Observation reveals that every living thing has an aggressive urge and Hermetic astrology teaches that its astrological vibration is transmitted by Mars. You can feel yours. It’s played a key role in your soul’s struggle to survive and scale the evolutionary ladder of life.
Your soul had to find food and water. It may have mated and had territorial disputes, fought rivals and killed an enemy in the interest of self-preservation. Through experience it gradually acquired an energy supply and developed initiative and a fighting spirit.
Its prehuman life education was saved in memory as states of consciousness and when it was born a human soul its preliminary training came with it.
You were born with an aggressive urge and Hermetic astrology teaches that Mars in your birth chart provides a very reliable account of your soul’s aggressive life experience up to the moment of its human birth and permits prediction regarding your aggressive urge and conflict, strife-life.
Mars in your birth chart
Hermetic astrology and your birth chart introduce you to your aggressive urge.
It’s a collection of thought-elements that have the same vibratory rate as Mars – the outcome of a variety of experiences involving conflict when aggressive action and haste were the dominant feelings being felt. They’re the seed from which your aggressive behavior germinates.
Mars in your birth chart measures the relative strength of your aggressive thought-cell activity. It’s taking place in a region of your consciousness that is not part of your conscious field of awareness.
Mars is located by sign and house and forms angular relations with the other planets. And your aggressive urge has an attitude-motivation, environmental triggers and functional status aka harmony or discord.
If Mars is prominent (with above average astrodyne power) your aggressive thought-cell group is making its presence felt. The conscious reception of your unconscious aggression is regular and vivid. If it’s non-prominent or weak its influence is correspondingly reduced. Its relative power can be viewed as constant.
Mars forms a network of aspects. They contribute to its net harmony or net discord score and script your aggressive strife-life story.
If Mars has a net harmony you’re inclined to construct, build and create and feel pleasure when confronted by conflict requiring aggressive action.
A prominent-harmony correlation inclines towards incessant, energized effort and high achievement, but doesn’t prevent strife, conflict and opposition. It does favor success in a conflict situation, a good outcome when the risks are high and worthwhile development through strife, haste and energized effort.
If Mars has a net discord you’re inclined to destroy, destruct and demolish and feel displeasure when confronted by conflict.
A prominent-discord correlation inclines towards incessant, energized effort and high achievement that’s compromised by conflict, strife, haste, recklessness and dissipation.
Each harmonious aspect maps a thought-compound that’s working to attract a fortunate aggressive life event; and each discordant aspect maps thought-cell desires working to attract an unfortunate aggressive life event.
Mars by its house location maps the chief environmental cues eliciting an aggressive response giving rise to strife and conflict; and each Mars aspect maps an event defined by its keyword associated with its life-matters. You live and learn through these experiences.
You can use the power and harmony or discord of Mars to make predictions regarding your predisposition to experience strife, haste, increased energetic effort and various events of the Mars type.
Aggression is the thought-realm of discord, violence and jungle behavior and it’s easy to develop a misguided disgust relationship with your own aggressive thoughts and impulses. Or, depending on your religious beliefs and ethical expectations, you may find yourself in a non-stop battle with the wild beast within. You may even view Mars as the monster in your birth chart.
But the idea that aggression is malicious and disgusting is misguided. Maybe you do experience vile thoughts and feelings. Maybe you stir up strife and say and do things on reckless impulse, but this is no reason to dislike yourself.
Factcheck: Your aggression is a valuable resource in your mental toolkit. It’s your resilience that keeps you keeping on. When it’s controlled and harnessed to a worthwhile purpose you can attain extraordinary levels of achievement. It can overcome obstacles and opposition that thwart your goals and aspirations. Personal initiative starts things and solves problems. Your very survival often depends upon your ability to aggressively attack and defeat enemies.
Your aggressive-fight response to conflict streams into your objective consciousness from the aggressive Mars thought-cell group in your not-conscious mind. It’s the hard evidence that adds meaning to Mars in your birth chart.
Mars and your aggressive urge
Hermetic astrology enlightens you about your aggressive urge.
You’ve learned that aggression is a state of mind characterized by energetic action, assertiveness, enterprise and initiative; and the aggressive thought-cell group in your not-conscious mind is where your prehuman conflict and strife-life is saved in memory as states of consciousness. So, the aggression you feel when dealing with conflict is an echo from your past.
It emerges in response to conflict situations where obstacles and opposition need to be attacked. It has you fighting for your rights; energizes your effort when you have to meet a deadline or move fast; and sources your desire for excitement, action, adventure and sex.
Aggression is all about the blind pursuit of immediate short-term self-interest aka instant gratification. It can’t wait. And it’s inclined to attract strife, feuds, bitter criticism, accidents, injuries and operations.
You’re in the game, striving to achieve, competing for jobs, combating opponents and enemies, attacking obstacles, taking risks, climbing the economic ladder and fighting to survive. And unless your soul fights it will be defeated.
Your aggressive life experience has been active, energetic, forceful, daring, risky, reckless, competitive, impulsive and contentious. You take issue and experience disputes and disagreements; and you court danger in response to your desire for excitement and adventure.
Maybe you feel compelled to take risks, explore, hunt, compete and fight.
Your aggressive urge is self-absorbed, selfish and self-interest motivated and competition encourages selfish achievement. It’s very popular.
If you have the courage of your convictions; successfully accomplish what you want; overcome obstacles, restraints and opposition as they arise; deal with strife in a resolute constructive way; resolve personal conflict to the mutual benefit of both parties; and face adversity with courage your aggressive urge is expressing effectively.
On the other hand if you’re a strife magnet; always flying off the handle; acting on reckless impulse; harboring hate and revenge; speeding through life with no real sense of purpose; being pushed around; losing fights; constrained by unsurmountable obstacles; and inclined to experience accidents, injuries, sprains, cuts, surgical operations, burns and/or infections your aggressive urge is behaving badly.
Conflict, competition and energized effort sustain the development of your aggression, enterprise and initiative, but sustained energetic effort is mentally and physically exhausting.
You were born with combative qualities and Mars in your birth chart enlightens you about your aggressive-life experience. There’s a causal relationship between your not-conscious aggressive thought-cell activity and your strife-life.
You learn about your aggressive urge through personal experience.
Your aggressive life story
Your evolutionary backstory prepared you for human life. You were born ready to fight opponents, overcome obstacles, compete and climb the ladder of success. From the get-go your aggressive urge made its presence felt: you wanted a piece of the action.
Your aggressive behavior was a potential awaiting development and as a child your aggressive urge was conditioned by your local environment to express in a socially acceptable way.
You had innate constructive and destructive tendencies that expressed in response to conflict and opposition.
Puberty was a critical phase. At this time boys on the verge of manhood express their masculinity according to cultural norms: they drink, drive fast, gamble, fight, have sex and swear a lot. A girl’s conditioning is influenced by her social environment and accepted cultural norms. In both instances competitive sport is popular. Sexual experiences replicate fortunate and unfortunate thought-compound desires working to attract events. They set a trend that can last a life time.
Your conditioned aggressive behavior response automatically returns whenever it’s triggered by circumstance usually involving a verbal or physical assault or when an obstacle or opposition blocks and frustrates desire.
It’s just your soul responding to conflict and opposition.
Only you know if its initiative, enterprise, resilience, courage and constructive effort or anger, vindictiveness, hate and harshness.
Maybe your aggressive thought-cells are playing a combative, angry soundtrack.
You feel anger, maybe full-blown rage. It thunders a way and fuels your body for fighting and aggressive action. It’s associated with manliness and strength. Violence is what some people do when they feel angry. Your anger is deposited and stored in your unconscious aggressive thought-cell group and only you know if you have an anger problem.
Maybe you’ve experienced major fights and disputes. Maybe you see your life as a warlike situation. Maybe you’re intrusive, interfering, encroaching, abusive and officious. Maybe you engage in insult hurling and verbal punch-ups.
Sex, risk-taking, violence and alcohol consumption are all twigs on the Mars branch of life.
Your sex life is just your Mars (and house 5) thought-cells doing their thing. Feelings of sex and lust can alleviate the boredom of your everyday routine life. Sex once meant race preservation now it means excitement and bragging rights; but as your spiritual-altruistic attributes develop your destructive lust impulses can become an internal demon.
Your hum-drum daily life has you craving excitement and taking risks.
Maybe you’re a thrill seeker who enjoys rough and tumble play. Maybe you’re into high-octane, high-risk excitement. Maybe risk-taking, gambling, uncertainty and a lack of personal control satisfy your need for excitement.
Maybe your excitement life is all about feeling an adrenalin rush. You have an aggressive biological response which recurs whenever you encounter an emergency. When adrenalin is gushing through your veins rational thought ceases and you don’t know what you are doing.
Maybe you’re speeding through life impatient to get where you’re going.
There’s a potential for harshness in your soul. Your aggressive thought-cells can express cruel and hurtful tendencies. Conflict creates a cycle of revenge and retribution. Discordant aggression easily turns to violence, hatred and cruelty.
Maybe you harbor malice, resentment and indignation: a desire to hurt and harm. Maybe you’re insensitive to the pain of others. Maybe you have an insatiable appetite for hate, revenge and pay back.
Maybe you’ve been a victim of an unprovoked attack. Maybe you wear highly sexualized clothing. Maybe you actively pursue intoxication.
Drinking alcohol aka boozing is a primary recreational pursuit. It temporarily relieves the tension and boredom of daily life. Recreational drinking has kids getting tanked on booze. Their parents are excellent role models. Alcohol is a primary requisite at all social activities. Pubs and clubs provided entertainment, gambling and booze.
In some cultures, drinking (alcohol) is a rite of passage. The transition from teenager to adult is celebrated by consuming alcoholic drinks. Humanity has had a ferocious alcohol problem for hundreds maybe thousands of years. Alcohol fueled violence is as old as time.
If your conflict life is a record of stress, struggle. lost battles, accidents, injuries, operations, broken bones, sprains, infections and unfulfilled sex, Mars in your birth chart will clarify the situation, but understanding the mystery that is your aggression is not enough.
Your aggressive intelligence and ability develop through strife, conflict, construction, destruction and taking risks.
Your conflict resolution behavior is natural to you but your current grade of aggressive behavior may not be reaping the highest personal rewards.
Maybe you need to develop a strategy for improving your aggressive behavior. You can take a more purposeful approach to managing and navigating your fired-up aggression to a more productive outcome.
It’s very important to develop a clear understanding of your aggressive urge: why you have it, how it formed and developed, its function and purpose and how you can best use it benefit your mental, emotional and spiritual development.
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