The Wounds of the Zodiac

The Wounds of the Zodiac

[The Wounds of the Zodiac] Aries, 1st House, Mars: The Warrior Wound

The wound of never feeling safe enough to hang your sword and armour up on the door, always waiting for the next battle to begin.

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Vika Bradford
Mar 05, 2026
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Welcome to The Wounds of the Zodiac, where we explore the past life aches of the astrological signs, houses, and planets through the lens of Karmic Astrology. This work is meant to help you unearth the shadows, reclaim your power, and become more fully you. I will be leaking my manuscript ‘The Wounds of the Zodiac’ slowly to you as a paid reader, uncut, raw, and unfiltered. I hope my body of work can help you liberate yourself in this life and the next.

The Wounds of the Zodiac move in a spectrum, from high to low and everywhere in between. Because of this, you may not experience all wounds that exist within one sign, house, or planet. You will carry your own experience and variation of the wound that you are working with in this life. For this reason, I ask that you not get too attached to something you may find here that does not resonate. What I mean is… don’t make yourself feel like you should experience a part of the wound, if you don’t already. Your specific karmic patterns are yours, and include more than just your birth chart — but also your soul contracts and personal lived karma and experiences. This work is meant to help you understand where you may be working with particular wounds and then begin to move through that wound, through the shadow, to raise your consciousness and become more whole. Over attachment to anything is never helpful. Let’s dive in.

“Where you are broken open is where the light enters you.”

— Rumi

I think a lot about the disintegration of identity that has occurred over the last 10+ years. Partly due to Neptune having moved through Pisces, which naturally dissolves a part of each of our psyches. Partly because Uranus had moved through Aries from around 2010–2018, and because Chiron, the wounded healer, has been moving through Aries since 2018. It has felt like the perfect storm of the collective to let go of the old individuality they had clung to, I had clung to, you had clung to, in order to birth this new world we’re standing on the precipice of. As I write you these words we’re in the windows between Neptune and Saturn finally meeting at 0º of Aries, something we as a collective have never seen. As I write you these words, tomorrow is the day that the finally find their conjunction, their convergence at the start of the zodiac. What will this mean for us as a society at large? I have ideas… we all do. But I can’t truly know what is to come. As the big Aries energy we have already worked with collectively at this point has ushered in the internal question of “Who am I? And am I powerful enough to fight for what I believe in?” the world has blown up into protest after protest, cause after cause, fight after fight with some added support now from Pluto in Aquarius. Aries will always bring the warrior wound into to the collective consciousness. It brings the desire to individualize while attempting to be in relations, something that can always feel like a struggle, and one of the deepest karmic pain points. “How do I be myself, inside of these relationships?” becomes a stick question and pain point.

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