Mars is known as the planet of war and its position in your natal chart is indicative of your more volatile characteristics. It reflects your ambitiousness and approach to pursuing goals, how you assert and defend yourself, and also your primal sexuality.
If you are born under Mars in Aries, you are incredibly ambitious and determined to win in life. But you are not focussed or selective in your ambitions; you feel like you need to win at everything. Your approach is generally to throw all of your energy at something, rather than coming up with a progressive plan.
You take a similar approach when it comes to asserting yourself. When it comes to fight or flight you always choose fight and try and overcome things with brute force. Sexually you are very passionate and can lack self-control.
Mars Transit & Retrograde Through Aries
While the position of Mars in our natal chart affects us on an individual level, the planet’s continual transit through the signs impacts us all as it influences our fiery energies. It takes six to seven weeks to transit through each sign.
When Mars transits through Aries, we often find ourselves feeling uncharacteristically competitive. Envy or opportunity might put some highly ambitious winds in our sails that make us want to win at all costs. We feel very energetic at this time as well, and have no problem giving our all to get what we want.
Thankfully, Mars does not retrograde through Aries, as the planet only retrogrades every two years. It last retrograded through Aries in late 2020 and will not do so again for the next ten years.
Whenever Mars retrogrades, we tend to feel like our energy is highly diminished. When this is combined with the energy of Aries, we often find ourselves uncertain exactly what we want and feeling listless and directionless.
Mars in Aries Ambition
When you are born under Mars in Aries you are highly competitive and have an innate need to be the best at everything. Your approach to winning is to throw as much energy at something as you can and try and overcome by pure force.
While you probably have a few big, personal ambitions in your life, you want to win at everything. You are working towards that big career and training for triathlons, but you also need to beat your friends at mini-golf and Pictionary, and need to win the attention of the most attractive person in the room, even when you aren’t really interested in them.
For you, there isn’t really any point in doing something unless you plan to win at it, and you find it difficult to accept that everyone has strengths and weaknesses, you want to be strong at everything.
While you certainly don’t always win, you tend to do well because you have a lot of energy and focus, so you can throw more at challenges than a lot of other people. Your biggest challenge is that you can spread yourself too thin as you never like to give up.
Mars in Aries Assertiveness
People born under Mars in Aries are very assertive. You prioritize what you want, without every trying to balance it with the needs and desires of others. You tell people how things are going to be and expect them to fall in line behind you.
Your strength or personality make you a natural leader and often people do fall in behind you. But when you don’t get your own way, your default response is anger, and it is not uncharacteristic for you to throw a little bit if a temper tantrum.
When someone crosses you, you don’t have the ability to just cut them out of your life. You need to prove that you were right, and they were wrong, and get them to admit it.
Mars in Aries Sexuality
Mars in Aries in your natal chart means that you have a lot of intense sexual energy. When you are feeling it, it is palpable and the people around you are aware. This is why it is rarely a secret when you are interested in someone.
You tend to pursue people directly and aggressively, telling them exactly how you feel and what they want and being very present until you get the response that you are looking for, and responding a little angrily when you are rejected.
You take the same approach in the bedroom, and are interested in getting down to pleasure without the trappings or seduction and foreplay. While you are very concerned with your own pleasure, you also need to be seen as a good lover, so you put the effort in to please.
Mars in Aries Compatibility
When you are born under Mars in Aries, you need someone whose intensity and vibrancy for live matches your own. This means that you are often most compatible with the other fire signs, Mars in Leo and Mars in Sagittarius.
While Mars in Libra or Gemini are a little more grounded, they can balance you out nicely, and they are often happy to let you take the controlling role that you crave.
Mars in Aries Personality Traits
When you are born with Mars in Aries you are naturally high energy, which is why you are able to do so much. You are very impulsive and tend to live for the moment rather than the long-term. Your natural confidence means that you manage to bounce back from most situations as you know that you are capable of more.
Energetic
When you are born under Mars in Aries, you tend to have naturally high energy levels. This allows you to pursue your varied interest in life and always turn up and give it your all. You often choose to burn the candle at both ends to get things done, and to deal with your restless energy.
You never feel tired, or at least this is what you tell yourself. Your challenge is that when you feel tired this often manifests as restlessness, so you don’t recognize the need to stop and recuperate. For this reason, you can be the type of person who suffers from burnout if you aren’t careful.
Impulsive
You usually find yourself driven by what you want now, rather than making long-term plans. Impulsive is a good word to describe you. While this is beautiful in some ways, as you have a magnificent ability to be present and live in the moment, it can also be self-sabotaging.
When you are always making decisions based on current needs, you aren’t considering what your future self might want. You might also have a tendency to over-estimate your future self and assume that they can do the miraculous.
You want that incredible and illustrious pad in the future, but you also want that new leather jacket today. You assume that your future self will be so successful that the indulgence now won’t matter. But it can all add up. You need to find a way to bring your future desires more into the present.
Confident
You don’t lack confidence and tend to believe that you can do anything that you put your mind to. If you don’t succeed at something, it is always a matter of not succeeding yet. You know that with a bit more time, effort, and determination, you can get there.
This gives you a fantastic optimism, and also balances your competitive streak. While you don’t like to lose, you don’t tend to be a sore loser, as your mind is already on what you will do differently to come out on top next time. Though if you think the judgement was unfair, you’ll probably get angry.
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