Aspects
Descendant Conjunction Mars
You meet others through desire and contest. With Mars on your Descendant, the seventh-house axis of partnership, your drive, passion, and fighting spirit are poured into one-to-one relationship, and you are drawn to forceful, dynamic partners and to attractions that carry a charge of challenge. Relationship, for you, is energized, passionate, sometimes combative; you pursue what you want and you fight for, and sometimes with, the people closest to you. The gift is courage in love, sexual fire, and the drive to go after a bond. The shadow is conflict-prone relationships, provoking or attracting domineering partners, or turning intimacy into a battleground. The lifelong work is to bring your fire to partnership as passion and honest engagement rather than as a war.
Lean in — Bring your fire to partnership as passion and honest engagement.
Watch for — Turn intimacy into a battleground or attract a domineering partner.
- mars
- descendant
- conjunction
- partnership
Sources
- Hand, Horoscope Symbols (1981)Reads the natal Mars's conjunction to the Descendant as a defining statement about how drive and desire meet partnership, desire, and the committed other.
- Forrest, The Inner Sky (1984)Gives the modern natal reading of Mars's conjunction to the Descendant as a core feature of the birth chart's drive.
- Sasportas, The Twelve Houses (1985)Sasportas's study of the houses grounds the Descendant as the seventh-house axis of partnership and the committed other.