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Mars through the Places in a Natal Chart
And a bonus haiku
If you’re familiar with astrology, you’ll know that a natal chart has 12 places (or houses), and each place contains topics related to life in the material world. In the modern era, places are called houses but, historically, houses referred to the zodiacal sign in the numbered place.
Briefly, the strongest are the angular places (or pivots), which are
1: life, the native, health, vitality
4: parents, home, property
7: relationships, enemies
10: repuation, profession, honors.
The good places are
5: pleasure, children, entertainment
11: alliances, hopes, wishes for the future.
The most difficult places are
6: illness, injury, labor, drudgery
8: death, inheritance; entanglements with others
12: isolation, suffering, hidden enemies, self-defeat.
That leaves those that fall in the middle of the spectrum (9 is best, then 3, then 2).
2: money earned and spent, lifestyle
3: local environment, communication, siblings
9: religion, spirituality, foreign travel
