Amy Johnson’s Mars Node Conjunction

Amy Johnson, the record-breaking, pioneer pilot of the 20th Century – think “British Amelia Earhart” – was born with Warrior God Mars conjunct the Moon’s ‘North’ Node. Mars was her Muse and action the solution to many of life’s ills.

For instance, she took up flying after the man she was sleeping with revealed he was about to marry another woman. Impecunious, a failed secretary and overwhelmed by debt, she got an economics degree – not at all common in the 1920s. Later, as a pilot, she became frustrated by having to wait around for men to fix things and so she got an aviation engineering certificate.

While her dramatic long distance flying feats captured the bulk of public attention, she was influential within the first wave of female engineers and electronic technicians. When Mars is conjunct your natal North Node, you’re driven, brave and think nothing of getting into a fight for one right or another.

It can also inspire recklessness in the pursuit of  the “I’ll show them” style of goals.

Already burned out and mid-messy divorce, she was deeply disturbed by the disappearance of her friend Amelia Earhart in 1937. Making world news and dominating practically every conversation, it occurred a day before her 34th birthday and with Saturn squaring her Sun + Neptune.

Johnson’s biggest fear was to go down in open water, with no land in sight. The thought of this fate befalling the apollonian Amelia, whom she idolized, seems like a particularly sharp manifestation of Saturn s**t.

She wrote more on women’s issues and took up gliding: “The silence, broken only by the soft swish of the wind in my hair, is rapture after the deafening roar to which I have been accustomed for so many years,” she wrote.

World War 2 drew her back to the ‘deafening roar’ and she was assigned to the Women’s Aircraft Auxilary, a group with the incredibly dangerous job of ferrying planes around the country to various airfields,  without any way to defend themselves against an invading German plane.

Eerily, Amy Johnson disappeared on January 5 1941, two years to the date that Amelia Earhart had been declared “legally dead.” She apparently flew in defiance of a weather warning – perhaps thinking that after all the storms she’d flown through and crash landings in unknown terrain – a flight across home terrain would be simple.

She took off at 10:45 AM and then – somehow, this is all shrouded in mystery – appeared 100 miles South of where she should have been and either landed the plane on the water or parachuted out. There are several different accounts of what happened to Amy Johnson and no body – nor even the wreckage of her plane – has ever been found.

Or has it? One soldier later claimed to have seen the wreckage of her plane being loaded onto a truck and in 1999, another solider claimed she was shot down by ‘friendly fire’ because she twice provided the incorrect ‘color of the day’ – a kind of password to prove you were not the enemy.

Mercury was square the Moon in Aries, making a mental glitch like that perfectly plausible. But then some Navy people claim she was in the water and that – horrifically – could have been sucked into the boat’s propellers during the rescue attempt. More fanciful reports say she staged her disappearance or that she was on a spy mission and that there was a mysterious other person in the plane with her.

Astrologically, with the Aries Moon on her South Node – opposite Mars conjunct the North Node – and Mars in Sagittarius opposite her Gemini Ascendant, the ‘friendly fire’ makes the most sense. The classified info aspect of this case will be de-classified on January 5 2040 – 99 years after the incident.

That will be Saturn on her integral Mars-Node conjunction exact so a reveal that says authority/government (Saturn) inadvertently shot down one of the most famous women in the world would fit. Did she zone out and forget the color password?

As I said the Aries Moon was square Mars, which can be glitchy but Neptune was conjunct her Moon in Virgo that very day. It’s a good influence for magical perception, not so hot for numbers or linear facts. I like to think she is with Amelia now.

You’re probably more clear on your aims and direction than many. And even if not, circumstances clarify the path ahead or shut down dodgy detours. You don’t even have to think about burning bridges: they auto-implode. You’re also a natural leader, not necessarily because you’re good at managing people but because they follow you. Like every pioneer, you’re beset by periodic self-doubt made more intense because you’re forging ahead on something others don’t (yet) get. Wearing red – for Mars – or meditation-gazing at a candle flame (yes, also Mars) can inspire the affirmation you need.