Sun-Mars: the cycle of expression and being
The Sun and Mars relationship paints a picture of our personal expression and means of being ourselves within our world. For awhile, I'd like to explore some of the phase relationships between these two astrological bodies much like what was done in the Sun-Moon series. Later, we will look at the list participants charts and add the House meanings into our comments.
PERFORMER PHASE: 0 to 45 degrees.
This phase is all thouse things that early-studies students assign to the the meaning of Sun-in-Aries. This is the primal fighter, the one who throws himself or herself into life's experience with exhuberance, the downhill skier throwing himself down hill in a rush and launching out into the air. Think of these people as prime examples of this phase relationship:
** Dale Ernhardt, 6 degrees, NACAR race driver killed in a car crash recently
** Ralph Nadar, 10 degrees, consumer advocate
** Joan of Arc, 16 degrees, religous martyr
** Cindy Sheehan, 24 degrees, peace activist
** Two contrasting figures, Adolph Hitler, 16 degrees and Gandhi, 40 degrees
** Yassar Arafat, 30 degrees, Osama Bin Ladin, 18 degrees (various dates)
Aspects in this phase: Conjunction, semi-sextile, sem-square.
WORKER PHASE: 45 to 90 degrees.
This group seems bent on finding unique ways to use their energies, to change what was into something new. They seem to have to stand out in some way as a result of their struggles to assert themselves.
** Another Osama Bin Ladin chart, 66 degrees
** Caesar Chavez, 70 degrees, activist leader for Mexican laborers in the US.
** Venus Williams, 81 degrees, one of two sisters in the world of tennis.
Aspects in this phase: semi-square, sextile, square.
ACTIVIST PHASE: 90 to 135 degrees.
This phase has an urge to act, to be, to personally demonstrate their skills and level of energy. While the first PERFORMER phase lives in a perpetual flow of crises-events, the ACTIVIST phase person picks battles to prove themselves and to achieve certain goals.
** Huhammid Ali, 96 degrees, prize fighter.
Aspects in this phase: Opening Square, Trine, Sesquiquadrate
ANALYST PHASE: 135 to 180 degrees.
These people bring an increasing skill set to their activities, always seeking improvement and new approaches to winning in their struggles to be. First one approach to life, then anothr approach to life as if they were writing different chapers in their book of life.
** Tiger Woods, 159 degrees, world famous golfer, starting at an early age.
** John Kerry, 172 degrees, politician, war hero.
** Martin Luther King, 146 degrees, civil rights activist and cause leader.
** Jimmy Carter, 137 degrees, naval officer (atomic subs), politician, leader of various peace initiatives.
Aspects in this phase: Sesquiquadrate, Inconjunct.
SEEKER PHASE: 180 to 225 degrees.
This phase signifies one who is very aware of his/her impact on others, on the use and effect of force, of how to bully or lead others. On the one hand we have our will and sense of self, on the other hand we have some form of ability to project that will in a way that has physical imapct (direct or indirect) on others. This phase can watch and learn, react, or just plunge into a "wrecking" mode.
** Saddam Hussein, 207 degrees, dictator and politician in Iraq
Aspects in this phase: Opposition, Inconjuct, Sequiquadrate
BELIEVER PHASE: 225 to 270 degrees.
This "Honest Man" phase, with the Sun and Mars involved, portrays one who acts within his/her own value system in terms of expressing themselves and making their way in the world. While the Sun can be frank and honest in its workings, Mars can't be trusted. Actions sometimes seem inconsistent with ones character or stated prupose -- usually one learns and adjusts quickly to life and other's reluctance to just stand by.
** Slobadan Milosevic, 234 degrees
Aspects in this phase: Sesquiduadrate, Trine, Closing Square
CHANGER PHASE: 270 to 315 degrees.
In this phase, it seems the Sun and Mars have better learned to manage their paired engergies. This is a leadership position, a means/skill/ability to inspire others by ones own efforts and achievements. Because of the power of these two astrological bodies, inspire and lead may be overly mild words. Perhaps the words urge, show, or do-this might be better.
** Serena Williams, 312 degrees, one of two sister tennis stars.
** Ruth Westhiemer, 300 degrees, grandmother who counsels others on sex issues.
Aspects in this phase: Closing square, Sextile, Closing Semi-square
PRHOPHET PHASE:, 315 to 360 degrees.
This is the giving up one life and moving to another life significator. Three names that I quickly came up with having this phase in their charts have all achieved fame or position in one arena and then moved on to seek something different in their lives. How they move towards a "new them" is, as it is for all of us, very personal and unique -- there is no pattern to transformation it seems. One characteristic seems to be that one uses past abilities in some way to bring about new situations.
** Wesley Clark, 349 degrees, NATO commander, hopeful politician.
** John McCain, 334 degrees, Viet Nam General, POW, polititican.
** Ariel Sharon, 327 degrees, Israli General, polititian.
Aspects in this phase: Closing semi-square, semi-sextile, conjunction
Now, I have no book that I use for reference for these statements. I use just the basic phase meanings, the meanings of the Sun and Mars and how I can imagine them merging, the nature of the people that have these phases in their charts, and a lot of experience.
At this point, we should consider the Sun and Mars in our own chart, the phase and/or aspect that might be in effect, and the way each of them can express themselves in terms of the house they are in. So, those who wish to talk about their charts, we will focus on:
1) Sun-Mars Phase or tight aspect and how you thing that works out for you.
2) Sun & its house, Mars & its house and how both work together.
I look forward to talking with each of you.
Meanwhile, my Sun-Mars Phase is the PROPHET PHASE with 30 degrees of seperation. Sun in the 4th house, Mars in the 3rd house seems to suggest, for me, a person who pursues his own will and finds ways to communicate or write about what he knows, believes or has discovered. Sure, along with this at points in my life, there as been arguements, agressiveness, strong willed pursuit of aims, the use of writings and graphics to gain attention and make a point. Dave.