Aspects
Descendant Sextile Mars
You have a ready, workable energy between your drive and your partnerships. Mars A friendly, opportunity-shaped aspect between planets about 60 degrees apart. It offers help you have to reach for rather than receive automatically. your The point directly opposite the Ascendant, on the western horizon. It describes partnership, others, and what you seek in relationship. offers an approachable passion and a capacity to act on attraction, available whenever you choose to engage it. Unlike the A flowing, supportive aspect between planets about 120 degrees apart, usually in the same element. Things come easily here, sometimes too easily to notice.'s effortless spark, this one rewards initiative: the people who actively pursue connection and bring vigor to a bond get the most from it. You engage others with healthy directness and a willingness to go after what you want. The lifelong opportunity is to keep reaching through that open door, turning a natural readiness to pursue into a passionate, courageously engaged partnership.
Lean in — Actively pursue connection and bring vigor to your bonds.
Watch for — Assume a passion this available will deepen without effort.
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- descendant
- sextile
- opportunity
Sources
- Hand, Horoscope Symbols (1981)Reads the natal Mars's sextile 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 sextile 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.