Mars in Aquarius in the Eighth House

The placement of Mars in Aquarius indicates a strong desire for change and, at a deeper level, for individuation. Your actions, therefore, tend to express your individuality. Change is, for the most part, a manifestation of your desire for freedom from the constraints of stability. With Mars in Aquarius, the change/freedom urge often manifests itself in you as your actions taking unconventional forms or otherwise contravening the staid and conventional. Much of the behavior and many of the personality characteristics associated with Mars in Aquarius are a result of your need for individual freedom and, particularly, the need to act to distinguish yourself from the common mass.

The placement of Mars in Aquarius is generally conducive to the positive development of those functions associated with Mars. This is symbolized by the natural sextile between Aquarius and Mars-ruled Aries. Aquarius is the Fixed Air sign. Like a wind (air irresistibly in motion), Aquarius symbolically sweeps the Mars functions along a path of constant change, thus always providing new opportunities for action to find expression. With Mars in Aquarius, Air provides freedom for the Mars functions to act in new ways, while the fixity of Aquarius provides the strength to act with effectiveness. The danger inherent in this placement, as in anything, is imbalance – getting carried away in a storm of change.

Mars also symbolizes the animus in the psyche. Thus, if you are male with Mars in Aquarius, you are likely to model your masculinity in order to incorporate characteristics typically associated with Aquarius. You are likely to associate masculinity with individuality.  If you are female, you are likely to be attracted to someone who projects or embodies Aquarius-associated traits. This sometimes may result in your being attracted to someone who expresses himself unconventionally or with originality or who is an individualist.

Inseguridades

As an individual with Mars in Aquarius, your being set apart by your desires and actions, is the overt reason for your insecurity, although the real underlying cause of your insecurity is your subconscious knowledge that your desires and actions are not the expressions of your real identity. Your insecurity about your identity may also lead you to feel a compulsion to assert your individual identity against the conventionality of the masses.  This may manifest as outrageously unconventional behavior or as insistence, through the expression of your will, that “I am right and I know best.”

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 relación 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.

Inseguridades

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.

Enfoque de los deseos

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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Artículo referenciado de:

• Gargatholil, Astrología Profunda: An Astrological Handbook - Volume 2: Planets in Signs

• Gargatholil, Astrología Profunda: An Astrological Handbook - Volume 3: Planets in Houses

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