Mars in Virgo

Among these sources only Heindel 1918 describes Mars in Virgo as a pair, and he reads it as ambition with a quick, scientific mind, so the rest of this page is mostly what the method gives. Virgo is the house and exaltation of Mercury in Lilly 1659, an earthly sign that he calls cold, melancholy and barren, with barren being a label for signs and nothing about any person. Lilly's allotment to Mars is the final six degrees as terms and nothing else.

The old qualities offer one point of contact, dryness, since Mars is hot and dry and Virgo cold and dry. Heindel 1918 also tells students that a planet gives different results according to its intrinsic nature and its combinations, which is the exercise a reader faces here. A planet Sepharial 1920 ties to impulse, placed in a sign Lilly ties to books, granaries and studies, is about as far as the sources can take it.

Modern popular astrology tends to describe careful, methodical work and a sharp eye for faults, and that description is modern. Mars takes roughly fifty-seven days per sign on Lilly's figure of one year and 321 days for a full circuit, while Sepharial gives about 15 months. The figures disagree, and the calculator uses neither, because it computes the planet's place for the actual moment of birth.