Through Blood and Fire: Finding Your Voice Before G-d

Aries season is the beginning of a zodiacal cycle and it is the re-entry point into life itself, the place where existence asks to be chosen again, consciously, deliberately, and with full presence.

Aries is the energy of emergence, of the self coming into form, first as a burst, raw and undeniably alive.

In the language of Torah, this is the moment of יציאת מצרים. In Hebrew Egypt also is read and means: “Meitzarim”: constrictions. Indeed, the exodus is from constriction, from the narrow places that have defined us, limited us, and shaped the boundaries of who we believed ourselves to be.

Yet this year, the force of Aries is highly spiritual. It is carried, softened, and deepened by Mars (its ruler) moving through Pisces, a placement that transforms the instinctual fire of Aries into something softer, and more attuned to the unseen.

Mars, the ruler of Aries, is currently not acting through direct confrontation or external assertion. Instead, it moves through through deep waters, dissolving the illusion that strength is loud or forceful.

Here, strength becomes surrender. Action becomes alignment. The battle is no longer with the world, but with the veils that separate us from our own divine core.

This creates a profound shift in how we understand liberation. Leaving Egypt is no longer only about breaking external constraints, but about dissolving internal falsities.

The idols we are asked to destroy are subtle. They are the identities we have inherited, the roles we have performed, the expectations we have mistaken for truth.

The korban Pesach, the offering of the lamb, is not only a historical act but an ongoing spiritual demand. It asks for the willingness to sacrifice the version of ourselves that was shaped by fear, by dependency, by the need to belong at the cost of authenticity.

And this sacrifice is not clean. It is ruled by Mars: violent and marked by blood.

The Torah does not hide this, on the contrary, it exposes it. The doorway into freedom is not aesthetic or controlled, it is visceral, embodied, and total. To mark the doorposts with blood is to declare that transformation requires contact with life at its most real, most unfiltered edge. It is to acknowledge that becoming oneself is not a gentle process of refinement, but a passage through rupture, through intensity, through the dissolution of what can no longer remain.

At the same time, we are held within a larger architecture, one that is both stabilizing and evolutionary.

With a loud Aries season operated behind a very spiritual veil, Saturn, planet of structure, currently in Aries sextiles Pluto, planet of transformation, currenly in Aquarius.

The sextile between Saturn and Pluto offers a very powerful support, a structure that does not confine but rather enables transformation to take root.

Saturn brings form, discipline, and continuity, while Pluto works beneath the surface, undoing what is outdated, exposing what is hidden, and insisting on truth at the deepest level. Their harmony suggests that this moment is not chaotic, even if it feels intense. There is a design to this dismantling. There is intelligence in the way things are falling away.

Within this field, the Full Moon in Libra rises, illuminating the axis opposite Aries, the axis of relationship. If Aries is the declaration of self, Libra is the recognition that the self does not exist in isolation. It exists in dialogue, in reflection, and most importantly, in relationship with the Divine. The balance that Libra seeks is not social harmony in the superficial sense, but alignment with a deeper truth, a calibration between who we are becoming and the source from which we come.

This is where the teaching of the Haggadah becomes immediate and personal.

“בכל דור ודור חייב אדם לראות את עצמו כאילו הוא יצא ממצרים.”

“In every generation, a person must see themselves as if they themselves have left Egypt.”

The exodus is not something we inherit. It is something we enact. It is the moment we stop speaking in borrowed voices and begin to speak from the true place within us that has always known.

There is a new voice emerging now. Not new in the sense that it has never existed, but new in that it has not yet been fully lived. It is a voice that does not negotiate with fear, that does not shape itself to be palatable, that does not seek permission to exist. And yet, under the influence of Mars in Pisces, it is not harsh or aggressive. It is fluid and honest, willing to be seen in its vulnerability.

It is the voice that can stand before G-d without performance, without armor, without the need to appear whole.

This is perhaps the deepest layer of liberation. Not just the freedom to act, but the freedom to be revealed. To stand, like our ancestors on that first night of Pesach, in a state of urgency and vulnerability, unprepared and yet completely ready, carrying nothing but the truth of who we are in that moment.

There is something profoundly intimate in this image, something that speaks to the essence of what it means to be in relationship with the Divine. Not as an idea, not as a concept, but as a presence that meets us precisely where we are, in our rawness, in our becoming: Aries.

The Full Moon in Libra reflects this back: our liberation is not an end in itself. It is a return, a recognition that we are not separate from the source of our existence. The more we step into ourselves, the more we are able to meet G-d, not despite our humanity, but thanks to it.

And so the primary question of Passover“מה נשתנה”: “What has changed?” lingers as a living inquiry.

What has changed? Both externally and internally.

What has been released, what has been burned, what has been surrendered in order to make space for something truer to emerge?

If the answer is real, even if it is small, then the process has begun. The door has been marked. The passage has been crossed.

And through the burning and the breaking, something knows it will never turn back.

The doors are marked, the past released, the false gods left behind.

Beneath the Libra Full Moon, we step forward; ready, at last, to meet G-d as the self we are finally willing to become.

Happy Holiday of Freedom

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