Part of Necessity
Part of Necessity Square Mars
The Part of Necessity A tense aspect between planets about 90 degrees apart that creates friction and a push to act. Squares are challenging but are often what drives real growth. Mars grinds the things you must endure against frustration, impatience, and a temper quick to flare, so obligation breeds resentment and the urge to lash out. The friction can turn allies into enemies if you let the heat lead. Master the anger first, then use its force on the real obstacle.
- necessity
- fury
- friction
Sources
- Brennan, Hellenistic Astrology (2017)Brennan reads the Part of Necessity, the lot of Mercury, as the point marking constraint, compulsion, subordination, enemies, and the limits one is bound to endure.
- Hand, Horoscope Symbols (1981)Treats the meeting of drive, conflict, and heat with the lot's significations of constraint as a specific working relationship.
- Valens, Anthologies (160)Valens reads the square to a lot as obstruction and hard pressure bearing on the lot's affairs.