The fascination with Mars is an intriguing one. Perhaps it would best serve us to think of it as our future self, that red dead planet is what the earth is destined for if we don’t stop killing each other, killing ourselves and this miraculous shared home. If we continue to be controlled by greed and fear, scapegoating the other, avoiding the dark work of our souls, to the life and love of our true selves where otherness is an allusion and only love is real.