Mars in Gemini in the Sixth House

The placement of Mars in Gemini indicates that you have a need to feel free to take any action or to pursue your desires in any direction that you are inclined to do. This need generally is manifested in a desire to actively explore, experience what is around you and participate in a multitude of different types of activities.  With Mars in Gemini, this need can be accomplished within the bounds of everyday life and propriety. Much of the behavior and many of the personality characteristics associated with Mars in Gemini are a result of this need for variety in your active life.

The placement of Mars in Gemini is generally positive. This is symbolized by the natural sextile between Gemini and Mars-ruled Aries. Gemini is the Mutable Air sign. Gemini’s changeable air symbolically acts like a prism for the Mars energy, magnifying the power of the Mars-symbolized function as it is activated in several directions. However, if some control is not exercised to structure the flow of this active energy, it may dissipate into too many channels. The air element associated with Gemini also tends to give your actions and desires a mental quality. This is often manifested in your greater willingness to communicate your desires and talk about your activities.

Mars also symbolizes the animus in the psyche. Thus, if you are male with Mars in Gemini, you are likely to model your masculinity in order to incorporate characteristics typically associated with Gemini. If you are female, you are likely to be attracted to someone who projects or embodies Gemini-associated traits.

Insecurities

Having Mars in Gemini, being insecure within yourself, you need to be involved in constant activity in order to feel that you matter. Activity is both a validation for your ego and a distraction from your insecurities. With Mars in Gemini, your need to be constantly involved in some activity is fed by the fact that your desires abound in all directions. These, of course, cannot possibly all be fulfilled. Nevertheless, you feel that you may miss something if you are not engaged in every activity.

Mars in the 6th House:

Mars in the 6th House suggests that, though you may engage in many externally directed actions, the ultimate aim of your activity is to improve yourself and, particularly, to refine the rough edges of your personality. The 6th House symbolizes the gradual shift of focus from self to other. Consequently, you desire to present to others an image and a person that lives up to your own ideals and values. Consciously or subconsciously, therefore, having Mars in the 6th House, your actions are designed to make you a more suitable person for social contact and social interaction.

As an individual with Mars in the 6th House, this often involves you learning more humility and learning how to subordinate your own desires to the will of others. Therefore, the desire/action function may not appear to be particularly strong in you. It may appear that you are suppressing your own desires and acting on other people’s desires or wishes. In actuality, you are manifesting your deeper desire to sublimate your ego in order to gain the favor and respect of others.

Insecurities

With Mars in the 6th House, if you are inwardly insecure, you will continually find yourself in subservient positions and you will chafe at your lack of ability or opportunity to actualize your own desires. You will be frustrated at the restrictions that are placed on you and at how you have to work and obey others in order to obtain what you want to have. To willingly submit appears to you like admitting defeat. In truth, having Mars in the 6th House, you do not want to submit out of fear that your own individuality will disappear and be consumed in serving the will of others.

Having Mars in the 6th House, you are not so secure of your own identity that you feel you can maintain your integrity as a slave of the will of others. Out of this fear of submission, you often attempt to control your circumstances and your own actions. You may become obsessed or absorbed in the detail of exerting control and not letting anything get out of your control. Since the world is ever fluid and since so many  circumstances are beyond your control, with Mars in the 6th House, your level of frustration is bound to show  itself through either loss of temper, or scattered, wild or neurotic activity, or further  attempts to obsessively maintain control.

Focus of Desires

As an individual with Mars in the 6th House, you are likely to have a desire, either conscious or subconscious, to achieve perfection. You may therefore experience a constant desire for self-improvement.  Sometimes, this may manifest as never being satisfied with yourself or the level to which you have attained. Thus, you may experience more the frustration than fulfillment. You may also have a desire for health, good working conditions and relations and, generally, to be thought of as a good and competent person.

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Article referenced from:

• Gargatholil, Depth Astrology: An Astrological Handbook – Volume 2: Planets in Signs

• Gargatholil, Depth Astrology: An Astrological Handbook – Volume 3: Planets in Houses

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