Mars and Ascendant in Your Birth Chart

Conjunction: Mars and Ascendant

This aspect indicates that you're a fairly independent person who wants control over your own life. In many situations, you'd rather take the lead—and the responsibility that comes with it—than simply follow instructions or watch from the sidelines.

Warlike Mars is behind your occasional bursts of anger, even when nothing has happened to provoke them. But when the pressure is on and the situation calls for it, you can put in an astonishing amount of work and pull off a victory where someone else would have given up long ago.

Harmonious aspects: Mars and Ascendant

This aspect allows you to show courage, independence, and confidence in your abilities in many situations—sometimes even a little too much confidence. You don't just hold convictions; you're prepared to defend them when necessary. Honor and ideals mean something to you. Other people's opinions, on the other hand, interest you little. You follow your own path without giving much deference to authority figures.

Athletic Mars encourages you to be physically active and draws you toward energetic people, so it's no surprise that you have plenty of them among your friends. Your own reserves of energy and vitality are far greater than the average person's, and you know it—or at least suspect it.

Challenging aspects: Mars and Ascendant

Under this aspect's influence, you can sometimes be domineering and selfish, wanting to control everything and everyone. You need to learn to cooperate with other people and compromise.

Even if you're usually calm and seek harmony with others and within yourself, warlike Mars sometimes gets the upper hand. It makes you intensely emotional and impulsive, sparking outbursts of anger or other displays of your fiery temperament.

On the other hand, those very qualities of Mars can help you get good results when you have to compete, make tough decisions that carry real responsibility, prove your ability, and defend your independence.