Aspects
Mars Conjunction Vesta
Your drive and your devotion are fused, giving you a will that can lock onto a single aim and pour every ounce of energy into it. There is something of the warrior-monk in you, action consecrated to a cause, desire disciplined into purpose. Your sexuality often carries this charge too, either sacred and wholly given or deliberately sublimated into the work. At full power this is formidable, the capacity to spend yourself completely on what you hold sacred. The shadow is a scorched single-mindedness that burns out the body, or a tangled relationship with desire, all-or-nothing, sacred-or-denied, with little comfortable middle ground.
Lean in — Spend your considerable drive on the one aim you hold sacred.
Watch for — Burn the body out, or split desire into sacred-or-denied.
- focused-will
- warrior-monk
- consecrated-desire
Sources
- George, Asteroid Goddesses (1986)Gives Vesta's principle of devotion and sacred focus as it meets the Mars.
- Hand, Horoscope Symbols (1981)Frames the Vesta-Mars aspect as an inner dynamic of the chart.
- Forrest, The Inner Sky (1984)Reads the Vesta-Mars contact in evolutionary, growth-oriented terms.