Mars in Aquarius

Mars in Aquarius is a drive aimed at the structure rather than the person. The placement gives a principled, intellectually motivated, often future-oriented way of going after what it wants — change the system, build the alternative, advocate for the cause. People with this Mars are often the ones who push for reforms that benefit groups rather than individuals. Day to day, this looks like a person who is energized by ideas and movements, loyal to chosen communities, and willing to depart from convention when convention isn't working. Mars in Aquarius does well in fields involving technology, social change, science, engineering, activism, design, and any work that benefits from independent thinking and a long view. The placement is also unusually skilled at the kind of teamwork that operates across distance and difference. The shadow is detachment and rigid principle. The same independence that makes the placement original can keep it from the warm immediacy that other people need, and the same commitment to ideas can produce a willingness to sacrifice individual relationships for abstract causes. There is also a surprising stubbornness — Mars in Aquarius is fixed air — where the placement can hold positions long past the point where they should have been updated. The placement matures when it learns that specific people are also the cause.