The Warrior
Mars
Drive · Personal
What you want. How you move toward it, defend it, and name when it’s been crossed.
Archetype
drive
Orbital period
~687 days
Sign transit
~6-8 weeks per sign (retrograde-dependent)
Body rulership
Muscle, blood, adrenals, sexual response
Keywords
Dignity & debility
Where Mars performs at home, where it struggles, and where tradition says it sings. Click any sign to open its reference page.
Rulership
Traditional rulership also includes Scorpio.
The sign(s) Mars rules. At home — strong and native, though not always gentle.
Detriment
Opposite Mars’s rulership. Works harder, learns through friction what it couldn’t learn at ease.
Other personal bodies
Fast-moving inner planets. They shape the day-to-day — how you think, love, want, and move.
In progress
The long-form reference for Mars is being written.
The skeleton above is the reference: archetype, dignity table, rhythm, and keywords. Deeper sections — Marsthrough each sign, through each house, in aspect, in retrograde, and the common misreadings — are hand-written, not generated. They layer in as they’re finished.
In the meantime — your chart doesn’t wait. Run your birth chart and see where Mars lives in your sky.
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