Aspects
Mars Opposition Nessus
The Nessus principle and your drive sit across from each other, so issues of power and harm tend to reach you through others' aggression, control, or boundary-crossing, mirroring a charged dynamic in your own relationship to force. You may feel attacked or violated, or be cast as the aggressor in conflict. The resolution is to stop locating it all outside: own your own relationship to power and anger, refuse both the victim and the bully roles, and let conflict be where the harmful pattern is consciously stopped rather than endlessly fought out.
Lean in — Own your own relationship to anger and refuse the bully role.
Watch for — Stay locked as victim or aggressor in repeating conflict.
- projected-aggression
- violation
- balancing
Sources
- Reinhart, To the Edge and Beyond: Saturn, Chiron, Pholus and the Centaurs (1996)Reads Nessus among the centaurs, its principle of power, harm, and the ending of cycles as it meets the Mars.
- Hand, Horoscope Symbols (1981)Frames the Nessus-Mars aspect as an inner dynamic of the chart.
- Forrest, The Inner Sky (1984)Reads the Nessus-Mars contact in evolutionary, growth-oriented terms.