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April 18, 2025 20 mins

This Mars in Leo opposite Pluto in Aquarius energy is not here to play (Exact April 26th 2025).

It’s pulling up the trauma of being misunderstood, the fear of not belonging, and the parts of you that still try to control how you’re perceived — just to feel safe. If you’re feeling triggered, frustrated, or like you’re shedding a version of yourself that no longer fits… you’re exactly where you’re meant to be.

In this raw, honest episode, I walk you through the emotional tension of this transit, how it’s playing out in real life, and why trying to make everyone understand you will only keep you stuck. We talk nervous system recalibration, black sheep wounds, creative sovereignty, and the moment you stop people-pleasing and step into your King/Queen energy.

⚡ This episode is a call to stop shrinking and start leading —
even if you’re misunderstood, even if you stand alone,
especially if you’re meant to change the world.

Ready to go deeper?

Book a birth chart reading, apply for my 1:1 mentorship, or get started with Higher Self Healing Codes (my self-paced astrology course) at my website here: https://rachel-varitimos-077f.mykajabi.com/



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(00:49):
Alright, in this episode I'mbreaking down Mars and Leo
building in opposition to Plutoin Aquarius.
The emotional intensity, thebreakthrough potential, and how
to move through it withoutlosing yourself.
This episode is raw, it'shonest, and it's for you if

(01:16):
you're feeling the fire rightnow.
We are now building to somemassive breakthrough energy.
I'm talking about the energythat is building right now is
the type of energy that caneither clear, deep, deep trauma
or it could be a littletraumatizing.

(01:39):
And that being said.
We don't just stop attraumatizing in this podcast
because we talk aboutalchemizing in this podcast
'cause y'all are witches.
If you follow me and you'rebrave as fuck, courageous as
fuck, and you're not afraid toalchemize something Because it's

(01:59):
the moments that something feelsso intense and you choose power.
You choose to takeresponsibility for your own
evolution, for your own power.
It's in those moments that yousee how powerful you truly are.
And.
Those are my favorite moments inlife.
The moments that I feel like I'mgonna die and then I take

(02:20):
responsibility and I take mypower back and I heal a giant
trauma pattern in my body, onethat brings me into long-term
peace around that specificsubject.
So I am really feeling thisenergy building.
Mars just moved into Leo todayand I will say.

(02:45):
I was raging, like raging withfrustration.
It's if I'm, if I'm honest withmyself, everything in my life is
going great right now.
And there is a level offrustration that I found

(03:07):
bubbling up inside of mebecause.
I feel myself becoming a newversion of myself.
I'm attracting new people intomy life yet.
There are still people I'mattracting into my life that are

(03:28):
not in alignment with me, andwhen I have conversations with
them, it brings me back to a lotof wounding I have from
childhood because I feel deeplymisunderstood and, um, I feel
projected onto, you know.
And it sucks.
And it's extra sucky to me rightnow because I've met so many

(03:51):
people who are in alignment thatwhen like old matches to that
old wound come back into mylife, it's deeply frustrating to
me.
It's, it's, um, it's almost likereally.
I thought I was done with that.
I thought I was done with thatenergy.
Why do I have to deal with thatenergy again?

(04:15):
And that is what this Mars andLeo opposite Pluto and Aquarius
can feel like because Mars andLeo, Leo is our confidence.
It is wanting to be validated,wanting to be seen.
For our authenticself-expression, wanting to be
celebrated for our authenticself-expression, wanting to take

(04:36):
action on things that reallybring us joy and make us happy.
Wanting to show up in our pureconfidence and lead with
confidence and lead.
Lead with magnetism, be seen forwho we really are, and find
success for who we really are.
The thing is, is with Mars andLeo building an opposition to

(04:57):
Pluto and Aquarius, Pluto isdigging deep into the trauma
that's stopping you from beingin your fullest, authentic
self-expression.
It's digging into the trauma of.
Of where you are afraid of beingmisunderstood, where you feel
you're misunderstood, whereyou're afraid of being kicked
out of the tribe, where you'reafraid of not belonging, where

(05:19):
you're afraid of not beingsupported, where you have this
deep and these, these fears.
I'm saying, I'm saying afraid.
I'm talking about deathly afraidPluto trauma is not, I'm just
afraid it's, I am gonna die if Ido that afraid.
We don't take that lightly, andI'm not taking this, I'm not
taking it lightly.
So I, I will say the power youcan get from it fucking awesome.

(05:46):
The path there.
That's why I call myself amindset masochist.
I don't always love the painfulpart of clearing the Pluto
trauma.
Usually I'm kicking andstreaming, screaming until I
surrender and takeresponsibility.
And then I'm like, oh, okay,we're good.
But um, yeah, I'm not gonna lie.

(06:10):
So what happens when we havethis desire to be our authentic
self-expression, lead withcreativity, lead with fun, lead
with fun, lead with joy, and beseen and validated for that.
And it comes opposite.
All this trauma we have aroundnot belonging, not being
supported, being misunderstood,being too weird, being a alone,
being a lone wolf, being theblack sheep about Pluto and

(06:33):
Aquarius things is, it causesthis.
Tension.
It's that tension I was feelingtoday that I was telling you
where it's like, but I know somany people see me and validate
me, but then I have all of thiscome into my life and I feel
like shit and I don't wanna feellike shit.
And then it's like this, likewhy can't you see me?
And trying to grasp onto controland make them see you and then

(06:57):
they don't see you more andthey're like, F you bitch for
trying to make me see you.
We all know how it feels whensomeone wants you to see them.
It makes you not want to seethem if they're trying to force
you to see them.
'cause no one wants to be forcedinto anything.
No one wants that.
And so it causes this tensionwhere we're trying to control

(07:19):
being understood or trying tokeep ourselves safe from being
kicked out of the community,kicked out of the tribe, versus
being seen in our authenticself-expression.
And it's this back and forth,back and forth, and, oh, I'm
gonna do.
Another podcast on the New Moonin Taurus because that aspect is

(07:43):
pretty much building for the NewMoon in Taurus.
And a big part of this New Moonis like, own your worth.
Basically, the way to healingthis tension is to keep being
your authentic self.
Keep being in joy, keep being increativity, and take
responsibility for all the ways.
This fear of being misunderstoodholds you back.

(08:04):
Take responsibility for.
All the times you don't allowyourself to show up joyous and
happy and free because you'reafraid of what your parents will
say or your boyfriend will say,or your friends will say, and
then you feel like you have tolike defend yourself.
This opposition wants you to ownyour worth.

(08:27):
It wants you to see that thereis no level of control that will
make you understood.
There's no level of control youcan have in your life that are
gonna force you into belongingsomewhere.
There's no level of control youcan have in your life that's
going to make you feel likeyou're not the black sheep.
If you're telling yourselfyou're the black sheep.
If you're not owning that, it'snot that you're the black sheep,

(08:49):
that you're actually reallypowerful for being different.
My boyfriend showed me this reelof Alex Hormo.
He's got a hundred milliondollars business, and he said in
the reel that exceptional peopleare often, not often, they are,
they're lonely.

(09:10):
And that's because they arewilling to do the things that
most people won't.
Everyone says they wanna be abasketball player.
Everyone says they wanna be afamous celebrity, they wanna be
a famous writer.
They wanna be this, but the rarefew.
Are the ones who allowthemselves to follow their
passion enough and practiceenough and put the hours in

(09:34):
enough to actually become thefamous version of them.
And usually they feel lonelybecause everyone else is going
to the bars.
Everyone else is having fun.
I don't know, fucking off.
I often feel that way, to behonest.
Like I love astrology.
I could just study astrology therest of my life and talk to no

(09:54):
one.
And I've always kind of beenthat way.
And if you're watching, I'm sureyou relate with this, but I've
always been a very passionateperson and.
I have a lot of the times, Ihave more fun learning and
studying and analyzing thethings I'm passionate about
than, than hanging out with abunch of people and going to a

(10:16):
bar.
Like I'm not that kind of girl.
I, I love learning astrology.
It's why I'm so good at it.
It's why I got good at it soquickly.
And so that video really landedhome is the exceptional people.
The people who are really hereto change the world, which if
you listen to this podcast, Iknow you fucking are.

(10:38):
They're not afraid of beingalone because they understand
that it is one of the naturalpaths of exceptional people.
They're not afraid about beingliked because they understand
it's the natural path ofexceptional people.
And so.
The highest expression of Marsand Leo opposite Pluto.
And Aquarius is not just likevalidating yourself and being

(11:01):
stuck in this frustration andhaving to be like, well, people
don't see me, so I must be apiece of shit and I'm just gonna
have to be frustrated forever.
No, the way you make it throughthis aspect.
Is you detach from caring aboutwhether you belong by being in

(11:26):
your most authentic self andfollowing what's passionate for
you.
That's what Pluto and Aquariusis trying to do is, is trying to
get you to detach from thatfear, from that trauma of being
kicked out of the tribe.
It's rewiring nervous systemsbecause Aquarius rules the
nervous system.

(11:47):
And so it can feel like a shockto the nervous system to be your
authentic self, and that is thepath through this aspect.
It is to own your worth andcontinue to follow your passion.
Continue to follow the thingsthat light you up and expect
that there's always going to bepeople who are triggered by you.
And there's always going to bepeople who love the shit out of

(12:08):
you.
And that's how magnetism works.
That's another thing with thisaspect is it's realizing that
you're really not for everyoneand you're going to trigger
people and you can't prevent it.
And if you try to prevent it,you're just gonna keep that
opposition in play and you'regonna block your success.
'cause if you need validationfrom these people, but you're
also controlling that youbelong, you'll never move

(12:30):
anywhere.
'cause you're never gonna,you're not gonna be moving
aligned with your soul's path.
But on the other side, if yourecognize.
That as long as you stayauthentic to you and follow
what's passionate for you, andit feels fun and it feels
expansive.
The North Nodes and Pisces, it'sall about how things feel.
We're right now, we're followingwhat feels fun, what feels
expansive.
It feels contracting like you'retrying to force, probably not

(12:52):
for you.
We're being very feeling basedright now with the North Node
and Pisces.
So back to the triggering peoplewith this aspect, I want you to
keep this in mind the next fewweeks if you trigger people.
And you were in your authenticself-expression and you were
just having fun and you didn'tmean to trigger someone.

(13:13):
That is your opportunity to ownit as a new layer of confidence,
to surrender control, to belike, oh, I just triggered
someone.
How can I validate myself andunderstand that, that I will
always trigger someone, but mytruth will also be the thing
that magnetizes someone sostrongly that it changes their
life.

(13:36):
This really landed home for me.
I have a friend and her husbandand her go to therapy counseling
together.
And my friend has a very similarbrain to me where she loves EV
evolving.
She doesn't look at it asanything wrong with her.
She loves to see the ways shecan just keep growing, evolving,
and getting better.

(13:56):
Her husband takes things a lotmore personally.
He's not like on the same growthmindset as her, like he likes to
grow, just doesn't.
Just more in resistance than sheis.
So they'll go into a session andshe's like loving hearing the
hard truths.
She's like, oh my God, now wecan grow in this way.

(14:16):
This is so good that we knowthis about each other.
Right?
The husband on the other hand,because he takes things more
personally, he leaves everysession upset for like a week
after, and he takes everythingthat happens in the session.
So personally and.
When she shared that with me,it, it was like mind blowing to

(14:37):
me.
'cause it really went to showthat like someone could go into
like a therapy session or even asession with me, right.
And just depending on theirfilters, depending on their
triggers, depending on their,their nervous system level one
person will take what thetherapist or I say in a reading.
Amazingly, and it will changetheir life.

(15:05):
And another person could take itso personally and have it be the
thing that spirals them outtacontrol and they're so triggered
and they hate the therapist orthey hate me.
I don't know.
I'm applying it to twosituations at once, but I, this
is how I internal did intomyself and it made me feel
better about readings I givebecause not every reading I
lands for every single person Iwork with, there's a lot of

(15:27):
people that it lands so deeplywith, and those people, it's so
fun.
I love, we usually end upworking together.
Then there's people that it justdoesn't really land with as
much.
It's either too deep, it's notwhere they're at.
they get triggered.
It's too intense.
It's just not a match.
It is all I have to say, andI've been really learning that

(15:50):
that's actually a good thing.
And that's okay.
And actually if I try to dilutemy message in order to fit
everyone, then it wouldn't fitin life.
Change the people.
It does change the life for, andit probably still wouldn't
change the lives of the peoplethat, um, just don't resonate

(16:11):
with me, who come to me.
It is the same thing with myfriend and her husband.
They're, they're both married,they both love each other.
They have a great marriageactually.
They're just going to evolve andgrow together.
but that goes to show that twopeople could be in the same
session and get completelydifferent reactions based on
their nervous system and triggerlevel.
That's what I wanted to sharewith you here is that.

(16:32):
There could be moments where youfeel like a lot of shame around
your authentic self-expressionor how you created something and
put it out there and someonedidn't agree with your vision,
and then you could backpedal andthink, are they right?
Do I have to water myself down?
Do I have to change myself?
And the answer is, fuck no.

(16:52):
Plain and simple.
It's fuck no, don't changeyourself.
It's actually.
Your moment to gain even moreconfidence in who you are and
own more of that king, queenenergy.
That's the highest expression ofMars and Leo is, is embodying
your king queen archetype.

(17:13):
It is leading with grace.
It is leading with passion.
It is leading with that lionfire and being detached.
From the projections of otherpeople because you know that
when you stay that grounded,centered tree, we'll call it,
actually a client brought thisup to me because he did a, um.
Like some embodiment retreatrecently, and he told me how the

(17:35):
woman in the embodiment retreattold him to be like a tree and
the wind could be moving aroundyou, but if you stay solid in
your center, like a tree,nothing can take that tree down
and that tree will continue togrow and then produce fruit.
I just made, he didn't tell methat part.
I just made this part up.
But like, this is how it, it wasgoing in my imagination.

(17:56):
So think about these next twoweeks is be the tree.
Can you root even more into yourauthentic self-expression?
Can you root even more into yourconfidence?
Can you root even more into yourking queen energy?
It's not cocky as kid rock says.

(18:18):
It ain't cocky.
If you can back it up, if it'swho you really are, it ain't
fucking cocky.
It is a good thing.
There's nothing wrong with beingwho you really are.
We've only been taught to thinkthat it was wrong because of
society or situations thathappened, or our parents or
something.
That's the Pluto and Aquariuswound we're healing the
collective wound aroundcommunity and not belonging.

(18:41):
We're, we're entering an age ofchange makers and the more you
become that tree amidst otherpeople trying to take your shine
away, other people questioningyour creativity, other people
questioning how you show upauthentically, the more you're
going to step into the versionof you that is here to change

(19:01):
humanity.
Because that version of youthat's here to change humanity,
that's here to do big things, isnot here to be liked by
everyone, but he, she is here tobe liked by the right people and
not just liked, but celebrated,loved, and elevated.
So I want you to keep that inmind these next two weeks as we
build in this intense aspect.

(19:25):
Always keep in mind that when Italk about these aspects, you
could be feeling them, you mightbe noticing them in other
people.
They might not really be hittingyour chart that prominently, so
you might be like, I don'treally notice it that much, but
I imagine you'll feel somesemblance of what I'm talking
about.
And you got this.
I'm sending you so much love.

(19:47):
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(20:10):
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So that's down in the shownotes.
If you like this episode and youwanna share it with a friend, I

(20:32):
would appreciate you so much andI'll see you guys on the next
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