Aspects
Mars Square Nessus
Your assertiveness and the Nessus principle keep colliding, so your force can overstep into harm, your anger can replay inherited aggression, or you may swing between rage and a fear of your own power that leaves you unable to act. There is a real risk of becoming the aggressor you were wounded by, or of boundary violations in either direction. This square does not want suppression, it wants conscious action: to assert and defend without dominating, to feel the anger without inflicting it, and to use your force to end harm rather than deal it, until drive and the old harm stop grinding and your power can protect cleanly.
Lean in — Assert and defend without dominating or crossing the line.
Watch for — Become the aggressor you were wounded by, or freeze in fear of it.
- overstepping-force
- inherited-aggression
- integration
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.