Mars in Scorpio in the Fourth House

The placement of Mars in Scorpio indicates that you are likely to have desires that spring from a need for power or intimacy and that your actions are likely to be influenced by your intense emotional drives. This often manifests in your actions having an intensity that is the result of focused emotional energy. Others may, therefore, see you as powerful or aggressive. Much of the behavior and many of the personality characteristics associated with Mars in Scorpio are a result of your deep need for emotional security that is brought about through intimacy  or feeling that you are in control of your actions and desires.

Although Scorpio was formerly considered to be ruled by Mars, the Mars in Scorpio placement has its ambiguities. This is symbolized by the natural quincunx between Scorpio and Mars-ruled Aries. Scorpio is the Fixed Water sign. The active functions associated with Mars symbolically tap into the source of power inherent in Scorpio’s watery depths. The Mars-Scorpio relationship may be likened to that of fire and water in a boiler. What is produced is high-pressured steam and energy. When there is a controlled and constructive outlet for this energy, it is a powerful source  of work. If the energy is blocked, suppressed and bottled up with no outlet, it becomes destructively explosive. Scorpio’s association with sexuality through the intense duality inherent in Pluto, its ruling planet, tends to heighten the sexual dimension associated with Mars.

Mars also symbolizes the animus in the psyche. Thus, if you are male with Mars in Scorpio, you are likely to model your masculinity in order to incorporate characteristics typically associated with Scorpio. As alluded to above, this often is associated with an identification of masculinity with sexuality and often, the Scorpio Mars male must struggle to rise above this tendency or to overcome or control intense sexual impulses. If you are female, you are likely to be attracted to someone who projects or embodies Scorpio-associated traits. This often manifests as an attraction to powerful, magnetic or sexually vibrant men.

Insecurities

Having Mars in Scorpio, because you are inwardly insecure, you are always seeking power in order to validate your selfhood and attain a feeling of security. If you attain power, you mistake the power that you feel as being personal and yours, rather than recognizing the truth that all power is from the One Source and is only lent to us for our use. Because you have a need to prove your superiority to yourself, you use this power to dominate others. Pure lust for power is a symptom of your inner feeling of powerlessness.  With Mars in Scorpio, you may also fear being controlled and so, in defense, seek to act to control others. On the other hand, if you are extremely insecure, you may shrink from asserting power either out of fear of the consequences should you misuse that power or out of fear that your use of power may prompt someone with greater power to exercise it against you.

Mars in the 4th House:

Mars in the 4th House may be seen as a difficult placement, given that Mars is placed in the house that is squared to the house that it rules (the 1st House). The active energy symbolized by Mars may have difficulty expressing itself outwardly when its natural focus in the 4th House is toward what is gathered in and rooted in place. Thus, the active function symbolized by Mars is often seen as weak when placed in the 4th House.

On the other hand, having Mars in the 4th House, if your energy comes from your roots, it may be exceptionally strong and powerful. You gain confidence from having a firm foundation and knowing exactly what you want. Your desires are born of deep well-springs and motivate you to take strong and consistent action. With Mars in the 4th House, you may also be content with acting within the more limited scope symbolized by the 4th House. In this case, you may be a strong actor within your zone of comfort or in matters that are close to your roots, but appear uninterested or ineffective outside of that focus.

Having Mars in the 4th House, the active energy symbolized by Mars may be focused on protecting you and those that are close to you. If you have a strong drive and will to act, you may become frustrated by the rather limited scope of the field within which you are allowed to act. As an individual with Mars in the 4th House, you may also feel limited if your role is to be a caretaker for others. You may feel that all of your energy is taken for doing for others and that there is nothing left to devote to doing for yourself. You may also feel a heavy weight of burden and responsibility in caring for others, particularly family members.

Another manifestation of Mars in the 4th House is that your actions may be conditioned by your upbringing or by preexisting events. Your emotional responses may have played a role in this conditioning. You may also face the issue of how to free your actions from your conditioning and also of acting independently from family expectations. With Mars in the 4th House, resolving these issues generally involves finding yourself and determining what you really desire and then taking action in order to actualize your desires.

Insecurities

With Mars in the 4th House, if you are inwardly insecure, you will wish to act and make an impression on the world; you will wish to obtain the objects of your desire, but you feel held back by both internal and external factors. In truth, you lack the courage to go beyond your “safe” boundaries to take action and obtain your desires. Thus, you are prone to sulking or to feeling that you are weak and must be protected. You are content to travel along well-worn paths of action and routine but you yearn to break out and assert yourself. Having Mars in the 4th House, you may seek to overcompensate by dominating your own private and domestic world. You may become very demanding and assertive with your family or with those who are under your care.

Often, and particularly if you feel threatened, you will react emotionally. As an individual with Mars in the 4th House, this pattern of conditioned reaction may particularly affect your family dynamics. You may also become the dependent one within a family situation in order to obtain  your desires and get others to care for you.

Focus of Desire

With Mars in the 4th House, your desires are likely to be somewhat limited in scope, but focused on matters of family and home life. It is common for you to desire emotional closeness, especially from family members. For women, desires may be expressed through mothering. Also, Mars in the 4th House may indicate that your desires have been conditioned by your mother and/or family. You may also have a great desire for stability and for rootedness. You may also desire to get to the bottom of things and/or to explore your background, heritage or subconscious.

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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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