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Old 27-11-2011, 03:37 AM
Greybeard
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Mars in the News

With today's launch of the Mars Rover Curiosity, it seems appropriate to launch an astrological discussion of Mars.

Keywords are an important part of astrology. Astrology is an art that, in a sense at least, is based on words. The art "works" by analogy, that is, the comparison of one thing with another based on perceived similarities. The heart is a pump; the heart of a thing is at its center. Hearts and pumps and centers are all ruled by the Sun.

What are some important keywords for Mars? These keywords contain "ideas" that our mind can extend to embrace many forms of manifestation. Let's look.

Mars is -----
LAUNCH -- One of the primary meanings of Mars, one of his essential and principal powers or attributes is INITIATIVE. Mars is the energy that gets things going, starts something new, is the first step. So the launch of the rocket carrying the Rover to Mars at Cape Canaveral at 1002 this morning is under the dominion of Mars. He launches things and is also "ignition". Mars is the spark found in anything, for example in the "ignition system" of a car. He is explosive, and without those explosions your car would sit in some museum and carry you nowhere.
FIRE -- The oldest "technology" known to man, his first important invention, was the controlled use of fire. Men are known to have used fire at least 300,000 years ago, before they were "us." Fire marks the beginning of civilization and technological development. Its controlled use allowed us to cook, to harden, bend or fracture materials used in making tools and weapons, to create ceramics and later smelt, refine and work metals, to bring light to the darkness, to warm us when we finally entered cold climates.... Mars rules combustion in all its forms: He rules the element Oxygen, which is what makes combustion happen, whether as the slow burning of food in our bodies to produce heat and energy, with the oxygen carried in our blood by the hemoglobin of its cells, or the rusting of a hinge, the blazing heat of the smithy's forge, or the raging inferno of an apartment house burning to the ground after some angry arsonist touches a match to the place.
ENERGY -- Fire is produced when the energy of the Sun is released from some substance into which it has been bound upon the application of sufficient energy to initiate combustion. Let's explore this idea and see how the "rulerships" of the planets change from one to the other. For practical purposes, the Sun is the source of all our energy. His light and heat make life possible, his gravity controls the otherwise uncontrolled energy of motion of the Earth itself and keeps her in a nice, comfortable orbit around him. But in order for life to exist, or anything else to happen, that raw energy must somehow be converted into other forms. Actually all of the planets participate in this process at one point or another, but we can focus our attention on a couple of them in order to illustrate how "rulership" changes hands among the planets. The Sun generates raw energy; the Moon gives that energy form; Saturn binds the energy and locks it away. Mars then comes along and releases the energy, converts it, gives it new direction...and the process assumes its cyclic nature as new forms appear, are consolidated, and then change once again.
What was once a great swamp full of reeds and other plants dies off, is covered and compressed, becomes coal which is extracted and put into our stoves to cook and heat for us. The swamp is ruled by the Moon (who is a watery planet); the compression and the coal it produces -- and the crystalization or binding of the energy into the form of a rock (coal) -- falls under the dominion of Saturn, while the mining (extraction) of the mineral and its conversion to heat and energy belongs to Mars. This energy, when applied and properly directed, allows us to do things, to create -- or destroy.
Mars, as we can see, is not essentially "bad;" on the contrary, life without Mars is impossible. But when his energy is uncontrolled or misdirected, then he becomes destructive, fragmenting, and "bad." In the heat of anger we spill blood. A fire that goes out of control destroys; controlled it makes good things possible. But even that destruction is ultimately "good," because it clears the way, removes the old and worn out, and makes the new possible.
Yes, Mars is the God of War. He brings forces that oppose us, and conflict, combat, contention. But just as the cannon belches fire and destroys, in the wake of the conflagration comes renewal.
It is only our perception of things, our human judgments, our aversion to pain and desperate longing for "happiness" that makes Mars such a bad fellow. But we should recognize that Mars symbolizes not only the "thorn in the side" but also the "burr under the saddle" that makes us act and change things for our own welfare. Without pain growth is not possible; we require a stimulus, and Mars is that. You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs.
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Old 27-11-2011, 03:50 AM
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Ongoing Program To Ease Public Into Life Elsewhere In The Universe???

As they noted this probe is going to Mars to look for life I wondered if this is one of the first steps in informing us that life exists elsewhere. The acknowledging of finding water on various planets including the moon seems to be a way to ease the general public into this realization.
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Old 27-11-2011, 03:58 AM
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P.S.: Mars rules lots of other things, but I didn't think it good to undertake such an extensive enterprise in this thread. I would have to write a book. But perhaps a short list of keywords for Mars might add to our understanding of his attributes, or qualities, or powers, or principles.

Mars symbolizes -- Adventure, spontaneity, impulse, independence, passions, inauguration, release, immediacy, directness and direction, extirpation, centrifugal energy in all forms (like "flying off the handle", or "throwing somethng or someone out",) cutting and piercing in all forms, promotion, and whatever it takes to get things moving. Mars is opposition, friction and the heat or anger it produces, striking blows (such as are used by the blacksmith to create tools or useful implements -- or to kill and maim).... The list goes on, but these are examples of what Mars symbolizes.
Where Mars energetically and crudely begins things, Venus completes them, finishes them, makes them smooth and polished.
Saturn is the great enemy of Mars, because he removes liberty, chains and binds things, keeps things as they are. He limits action through imposition of obligation, compulsion, duty.
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Old 27-11-2011, 04:07 AM
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Water is present only in very limited quantity on our moon. There is probably enough in limited locations to support some more or less permanent station, but not much more. However, Mars probably holds enough hidden water for more ambitious enterprises. Signs of large bodies and movements of water are everywhere on Mars. The Jovian satellite Europa almost certainly has an ocean of water, capped in ice.

The presence of water indicates the possibility of life. It does not, of itself, mean that life is "there." Life also requires some sort of "oxidant" that can energize chemical reactions, and some sort of "food" or substance(s) that provide the matter to be transformed into life.

Personally, I don't think there is or was life on Mars, because even though all the "right" conditions may have existed, they did not persist long enough for life to establish a foothold (if we use Earth as our gauge for the creation of life.)
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Old 27-11-2011, 10:24 PM
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If we take Mars to a more personal, human level, then we get the urge to adventure, to be physical, a spontaneous impulsiveness that leaps before it looks and is not inclined to make plans. Enthusiasm and courage are hallmarks of a person with a prominent, powerful and well-placed Mars. Usually where Mars is found by sign, you will find a scar. I have Mars in Taurus and a scar on the neck.

In terms of health, Mars reprsents things like rashes (Mars is rash in action, and shows redness), abcesses, boils, pustules....He shows surgery and removal, is the incision used to go deeper into the body. He is blood and, with Jupiter, has to do with the musculature. The adrenal glands belong to Mars, as he prepares us for flight or fight. He is the head in general, with various parts of the head falling under the rulership of other planets. He is the external genitalia, and particularly the male organ. Mars rules processes of elimination so the rectum and anus belong to him. (The anal personality is of Saturn, who is retentive). Mars is the bites and stings of venomous animals such as the scorpion or mosquito (they penetrate our skin, and the mosquito seeks blood). Mars in contact with the Ascendant usually indicated things like brown, ruddy or coppery skin color (compared to the racial norm for the person) and red, reddish or sandy hair. He gives middle stature and a well-muscled body. He shows a rather prominent brow ridge.
Martian eye color is often grey or hazel. (I have Mars sextile the Asc, and hazel eyes).

Mars shows wounds, inflammation, hemorrhage, and infection. He has dominion over the gall bladder. Jaundice is one of his diseases. He requires activity and exercise.

Among people and occupations he is executioners, soldiers, policemen, and all those who work as enforcers for the "prince" (the government.) He is barbers and butchers, surgeons, athletes, men whose work is basically physical. He is your lawyer, your advocate, in a court room battle. Bakers, cooks, blacksmiths and all those whose work involves dealing with fire or great heat fall under the sway of Mars. He is captains and leaders on that level, those whose primary concern is the immediate task at hand, but can symbolize the leader on any level, depending on the context of the chart. Mars rules explorers and adventurers, robbers and brigands (your friendly neighborhood mugger), and the assassin hiding in your closet.
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Old 28-11-2011, 03:07 AM
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Mars is also a constructive use of guns and knives, and that is why you see a strong Mars in the charts of surgeons and military men.
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Old 28-11-2011, 05:53 AM
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"Among people and occupations he is executioners, soldiers, policemen, and all those who work as enforcers for the "prince" (the government.) He is barbers and butchers, surgeons, athletes, men whose work is basically physical."

The use of guns and knives, as ruled by Mars, is not limited to "constructive use." In the first place "constructive" is a word that "judges" the rightness or wrongness of something, and neither the planets nor the universe of which they are a part make such judgments. Mars' symbolism is not limited to guns and knives, but to all things which can pierce and penetrate, which are killing weapons, which are made of iron or steel or function by use of fire or combustion, and no stipulation whatsoever applies to them in terms of good or bad.
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Old 28-11-2011, 07:12 AM
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In regard to Surgeons, the name of Norman Shumway came to mind (9 Feb 1923, 1600, Kalamazoo, Michigan -- chart Rodden-rated AA.) He was one of the preeminent surgeons of the late 20th century, a pioneer whose determination to succeed brought heart-transplant surgery into common practice. Dr.Shumway worked on my own brother 3 weeks before he performed the first "successful" adult-to-adult heart transplant in the U.S. My brother is still aive and kicking; it was his third open-heart operation and the one that finally "worked" and changed his life.

Dr. Shumway has Mars, powerful in his own sign of Aries, and the elevated planet in the chart, in the Ninth House (Shumway spent his whole career as a professor at Stanford University -- the 9th House is the house of universities) with Aries as the sign on the MC of career. With Mars in Aries ruling the MC, and not far from it, "Pioneering" is part of the career. Strong determination, courage, being first or ahead of his time, cutting (surgery), and other Martial traits will "stand above all else" (the elevated position) in his life. As a young university student he began studying engineering (a Martial occupation), but when drafted into the wartime Army in 1943, began studying medicine. His early career, especially during his years as a "student", were in the military. We notice the continual influence of Mars in this life -- see how the planet shows up in different guises? (I am oversimplifying, but holding to sound astrology: to really understand Dr. Shumway we must see the chart as a whole with all its complex interrelationships).

The transits of the planets on 6 January 1968, the day of his first human heart transplant is very interesting. There are 4 things that just seem to jump out of the chart. First, Mars is within degree of the natal cusp of the 8th House: the 8th is the house of surgery. I think most experienced astrologers will agree with me that the transits of planets over the cusps of houses are often significant of events of the nature of the house; this fact provides a good way to test the house system an astrologer is using. Second, transiting Mars is closely square transiting Neptune (2 degrees) and Neptune rules "prothesis", or "substitute parts, surrogates." Third, the transiting North Node is closely conjunct his MC, point of career, fame and honor. And 4th, transiting Pluto (radical or extreme procedures) exactly conjoins the natal North Node. Transits should not be read without reference to directions, which I am doing here, but these transits are significant in terms of the happenings on that day as they pertained to Shumway's life. (P.S.: I have a hunch Shumway was born 4 to 10 minutes earlier than the stated time of birth; that would bring angles and cusps into line with these transits. I have not rectified the chart, in fact only just now cast it out of interest in the topic of "Mars and Surgeons".)

Anyway, we see that "Mars is prominent in the charts of surgeons" is confirmed in the case of this pioneering surgeon.

Last edited by Greybeard : 28-11-2011 at 11:49 AM.
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Old 28-11-2011, 10:06 AM
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Thanks Greybeard.
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Old 29-11-2011, 05:32 AM
Celeste
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I don't know what made me put just the word "constructive," as it could actually be constructive or nonconstructive use of guns/knives, DEPENDING on how Mars is aspected in the chart.
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