The F*ck It or Kill It Moment

Black Magician, Invisible Warrior—what's it gonna be? Mars opposes Pluto for the third and final time this year, and something's gonna blow.

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PICTURE MARLON BRANDO in A Streetcar Named Desire. Brando was born with a Mars-Pluto opposition, and you could sum up his entire presence on stage (and in life) as an example of the opposition’s fierce locomotion. His performance was undiluted, unedited—pure Id. A male beauty (Mars) as beast (Pluto). A force of nature that culminates in the play and in the film, as most Mars-Pluto entanglements do, with a rape.