Mars in Taurus in the First House

The placement of Mars in Taurus indicates that you have a need to feel that your actions result in your physical and material security. This need generally creates a desire for comfort and sufficiency within you, which you then act to pursue.  Your mode of action itself is that which is best designed to fulfill your needs – steady, conservative, enduring. Much of the behavior and many of the personality characteristics associated with Mars in Taurus are a result of your need for your actions to promote security and enduringness, usually by determinedly acquiring what you need for your comfort and security.

The placement of Mars in Taurus is somewhat indifferent. This is symbolized by the natural semi-sextile between Taurus and Mars-ruled Aries and the natural opposition between Taurus and Scorpio, which was formerly considered to be ruled by Mars. Taurus is the Fixed Earth sign. The active, fiery energy associated with Mars symbolically meets resistance from the fixed earth of Taurus. Meeting this resistance can either strengthen or block your productive use of the Mars energy.

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

Insecurities

With Mars in Taurus, your sense of inferiority and self-doubt have convinced you that you are not worthy to possess the “good things of life.” Therefore, your efforts are really half-hearted and timid. However, there is another part of you – your ego – that expects your desires to be fulfilled and all the comforts of life to come to you.  Having Mars in Taurus, when you find the easier paths to the fulfillment of your desires to be blocked, you give up the path of action for despair and sloth. Alternatively, you meanly use your natural strength to take what you want by force whenever the opportunity presents itself.

Mars in the 1st House:

Mars rules the 1st House and, thus, Mars in the 1st House suggests that you have a strong desire/action function. With Mars in the 1st House, if you have a confident sense of self and a clear identity, then your desires are likely to be expressed through that identity and you are likely to take assertive action in order to fulfill your desires.

As an individual with Mars in the 1st House, desire and action also may help to shape your identity. What you desire may be reflected in your self-image and the actions that you take in response to these desires may define your identity, both to yourself and to others.

With Mars in the 1st House, you are generally not shy about acting on your own behalf or asserting your own desires and wishes. The self-confidence that you project through your actions often leads to respect and admiration from others. You may particularly be seen as an individual of action.

Having Mars in the 1st House, it may be easy for you to act and pursue your desires, because you tend to do so from a standpoint of innocence or naiveté – that is, secondary considerations or inhibitions that may result from your contemplating the effect your actions may have on others tend not to occur. Thus, you may take and express much freedom of action.

Insecurities

As an individual with Mars in the 1st House, if you are inwardly insecure, you will not know your authentic self. You are, therefore, constantly proving your identity by asserting yourself and your personality, especially through your actions. With Mars in the 1st House, you have no control over your desires, but you feel a right to pursue whatever you want without consideration for others.

Having Mars in the 1st House, if you are not taking action, particularly if you are not asserting yourself in some way, you are likely to feel vulnerable and empty. Others may consider you to be pushy or too aggressive, or even anti-social in your behavior. However, you consider that such behavior establishes your identity and gains you the respect of others.

Focus of Desires

With Mars in the 1st House, your desires are likely to be highly personal. At times, it may appear – or be the case – that your desires are self-centered. Your desires are likely to strongly reflect your own self-identity. This is so because, with Mars in the 1st House, the focus of your desires is to establish your identity and have a strong presence. For some, this focus becomes a desire to know yourself.

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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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