The Deeper Meaning of Mars in Scorpio

Hey everyone, this is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology, and today, we are going to take a look at the deeper meaning of Mars in the sign of Scorpio. Mars, of course, is just moving into the sign of Scorpio after spending some time in Libra, and so we get this really interesting signature of Mars being in its feminine rulership. In today's video, what I'm going to do is give you a flashback and take you back to an episode that I did from a series that I made called Planets in Profile.

In this episode, you're going to see me talk at length about the meaning of Mars in Scorpio. But in a broader sense, I want to expose people to this series who don't know that it exists in my archives. There's a lot of really good evergreen content in my archives that can help you deepen your understanding of planets and signs.

We did Mercury, Venus, and Mars through all 12 signs in a series called Planets in Profile, which you can find the playlists on my YouTube channel here, and hopefully, that will be of use to you. It's nice to refresh on the meaning of planets and signs as they change signs throughout the year. So sometimes I just remind people that that series is thereby re-running one of those episodes when a new planet ingresses into a new sign like Mars is doing right now.

So today, we'll be looking at the deeper meaning of Mars in Scorpio, a little throwback episode, and it's also exciting to remind people of this as we are in the production of the new series Planets in Profile, taking the moon through all 12 signs, so I think it'll be next week that we will have an episode on the Moon in Taurus. It'll be in the next week or two that the second episode of Planets in Profile for the Moon through the 12 signs will resume, and we will introduce you to the deeper meaning of the Moon in Taurus. We already did the moon in Aries, so you could check that series out as well. Anyway, that's what we're doing today.

Before we get into it, don't forget to like and, subscribe, and share your comments and reflections, especially if you are someone with the Mars in Scorpio, Mars, and Scorpio in your birth chart. We'd love to hear from you. You can find a transcript of today's talk on the website nightlightastrology.com.

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Okay, well, that being said, today we're looking at the deeper meaning of Mars in the sign of Scorpio, and I hope you will enjoy this throwback episode and check out the rest of the Planets in Profile episodes that we have on Mercury, Venus, and Mars and don't forget that we'll have a Moon in Taurus episode coming out soon. So with that, I hope you will enjoy this.

Hi everybody, this is Acyuta-bhava from Nightlight Astrology, and I'm sitting down to make another episode of Planets in Profile. I have been tracking Venus and Mars through all of the signs that concluded Venus through all the signs a couple of months ago, and I'm still finishing up on Mars through the signs.

Mars is currently in the sign of Scorpio. So today's episode of planets and profiles focused on Mars is placement in the sign of Scorpio and how you can understand this placement if you have it in your own natal chart or how you can sort of work with it in a general way.

So Mars in the sign of Scorpio. Now, remember that in ancient astrology, every planet has two domiciles: a masculine domicile and a feminine domicile. Or, if you feel more inclined, you could say that each planet has a yin domicile and a yang domicile. So, this is the feminine domicile of Mars. The masculine domicile of Mars is Aries.

So, what can we look for with this particular Mars placement? Well, that's an image of Greta Thunberg, which we'll be coming back to a little bit later; she has Mars in Scorpio. We have to start by remembering something very basic about the way that planets were read in ancient astrology. Planets, when they are in their own home signs, are most able to affect their own significations.

So, every planet has natural activities and, themes and topics that come along with it. For example, Mars is the planet of war. So, the god of war, violence, and conflict. Mars is related to cutting; Mars is related to severing. Mars is related to penetration and will. Inception or starting things. Mars is also a planet of valor and courage.

Now, whenever Mars is in either of its own signs, or even any of its own terms, which are little miniature sections within each sign that belong, the degree markers of which are, sometimes they're different in every sign, but if there are a certain number of degrees within every sign will actually be ruled by Mars. those degrees are also thought to be a place where Mars can be very effective and more like Mars more like itself.

So whenever the planet is in its own triplicity, its own bound, its own deccan, its own exultation or its own domicile, all different technical terms for saying, the planet will behave and act like its best self or be very strong.

So behaving as its best self for a planet will typically mean that the planet will embody what you and I and everyone else would probably consensus reality would agree upon as the more valiant or virtuous qualities of the planet, and for Mars, that's going to be things like courage valor, bravery, fight will, and action all in service of things that we consider noble or virtuous. So you get kind of like a knightly quality out of Mars or someone who's quite successful at martial things.

On the other hand, Mars, in its own sign in its own exultation, bound, triplicity, etc, can also indicate that Mars is just really, really ripped, so to speak, like a muscle man and a strong Mars is not necessarily a good Mars.

So you have two basic ways of looking at planets when they're in their own dignity planet and its own dignity is strong, or a planet in its own dignity is of a high character. One of the two typically will be on display in the life of the individual, sometimes both. But a strong planet does not necessarily mean that that translates into someone being subjectively good or that it is without its troubles.

Okay, so at any rate, when Mars is traveling through any other sign in the Zodiac and any other bound or face or triplicity, etc. It has to filter its needs and wishes through the planet whose temple it is traveling through. So if you have Mars and Sagittarius, it's like Mars is the houseguest of Jupiter, and so Jupiter will always be taking care of the needs of Mars or giving things to Mars.

That could mean a Mars that is strong and courageous and receives benefits or blessings or honors or awards. Jupiter things. It could be a Mars that is very philosophical, religious, or academic because it's a Mars in Jupiter sign in Jupiter confers upon Mars, in addition to strength, things like academics, religion, and so forth.

So if Mars is not in its own home sign, Mars will always be receiving something from a host. Now, in ancient astrology, this is why it was considered a very good thing when a planet was in one of its own dignities, if not multiple of its own dignities, because what that means is that the planet is unfiltered by with you know, it's, it's not being mediated by any other planet. So that again means that you get, it's like, I can just do what I want to do and what's in my own nature to do is Mars-like stuff, I don't have to cross combine blend or rely upon the health or weakness of my host.

Because the other thing that can happen is the planets in a sign and that sign rulers in a weak position in the chart; it can't get a lot from that ruler and that affects its significations. So these things are very important technical things; you always have to look at these things.

The nice thing about Scorpio is again that Mars is at home, this is its feminine domicile, so you get a Mars that can do Marzy stuff a little bit more easily. Scorpio is a cool, moist, feminine water sign of Mars. So Mars was actually a part of the nocturnal and or quote unquote, feminine sect of planets in ancient astrology, and it's unclear why exactly this is, but Mars has this interesting.

Although Mars is a superior planet and is often considered masculine, Mars makes an unusual amount of fate has an unusually high amount of faisel dynamics in terms of its synodic cycle with the sun. For this reason, one of my teachers, Robert Schmidt, speculated that it was likely that because, and I think this comes from Porphyry, maybe as well, it is likely that Mars demonstrates more variability and variability as a trait of the feminine planets, Venus, the moon and then Mars is added to this nocturnal sector planets, which are defined by Porphyry in terms of making more faisel appearances and having more faisal dynamics, and that the greater the variety of visible things that the planet does, and its synodic cycle with the sun, the more variants and change in flux, the more it was associated with you know, the feminine, all of which is associated with the moon in the realm of fortune or changeability in general.

So Mars is this interesting planet because Mars, although quote, unquote, masculine, has this intensely changeable aspect to it in terms of its ongoing synodic cycle dynamics. So, Mars is actually very, very comfortable and does really well in the feminine sign of Scorpio.

So the way that you can read this is by saying that you have a Mars that may be more prone, more changeable, more combustible; Mars in Aries is steadier, more solid, even though it's a tropical sign, and this is a solid sign. I know that seems kind of contradictory, but fiery Mars can start things; it's action-oriented, but it's not nearly as changeable and fluid as this Mars is because of the feminine quality because of the receptivity and because we're amplifying that sense of Mars is a very changeable planet in the visible sky when we're reading it through its feminine sign.

So Mars is going to express itself in Scorpio in a way that's natural to its own nature, which sounds silly, but what we're saying there is just that it's not going to have to negotiate with another planet by virtue of being in its own sign, it can be itself, and it has greater ease and strength in doing so. It can embody its more virtuous qualities or may demonstrate martial strength with less compromised results overall.

So this is, again, a real benefit for Mars being in its own sign. But again, it's going to be a more feminine Mars; it helps to remember that this is the fixed Yin autumnal sign that has to do with the fixed space of descent. So when the sun is coming down in the northern hemisphere, which is where this archetypal language is rooted, you could say it's all symbolic language.

So it's not as though, you know, you can get these qualities with any planet in the sign at any time of year. But this space in the Zodiac represents the steady decline of light, light as a metaphor, you know, etc.

So, because of that, you have this sense of destructiveness impermanence. But also you have the when things are destructing and falling apart, there is a way in which things are dispersed and so you also interesting thing that you have about this sign is you have a kind of fixity and dispersive, Venus, and Mars-like aggressiveness all combined in one and interestingly, that can really manifest in two different ways straight up, tendency towards being more destructive and combative in a way that is sort of, you know, darker, and just heavier and very autumnal and so you have just kind of the dark Mars, but also in terms of this need to fortify, protect, or defend against things that are perceived as threats, things that are perceived as potentially destructive, destabilizing elements, which is kind of it's like a weird paradox about Scorpio that you have this really defensive protective energy, as well as one that tends to be more intensely destructive, and almost rebels in decomposition and chaos.

So you can have both, and, of course, this Mars is also like a dark lord; it has that feeling of being like, it has a kind of kingly or queenly, Lord of the Underworld feeling to it. Mars is kind of like a king in Scorpio.

So there are some things to think about in May. As usual, this Mars may struggle with typical Mars-related themes, though, with a particularly feminine or Yin twist. For example, paranoia, defensiveness, jealousy, betrayal, tendency to be overly protective. Those are all Scorpio qualities. If you go back into my videos and look at the meaning of the Sun in Scorpio, he's a really good video on Scorpio, but I won't go into that so much. But one of the reasons for all of those all of those qualities are basically coming from a deeper analysis of the archetypal solar changes happening at this time of year.

So sometimes there's a darker, more destructive, like you think of some of the goddesses of destruction in mythology, and you're getting into the Mars in Scorpio territory a bit.

Anyway, let's talk about some people famous people who have Mars in Scorpio so you can see and relate to we can kind of try to illuminate some of the qualities of Mars in Scorpio. So, think about Kurt Cobain. He's a grunge rocker in the, you know, the 1990s with nirvana. But he, you know, one of the things that really made him famous was that he was someone who had a very low tolerance for inauthenticity and fakeness, just quintessential Mars in Scorpio, and also was very aggressive and very destructive, right?

So, if you have ever watched the movie Montage of Heck, which is a good documentary about Kurt Cobain, you can get a feeling that Mars it's destructive, but it also revels in he was romantic in the sense that he sort of reveled in the darkness and the the yang quality mixed with the feminine sensitivity made him this kind of electrifying, romantic but very aggressive rocker. So it's a good example of a feminine Mars and Kurt Cobain, in my opinion.

Mahatma Gandhi, again, you have someone who is essentially an advocate for peace but is also this kind of activist, very common. You'll see the same thing, for example, with Oprah Winfrey, or Oprah Winfrey is kind of like this queen, and she's really one of in my opinion, anyway, she's really one of the leaders for black women in our in the past, you know, what, probably several, at least the past three, four decades she's one of the leading figures that says you can be a black woman and be powerful and strong in the world. That's a Mars in Scorpio, for sure, and she's like a super businesswoman, right? So just being that strong, authoritative executive woman to Oprah's got that going on for her.

Bruce Lee, again, like here, is an incredibly fluid martial artist who has this really kind of earthy and sensual, sensitive side to him. It's very common, you see; Steven Seagal, later on, my list is like a third, fourth, fifth-degree black belt in Aikido, so sometimes and of course, but there are dark elements of their stories like Kurt Cobain dies of suicide. Gandhi's assassinated, if I remember correctly, is that right? That's right, isn't it? Bruce Lee died accidentally on set if I remember correctly.

So you know, there's a lot of sometimes there's really a sort of like tragic Mars-like events that surround people with strong Mars and Scorpios or any strong Mars in general. But that can happen, too.

There's Mark Zuckerberg, who is famous for Facebook, but it came through this like a massive fight and battle with someone else. I think it was wherever he was at school, Harvard, or where was it? You guys remind me where it was. I saw the movie once upon a time about Facebook. But it was basically a fight that he had that led him to this, and people are often accusing him of being, you know, there's a lot of stuff that, you know, Mark Zuckerberg has done with the Facebook platform that has made him sort of he you know, infamous and villainized in many respects.

So he's this really strong kind of entrepreneur who starts his career through this intense fight, and it's kind of cloak and dagger like it's questionable as whether he stole something or not or, you know, all this backstory like that. Very common for Mars in Scorpio.

Complicated Mars themes, Jimi Hendrix. Similarly, like a really aggressive electric figure, a lot like Kurt Cobain, Joaquin Phoenix, another guy who's like, the dark, intense, passionate, plays the Joker in the recent Joker film that was just about the Joker.

So this this ability to portray darkness theatrically and to somehow capture its romantic essence, which is the sensitive the feminine sensitivity of Mars in Scorpio, Marilyn Manson, is similar in that regard.

Then you have people on the other side like Mel Gibson who just play like these classic, sorts of like Braveheart, warrior archetypes, and Mel Gibson's career has been like, really bloody, like, if you ever if you watch The Passion of the Christ, like, you know, just bloody, and he's also been embroiled in a lot of really aggressive and sort of, you know, he's sort of a villain as well, um, he's definitely not well liked by a lot of people, and often because of a kind of an abusive streak that he has in him.

So there you have the like, exacerbated Mars energy. Joseph Stalin. Obviously, you don't need to say anything more about that. Intense martial figure, obviously, a lot of blood around that name. Steven Seagal, we already mentioned.

Okay, so there's Bill Cosby or Harvey Weinstein; I hate to throw these names in because it's kind of hard to even talk about them. But, you know, these are guys who are known for some really shady, subtle, secretive, manipulative sexual behaviors.

John Paul Sartre, who is a famous existentialist philosopher, is really dark and aggressive in his view of the world, but he also gets to something essential about destruction and darkness and is very eloquent in the way that he writes. JRR Tolkien is also a master of the martial heroic story in The Lord of the Rings, and he has this vision of the Dark Lord of Mordor and this ring of power. These are deep, like Yin themes, so that the ring has to be cast into the middle of a volcano and, you know, there's a finger sliced off in the process, and there's lots of blood and guts in the Lord of the Rings.

Mao Zedong, another name associated with the revolution in China, a lot of death behind that name as well. Martin Scorsese. Here's a guy whose career is steeped in the mafioso and the, you know, the kind of crime lord and drugs, and his movies are violent and hard-hitting, and it's a lot about darkness and power and darkness.

Howard Stern very controversial, direct, aggressive, and kind of dark sense of humor is very sexual. Joe Rogan's similar kind of radio personality who's a martial or UFC, former UFC fighter or something like that, but he hosts UFC fights, and he's really controversial. He likes to push buttons, and there's kind of punk feelings sometimes behind, you know, Mars in Scorpio or activist or fighting for something that's sort of controversial or taboo.

Greta Thunberg, of course, is similar, and you know people, I mean, look at her eyes right so intense, and what a fighter an activist and you know, people are really hard on her too and believe that she's been sort of co-opted by this bigger narrative, and she's being used and so forth and whether or not that's true, just noticed that her life is steeped in martial controversy.

She's a fighter, the president, you know, slams or on Twitter or whatever. So very Mars in Scorpio, a young woman who's, you know, really kind of a Joan of Arc type of figure in some ways. Ayn Rand, a dark writer and philosopher, associated in some ways with some really kind of authoritarian existentialist themes. Power is a big deal in her writing.

George RR Martin, another Tolkien-like figure who is a master of the martial, writes, you know, his books are crude and violent, but also really moving, and they really strike at things that are deep and true about human nature. In the fantasy genre, Hildegard of Bingen, of course, is a multifaceted, multi-talented nun, and she is a visionary composer, you know, just a famous figure in the Catholic tradition.

Finally, Eleanor Roosevelt, who, of course, is sort of like the war. She's like the right hand, you know; Mars is sometimes called the right hand of the sun, and she is definitely someone who is one of the remarkable first ladies of United States presidential history and, just in terms of the amount of Moxie and fight that she had in her and stuff like that.

So, my take on these individuals is by no means authoritative. I am a spectator, you know, historically speaking, I'm not any kind of expert. But I see each of these characters; I pick these because they all demonstrate some kind of really powerful martial signature, and sometimes really complicated by, you know, darkness.

Whether you want to analyze like Eleanor Roosevelt in the New Deal, or if you want to talk about the topics of Howard Stern, or, you know, the stage sets of Marilyn Manson, or the controversies of Mark Zuckerberg, these are people who are very strong, but there's oftentimes a real complicated quality, their protectors and sometimes their secret destroyers. They're really good at martial things. But they're also very familiar with very deep, dark, disturbing elements of human nature.

So, it's an interesting mix to look at. That's what I've got for today; when you check it out in your own birth chart, of course, knowing that you have this in your own birth chart, maybe you can relate. If so, tell me your stories in the comment section. I'd love to hear them. I'd love to hear how you deal with being a Mars in Scorpio kind of person.

How you deal with it if someone close to you has it, you know what are they like, share some stories, and otherwise, remember that the House topics and aspects in the chart make a big difference as well. So it's never just Mars in Scorpio in a vacuum. It's Mars in Scorpio. It's telling a story. It's part of a whole chart. All right, that's what I've got. Thanks for listening, everyone. Take care. Bye