The meaning of Mars in Aquarius

Mars reflects your drive and desire — the way energy pours out once your heart catches fire, and how you pursue what you want and push forward. With Mars in Aquarius — fixed air, and the sign of Saturn (with Uranus's quality in modern practice) — you tend to act beyond the established frame toward your own ideals. Rather than tracing everyone else's way, an original, free drive lives within you, moving for the ideas you believe are right and for a better system.

You shine where thinking and acting past received notions are called for. Trying a method no one had reached, cooperating with others as equals across boundaries, moving for a fairer way of doing things — this is where Mars in Aquarius comes fully alive. Your forward-looking, progressive spirit and your flat, open way of acting regardless of standing bring a fresh wind and real stimulus to those around you. As a fixed sign, you keep moving true to your convictions.

Your drive toward your own ideals can also arrive as going it alone, or a stubborn contrariness. You may lean too hard on your own logic, push things through by rightness over feeling, or go against the grain just to be different. This is less coldness than the natural sway on the far side of a rich spirit longing to be free.

The key to working with this energy is to add warm cooperation to your gift for acting on your own. When you move while attuning to the one person before you, not only holding up ideals, your ideas move far more people. Time spent joining forces with kindred friends supports your energy, too. When you put your individuality to work for everyone's better future, Mars in Aquarius shines at its most free.

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