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Since the planet Mars has an orbit that lies beyond that of the Earth, it follows that, unlike
Mercury and Venus, it can form all possible aspects with the Sun.
The aspects formed by planets with the Sun are not as a rule susceptible of such detailed
treatment as those formed between two planets, despite their great importance. This is due to the
fact that the astrological value of the Sun is of a simple or primal character, whereas the planets
possess values of varying complexity, so that their mutual aspects produce a more intricate blend
than can arise from contacts between the Sun and any one planet.
In the case of the Sun-Mars aspects the problem is the more simple because Mars itself is
not at all dissimilar to the Sun, although it is more aggressive, less affectional, and more directly
practical.
pugnacious and brawn-producing influences that they are sometimes supposed to be: in their
highest manifestation they signify the true hero, or man who fights, as it were, in the front ranks of
mankind for the welfare of the race, a modern Hercules, in the ideal sense of the myth.
Note that even the Harmonious contacts usually bring some of the effects more often
ascribed to the Inharmonious, especially if either body is weak by sign or by other aspects. But
these are likely to fall short of actual harm and may be rather of the nature of narrow escapes. For
example, Lord Roberts was in the utmost danger when he won his Victoria Cross.
THE CONJUNCTION
I do not think that this can be differentiated from the Trine and Sextile, except that it usually
denotes some danger of physical injury or disease usually the former. It is tremendously hardworking, and may toil on the verge of break-down year after year. On the whole it is beneficial,
unless the Conjunction itself receives other important bad aspects; but it will bring some of the
deleterious effects of the bad aspects into the life.
Politics, military exploits, boating, sporting, and debating are all common pursuits.
These afflictions (especially the Square) are common in criminal maps and probably lead to
evil courses by their imprudent, hasty tendency and their lack of restraining imagination; I do not
consider the contacts in themselves actually immoral or even cruel, but they do not promote the
cultivation of the finer feelings, because of their restlessness and objectivism.
There is less probability of disease, I think, than of accidents and strain through over-work. I
know a man with Sun Square Mars who has never missed a days work in his life, though he has
had several serious strains and is not strong. Nevertheless there seems good evidence that
a closeOpposition of the Sun to Mars is decidedly injurious to health. The heart may be affected,
but not necessarily gravely. Such complaints as may arise are usually acute, painful, but not
prolonged.
The children of the native seem as a rule to be few and they are likely to be of a Martian type
in some respect (*) and to be liable to febrile complaints and accidents. This is particularly true of
the first male child. With all Soli-Martian aspects there is a tendency for the father, husband, and
eldest child to exhibit Martian qualities to a greater of less degree.
(*)Although these family influences are not easily reduced to rule they are marked in many
cases and are very interesting. From the point of view of the nativity the family is merely one of the
channels through which the effects of the planetary influences make their way to the native. It is
hardly a question of heredity except in the sense that our map is our heritage. The use of the word
may lead to serious misconceptions, as is usually the case when we apply the terms of physical
science to astrological facts. A boy with the Sun in aspect to Mars is just as likely to meet the effects
of this aspect in a master as in a parent or elder brother. Astrological heredity, if there be such a
thing, is something much wider than any eugenist conceives. It overlaps physical bounds.
As an example of the above statement take King Georg V. with Sun in aspect to Mars. His
father had Sun in Scorpio and his eldest son has Mars rising in its own sign.