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(A large portion of the following article on Mars is republished from my earlier article "Mars: The Personal Battleground" (1995; revised April, 1997), with many new additions.)
In the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna urges Arjuna to fight. The bottom-line battle is between the real and the unreal. Krishna urges Arjuna to do whatever it takes to emerge spiritually victorious over the unreal. How do we know what's unreal? We study the real, study the genuine article, so we can recognize counterfeits by comparison. Furthermore, the real has eternal value, and the unreal has no eternal value.
Hint: the mind is the slayer of the Real.
Therefore, what the client states as the problem, what ordinary mind thinks is the problem, how the client defines the problem is probably a red herring (Mars!). Something smells fishy, but it's not Saturn in Pisces! The sword of truth, symbolizing discernment, will serve you well on the battlefield of Mars, and allow you to cut through illusion to name the problem correctly. Often the truth is 180 degrees from what the client claims at the outset. No wonder his life does not work. He is trying to derive life from one or more false propositions, a practice which clashes with reality and causes cognitive-energetic dissonance.
The real battle is spiritual, to be played out on the battlefield of the world and history. The world (i.e., worldliness, the ways of the world, the demands of the body) is so distracting that it's easy to miss the real spiritual battle taking place.
Everyone has a personal battleground. Everyone has an area in which they actually like to fight, despite all protestations to the contrary, and people do protest - loudly! Everyone has a Mars. The protestations themselves are Martian. A person could make themselves sick with all that protest. It makes their fight-or-flight instincts work overtime, usurps rationality, gets them all worked up and stressed out, and wears out their adrenals.
Mars harks back to idealism and devotion, and the willingness to fight for ideals. But when idealism is frustrated, this violates a person's spiritual intuitions of what's possible, what should be. We feel invalidated as (co-) creators, and that's just not acceptable to us. Hence the protest or depression that results from frustrated idealism. It jams our energy. Depression is jammed energy, pressed-down energy, stuffed feelings, frustrated idealism, anger turned inward on self, instead of energy turned outward toward the world and engaging with the world. If a person feels that fighting is futile, or they see no viable options ahead, or feel powerless to create viable options, then they feel defeated before they start and thus become depressed. Depression is not always a Saturn problem, it is often a Mars
problem: jammed energy from frustrated ideals or goals.
Wherever Mars is found in the astrological chart, therein lies the battleground. The biggest, toughest, and most repeated struggles occur in the house where Mars resides. The warrior style is seen by the Mars sign, the dwad under Mars, and by aspect. Mars is also a good place to look for chronic stress and battle fatigue from those problems that just never seem to resolve.
Some people hide their personal battleground and their most profound frustrations out of denial or shame. Others weep, wail, gnash their teeth, or brandish a gun or sword. If an astrologer talks with his client at any length, they will together discover that the longstanding life issues are often those of Mars. The area of life that exemplifies struggle for the person is often the house in which Mars resides. This is the ongoing battleground. Mars is always there creating personal challenges to be fought and won. The Mars house is the one where the person girds up for battle, gets his adrenalin up, pours on the power, and hopes his adrenalin doesn't wear out. If his adrenalin wears out, then he is vulnerable, has no worldly weapons, is running on fumes, may be fearful to the point of terror. That terror is the battleground of Mars.
When a person is running on fumes, they'll tend to mentally run all of their scarcity considerations. Their security (reflected in the root chakra) and their personal power (reflected in the solar
plexus) will be called into question. They will feel insecure, indecisive, confused, weak, lacking in energy, lacking ambition, feeling unable to go out and win at life. They are caught in an endless and debilitating loop between their ideals and goals vs. their apparent failure to achieve them. This is the inner battleground of Mars.
Although the person's spirituality is never really in question, their self-confidence (heart chakra) can be compromised by trials on their personal battleground.
Here's an important thing to remember if you're going through challenging situations and times. Try to not draw any conclusions about yourself or about life from what you see going on, as these conclusions are made under the duress of emotional or physical pain, they are likely to be negative, and the conclusions you draw tend to become core beliefs that will compromise your success in the future. Clients may need warning, coaching and "permission" to not draw such conclusions, or to spot and revise such conclusions if they have already drawn them. The alternative is to be willing to hang out in the "not-know" and in uncertainty, and to "live in the questions" of life until you have a breakthrough.
War and Hatred
A person may openly invite trouble where Mars resides, incite others to opposition and violence, declare war openly, covertly, or unconsciously, and then wonder how they get into such messes and difficulties. If a person is not willing to own their Mars or identifies with the lower expressions of Mars, their disowned or misdirected passion and power tends to get mirrored back at them by those who oppose them, those who get angry at them, or those who generally create hell for them.
Hatred is a very destructive emotion and it devours much good karma stored. Hate eats good karma for breakfast. If you hate something, the trick is to not eliminate what you hate completely. Don't feel like you have to nail it out of existence. Allow it a speck or dot of space in your personal universe. Allow it to be there, but make it small. Put it "over there" somewhere so it can do its thing without bothering you in your local space. That way you can own the thing, it can be there, but it's not running you, and you have dominion over it. You're bigger than it is.
War dramatizes unresolved and disowned parts of the self. The person fails to honor diversity, or allow others to be the way they are. There is inner violence, inner disagreements, use of force on others and self, misdirected energy, frustrated ideals, disowned passion, false solutions for boredom, and/or a poverty of willingness to exercise imagination.
Work on Mars
Our challenge is to live the constructive expression of Mars, and to minimize the destructive expression of Mars. Consider a spectrum from the most constructive (+10) to the most destructive
(-10) expressions of Mars. Assess any action or Mars situation on this scale to get a clearer view on how you're using the energies and archetypes of Mars. Then spot where you'd like the situation to be, what is your goal.
There is an element of your heart's desire - your soul's desire - in your ideal, so identify what this essential or bottom-line desire is. Narrowing the gap between what you desire and what you're presently manifesting, aligning to the ideal, becomes the challenge. The Work of liberation has begun, to become free from limited social and personal conditioning, and to become free to act confidently as conscious spirit. Some of the best Work you will ever do on yourself or with clients is in the area of the Mars house, and all other valid Work will lay the foundation for what unfolds there.
Mars symbolizes action. Let's look at the action styles of extroversion and introversion and their respective Mars challenges.
Extroverts tend to blame others when things go wrong and disown aspects of themselves, so will tend to have events appear to happen to them from outside. In fact it's their own consciousness and energy setting up external events. Because extroverts have a higher physical energy level and are relatively uninhibited, but less reflective, they often have difficulty changing or stopping their actions, because they don't see what needs to be changed or stopped. Extroverts may tend toward impulsiveness and character disorder. First, they have to see that an action is harming others, has destructive consequences, or may not allow them to achieve their own goals, before they have motivation to change.
Introverts tend to blame themselves, even excessively, when things go wrong, but they more readily take ownership of all personal traits, so will tend to have fewer bizarre events appearing to happen to them from outside themselves. Because introverts have less physical energy and momentum, and are more inhibited and reflective, they find it easier to stop action, and may find it a bit easier to change course. They may be skeptical that change is possible, or hard-pressed to see how effective change could occur, or wonder who could help produce the needed change. Outside their own area(s) of expertise, introverts are likely to have difficulty generating energy and projecting their personality into the world confidently so as to fulfill their potential. Introverts tend to hold themselves back or inhibit themselves out of fear, and will lean toward neurosis.
Ideally, a person is balanced and capable of extroversion or introversion as appropriate to the situation. However they will favor one or the other, especially under conditions of stress.
How does a person become an extrovert or introvert? The tendency may be set as soon as the child is born; sensitive parents will notice personality traits of the child from birth. Basic tendencies will be reinforced or modified by the survival strategy the person adopts in childhood. What does this family expect? How do I get along in this family? How do I please my parents while becoming an individual in my own right? (Often the Mars battle involves dependency and links to parents and other family members while attempting to become independently competent in the world.)
The astrologer would do well to consider the extrovert-introvert factor in helping a client work through the issues of his Mars house. The extroverted person will tend to pick more fights out there in his world, be outraged, accuse and blame others, wonder why this is happening, or run roughshod over others. The introverted person will tend to encounter frustrations of his ideals and will prefer to suffer, struggle, avoid, and grieve in silence and shame, the silence being occasionally broken by confessions of confusion, sobs, and feeling like a failure for not knowing how to win in that area of life.
The Mars house is often the last area to be cleared up in therapy or Work-on-self, and the area needs repeated approaches from many angles. Success may require the learning of new competencies on a higher level in order to master the Mars house. The process of mastering Mars involves a _willingness_ to do a lifetime of battle, whatever it takes. To finally learn how to create a sustained positive and constructive manifestation from your Mars is to give new meaning to the term "impeccable warrior." By "sustained," I mean a manifestation of which you are so confident, that if all visible forms were to be destroyed, you are confident that you as creative spirit could successfully recreate the affairs of the Mars house (and, by extension, any house) because you have mastered the spiritual "mechanics" of Mars.
Don't rush the Mars house in therapy, as that just stirs up resistance and inner fight. The battle will be won when it's won, and not a moment sooner. It will be won in soul timing, after a progression of events and actions, and in the experiences of eternity rather than clock time. Victory takes energy generation, energy movement, courage, authenticity, and constructive use of energy. Most importantly, the Mars victory takes love and heart. Mars is a bhakti path first and a karma path second. Our hero
(you?!) may at last succeed in storming the gates of Heaven.
Effort vs. No-effort
Mars symbolizes effort. Those who use effort as a habitual base of operations create unnecessary suffering for themselves and others. However avoidance of effort, cringing from effort, is not the path to freedom either. George I. Gurdjieff made the distinction between necessary suffering in life (such as occasional physical pain, grieving over the loss of a loved one, or certain aspects of
work-on-self) vs. unnecessary suffering.
My claim is that some 90+% of suffering on the planet today is unnecessary suffering, mostly due to ignorance.
The reconciliation of the apparent dichotomy of effort and no-effort, both of which may produce unnecessary suffering, is what I call "striving," a spiritually-based mode of action where the person is willing to make correct and workable efforts as needed or desired, AND creates things simply and elegantly so as to not require much normal efforts. Striving is thus a higher octave of effort, resolving not only the dichotomy of effort vs. no-effort, but also takes into account the distinction between necessary and unnecessary suffering.
Diagram:
Striving (reconciliation, synthesis at a higher level)
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Effort No-effort (dichotomy, thesis-antithesis)
The Mars Agenda: From Boredom to Eternal Life
People who are bored with life will usually be found stirring up trouble and drama "under the influence" of Mars. Drama gives an adrenaline rush commonly mistaken for life itself. Addictive behavior may show itself in the Mars house, where the person becomes addicted to adrenalin rushes, addicted to certain actions, addicted to certain problems, addicted to intensity, addicted to the fight. Such a person may be prone to anger, frustration, projection, denial, and reversals of fact. They are actually in search of a bigger game to play in life. They want to win at achieving their goals, and to have goals worth achieving and games worth playing. However they suffer from an apparent, but illusory or unreal, poverty of spiritual imagination. They may be presently sitting in a collapsed universe. The best they've been able to come up with at the time is a small or petty game of low-level Mars drama. There is no real poverty of spiritual imagination in fact, only the unwillingness to exercise it. The real victory here is to claim spiritual identity, open your heart, and begin the process of consciously perfecting the use of spiritual imagination to (co-)create the future.
Weapons in the Mars War
Spiritual identity, sound character, courage, the ability to confront, willingness to take initiative, and an open heart extended into the world are your primary weapons in the Mars war.
Discernment and the sword of truth are auxilliary weapons.
Other weapons include the skill to navigate spiritual and energetic terrain, and create contexts, playing fields, and games in life.
Ability to confront is another weapon. "Confront" is not to be confused with confrontation. Indeed, confront may actually help bypass what most people consider to be confrontation. The word "confront" just means to come face-to-face with, to be spiritually present and to really look at something, to face it, to face another person, to face the truth. Confront does not necessarily involve an adversarial situation or fight, which is the common connotation to the word "confrontation." Being present spiritually, seeing things as they actually are, not as you or others would like them to be, or think they should be, and not being in denial, is a first step to healing a situation, even preventing confrontation. Sometimes confront is not only the first step but is the only thing you need to do to win. As the therapeutic saying goes, "it's all in the willingness."
Hints: You'll need to find the openings for Work-on-self, find the willingnesses, then shift certain UNwillingnesses to willingnesses. You will need to establish a beachhead based on willingness, and build from there until you can take the desired territory, hold the territory, defend the territory, and even expand the territory. Owing to ignorance and blind spots, you will almost certainly need a therapist or spiritual director at times. That person could also be an astrologer.
Astrological weapons include the alchemical antidote to Mars, which is the Moon. Be gentle and nurturing with yourself, like a good mother. Feel your feelings at core. Use your feelings to guide you away from struggle and pain, toward openness, energy, flow and freedom. Repeatedly ponder the subject of "care" and the act of "caring."
Ask yourself:
- How could caring for others open up the Mars house in a new way?
- How could caring for yourself open up the Mars house in a new way?
- How could you position yourself to collaborate with others
so you both achieve your goals?
- How could you develop associates who support each other
in achieving their goals, and minimize or eliminate disagreement,
competitive attitudes, and opposition?
You can also use Venus, the "gender" counterpart to Mars. Venus brings love, improved relationships, better communications, better agreements, promises kept, alignment of ideals, common values and goals, win-win, beauty, admiration, and the honoring of beauty in others. Both the honoring of beauty and beauty itself are based in spirit. Venus may have been the original author of the question, "What if they gave a war and nobody came?"
Mars Derailed
Detours: conflict, disagreement, opposition, fighting, battling, war, violence, frustration, selfishness, ego-stuff, aggression, pushing too hard, going too fast, unfulfilled desires, inappropriate initiative taken (too little, too much), unfulfilled sexuality, immune system dysfunction (underactive or overactive), infections, cuts, gunshot wounds, sports injuries, guns, knives, explosions, fire.
INTERPRETING MARS
Mars is action, passion, desire, drive, initiative, and a major part of your sexuality.
WHERE IS MARS BY SIGN, BY HOUSE, AND BY ASPECT?
Mars by SIGN shows your action style, method of operation, indicates subjects you have a passion for, your desire nature, and areas you're likely to pursue and even promote. Also the more basic, animal side to your sexuality.
Mars by HOUSE shows where there's a lot of action and desire to achieve, but also likely struggle, frustration, and expenditure of energy and resources while you learn to make this area of life "work." Stress and eventual immune system dysfunction may be traceable to what's going on, or not going on as you desire it, in the house of your Mars. Your sexuality may also be affected by stress related to your Mars house.
As in all astrological factors, a spectrum of manifestation is possible - from the most exalted and masterful where the person is an exemplar - to the most perverse and degraded where the finest potential of the archetype becomes reversed through ignorance or abuse.
Here are a few keynotes of MARS IN THE SIGNS. This should NOT be considered an exhaustive list.
MARS IN ARIES:
Action style is impulsive, daring, exuberant, innovative,
competitive, sporting. Likes challenge, likes to be
first, takes initiative.
The best energy is at the beginning of a project, so
needs to develop persistence and ongoing motivation.
Sexuality is fiery, quickly aroused, but may turn easily to
boredom.
MARS IN TAURUS:
Action style is deliberate, sustained, persistent,
practical, plodding. Strong desires, determined, loyal.
Pursues craftsmanship, things of the earth.
Sexuality is earthy, sensual.
MARS IN GEMINI:
Action style is spontaneous, verbal, versatile, flexible.
Good with one's hands, and a believer that the pen is mightier
than the sword. Strong use of language. Sexuality is
linked to intellectual excitement, curiosity, language.
A passion for learning, possibly also driving and flying,
cars and planes.
MARS IN CANCER:
Action style is instinctual, guided by intuitive gut-level
feeling, emotional state, or memory and habit.
Method is gentle, persistent, cautious, protective,
understanding. Sexuality is cuddley, comforting,
nurturing.
MARS IN LEO:
Action style is impulsive, dramatic, attention-getting,
with a flair for leadership and showmanship, loud, colorful,
bold, firey, artistic. Method is generous, open-hearted,
full-out, authoritative, fearless, independent, honest,
loyal. Sexuality is bold, adventurous and sensual, like
the "big cats."
MARS IN VIRGOS:
Action style is disciplined and efficient. Method is
logical, analytical, technical, scientific, practical.
Sexuality is earthy and simple.
MARS IN LIBRA:
Action style is balanced, relaxed, flowing and refined.
Method is collaborative, cooperative, aesthetic.
Passion for interpersonal dynamics and possibly sports
or the arts. Sexuality is smooth and natural.
MARS IN SCORPIO:
Action style is intense and determined, usually quiet,
but sometimes demanding. Method is to go beyond
appearances, get to the bottom of things, address root
causes. Psychologically and mechanically perceptive.
Persistent, thorough, shrewd. Desires powerful.
MARS IN SAGITTARIUS:
Action style is impulsive, enthusiastic, adventurous.
Methods favor freedom, open air, physical movement,
travel, high mindedness, prophecy, vision, exploration.
Frank to the point of being blunt, independent,
self-righteous. Desires are impulsive and changeable.
MARS IN CAPRICORN:
Action style is ambitious, responsible, practical,
persistent, results oriented. Methods are deliberate and
calculating, self-reliant, rigorous, organized, highly
structured. Desires are earthy and passionate.
MARS IN AQUARIUS:
Action style is erratic, friendly, inspired, humorous.
Method is intellectual, scientific, original, inventive,
unusual, detached, theoretical. Desires are erratic,
unconventional.
MARS IN PISCES:
Action style is receptive, dreamy, imaginative,
changeable, perhaps solitary. Method is intuitive,
aesthetic, lyrical, poetic, musical, visionary, mystical,
generous. Desires are sensual, enjoying altered states
of consciousness.
Here are some notes on MARS IN THE HOUSES. This should NOT be considered an exhaustive list.
MARS IN 1st HOUSE:
Fiery, adventure-loving, sporting, energetic, and enthusiastic.
Projects ideas, causes, and self easily into the world.
Innovative, novelty-seeking. Courageous, independent,
enterprising, outspoken, strong passions.
MARS IN 2nd HOUSE:
Much energy directed toward evaluation,
gathering resources, making money. Tends to spend more
than he makes, with frequent crises, so needs to develop
sane financial habits early on. Gains through efficient methods
and by persistent application of self to bring all
projects to fruition.
MARS IN 3rd HOUSE:
A passion for learning, writing, communication, cars,
short trips. Mind is alert, determined, independent,
enjoys intellectual battles, pioneering in new ideas.
Forceful writing and/or speaking style. Executive mind.
MARS IN 4th HOUSE:
Strong focus on family dynamics, residential property.
Anger, frustration, aggression, conflict expressed in the
home, to family, or about family situations. A passion for
psychology, lifelong quest for nurturing for self and others.
MARS IN 5th HOUSE:
Pursues sports, recreation, creative projects, the well-being
of children, and romance. Issues around children can be
stressful. Lively, ardent passions.
MARS in 6th HOUSE:
Much energy directed into work, service to others, and
health matters. Efficient, hardworking, may overwork.
Mars here may incline to infections, inflammatory
diseases, autoimmune diseases, stress related illness, high
blood pressure, sports injuries, diseases of muscles and
blood. Employees may be energetic but difficult to deal
with, as they may be independent minded and rebellious.
MARS IN 7th HOUSE:
Much energy directed toward other individuals,
with strong possibility of disagreements, sparring,
debates, conflicts, confrontations, lawsuits,
as well as lively partners who have strong ideas,
think independently, rebelliously, may be athletes,
adventurers or debaters.
MARS IN 8th HOUSE:
Energy directed toward the mysteries of life, life and
death processes, restoration, regeneration. May be
interested in metaphysics, lineages, research, inheritances,
acquiring or managing other people's money.
MARS IN 9th HOUSE:
Passion for travel, higher education, idealism.
Interest in worldviews, belief systems, may be very involved
in religion and/or philosophy, independent thinker.
May gain through publishing, travel, international sales
and marketing.
MARS IN 10th HOUSE:
Much energy expended in career pursuits, highly
idealistic regarding profession and career, may attempt
too much to realistically get it all done. Independent,
enterprising, may make a career of sales, marketing,
sports, physical therapy (muscles), police or fire,
adventure. A lot of push to achieve recognition by
those in positions of authority, to gain respect in his
field, to make his mark in a field.
MARS IN 11th HOUSE:
Much energy directed toward pursuit of friendship,
group or team dynamics. Highly idealistic so easily
frustrated about not achieving goals. May have athletic,
aggressive, adventurous friends, Aries friends, male
friends.
MARS IN 12th HOUSE:
Acts well and energetically in solitude, behind the scenes,
in the areas of metaphysics, psychology, religion,
spirituality. Sexuality may be sublimated to attain higher
energies and better control in the above areas.
Desires generally, if hidden, are more likely to be
frustrated, so ask for what you want and be willing to
sometimes not get it. Internal psychological conflicts
due to conditioning. Inner-plane warfare, strategy,
defeating secret attacks.
ASPECTS to MARS (mathematical relationships of the other planets to Mars) and RULER OF MARS yield additional information about action, initiative, impulses, conflict, stress. A Mars that's well-aspected tends toward ease in the above areas and constructive action, a steady building throughout life. A Mars that's stressed by aspect tends challenges in the above areas. However, challenges may be just what's needed to gain a thorough understanding of how life works in an area, and to learn how to tackle and overcome obstacles, whereas if things are too easy, we may take them for granted and not learn much. Some aspects such as the conjunction have both ease and challenge associated with them.
DWADS are a secondary Sign influence underlying the exact degree and minute of your Mars. Dwads reveal an added dimension and can give outstanding supplemental information, especially for those working on deeper and more psychological levels, and can help explain why someone is not the typical Mars in Pisces, for example. It's very useful to know the dwad under your Mars, as this deeper information tends to aid in the understanding of your unique action style, manner of dealing with conflict, deeper weapons available for use in the battlegrounds of life.
RELOCATION astrology shows where to go in the continental United States and in the rest of the world to place Mars on the angles of your chart using "astro-cartography." Another system called "local space mapping," which I have researched extensively for 10 years now, shows where to go in the world to gain support for your Martian projects - where to go to foster adventure, push, promotion, sales, marketing, sports, heightened sexuality. Many men like to live on their Mars lines, and women can meet significant men in their lives there.
RELATIONSHIP COMPATIBILITY. "Synastry" analysis places the Mars of one person (P1) into the chart of another person (P2), and vice versa, showing attraction patterns. As we might expect, normally we will see one or more strong Mars interaspects in the charts of persons who are strongly attracted. Venus-Mars conjunctions are famous for sexual attraction. Mars-Moon conjunction can be exciting emotionally, but the Mars person can easily reduce the Moon person to tears with a harsh, insensitive manner or personal attacks. Mars-Mercury produces lively conversations and exchanges of ideas, also debate and argumentation. Mars-Jupiter conjunctions are noted for flowing sexual experiences, and a young woman may intuitively seek a man with Jupiter conjunct her Mars for her early sexual encounters. Mars-Saturn is a squelch factor, and I hate to see the conjunction in charts of couples, as the Saturn person will squelch the sense of freedom and interest in sex of the Mars person. Mars-Uranus produce some extremely exciting but short-lived relationships, too explosive. Mars-Neptune is very spiritual and devotional, and can dissipate energies with some kinds of sex. Mars-Pluto is a powerhouse of energy and beingness, and directing power in a constructive and not abusive manner is the demand of spirit here.
Using another compatibility technique, the Composite Chart, the composite Mars represents the merger of two individuals' Mars', the third energy that's formed in their coming together, and its sign and house placement are an important focal point of energy, focus, passion, disagreement, conflict, and challenges.
PROGRESSIONS are one way to bring the natal chart up to date in present time, and show long-term developmental trends. You never lose the qualities of your Mars Sign, but the Progressed Mars shows more of your action style, where your passion, and initiative are focused in present time, and what's "lit up" for experience in your chart now. It points toward the kind of experience you seek now on your soul's journey. Progressions are determined conceptually and mathematically, and do not correspond to physical location of the planets in present time. Mars progresses through a sign about every 40-60 years. When Progressed Mars changes sign, this event heralds a new sub-chapter in the person's life, a new developmental phase, and new challenges and mastery may arrive at this time. It is often a new chapter in terms of the person's sexuality as well. Progressed Mars going direct after having been progressed Rx for many years is an important turning point correcting setbacks in goals, projects, ability to act and take initiative, struggles with others and self, especially if there has been any indecision or ambivalence in these areas.
TRANSITS are another way to update the natal chart into present time. Transits are where the planets are now, and how they relate to your natal chart. Mars transits around your entire chart in about 2 1/2 years, and transits through each house in your chart in about 2-3 months per house. As Mars transits around your natal chart, it "lights up" the houses of your chart in succession, highlighting windows of opportunity for motivation, new action (especially physical action), applying "elbow grease" to get projects done, promotion, taking initiative. Mars transits can be irritating, frustrating and stressful as well. Much depends on what you do with these windows of opportunity, rather than depending on externals to determine your experience.
For Further Reading [non-astrological]:
"The Great Work of Liberation," and "Overview of the Gurdjieff-4th Way Tradition."
Both articles are available by email request, with message
SEND GREATWK or SEND 4THWAY, respectively.
Carol Willis, MA
Sunnyvale CA
August 4, 1997
cbwillis@lightlink.com
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