The warrior incarnate, the fighter par excellence. Adrenaline, drive, physical power. This person has grace, it’s not just Venus, but grace that comes from a subtle, deft kinship with the body, an ease in the skin. There is developed intuition on the physical plane, an awareness of other people’s prowess or lack thereof. Though the ego is expanded, and that is a bit blinding, other people’s energy, the softness or hardness of them, the danger or safety in them, is felt on a primal level. Mechanical talent, good with the hands, comfortable in extremes of temperature, height, etc, in being tested bodily. The instinct of the leader of the pack, wolves, the bull with dark, watchful eyes swinging alone up hill.
I know this aspect, know it deep. My son and daughter both have it. It’s no surprise, I have Sun in a square to Mars, and so I passed to them the more integrated, the subtler, more cohesive version. Conjunctions really are so subtle and intrinsic, and subconscious. They are who you are, how you feel yourself, but squares, well squares are the stuff of your experiences, the cold wind at your back, rain on your head, hitches, blocks. One is created by squares, too, by how you fare through your trials, your experiences, the projections that you set out there and that bring on the deepest of challenges. Such is the square. But back to the conjunction-they are powerful, yes, and deeply felt, and there, always, reverberating, ready, conscious, where all your talent and potential lies.
So having the Sun in a conjunction to Mars, you can run free through athletics, you can conquer, you can train yourself and beat everyone down if your mind and heart are set on it; you have a fearlessness, innate, replenishing. A leader is in you. Certain astrologers like to throw warnings with this conjunction sometimes--there is danger of overheating, overexertion, of wearing yourself out, burning out too quick, but what? How can it be helped? To be born with this is to be born with it, and nobody, nobody feels more alive than someone with this combination, their heart set, pummeling away at their dreams. How it would make the person with this conjunction laugh to hear slow down, take a breath, get a hobby. Did John Henry get a hobby?
Of course there’s the likelihood of picking fights, there’s strain in close relationships because the ego is so fixed, so expanded and powerful, and softer characteristics can be overwhelmed by this conjunction, especially when this person is on a winning streak. Yet, probably, most likely, through loss of love because of selfishness, or loss in other ways, over time makes a wiser temperament set in, once the fullest of powers like pure air beating with life through young lungs has aged a bit. There’s nothing that can be done here, this person is pretty unreasonable until they get a bit older. All Mars aspects to the Sun deepen the capacity for enjoyment of life. Those who don’t have it, I mean zero aspects between Sun and Mars, are just a bit more phlegmatic, their laughter is less booming, less real; they’re not as comfortable with themselves. It’s a joy, this marrying between the body and the spirit that this aspect gives, and I wouldn’t trade that aspect, well the square, for any trine to Jupiter (though I have that too) for all the world--maybe I would argue less, my path to humility and responsibility would have been less rocky, less full of ridiculous detours, people may have hated me on less, but I wouldn’t trade any of that for loving life less, and this is the aspect of loving life (so is the square, the trine and the sextile--any aspect between the Sun and Mars.) The Moon paired to Mars can make up for it, actually, that is powerful, too, and to be gotten into on another afternoon.
