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Understanding Your Life's Purpose: Mars in Your Astrology Chart

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 You've got Mars in your astrology chart and I wanna teach you how to use your passion to guide you to your life's purpose.

Let's get to know Mars.

🤓 Mars rules Aries ♈️ and Scorpio ♏️.

It spends about 1.5 months in each sign and takes 2 years to get around your entire chart by transit.

😈 It is considered the lesser malefic planet, while Saturn is considered the great malefic.

😳 Although, if you were born with your sun ☉ above the horizon (in houses 7-12), Mars is your most malefic planet.

🤪 What this means in everyday life is that Mars is messing with you MORE than Saturn.

When Mars is messing with you, it brings anger, aggression, physical violence, competition, impulsiveness, potential accidents and even cutting things out of your life.

This happens when transiting Mars aspects one of your natal planets in an unsupportive and unsupported way.

🙌🏼 The good news: With Mars as your most malefic planet, you might find your Saturn returns (around ages 28, 56, 84) less challenging than those with Saturn as their most malefic (with the sun ☉ in houses 1-6).

Ultimately, it depends on how your Mars + Saturn are placed in the chart, aspected by other planets and their importance to you, personally.

♂Mars in your birth chart.

❤️‍🔥 Your natal Mars shows you what you're most passionate about. It's what motivates you to take action. It's your willpower. It's where you have inherent strength. It reveals the area of life you're most driven + competitive.  Also where you're most impulsive. And where you're invited to be brave + courageous.

😴 When your get-up-and-go has got-up-and-gone, use your Mars to get you motivated again to do your purpose work, by stoking your natural passions.

🥸 Which sign + house your Mars is hanging out in, reveal what you're most passionate about, what drives you to get out of bed in the morning and what you've got endless amounts of energy to invest into creating the impact you're here to make on other humans + the world, aka your life's purpose.

Look at your chart to learn which sign your Mars ♂ is in and then find it below:

♈️ Aries: Mars likes to be in Aries. It's at home.

With your Mars in Aries, you're passionate about starting new things. You love a good challenge. You're courageous and bold. You can be impulsive, overly competitive and aggressive too.

You're driven to be the first and the best.

♉️ Taurus: Mars dislikes being in Taurus. It's in its detriment. Mars wants war, action + competition. Taurus wants beauty, peace + comfort.

With your Mars in Taurus, you're passionate about creating stability, comfort, beautiful + pleasurable experiences, material wealth and serenity.

Because Mars is in its detriment, you might struggle with taking action even when you're passionate about something.

To overcome this, focus on your values and why they're important to you.

♊️ Gemini: With your Mars in Gemini, you're passionate about learning + communicating.

You're driven to be witty, playful, flirtatious and sarcastic. Your curiosity motivates you to learn all the things, so you can tell + teach others.

♋️ Cancer: Mars hates being in Cancer. Mars is at its fall. Mars wants to focus on self. Cancer wants to take care of and advocate for others.

With your Mars in Cancer, you're passionate about nurturing others. You're a born advocate. Your passions stoke your intuitive gifts. You're driven to create something new.

Because Mars is in it's fall, you might struggle with taking action even when you're passionate about something.

To overcome this, focus on how what you're during benefits others, especially your family.

♌️ Leo: With your Mars in Leo, you're passionate about fun, play and heart-centered leadership.

You love to be the center of attention. Your optimism and huge heart drives you to excel in life.

♍️ Virgo: With your Mars in Virgo, you're passionate about serving others.

You're driven to organize, analyze and perfect things. You're hardworking and humble.

♎️ Libra: Mars dislikes being in Libra. It's in its detriment. Mars wants war, action + competition. Libra wants partnership, equality and justice for all.

With your Mars in Libra, you're passionate about balance, fairness and true partnership. You're artistic and driven to make things beautiful. You're here to learn how to be brave in relationships.

Because Mars is in its detriment, you might struggle with taking action even when you're passionate about something.

To overcome this, get an accountability partner. 

♏️ Scorpio: Mars likes to be in Scorpio. It's at home.

With your Mars in Scorpio, you're passionate about power, research and truth. You need to get to the bottom of things and understand them deeply.

Taboo things don't scare you; they light you up and excite you.

There's an intensity about you that's both mysterious and magnetic to others, but also intimidating to some.

♐️ Sagittarius: With your Mars in Sagittarius, you're passionate about freedom, adventure and integrity.

You're on the hunt for wisdom gained through life experiences and expanding your beliefs + perspectives, so you can teach + mentor others.

♑️ Capricorn: Mars loves to be in Capricorn. It's exalted and in the best possible placement.

With your Mars in Capricorn, you're passionate about setting goals and reaching them.

You're ambitious, hardworking and responsible. You set boundaries with your time + energy. You're a natural born leader.

♒️ Aquarius: With your Mars in Aquarius, you're passionate about making this world a better place for all humans.

You're innovative. You think outside the box. You're a rebel with a cause.

♓️ Pisces: With your Mars in Pisces, you're passionate about compassion + unconditional love.

You're driven by your intuition and connection to unseen realms. You're idealistic, empathic and motivated by your vision of a world where all humans are treated with kindness, compassion and unconditional love.

Whichever house Mars falls in your chart lets you know which areas of life you're most passionate about and need to take bold + courageous action.

Look in your chart to see which house Mars ♂ is in and find it below:

🏠 Mars through the houses:

1st house: personality, self-image, physical body and perspective

2nd house: relationship with money, values, self-worth, material possessions

3rd house: mindset, self-talk, self-expression, writing, education, local community/neighborhood, communication, automobiles 

4th house: home, family of origin, ancestral lineage

5th house: passions, hobbies, inner child work, children, romance, casual sex, dating, fun and play

6th house: work routines, service to others, daily habits, health, work environment

7th house: partnership, marriage, close relationships, 1 on 1 work, contracts/deals/agreements

8th house: death, rebirth, transformation, other people’s money, debt, taxes, manifestation, occult practices, sex, anything considered taboo

9th house: long distance travel, adventure, higher moral beliefs and life philosophy, wisdom, big picture goals, publishing, teaching

10th house: career, public reputation, legacy, authority figures, impact on others

11th house: friendship, community, connections, groups

12th house: subconscious, dreams, spirituality, mysticism, rest and retreat, karma, connection with unseen beings/realms

🤓 There you have it. That's all the things about Mars.

❤️‍🔥 Let your passion guide you to your purpose!

If you're loving what you're learning and want to learn all the things your astrology chart has to reveal about your life's purpose, I invite you to schedule a Purpose Astrology Reading with me.

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