Cast & Chart

Placement

Mars in Aquarius

A chart describes tendencies in a symbolic tradition. It cannot decide health, money, law, marriage or children.

About this entry

Nothing in these sources treats Mars in Aquarius as a pair, so the useful facts are structural. Aquarius is a house of Saturn in both Lilly 1659 and Ptolemy (Ashmand's 1822 translation), and the two malefics of the old list, a category label for Saturn and Mars, meet in it. Lilly gives Mars the last five degrees as terms and no more.

Who owns the sign is disputed. Uranus has it outright in Adams 1928 and shares it with Saturn in Heindel 1919, while How to Judge a Nativity by Alan Leo (before 1917) grants that outer planet true rulership only rarely. A reading of Mars here changes depending on which of these a reader follows.

The sign is hot and moist in Lilly's table, so it shares one quality with a hot, dry planet, and he calls it rational and humane, which is strange company for the planet he names author of quarrels. Modern popular astrology points this pairing at group causes and unconventional methods. That idea is modern and has no source among the old writers here.

Where this text comes from

Statements credited to an older writer follow the scanned text named here. The modern readings are labeled as modern and come from none of these works.

Our own plain wording. Quoted lines keep the spelling of the scanned source.