Mars in Scorpio

Here Adams 1928 offers one of the few sketches in the collection built around Mars and a single sign. She describes a seasoned veteran who knows the real cost of war and can endure hardship, a contrast she draws against Mars in Aries. She treats Scorpio as water at full force and sees that as suited to the planet.

Lilly 1659 calls Scorpio the house and joy of Mars, and Raphael 1828 repeats the joy. Lilly gives him the first ten degrees as face, the first six as terms and the whole watery group as triplicity, so the opening of this sign stacks up more of his table entries than anywhere else. Heindel 1918 is cooler and says Mars turns the sign toward earthly concerns.

Scorpio is also where modern practice departs from every source here. Many modern astrologers give the sign to Pluto, a planet found in 1930, and no book in this set supports that assignment. By the old temperaments Mars is hot and dry against a cold, moist sign, and these writers give it to him anyway.