Aspect

☽︎

Moon Conjunct Mars

Feeling and action are welded together, so that emotion becomes movement before it becomes thought, and the native has usually done something about it before knowing what was felt.

There is no gap between the impulse and the deed. A slight is answered while it is still being delivered, hunger is fed the moment it is noticed, and a person in trouble is defended before anyone has established the facts. Natives with this contact are physically quick, sleep lightly, and wake in a definite mood that the household learns to read from the sound of the kettle. They are excellent in an emergency and poor at waiting rooms. Nothing about their state of mind is ever concealed for long.

The cost is that the reaction arrives with the full authority of a conclusion. Domestic life carries a permanent low charge; small provocations, a misplaced key, a tone of voice, produce a response out of proportion to the cause and entirely proportionate to the accumulated week. Apologies are prompt and sincere and do not prevent the next occurrence. Women in the family are often figures of contest rather than refuge, and the native's own protectiveness has a fighting quality that those being protected do not always want.

Handled well, this is one of the most useful contacts a person can carry. The native who takes up work with real physical demand, or care of the sick, or anything requiring immediate courage in the presence of distress, discovers the temper was only unspent capacity. What must be learned is the two-second delay, and it is learned late, generally by counting the wreckage. Those who never learn it spend the whole life defending a position nobody was attacking.

What It Gives

  • ◆immediate courage under distress
  • ◆instinctive defence of dependents
  • ◆nothing suppressed or hidden
  • ◆great physical stamina

What It Costs

  • ◆reaction outrunning judgement
  • ◆domestic friction over trifles
  • ◆protectiveness experienced as aggression

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

Cast Your Birth Chart

Read Next

Moon Conjunct Mercury

Feeling and speech share one channel in this conjunction, so the native thinks in moods and says what they feel almost simultaneously, having no interval in which to reconsider.

Moon Sextile Mercury

The sextile between the Moon and Mercury makes it possible for the native to say what they actually feel, accurately and without drama, whenever they are willing to attempt it.

Moon Square Mercury

Squared, the Moon and Mercury argue with each other inside one head: the mind wants an account of the feeling and the feeling refuses to give one that stays still.

Moon Trine Mercury

Words come to feelings without effort under this trine, giving an easy fluency in ordinary human matters that the native assumes is common and therefore never refines.

Sun Conjunct Moon

Born at the new moon, the native's will and instinct point the same way, which makes for uncommon singleness of purpose and an almost total blindness to how they appear to others.

Sun Conjunct Mercury

Mercury never leaves the Sun's side, so the conjunction is the commonest aspect in astrology: thought and identity fused, giving a mind that speaks for the whole person and cannot stand outside it.