Mars aspects
What the tradition holds about the Mars at an angle to each of the other bodies. An aspect on its own is geometry; what the older sources actually discuss is a particular pair at a particular angle, and they treat each one as its own subject.
15 pairings curated here, each traced to a work and a page you can open for free. 15 also have a longer piece on what the pairing looks like in a life. Anything involving Pluto is absent and will stay absent: it was discovered in 1930, after every work this site is able to cite.
Mars and Sun
- Sun conjunct Mars· also written Mars conjunct Sun
- Alan Leo reads this as great force of character and a hasty, fiery temper that does not last — a love of enterprise, and fits of ambition without the stability to carry them long enough to make success certain. Forceful, and often rash. One 1918 source groups the conjunction with the good aspects and adds a dauntless determination, executive and constructive ability, and a will that refuses to recognise defeat.
- What this looks like in a life
- Alan Leo, How to Judge a Nativity (1912; pages from the 1928 printing at archive.org/details/howtojudgenativi00leoa), pp. 134–135Max Heindel, The Message of the Stars (1918, at archive.org/details/messageofstarses00heiniala), pp. 327–328
- Sun sextile Mars· also written Mars sextile Sun
- Sixty degrees apart. Alan Leo writes on the conjunction, square, trine and opposition of this pair and not on the sextile. One 1918 source takes the sextile with the conjunction and trine, and reads the group as dauntless determination and courage in the face of long odds: given a plan to follow, the person can be trusted to carry it through, with executive and constructive ability and a will that refuses to recognise defeat.
- What this looks like in a life
- Max Heindel, The Message of the Stars (1918, at archive.org/details/messageofstarses00heiniala), pp. 327–328
- Sun square Mars· also written Mars square Sun
- Ninety degrees apart. Alan Leo reads it as domestic worries, a liability to violent changes, and many troubles. One 1918 source treats the square with the opposition as an abundance of energy and a faculty for leadership turned to destructive ends: courage becoming foolhardiness, a loud and overbearing manner, a readiness to fight at the drop of a hat, and a standing opposition to whoever holds authority.
- What this looks like in a life
- Alan Leo, How to Judge a Nativity (1912; pages from the 1928 printing at archive.org/details/howtojudgenativi00leoa), pp. 134–135Max Heindel, The Message of the Stars (1918, at archive.org/details/messageofstarses00heiniala), pp. 328–329
- Sun trine Mars· also written Mars trine Sun
- A third of the circle apart. Alan Leo reads it as success through enterprise, industry, courage and adventure. One 1918 source takes the trine with the conjunction and sextile, and adds a dauntless determination and courage against long odds — given a plan to follow, the person can be trusted to carry it through, with a will that refuses to recognise defeat.
- What this looks like in a life
- Alan Leo, How to Judge a Nativity (1912; pages from the 1928 printing at archive.org/details/howtojudgenativi00leoa), pp. 134–135Max Heindel, The Message of the Stars (1918, at archive.org/details/messageofstarses00heiniala), pp. 327–328
- Sun opposite Mars· also written Mars opposite Sun
- A hundred and eighty degrees apart. Alan Leo reads it as separations, powerful opponents and a career full of extremes, set against any permanent success by sudden and serious obstacles. One 1918 source treats the opposition with the square as energy and leadership turned to destructive ends: courage becoming foolhardiness, a swaggering manner, and a standing opposition to whoever holds authority.
- What this looks like in a life
- Alan Leo, How to Judge a Nativity (1912; pages from the 1928 printing at archive.org/details/howtojudgenativi00leoa), pp. 134–135Max Heindel, The Message of the Stars (1918, at archive.org/details/messageofstarses00heiniala), pp. 328–329
Mars and Moon
- Moon conjunct Mars· also written Mars conjunct Moon
- One 1918 source treats the conjunction on its own rather than grouping it. It reads the pairing as making the person very impulsive in mind, and gives it a very bad temper — though not so bad, it says, as the square or opposition. It describes the nature as very restless and unsettled, on the reasoning that the combination is like mixing fire and water.
- What this looks like in a life
- Max Heindel, The Message of the Stars (1918, at archive.org/details/messageofstarses00heiniala), p. 239
- Moon sextile Mars· also written Mars sextile Moon
- Sixty degrees apart. One 1918 source groups the sextile with the trine and reads the power of endurance as increased to a maximum. It describes a resolute, courageous, energetic and ambitious mind of a resourceful and eminently constructive turn, quick in decision without being precipitate, and holds that such a person gains the confidence and esteem of others because of it.
- What this looks like in a life
- Max Heindel, The Message of the Stars (1918, at archive.org/details/messageofstarses00heiniala), pp. 238–239
- Moon square Mars· also written Mars square Moon
- Ninety degrees apart. One 1918 source treats the square with the opposition, and reads a very quick temper, with hasty and impulsive speech and acts that it says may cause the person a great deal of sorrow and trouble. It describes such people as resenting rules and regulations, and as very domineering and exacting when they are the ones in authority.
- What this looks like in a life
- Max Heindel, The Message of the Stars (1918, at archive.org/details/messageofstarses00heiniala), pp. 239–240
- Moon trine Mars· also written Mars trine Moon
- A third of the circle apart. One 1918 source takes the trine with the sextile, and reads the power of endurance as increased to a maximum. It gives a resolute, courageous, energetic and ambitious mind, resourceful and eminently constructive in turn, and quick in decision without being rash — and it credits that combination with winning the confidence and esteem of others.
- What this looks like in a life
- Max Heindel, The Message of the Stars (1918, at archive.org/details/messageofstarses00heiniala), pp. 238–239
- Moon opposite Mars· also written Mars opposite Moon
- A hundred and eighty degrees apart. One 1918 source treats the opposition together with the square, giving a very quick temper and a tendency to hasty or impulsive expression and acts that may bring the person a great deal of sorrow and trouble. It reads such people as resenting rules and regulations, and as domineering and exacting in their demands for obedience when they hold authority themselves.
- What this looks like in a life
- Max Heindel, The Message of the Stars (1918, at archive.org/details/messageofstarses00heiniala), pp. 239–240
Mars and Mercury
- Mercury conjunct Mars· also written Mars conjunct Mercury
- One 1918 source treats the conjunction separately and leaves its direction open. It gives the same mental energy, enthusiasm and dexterity it credits to the sextile and trine — but says whether those go to constructive ends or destructive ones depends on the rest of the chart, not on the conjunction itself. It is the one aspect of this pair the source declines to call good or bad.
- What this looks like in a life
- Max Heindel, The Message of the Stars (1918, at archive.org/details/messageofstarses00heiniala), pp. 213–214
- Mercury sextile Mars· also written Mars sextile Mercury
- Sixty degrees apart. One 1918 source reads a keen, sharp, ingenious and resourceful mind here — someone enthusiastic about whatever appeals to them, able to carry others along, and an indefatigable worker for any cause that engages their sympathies, though no visionary and interested only in concrete matters. It describes a love of argument and debate, and an inexhaustible fund of wit and good humour, sometimes with a vein of sarcasm that always strikes its mark but never viciously.
- What this looks like in a life
- Max Heindel, The Message of the Stars (1918, at archive.org/details/messageofstarses00heiniala), pp. 212–213Max Heindel, The Message of the Stars (1918, at archive.org/details/messageofstarses00heiniala), p. 213Max Heindel, The Message of the Stars (1918, at archive.org/details/messageofstarses00heiniala), p. 213Max Heindel, The Message of the Stars (1918, at archive.org/details/messageofstarses00heiniala), p. 213
- Mercury square Mars· also written Mars square Mercury
- Ninety degrees apart. One 1918 source treats the square with the opposition. It reads a quick-witted, sharp and alert mind joined to a quick temper — impulsive, jumping to conclusions and acting before thinking, and so, it says, forever landing themselves or others in trouble. It calls them born prevaricators, incapable of a straight statement, vitriolic in anger, and bullies bound to rule or ruin wherever they are.
- What this looks like in a life
- Max Heindel, The Message of the Stars (1918, at archive.org/details/messageofstarses00heiniala), p. 214Max Heindel, The Message of the Stars (1918, at archive.org/details/messageofstarses00heiniala), p. 214Max Heindel, The Message of the Stars (1918, at archive.org/details/messageofstarses00heiniala), p. 214Max Heindel, The Message of the Stars (1918, at archive.org/details/messageofstarses00heiniala), pp. 214–215
- Mercury trine Mars· also written Mars trine Mercury
- A third of the circle apart. One 1918 source credits this pair with remarkable dexterity — an ability to turn their hands to whatever is required and do it with astonishing speed. It holds that such people cannot do anything slowly or by halves: whatever they take on must be done with a rush, with their whole energy in it. On that basis it expects success in almost any line of work they choose, and names literature and the mechanical arts as the likeliest.
- What this looks like in a life
- Max Heindel, The Message of the Stars (1918, at archive.org/details/messageofstarses00heiniala), pp. 212–213Max Heindel, The Message of the Stars (1918, at archive.org/details/messageofstarses00heiniala), p. 213Max Heindel, The Message of the Stars (1918, at archive.org/details/messageofstarses00heiniala), p. 213Max Heindel, The Message of the Stars (1918, at archive.org/details/messageofstarses00heiniala), p. 213
- Mercury opposite Mars· also written Mars opposite Mercury
- A hundred and eighty degrees apart. One 1918 source treats the opposition with the square. It reads a quick, sharp mind joined to a quick temper — impulsive, excitable, acting before thinking — and holds that such people are feared or disliked by those tied to them, and shunned by everyone else who can manage it. It calls them selfish, swaggering and egotistical in the extreme, while allowing that other aspects may temper all of this.
- What this looks like in a life
- Max Heindel, The Message of the Stars (1918, at archive.org/details/messageofstarses00heiniala), p. 214Max Heindel, The Message of the Stars (1918, at archive.org/details/messageofstarses00heiniala), p. 214Max Heindel, The Message of the Stars (1918, at archive.org/details/messageofstarses00heiniala), p. 214Max Heindel, The Message of the Stars (1918, at archive.org/details/messageofstarses00heiniala), pp. 214–215
Which of these you have
The birth chart page works out every aspect in your own chart from your date, time and place of birth, and shows the entry below the matching row. Nothing is transmitted; it is calculated on your device.
For what the five angles are — the geometry, the orbs, and which pairs can never form which aspects — see aspects.