SOLAR SPOTLIGHTS

The Sun in Taurus/Mars in Leo Square| April 21, 2025

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Imagine, if you will, a soul dressed in vintage velvet, moth-bitten but regal, reclining in a clawfoot tub filled not with water but with moonlight and melancholia...

That’s the feeling of this square—Sun in Taurus locking horns with Mars in Leo at 2°, a cosmic standoff between the part of you that would rather sip chamomile and memorize cloud shapes and the part of you that wants to set the whole sky on fire and see who cheers.

This isn’t your usual hot-headed square, mind you…

No, this is more like a slow-motion slap delivered across lifetimes.

The Taurus Sun, with its loamy roots and devotion to the sacred art of stillness, finds itself poked and prodded by Mars in Leo, who thinks standing still is a sin and subtlety a waste of good spotlight. And yet—they are both royal in their own right. One a priest of the earth, the other a lion of the stage. But put them in a room together? It’s like asking a cathedral to dance with a drag queen. Beautiful. Awkward. Inevitable.

And here lies the paradox—because this square isn’t about motion, it’s about resistance...

It’s about that exquisite moment when a soul knows it needs to act but sits there anyway, tracing the outline of its own hesitation with a golden fingertip. Taurus says, “Let’s wait.” Leo growls, “Let’s go.” And you? You become a beautiful paradox wrapped in inertia, dreaming about the life you might live if only someone else would live it for you.

But oh, the dreams…