Aspects
Amor Square Mars
Your assertiveness and your capacity for unconditional love keep colliding. You may struggle to stand up for yourself because it feels unkind, let compassion blunt your drive until you are walked over, or swing into frustrated aggression when the over-giving finally breaks. Drive and love get crossed, so the strength meant to protect you instead dissolves into accommodation. This square does not want passivity, it wants conscious action: to assert your own needs as compassionately legitimate, to let love have a backbone, and to protect yourself without closing your heart, until strength and compassion stop grinding and start backing each other.
Lean in — Assert your own needs as compassionately legitimate too.
Watch for — Let compassion blunt your drive until you are walked over.
- drive-vs-compassion
- self-suppression
- integration
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.