Aspects
Descendant Septile Mars
There is a fated, faintly numinous quality to the desire in your relationships. Mars septile your Descendant is a seventh-harmonic contact, the harmonic of the uncanny and the destined, so your attractions and conflicts in love can carry a sense of being compelled by something larger than ordinary want, a passion or a clash that arrives feeling oddly inevitable. The pull toward a particular person, or into a particular battle, can feel fated and hard to resist. This is powerful and at times unsettling, since it places your relational drive partly outside your control. The lifelong work is to meet the fated thread in your desire with awareness and maturity, acting on the compelling pull deliberately rather than being driven by it.
Lean in — Act on a fated desire deliberately rather than being driven by it.
Watch for — Be ruled by a compelling pull toward a person or a battle.
- mars
- descendant
- septile
- fate
Sources
- Hand, Horoscope Symbols (1981)Reads the natal Mars's septile 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 septile 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.