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♂︎ Mars
Drive and desire.
The engine: desire, courage, conflict, and the will to act.
Right now
Mars stands at 11° Gemini. Drag it on the live clock to travel through time.
Current aspects
| Venus square Mars | orb 5.5° |
| Mars sextile Saturn | orb 3.2° |
| Mars conjunction Uranus | orb 7.1° |
| Mars trine Pluto | orb 6.9° |
Venus square Mars is friction with a purpose: the power of attraction and the will to act pull at right angles and press for a decision.
In the traditional scheme Mars carries drive, courage, and appetite. It pushes forward wherever there is desire, courage, and conflict; what it offers is heat and nerve, what it looks for is a target, and its failure mode is aggression.
Mars spends six or seven weeks in each sign. It turns retrograde about every two years, for two to three months.
Read well, Mars shows as courage that is well aimed. Read badly, it slides toward force for its own sake.
Dignities
Mars traditionally rules Aries and Scorpio. It is exalted in Capricorn, its strongest placement by tradition.
Mars in each sign
- ♈︎ Aries
- ♉︎ Taurus
- ♊︎ Gemini
- ♋︎ Cancer
- ♌︎ Leo
- ♍︎ Virgo
- ♎︎ Libra
- ♏︎ Scorpio
- ♐︎ Sagittarius
- ♑︎ Capricorn
- ♒︎ Aquarius
- ♓︎ Pisces
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