Cast & Chart

Placement

Mars in Leo

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

In an older source

Mars, however, being contrary in condition to the solar influence, this triplicity receives, as its lords, only Jupiter and the Sun

Claudius Ptolemy, Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos, or Quadripartite (1822)

About this entry

Leo is the only house of the Sun in Lilly 1659, and the Sun is the body Ptolemy sets against Mars. Ashmand's 1822 text of Ptolemy removes Mars from the triangle of Aries, Leo and Sagittarius for that reason, even though Aries is one of his own houses. So the planet arrives in this sign with neither a house nor a share of its triangle.

Lilly leaves Mars two small footholds in Leo: the last ten degrees as his face, and within them degrees 26 to 30 as his terms. A position late in the sign would meet both at once in Lilly's system, while an early one would meet neither. These subdivisions are described here as history.

Both planet and sign are hot and dry by Lilly's reckoning, so the old temperaments agree even where the rulership tables do not. Raphael's Guide of 1877, with the entry placed by its order in a list of blurred symbols, gives a tall stature, large limbs and a passionate, proud temper. Modern popular astrology reads the pairing as pride, warmth and a wish to be seen acting, and that picture comes from modern writers.

Where this text comes from

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