Mars in Sagittarius in the Second House

The placement of Mars in Sagittarius indicates that you are likely to have desires that are expansive and may even extend beyond your reach. Your actions are likely to reflect these desires and have a bold and outreaching quality. This often manifests in your having a restlessness of spirit and a desire to take actions that will bring you over the next horizon. Much of the behavior and many of the personality characteristics associated with Mars in Sagittarius are a result of your need for quest and for acting on a stage that is larger than life.

The placement of Mars in Sagittarius is generally harmonious. This is symbolized by the natural trine between Sagittarius and Mars-ruled Aries. Sagittarius is the Mutable Fire sign. The fiery energy associate with Mars symbolically blends harmoniously with the restless and changeable fire of Sagittarius. This enhances the active element associated with Mars, giving it strength and enthusiasm. Action can be taken in either direction – toward the world of ideas or toward the world of the senses. A danger inherent in this placement is that the “wild” nature of the Sagittarian fire could result in you lacking control over your desires and actions.

Mars also symbolizes the animus in the psyche. Thus, if you are male with Mars in Sagittarius, you are likely to model your masculinity in order to incorporate characteristics typically associated with Sagittarius. If you are female, you are likely to be attracted to some1one who projects or embodies Sagittarius-associated traits.

Insecurities

Having Mars in Sagittarius, you have an inner and subconscious awareness that responding to your higher nature will require that you sacrifice your lower nature, your ego. Being insecure within yourself and thoroughly attached to your ego, you are fearful and unwilling to pursue that path. You, therefore, respond to your lower nature and throw yourself into the pursuit of pleasure and enjoyment. With Mars in Sagittarius, fun is the only thing that matters to you but, in reality, “fun” is a mask and a distraction so that you may not have to act to pursue the Real, which beckons you from beyond yourself.

Mars in the 2nd House:

Mars in the 2nd House suggests that your desires and actions are practical and generally aimed at enhancing your physical security and material comfort. With Mars in the 2nd House, you may concentrate your actions on acquiring those things that are desired by you because they are valuable and useful. You may desire a great many possessions because having things may tend to make you feel secure. If this is the case, the first priority in most of your actions may be to establish a level of comfort  and sufficiency.

Having Mars in the 2nd House, an underlying question posed before taking any action may be, how will this affect what I have? Thus, if you are continually seeking to protect yourself from loss or possible want, your actions may become risk adverse so that your actions are for the most part cautious and conservative. With Mars in the 2nd House, when you feel that your physical security or comfort is threatened, however, you may be very willing to take risks or  act aggressively in order to protect your possessions.

As an individual with Mars in the 2nd House, your value system may not be so materialistic, however, and, if this is the case, then your desires for material security will not bind you so much. In fact, given an idealistic set of values, you may be willing to risk much and act with courage to achieve your ideals and actualize your values.

Insecurities

With Mars in the 2nd House, if you are inwardly insecure, you will be subject to all sorts of desires for material comfort and possessions. You justify pursuing these desires as being necessary for your physical well-being and security. In your mind, your wants are transformed into needs.

In this way, as an individual with Mars in the 2nd House, you are always busy in the pursuit of your material desires and you never have to consider what your values are or should be. To do so would be to discover what kind of person you are and to examine yourself threatens your insecure ego. Not only would you risk finding that you may not like who you are, but you might feel morally compelled to change and this might mean sacrificing some of your comfort.

Having Mars in the 2nd House, it is easier to actively and aggressively acquire things. In this, you can be quite insistent and self-willed. You may trample over others, rushing to be the first to draw from the stockpile, being certain that you have yours at whatever the cost.

Focus of Desires

With Mars in the 2nd House, your desires tend to be focused on objects that you wish to possess or,  more generally, on achieving a level of material comfort that makes you feel secure and safe from want. You are likely to desire much, that is, to own much. Having Mars in the 2nd House, you are generally following the values of a consumerist society and your desires are conditioned desires. You may be very much prone to being manipulated by media and advertising into thinking that you need something. It is only when you begin to consider what is truly valuable in life that your desires can begin to change. You can then focus on actualizing the real values that you hold.

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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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