Mars in Sagittarius in the Eighth 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 8th House:

Mars in the 8th House is generally well-placed. This view, however, seems to be greatly influenced by Mars’ association with desire and sexuality. The 8th House is traditionally the house of sexuality and Mars’ placement here suggests a masculine sexuality that is “in its element.” Following this line of thought suggests that you are generally able to intimately express your sexuality.

Another dynamic that is suggested by Mars in the 8th House is the enhancement of your ability to act through the power that comes from intensity and focus. This is a power that generally comes from within you and allows you to act with force and confidence. It is your intimate involvement with your actions and with the thing or situation acted upon that is the source of this power in action.  Having Mars in the 8th House, you, generally, are not afraid to act. You know, often intuitively, both the appropriate form and the ultimate consequence of your actions. Your actions may, therefore, appear to others to be strong, powerful and fearless. This often inspires trust and respect. The outcome of this is often that you are placed in a position where you can lead or manage others.  With Mars in the 8th House, the intimacy that you wish to experience through your actions is often viewed by you in terms of control. If you can control through your actions, then you can enforce an intimate relationship with the object of control. This desire for control sometimes becomes an obsession. It may extend to all of your actions, from a desire to have power over others, to a desire to maintain control over your own actions, to a will to dominate your sexual partner.  As an individual with Mars in the 8th House, sometimes this desire for control can have an inhibiting effect on your active function. You become retentive and may have difficulty acting. You may wish only to act in secret so as to protect your “power.” The polarity of this is the urge to liberate the power of action that resides within you.

Insecurities

Having Mars in the 8th House, if you are inwardly insecure, this will lead you to crave intimacy but you find none that you can obtain. In actuality, your ego will always stand in the way of experiencing intimacy but you are not willing to give up your ego. Instead, you are determined to be master of the “other,” whether this “other” is your partner, your associates or the situation in which you find yourself. With Mars in the 8th House, you cannot let go because, in your eyes, this would mean losing control. Therefore, all of your actions are bent upon securing and maintaining control. In this way, you seek to tie others to yourself.

As an individual with Mars in the 8th House, if you cannot control a situation, then you may react with one of two polar responses. You may lash out violently, desperately trying to enforce the intimacy of your control. Or, you may withdraw into your own intimacy, where you can be assured of “control” and where you can brood over the wrongs that have been done to you and plot your revenge.

Focus of Desires

With Mars in the 8th House, your desires are generally bound up with seeking intimacy or control.  This may manifest as a desire for sexual intimacy or for power. For some individual with Mars in the 8th House, this desire for power may be expressed through the occult. For some, the desire for intimacy may be focused on that experience of ultimate intimacy with life and death.  Your desires are likely to be private and to remain private. You may consider them to be too intimate to share, even with those closest to you – or, certainly, only with those closest to you.

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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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