Mars Sign Interpretations

With Mars in Aries, your psychological drive towards assertive action based on
a conscious appreciation of your emotional attitude to people and situations is
expressed in a very direct and personally orientated way with some degree of
compulsiveness, for the way you express yourself in action is coloured by pow-
erful unconscious motivating factors.  Whether you feel positively or negatively
about somebody, you will make your feelings clear, either by engaging with them
enthusiastically, or expressing anger towards them, for you are not half-hearted
when it comes to acting on the basis of your feelings.  You have a tendency to
insist on having things your own way, and if others will not agree with you, you
will change tack and go it alone, realising that you are alone know what the
point of the issue really is for you.  While you accept that everybody has his
own psychological set, and his own way of doing things, you find it hard to live
with this in practice, feeling that you have to be at the front of everything.
This is not necessarily true, and you would benefit from learning how to coop-
erate with others somewhat more, then you could reallly achieve a great deal.

With Mars in Taurus, your psychological drive towards assertive action based on
a conscious appreciation of your emotional attitude to people and situations is
expressed in a way which is essentially pragmatic, for you are quick to perceive
the practical possibilities in a situation, and to take action accordingly.  You
realise that sometimes it is better not to take any action at all, since nature
is likely to take its course, and provided you have the persistence to stick
around while it does so, you will probably get what you want.  However, people
and situations do not always run true to form, and you may behave in accordance
with preconceived notions when you would do better to take more positive action.
You are certainly able to assert yourself strongly, but sometimes you trust too
much to life, rather than to re-examining your feelings in the light of present
reality.  You would benefit from developing a greater degree of flexibility in
dealing with your affairs, for you may be reluctant to alter your habitual patt-
erns of response.  This may mean that when you finally change your mind about
someone or something, you do so with finality and stubbornness.

With Mars in Gemini, your psychological drive towards assertive action based on
a conscious appreciation of your emotional attitudes to people and situations
is expressed in a way which is essentially inconsistent and changeable, for
your unconscious set provides you with a fund of diverse ideas which urge you
to test them out in practice.  You may attach considerable emotional value to
these various ideas, and feel that you have to test them out in practice, with
only a certain degree of emotional involvement.  Thus you may seek out many di-
fferent relationships, so that through a conscious appreciation of how you feel
in them you may feel more secure intellectually.  You may learn a great deal ab-
out the world and other people through your involvements, but you are essential-
ly more curious about what makes you and other people tick, rather than to deep
emotional commitment.  This may cause some problems in that others may expect
you to show more than an academic interest in their affairs, and they may not
value your tendency towards constantly seeking out new sources of stimulation.
You need to learn to involve yourself more than just superficially with others.

With Mars in Cancer, your psychological drive towards assertive action based on
a conscious appreciation of your emotional attitudes to people and situations
is expressed in a way which is essentially highly coloured by the ebb and flow
of your less conscious feelings, and these have their roots in how you felt in
the past.  How you act in the present towards people will depend upon how you
reacted to similar people in the past.  If you feel alright in yourself, you
will express yourself very sensitively and caringly towards others, while if
you feel threatened, you will retreat into patterns of behaviour which reflect
your early insecurities.  Your emotional bias can thus either be a source of
considerable strength or of great weakness.  When you act on the basis of how
you feel, you will find that you act strongly, but your actions will either
be highly supportive and constructive, or they will show up your insecurity in
terms of moodiness or opinionatedness which may be hard for others to under-
stand.  Although your emotional sensitivity can be a great asset, you need to
understand that not everyone will appreciate why you behave the way you do.

With Mars in Leo, your psychological drive towards assertive action based on
a conscious appreciation of your emotional attitudes to people and situations
is expressed in a way which suggests considerable personal involvement and
persistence, for your value judgements about people and the world are highly
subjective in origin, and tied in with what potential gain you see for your-
self.  When your enthusiasm is roused, you show your feelings strongly, for
you identify with a need to be powerful in action based on feeling.  This
can make you a good leader, able to inspire confidence in others, but you
also show a tendency to insist on your own way in affairs you feel strongly
about, since you prefer to be in the driving seat.  In fact you express your
desires quite strongly and openly, since you have an accurate picture of how
you would like to feel, and how to set about achieving this set-up.  The only
danger lies in your possibly failing to appreciate to take others' wishes
into account in your eagerness to demonstrate your power in action; even the
best leaders need to sit back from time to time and listen to advice.

With Mars in Virgo, your psychological drive towards assertive action based
on a conscious appreciation of your emotional attitudes to people and situa-
tions is expressed in a way which suggests that you want to achieve emot-
ional satisfaction from organising the world and other people systematically.
Your behaviour may appear erratic at times, for what is really happening is
that you are trying to achieve self-mastery and to feel contented through a
series of activities designed to make the world a more orderly place.  The
emotional energy underlying these attempts may manifest as feelings of
frustration when plans go wrong, leading to a self-critical tendency, or
a tendency to be analytical and critical of the actions of others.  You
may develop considerable competence and ability through your constant ex-
perimentation, but ideally there should be an overall goal, together with
some theoretical considerations within which to place your activities into
context.  That way your considerable flexibilty in organising details can
help you to achieve a deeper sense of self-worth and emotional security.

With Mars in Libra, your psychological drive towards assertive action based
on a conscious appreciation of your emotional attitudes to people and situa-
tions is expressed in the context of a strong need to understand the world
and other people at an objective level.  You therefore engage with other
people and the pursuit of understanding enthusiastically, which is fine,
but there may be a couple of problems.  First you may feel you have to
be rather too reasonable, in view of your objective understanding, and you
may not stand up sufficiently for your own rights.  Following on from this,
you may displace your assertive qualities into the realm of the objective,
arguing forcibly in the name of reason, or fighting for a "cause".  You
can eventually develop a suitable balance between the assertion of your own
rights and the requirements for cooperation with other people, and along
the way you will probably acquire considerable understanding about the
way you tick emotionally, and the way other people respond to you; you
will then be able to enjoy easier relationships with them.

With Mars in Scorpio, your psychological drive towards assertive action
based on a conscious appreciation of your emotional attitudes to people and
situations is expressed with strength and persistence.  You have a keen
awareness of the emotional implications of any situation, and a retentive
memory for your past feeling states.  You have a keen awareness of your
emotional desires, and are able to satisfy them most of the time, since
your understanding of the way people tick emotionally is accurate, and
you can take advantage of your sensitivity to atmosphere, saying and doing
the right things at the right time to create the right effect.  You may
appear mysterious or secretive to others who are not on your wavelength,
for you do not always express yourself openly.  However you are persistent
and others will realise that you are a force to be reckoned with.  As you
mature you will probably show more of yourself to the world, but you are
really interested in finding out what makes you tick, though you will
certainly become thoroughly involved with others in finding this out.

With Mars in Sagittarius, your psychological drive towards assertive action
based upon a conscious appreciation of your emotional attitudes to people and
situations is expressed in an open free-ranging way, with a considerable need
for independence, for you experience an inner sense of permission and encour-
agement to act on the basis of your feelings.  You consider it important to
express your opinions honestly and enthusistically both in words and in act-
ion, for you have belief in the emotional truths that are important to you.
You feel it important to explore your feelings on a large scale through many
interactions with the world and other people, and you resent being prevented
from doing things in your own way, though you also allow others to be them-
selves provided they do not interfere with your freedom.  Your energy may
lead you to cover much ground, but to make the most of your talents you prob-
ably need to organise yourself and to think about the implications of your
behaviour so that you do not scatter yourself in too many directions.  This
also applies in your romantic and business involvements.

With Mars in Capricorn, your psychological drive towards assertive action
based upon a conscious appreciation of your emotional attitudes to people and
situations is expressed in a self-controlled way, with considerable discip-
line and practical ambition, for your conscience tells you that this is
the correct way to channel your assertive qualities.  You therefore take
your actions and involvements quite seriously, for you weigh up the likely
effects of your behaviour more than most people do.  This can work out very
positively, for once you do decide that a venture is worth-while, you will
work to make it succeed with great persistence, even if you have to cope
with strong opposition.  However, while you are young you may feel awkward
about asserting yourself naturally, feeling that you should not do so with-
out a good reason.  In fact you have as much right to express yourself as
anybody else, though you may find it easier initially to do this in ways
which are socially acceptable, such as training yourself to work hard; ev-
entually you will develop more confidence in your abilities in other areas.

With Mars in Aquarius, your psychological drive towards assertive action
based upon a conscious appreciation of your emotional attitudes to people and
to situations is expressed along lines which are unconventional and original,
for your upbringing has left you feeling that more normal modes of express-
ion are too restricting for you, or just plain wrong.  You put a high premium
on your personal freedom to act according to your beliefs, irresepective of
whether or not these beliefs are practical.  If your beliefs are realistic,
then you are capable of considerable ingenuity and persistence in following
up your ideas, enjoying the challenge presented by anything out of the ord-
inary.  If your beliefs are based more on prejudice and a desire to rebel,
you are likely to be much more erratic and unpredictable.  In either case
you are likely to prefer the company of unusual people and occupations, and
you demand a high degree of autonomy.  You would benefit from an education
other than that provided by your immediate family, so that you develop the
ability to sort out which of your ideals are really worth striving for.

With Mars in Pisces, your psychological drive towards assertive action based
upon a conscious appreciation of your emotional attitudes to people and to
situations is expressed in rather round-about ways.  Your upbringing has
probably left you feeling that self-assertion is something for other people,
and you may feel obliged to give way to them, at least when you are young.
As you come to understand yourself better, through trying to understand why
you and other people act in the way they do, you will find that you have
considerable power to act assertively yourself, but you may be tempted to
act behind the scenes, engineering situations rather than setting them up
openly and honestly.  While this could make you a considerable schemer, it
is possible instead that you resort to underhand methods for fear of coming
out into the open.  You need to use your powerful imagination more constr-
uctively, then you can use your compassionate sensitivity to make sure that
while other people get what they want, you are also able to stand up for
your own rights in a way which encourages others to give in to you happily!

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