Mars
Azension's Mars is located at 9° Taurus 12' 49"
Destroyer & Renewer
"Mars tugs at the human imagination like no other planet. With a force mightier than gravity, it attracts the eye to the shimmering red presence in the clear night sky."
-John Noble Wilford, Mars Beckons, 1990
Cristoforo de Predis, Mars with the Zodiac Signs of Aries and Scorpio from De Sphaera Italy, 1470
Mars shown in a Renaissance period artwork with the two signs he rules: Aries and Scorpio.
Mars is the forth planet from the sun with an orbit cycle of 22 months.
Mars rules Aries and Scorpio and is at home in the First House or Eighth House.
Mars symbolizes action, aggression and energy. Human autonomy would correlate with the muscles, the adrenal glands and external reproductive organs.
The Tarot Card Associated with Mars is The Tower.
The metal associated with Mars is iron. It is exalted in Capricorn and falls in Cancer. That means it is strongest in Capricorn, and weakest in Cancer.
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The Force
Mars has a reputation for trouble as both the destroyer and renewer. Mars is a force mightier than gravity than can stimulate the human imagination like no other. A tendency to sever ties and separate alliances. On the upside, the planet Mars is about desire and virility, the exertion of a life force that is the will to survive and can be manifested in many ways from a bloodthirsty lover of violence to a great protector of civilization and guardian of agriculture and protecting harvest, which sustains lives. Whether Mars energy destroys or protects, it is done with passion.