Aspects
Ceres Sextile Mars
There is a usable opening between your drive and your nurturing nature, one that rewards initiative. When you choose to put your energy behind caring, action and nurture cooperate, making you genuinely effective at providing for and protecting the people who matter to you. It is a door you have to push, not a current that carries you. But step up and do the concrete things care requires, and you find your drive and your nurturing instinct reinforce each other, so that showing up to handle what loved ones need becomes one of the most satisfying ways you spend your energy.
Lean in — Step up and do the concrete things your care requires.
Watch for — Wait to feel moved instead of acting on what loved ones need.
- active-care
- opportunity
- provider
Sources
- George, Asteroid Goddesses (1986)Gives Ceres's principle of nurture, sustenance, and loss-and-return as it meets the Mars.
- Hand, Horoscope Symbols (1981)Frames the Ceres-Mars aspect as an inner dynamic of the chart.
- Forrest, The Inner Sky (1984)Reads the Ceres-Mars contact in evolutionary, growth-oriented terms.