The placement of Mars in Scorpio indicates a strong desire for power and intimacy, which influences your actions and drives. Your intense emotional energy gives your actions intensity and makes you appear powerful or aggressive to others. This intensity is a result of your deep need for emotional security and control over your actions and desires.
Traditionally, Scorpio was ruled by Mars, but the Mars in Scorpio placement has its complexities. There is a natural quincunx between Scorpio and Mars-ruled Aries, symbolizing the ambiguity of this placement. Scorpio, being a Fixed Water sign, taps into the power of Mars in a symbolic way. It’s like fire and water in a boiler, producing high-pressure steam and energy. When this energy has a controlled outlet, it becomes a powerful source of work. However, if it is blocked and suppressed, it can become explosively destructive.
Scorpio’s association with sexuality, through the intense duality of its ruling planet Pluto, amplifies the sexual aspect of Mars. For males with Mars in Scorpio, there is a tendency to associate masculinity with sexuality, and they may struggle to overcome or control intense sexual impulses. Females with this placement might be attracted to powerful and sexually vibrant men who embody Scorpio-associated traits.
Insecurities
Having Mars in Scorpio, your inward insecurities drive you to seek power to validate your self-worth and achieve a sense of security. However, you may mistake the power you attain as personal rather than recognizing it as a temporary manifestation from a higher source. Your need to prove superiority may lead you to dominate others, as pure lust for power is often a symptom of feeling powerless internally. On the other hand, extreme insecurity can make you shrink from asserting power out of fear of consequences or the potential misuse of that power.
Mars in the 12th House:
The Mars in the 12th House placement is often seen as challenging, especially for males, as it combines the assertive nature of Mars with the inward focus of the 12th House. This blending of energies requires a high level of consciousness, care, and discipline. In a more positive light, this placement indicates a desire for hidden knowledge or the dissolution and transcendence of the ego, with actions taken to achieve these ends.
Mars in the 12th House also suggests an impulse towards compassion and sensitivity. These qualities may shape your actions and desires in a spiritual direction, and you may be attracted to the subtler arts, such as music. However, without discipline and boundaries, the dissolution and boundarilessness associated with the 12th House can lead to negative tendencies. Deception, escapism, and self-destruction may infiltrate your motivations and actions.
Insecurities
With Mars in the 12th House, your attraction to the unknown and lack of boundaries can make you fearful. Without clear boundaries, it becomes challenging to impose discipline on your actions and desires, which may result in hesitation to act. The “unknown” that frightens you is the Unconscious, which threatens to swallow and destroy your conscious ego.
To defend against these fears, you may lead a very conventional life, ignoring the unknown and failing to address it. However, this leaves you vulnerable to its intrusion in the form of sorrows, illness, and deception. These are calls from your subconscious, urging you to pay attention to your inner self. Another defense mechanism is to define your desires and actions within the realm of the 12th House, but this can lead to self-destructive behaviors and a double life filled with addiction, deception, and dependency.
Focus of Desires
As an individual with Mars in the 12th House, your desires tend to be inward and focused on immaterial or hidden things. You are likely to have little attraction to material objects and instead desire the universal. Your motivations may be unclear or deceptive, and you may crave what is hidden or forbidden.
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Article referenced from:
- Gargatholil, Depth Astrology: An Astrological Handbook – Volume 2: Planets in Signs
- Gargatholil, Depth Astrology: An Astrological Handbook – Volume 3: Planets in Houses
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