Aspects
Amor Opposition Mars
Your urge to assert yourself and your urge to love unconditionally sit across from each other, and the friction often comes through others, the aggressive and the gentle who pull the two ways out of you. You may suppress your drive because asserting feels unkind, or push hard and then feel you have betrayed your compassion, swinging between aggression and over-accommodation. The resolution is balance, not choice: let your compassion soften your assertion and your drive give your love some backbone, so strength and tenderness face each other and combine, letting you stand up for yourself and others without losing your gentleness.
Lean in — Let drive give your love backbone and compassion soften the drive.
Watch for — Suppress your drive because asserting feels unloving.
- drive-vs-compassion
- over-accommodation
- balancing
Sources
- George, Asteroid Goddesses (1986)Treats Amor among the additional asteroids, its principle of unconditional, compassionate love as it meets the Mars.
- Hand, Horoscope Symbols (1981)Frames the Amor-Mars aspect as an inner dynamic of the chart.
- Forrest, The Inner Sky (1984)Reads the Amor-Mars contact in evolutionary, growth-oriented terms.