Aspects
Mars Sextile Nessus
There is a usable opening between your drive and the Nessus principle, one that rewards initiative. When you put your energy behind defending boundaries and stopping harm, drive and integrity cooperate, letting you act forcefully and cleanly against abuse without crossing into it. It is a door you push, not a current that carries you. But take the deliberate step of standing up against the misuse of power, yours or others', with controlled strength, and you find drive and integrity reinforce each other, so that using your force to end harm rather than deal it becomes a chosen strength rather than an accidental wound.
Lean in — Stand against the misuse of power with controlled strength.
Watch for — Sit on the strength that could stop a real harm.
- chosen-protection
- opportunity
- clean-force
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.