Mars Aspects
Posted by admin on February 5, 2010See planets aspects for explanation on how planet aspects work within the birthchart.
See planets aspects for explanation on how planet aspects work within the birthchart.
Your passions fly high and proud. You’re extremely enthusiastic about how you feel and can be easily swept away with the heady urgency of the moment. Naturally, this can be good and bad. Good in that it disallows any ambiguity, bad in the sense that rashness can lead to embarrassing memories!
It doesn’t take much to turn you from a placid and normal person into a formidable and fearsome enemy! At the touch of a button your passions can explode into the most intense display of anger anyone’s ever seen. One thing, though your anger is nearly always well founded and righteous.
The heat of the moment can catch you unawares and, in an argument, you could lose your cool all too easily at times. This is likely to be due to the frustration that so often accompanies the inability to verbalize grievances – the result of your tongue getting taken by anger.
You are, indeed, a passionate person and one in whom there is little doubt about the strength, or truth, of your
feelings. You’re inclined to become involved with people or projects in a very intense way but you always somehow come away from these that much richer for the experience. This aspect suggests luck and good fortune in your working life, even when things appear to go wrong the eventual outcome is usually a success.
Your passionate nature is not necessarily the kind that runs away with you and drags you kicking and screaming into this and that damaging conflict. In fact, others consider you to be reserved and mature when it comes to handling yourself in a crisis. If truth be known, they’re right – you are!
Sometimes you just don’t know which way to go – whether to run with the wild ones or settle down into a pattern of quiet conformity. Your more passionate nature is continually tugging at your quiet side, often churning up an inner restlessness which can be disturbing – both to you and others – in its intensity and strength of feeling.
You have a kind of fiery instinctive reaction to anyone or anything which you think is going to confine or hinder you. The threat of this can make you extremely angry and your show of Opposition to it can therefore be equally passionate. When you cool down, however, you’re likely to admit private ly that your reaction is often out of place to the level of the perceived threat.
Your more volatile nature has a happy way of working harmoniously with your instinctive reserve, thus giving you the benefit of rational judgment in a crisis situation. This levelheaded side of your character is what others admire you for and, indeed, is one of your greatest strengths.
You passions are volatile and often disruptive. They can explode at a moment’s notice and take you into all kinds of weird and wonderful areas which, if truth be known, you often wish you never entered. A good exercise for next time when you feel yourself bubbling under, breathe deeply, count to ten, and walk away!
You often feel it would benefit you if you could only sit down and lay out your passionate nature and read it as if it were a document, analysing why you felt this at that particular time, and so on. Well, such an imposition of
intellect on instinct is not always necessarily a rewarding exercise. You should maintain a healthy ‘laissez faire’ attitude, then the two realms will more peacefully coexist.
The frustration of passion is the most amazingly dangerous thing. If you’re the type to bottle your feelings up and, to a great extent, you are – then the inevitable result is going to be one hell of a bang. The effects of uch upheaval over a lifetime are obviously destructive. Nip it in the bud now and you’ll be happier – and healthier – later on.
Sometimes you’re just a little too analytical about your feelings for others, particularly about those more passionate feelings you have for someone special. Don’t get too involved with the why’s and wherefore’s of attraction – if you feel it’s right, go with it, and you’ll see the further you go, the less inclined you’ll feel to stop and wonder whether or not you’re doing the right thing.
Funny thing about you is that your passionate nature is of such a volatile mix of rashness and enthusiasm that, to protect yourself, you rarely venture into situations where you feel you might let go – and never come back again. Having such a lot to give, but not always giving it, means that, when you do let go, you really, really mean it!
A great deal of conflict seems to take place within you regarding giving free vent to your passions and the fear
that, by doing so, you will compromise, even destroy yourself. You waver – at least privately – between the extremes of giving yourself rashly over to pleasure, and abstention. Needless to say, neither extreme is healthy. One of your lessons in life is to find that middle way.
The best thing you could do when next you go to a pub is drink orange juice. Your willingness to drink anything and everything alcoholic might be funny at the time but, if truth be known, you really do not have the physical or emotional constitution to maintain such an lifestyle. So, if you’re not living a life of sobriety already, you really should think about doing so.
Your passionate nature is all systems go. Only one thing it often goes completely the wrong way! If truth be known, you’re a sensation seeker and sensation by definition is reliant upon new experience for stimulation. And stimulation can often be drunk out of a bottle. Naughty, naughty! Stay sober and you’ll see more lights – the kind that don’t move when you look at them.
The realm of passion often seems a mystery to you or, at least, an area of darkness which either has to be probed for its secrets or avoided in case it destroys. Well, really, it’s no big deal. Your anxiety, though natural, should be discouraged for the world of instinct is one which includes us all and, like all, we must be involved with it.
Passion, and how to express it, now there’s a conflict! How to go with the feeling, and how to maintain a distance which allows you to develop an understanding of how your deeper, instinctive, side works? Well, it doesn’t necessarily follow that such a distance does encourage understanding. And there needn’t be any conflict either. Just so long as you maintain an inner, moral, balance.
It often perplexes you how others can accommodate so easily their more passionate, instinctive, natures without working up all kinds of complexes and paranoias. You frequently find the whole question of man’s more primitive side to be a matter for concern and investigation. But, at other times, you’re completely understanding and lucid about the whole thing.
You’re a great believer in the world of instinct and passion, and its function as the driving human force. You’re not afraid of its power, though you do sometimes express an anxiety about others’ ability to handle it. If they only had your strength – moral strength, that is!
Either you are over-committed, or not committed at all. That is, on the one hand you might have many strongly-held convictions; on the other hand, you might have none! You waver between passionately pursuing an abundance of causes, and not being motivated by any of them. This is a very strange state of affairs indeed! Now, why should this be? At the root of it is that, on an instinctive level, you are open to almost anything that might arouse your passions and sympathies; but, by being so open, you can fail to be touched by any of them, as they can all fall short of what you consider to be the essential convincing ingredient. Thus, you can end up being either indifferent to your inner life, or swamped by it. Most people have a level of passion for life which hums at a steady pitch; they achieve and fulfill their desires relative to this level. With you it’s more like an on off switch and sometimes like a dimmer switch. What fires you up this week can seem almost boring a matter of days later.