Mars in Capricorn in the Eighth House

The placement of Mars in Capricorn indicates that your desires are likely to be goal oriented and focused on success to a greater extent than is true with most people. Your actions tend to follow your desires, seeking to achieve your goals in the most practical way possible, for you see practicality is the surest route to success. Having Mars in Capricorn, this often manifests as drive and ambition motivating actions that produce results. Much of the behavior and many of the personality characteristics associated with Mars in Capricorn are a result of your need to act in order to achieve your desires and ambitions.

The placement of Mars in Capricorn often produces tension and stress.  This is symbolized by the natural square between Capricorn and Mars-ruled Aries.  However, the tension produced is often constructive, generating energy that is harnessed to produce results. Capricorn is the Cardinal Earth sign. The active earth principle of associated with Capricorn symbolically forces the functions associated with Mars to operate through structure and in practical ways. The will (desire) must be made concrete through action. This may inhibit and stifle the initiative and spontaneity associated with the Mars energy. With Mars in Capricorn, the positive and constructive outcome of restricting the active Mars function is to strengthen it through focus and discipline.

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

Inseguridades

Having Mars in Capricorn, your insecurity is that you do not believe that you are worthy of success and, consequently, your actions are programmed for failure. Yet, there is an inner drive that demands success of you and this only intensifies your insecurity because it engenders a fear of the consequences of your inevitable failure. As an individual with Mars in Capricorn, your ego does not allow you to submit to discipline, which you see as a punishing task-master.  Without discipline, attempts to achieve are without success. Your insecurities and feelings of inferiority may result in “fear of success.” At any rate, you seem to be blocked at every turn. Self-doubt caused by past failures creates a self-perpetuating cycle of failure in which you are trapped. Alternatively, with Mars in Capricorn, you may use your ambition and drive to cover deeper insecurities, overcompensating by your always acting to achieve your ambitions no matter what the cost. This may produce outward “success,” but inward failure and it does not resolve your inner insecurities.

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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