Mars and Relationships: Desire, Conflict, and the Partner Who Is a Match
Mars is the planet of desire, initiative and the fight, and a relationship without it is a friendship; a relationship with too much of it is a war. The chart reads Mars for relationships in four layers. What Mars rules for the ascendant, which decides what its period brings, the bond for Taurus and Libra where it rules the seventh, the romance for Cancer and Sagittarius where it rules the fifth, and the quarrel for Gemini and Scorpio where it rules the sixth. The sign, which is how the native wants and how they fight, hot and fast in fire, slow and held in earth, argued in air, sulked in water. The house, where the heat lives, with Mangal dosha read as what it is and not as a curse, the partner who is a match rather than a comfort, and the cancellations that the classical rules give. And the condition, exalted in Capricorn, debilitated in Cancer, with Venus, Saturn, Rahu, Ketu or the Moon. The twelve-ascendant table, the Mars period and its short hot seasons, Mars’s transit over the seventh as the quarrel window, the line where heat becomes harm and the reading stops, and a worked chart of a Cancer lagna whose dosha was a yoga.