Mars in Virgo in the First House

The placement of Mars in Virgo indicates that you have a need for your actions to be perfect. This often manifests itself as a particularization of action. By focusing on small details or by breaking action down into manageable events and then organizing your course of action, you may feel that can control your actions and improve your chances of approximating perfection. This desire for your actions to be seen as correct tends to lead you to internally limit your desires to what is “proper.” This may save you from “wrong” actions. Much of the behavior and many of the personality characteristics associated with Mars in Virgo are a result of your striving for perfection in your actions and desires.

The placement of Mars in Virgo may be complex or ambivalent, as symbolized by the natural quincunx between Virgo and Mars-ruled Aries. Virgo is the Mutable Earth sign. The fine-grained earth of Virgo symbolically forces the Mars energy to be restrained and disciplined, flowing only through circumscribed channels. If the active and self-assertive nature associated with Mars does not chafe at the restriction associated with the Virgo qualities, its energy (and your desires and actions) will be refined, contributing toward your quest for perfection.

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

Insecurities

As an individual with Mars in Virgo, because you are insecure within your inner self, you feel burdened with the ideal of perfection and you feel that you can do nothing right. Your ego knows, however, that if ever Real Perfection is attained, that is its death. So, in fretting about imperfection (in reality, avoiding the quest for the Real Perfection), you may waste your time trying to perfect what is good enough or fix what is unfixable. Or, faced with an internal demand for perfect order, you may revolt, give up trying to attain the ideal and exist in a state of disorder and chaos.

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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