition causes these parts of us to particularly strongly want to come to voice.

Lilith asks the question: Is your personal strength perhaps based on trying to repress pain, humiliation, failure, the sexual shadow? 

If so — this configuration can trigger a process in which truth, carefully hidden beneath the surface, pours out violently, seeking its place and wanting to deeply manifest its significance. It demands to be noticed, accepted, integrated here and now. This can be an emotional eruption, confrontation with repressed sexuality, wildness of desires, the revelation of some taboo — everything that was meant to remain hidden comes onto the stage, challenging both the ego and the impersonal system.

Lilith tests whether you have the courage to be visible not only in glory but also with the wound in which your power was born. To show it provocatively, to shout: This is how my power was born! Through the wound that this system inflicted on me — it is I who made it a gift, I was reborn from the wound like a phoenix rising from the ashes.

Sun in Taurus – Pressure to Ground Authenticity

The Sun in Taurus adds to the opposition a subtle, yet still significant, tension related to the body, the material world, and personal value. On one hand, it can definitely act as a stabilizer – reminding us that spiritual truth and the strength of ego must have a concrete form, grounding in matter, a body that will carry this value into the world…

On the other hand – it’s a stabilization that doesn’t come without challenge, effort. The Sun in Taurus says: “Show me something concrete. What’s the point of you shining if it doesn’t have a body of matter?”

The Sun can reveal where ego expression lacks a foundation in practice, resources, everyday values. It reminds us that in addition to balancing ego with the collective system, besides truth, which here has such great meaning in expression, integration, authenticity of what we do… we still live in the material world, and truth, any truth, must take a tangible, concrete form, honoring its metaphysical value. It must find a vessel worthy of itself.

This tension reminds us: Your strength cannot be just an idea, an action without grounding and anchoring – it must have its body. It may be your body… or another lasting form that will represent the value of truth in the physical world. And if this is lacking, Mars may feel frustrated, Pluto – distant, and you – blocked between the need for expression and the lack of solid ground on which to sow and cultivate truth until it bears fruit.

Guidance for this time

Mars: “I am. Hear me roar.”

Pluto: “You are a pattern within the whole. Dissolve.”

What comes to the surface for all of us is:

• The need to express yourself in fully conflicting with the pressure to conform, detach, or depersonalize

• A challenge to authentic embodiment in a world that may reward abstraction or neutrality

• Power struggles between the individual and the system, especially when the individual refuses to be anonymized

How do we feel it?

• intensely triggered when being ignored, dismissed, or reduced to a function

• control issues surfacing in relationships— around dominance, pride, or coldness

• explosive reactions when self-worth is undermined by indifference or dismissal

• but we find power in expressing our essence when we reject need for approval

What to do?

• Turn rage into power for your light

• Take creative action (Leo) to confront and transmute oppressive systems (Aquarius)

• Be the rebellion against emotional numbness and system that flattens down identity

• Reignite passion for the future - with exciting heart-led vision and action

Tips:

• Be creative with your truth, give it artistic shape through movement, music, ritual, voice, presence

• Confront power calmly: Pluto resists tantrums, but respects grounded and embodied independence in confrontation

• Evaluate your relationship with control: how you respond to it and how you may try to assert it from grounded space

• Sacred rage: let your rage become a force that cuts illusion with precision, without burning you down as well

Quick prognosis for Ascendants

Ascendant in Leo

You feel a strong urge to act, be seen, and reclaim your power, but relationships and past wounds challenge your sense of stability. Pressures around visibility test whether your success is rooted in truth or ego.

Ascendant in Cancer

Your focus turns to values, finances, and self-worth, as emotional attachments and creative blocks demand healing. Social belonging is tested—are you acting from passion or seeking approval?

Ascendant in Gemini

Communication becomes intense, pushing you to speak, but also forcing a deep shift in beliefs and daily habits. Hidden emotions surface, asking for healing beyond perfectionism.

Ascendant in Taurus

Your comfort zone is shaken, and relationships expose hidden wounds, while you're called to express your authentic self outwardly. Social pressures force you to ground your truth in real value.

Ascendant in Aries

Desires for love, creativity, and recognition rise, while group ties and intimate bonds shift. You’re asked to balance passion with real stability and redefine what truly matters.

Ascendant in Pisces

Daily life and health feel pressured, while spiritual wounds and subconscious patterns surface for release. You're called to align your routines with deeper truths.

Ascendant in Aquarius

Relationships become intense mirrors, revealing deep truths about your identity and fears of visibility. You’re torn between hiding for safety or showing up as your raw self.

Ascendant in Capricorn

Powerful emotions and desires push for transformation, while your self-worth and place in groups shift. Your creative heart seeks joy beyond duty.

Ascendant in Sagittarius

Your beliefs and visions demand action, and your words gain depth through inner transformation. Hidden feelings rise, pushing you to live your truth in both body and spirit.

Ascendant in Scorpio

Ambition and visibility call, but emotional foundations and identity are under intense change. Partnerships reflect your need for authenticity and wild self-reclamation.

Ascendant in Libra

Social action calls you to lead, but your creativity, worth, and deep emotions ask if you're acting from truth or for validation. Transform how you share yourself with others.

Ascendant in Virgo

You’re driven to cleanse old patterns, as body, work, and voice go through deep shifts. It's time to face hidden frustrations and update your spiritual path.

Summary

The opposition of Mars to Pluto, with the influence of Lilith and the Sun, is both a challenge and an opportunity for us. In this transit, the shadow can be intensely pulled to the surface and cleansed, to reveal to us the truth we need to achieve our goals and succeed in the new society. Its conditions are now dictated by Pluto in Aquarius, seeking the most authentic truth embodied by people who are not afraid to reject their ego and act for a shared idea creating the future we all dream of.

At the same time, we are to take care of ourselves, our values, and the material security of our truth. We are all present in this world in a body, and we often forget that without it, our truth would not see the light of day.