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Mars Square Uranus

The square between Mars and Uranus makes independence expensive: the native reacts against constraint faster than they can judge it, and rebuilds a life several times before learning to aim the refusal.

Two demands sit at right angles and both are genuine. Mars wants to push against something solid; Uranus wants nothing solid to push against. The result is a person who takes on commitments in good faith and then experiences them, quite physically, as restraint. The crisis usually arrives about eighteen months into anything: the job, the lease, the marriage. Nothing has gone wrong, which is what makes it hard to explain to the other party and hard to justify to oneself.

Provocation is the reliable symptom. This native argues with the parking attendant, the union, the doctrine and the form, and the argument is often correct and always badly timed. Speed is high and patience is low, so accidents happen in traffic, in workshops and in conversation, all from the same cause: the move made half a second before the information arrived. Employers who insist on hierarchy get an efficient enemy. Employers who set an objective and then leave the room get remarkable work.

The development this square offers is discrimination, and it is bought with wreckage. Somewhere around the middle thirties the native notices that they have been fighting constraint as a category rather than any particular constraint, and that some of the structures they destroyed were the ones holding the interesting work up. After that the refusals get fewer and far more effective. Nothing removes the underlying restlessness. What changes is that the native starts choosing which cage to open, instead of opening whichever is nearest.

What It Gives

  • ◆refusal to be quietly managed
  • ◆original work under loose supervision
  • ◆courage in unpopular positions
  • ◆hard-earned aim in rebellion

What It Costs

  • ◆commitments broken at eighteen months
  • ◆arguments correct and badly timed
  • ◆useful structures destroyed indiscriminately

This is one line of a whole chart. The rest of it — every placement, house and aspect at once — is a birth date away.

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