Mars Broken In Libra, But What About Aries? Who Is Lousy? Can We Decide? What Does Elbert Wade Have To Say?
Outtakes and Various Other Sundries…
Recently I’ve become aware of some very shadowy manifestations of my Mars (in detriment) in Libra. Eventually I will probably get my nerve up and write about it but to be very candid writing things like this is doubly hard. First because I have to reveal my weakness in plain terms with real life examples which I actually don’t mind all that much. The part that is exceedingly difficult is the defending this once I’ve done it which becomes necessary because it is not politically correct to say, “This Mars in Libra is a lousy Mars!”
And though it’s true you can get things done with Mars in Libra… I can obviously fight like crazy and exercise like a machine, fact is it’s is a lousy Mars but other people with Mars in Libra might not like hearing this! You know. There is a high expression of everything and blah, blah, blah. Like I don’t know that! I do know that, but it is still a lousy Mars!
::ducks::
So anyway, I was lying around last thinking about the lousy things I have learned about my lousy Mars in Libra over the last week and being very aware I ought to cultivate qualities of of Mars in Aries. Directness and so forth, that is. And then when I came across this, which made me feel a lot better.
This is astrologer (and writer… I love his writing), Elbert Wade on an Aries client he had once. Ha ha ha ha, at least I’m not her! 
Aries, You Are — But What? by Elbert Wade
Turns out I’m a mess, you’re a mess which must also mean, I’m okay, you’re okay. Ha ha ha, Libra. Two sides, bay-beeeee! There are always two sides!
Do you have Mars in Libra or know someone who does? Please (asks Libra politely) tell us how it’s lousy… or not. If you can decide, that is.
39 Responses to “Mars Broken In Libra, But What About Aries? Who Is Lousy? Can We Decide? What Does Elbert Wade Have To Say?”
I have Mars in Cancer (which is conjunct) Uranus in 9th, which is also part of a T square. Let me tell you, it really sucks. It makes me so wishy, wahsy, indecisive, etc. when my sun sign is Leo and rising is Scorp. I hate my Mars!!!!
moni - I feel for you! Here you are all dynamic and all they want you to do is put bandaids on their boo-boos! Damn it! 
Mars in Libra?! Let me see, my brother, my father, several cousins . . . yeah, lots of ‘em!! They all can talk circles around me which is why I perfected stubborn, sullen silence as a teenager (Mars in Scorpio). . Mars in Virgo is big in our family too. Loved that article by Elbert Wade!!
Since I have lots of Libra, I will say this in defense of Mars in Libra . . . when the debating is done, the action is swift and direct!!
*chuckling w/ moni* Oh yeah, I hear ya… Stellium in Aries (Sun, Merc, Venus) in the 8th house, Cap Moon, and Cancer Mars. IRRITATING!!
But back to that question… I once fell pretty hard for a guy with Mars in Libra. Taurus Sun, Aries Moon… That was all good. But the Gemini Venus paired with Libra Mars?? Oh good lord, just forget it… He couldn’t make up his mind whether he wanted me or another woman. It took him 4 weeks to be semi-ready to sorta make a choice. There were all kinds of other factors, but essentially I lost my patience and moved on. It wound up being for the best, but the guy is still a friend and now and then I just want to bludgeon him to make him DO something.
Moni, My sympathies too. I have mars in cancer also, conjunct saturn at the point of a t-square (oh and in the 2nd house of all gawd awful places). Stop, Start, Stop, Start, Stop, Start. I’m not bi-polar but if I were at least then I’d have an excuse! I can relate!! Your poor leo. Wow.
Smiles!
Oh, not that Mars in Aries has ever made me any happier. One of my exes had that and holy fuck was that an ugly, explosive temper. *shudder*
Mars in Sagittarius - but North Node in Libra and Venus in Libra. I guess this means I can’t make up my mind regarding my destiny/purpose, and/or my sex life and finer things in my life . lol whatever makes YOU happy is what I say. I’m flexible. 
Elsa, if it makes you feel any better, MY MARS IS LOUSIER THAN YOUR MARS. My Mars is in Taurus, in partile opposition to Neptune in Scorpio. According to Rob Hand, this is like having no Mars at all! (God, all this blogging makes me so tired, I have to go take a nap…)
Pat - I concur!
This is all very funny to me because I was also reading your post thinking - “it can’t be as bad as my Mars in Cancer”…
I guess Mars is a hard man to please.
I love your Mars in Libra because I imagine it is part of what makes you a relationship counselor prot©g©. And hey - we all have the strengths and weakness….sounds more like Virgo doing some ruthless self-criticism to me (said gently and with love!)
I like my Mars! It’s in Leo and conjunct the Sun.
I have a few aspects that tone me down, because this conjunction can manifest as me being rather brash and blunt, with a spitfire temper to boot.
I like it ’cause I don’t get stepped on. It’s not so good when I provoke people, either consciously or not.
The rest of my family, hubby and kids, have Mars in either Aquarius or Pisces, with squares and oppositions to Mars, Uranus, or Pluto. Whoa.
Oops–I meant to say JUPITER, Uranus, or Pluto. My bad.
One other thing I noticed a lot in my relationships–family or romantic–is what you have in your chart, Elsa: Mercury-Mars.
There’s my temper going into action!
Anyway, my husband, son, and younger daughter ALL have Mars in Pisces, opposite my Virgo Mercury, plus my husband’s Mercury in Aquarius is opposite my Leo Mars. Yes, my husband and I have a Mercury-Mars double whammy, and it shows up in our composite chart.
Argue, argue, argue…but at least it’s never dull around my house…
My resilient cappy mars (trine pluto and uranus, sextile saturn)is what keeps me going when I feel the cold of my saturn square sun or my poor mercury Tsquared by saturn, pluto and uranus.With so many ups and downs, you better be a goat!
Elsa, you naughty woman, you just told me a few weeks ago my Mars in Libra wasn’t bad and now it is? lol
To tell you the truth I’m not even sure of what its influence is - what I know is that being Aries Ascendant I should be acting all the time, but I’m an undecisive, lazy and accomodated git !
And I’m not even that polite…I have a temper. How does it manifest itself anyway, or it doesn’t?
The last man I saw had a Mars and Venus in Libra. He was a Virgo and man, he was gorgeous, and charming, and gentlemanly. But he was also extremely good at avoiding any sort of conflict (breaking things off with me, that is. I had to do it).
I have a Scorpio Mars. The man I’m dating has a Mars in Cancer … which makes me curious: what does that mean, exactly? What does an Aquarian with Cancer Mars do?
joana - Mars in Libra isn’t baaaaad, it’s merely lousy. But yeah. Sorry about that. It’s not that Mars in Libra doesn’t work. I manage to get most anything I want. I guess I am going to have to tell the embarrassing story of my lousy mars in action to clear up this confusion!
If you wish
Nothing should be embarrassing in Astrology, it’s all just a question of learning from life. hehe
My kidlet (the girl, age 
has Mars in Libra, and she’s quite convinced that her life is lousy right now. Apparently, even wiping the drool marks off her face in the mornings before she goes to her dad’s house is just the epitome of the world being mean!
I have Mars in Libra. Synchronicity: Believe it or not, I was just getting ready to write something this morning about my Mars. I titled it Mars and Me. I stared at that title for about five minutes, then decided, Nah! I can’t talk about that. It’s way too personal! Pressed delete.
Mars in Libra - tends to procrastinate before taking action. I took a friends daughter to school - she was dilly-dallying about what shoes to wear - impatiently I waited in the car. When I dropped her off at school - she had two different shoes on! Oh the indecision of it all!
My mars is in tenacious and resillient Cap and has a very functional approach. Being square Libra mars - I have tried to be patient when witnessing my Mars Libra friend running through all the options before making her decisions. I just wanna say - golly just do it! We probably couldn’t move a couch together - but would have a fascinating discussion about how it could be done.
It just occurred to me that I don’t know anyone with Mars in Libra. I wonder why I don’t.
My Mars is in Taurus… but at least it’s in the 1st house
Mars in Cancer, conjunct Venus, second house. Opposite an 8th house Jupiter. Not sure what that indicates, but I have a feeling it’s related to my urge to take care of everyone. And everything. *chuckle*
Mars, mercury, sun in leo in 5h so I need and seek out ‘phsyical’ outlets to be happy (ie., painting my house at 1am the last few nights, dancing, drawing, yard work, daily doggie walks, sex and more sex). I am working on redirecting this mars energy towards more humanitarian endeavors (aquarian in scope). Oh and mars sextile venus and both in aspect to jupiter/pluto. LOTS of lovin’ required/given.
Well at least you all don’t have Mars in Cancer in the 9th house, Peregrine ( according to Noel Tyl). It is totally frustrating.
mars in cancer in the 4th house has gotta be the winning(suckiest!) combo!!
Mars in the house of the moon… and to top it off, i also have my moon in cancer!
yep i sure can be one overflowing sack of emotions!
Well - I have a good one for you: I have Mars in Pisces which is conjunct the Ascendent (First House). How the heck is that for being mixed up?
Oh, and my moon is in Cancer, Capricorn North Node - not to mention I have a mega-stellium in Gemini (Sun, Mercury, Venus - which is inconjunct to my Uranus Libra- and Saturn) and seven air signs, altogether. Now THAT’S a mess!
Oops - my Mars in the first house is inconjunct to that Uranus Libra!
i dont get that… when people think of me assertive is the first thing that comes to mind???
that from what ive been told… my mars is in libra!….. my jupiter is in aries, and capricorn and aries share my rising signs.. 2 asecdents??? i dont understand???
this has nothing to do with astrology because what im about to say is a fucking fact;: lousy mars depends on how your personality deals with it…. i think evil fucking kenevil had a mars in libra????
my mars in libra. men shouldn’t think that much. sometimes friends say “r u playin’ chess?” while i’m chasing a girl.
es know a mars in libra guy who is the most evil eaterguy i will ever meet. he is a habitual liar, cheater, and will stop at nothing to get what he wants … pure evil atheiest. DB
I have both Mars and Venus in Libra. Don’t think it’s lousy. It just makes me intolerant of imperfections.
i have mars in libra but in 1st house. I cant make up my mind. I change it on whim. But I am quite a forceful personality. It takes me eternity to make up my mind, and even longer to know if i’m sure of it. But once I am, i will do anything to make sure I’m the best. Does this make sense?
My ex had Mars in Libra. He couldn’t decide on what we should do for Valentine’s Day (he had 4 different spectacular ideas), and we ended up doing nothing, until I suggested the night before that we go see a movie (very boring and un-romantic for Valentine’s). He couldn’t decide what to buy me for Christmas, my birthday, or Valentine’s Day, so he bought me nothing, until weeks after Valentine’s Day, he popped out with a gift. He would talk about how he wanted to go overseas, and toy around with the thought for a while, then buy the ticket shortly before the flight date, then after he bought the ticket, he’d say he didn’t want to go anymore. That happened three times. Indecisive!!
lol
glad I stumbled on this site - second thread I’m posting a comment to today
got that mars in libra thing going myself and it definitely is a pain in the ass. In fact, just last night I was all set on ordering pizza, picked up the phone and realized I’m trying to save money…I looked through the cabinets and realized there wasn’t anything around I wanted to eat…I finally grabbed my keys and went to wendys
got a question if anyway has an answer - how will this lovely little placement affect my midheaven, saturn and pluto conjunct also in libra? I mean, wherever I work and no matter how hard I try, I always hit that invisible glass ceiling that I’m sure is mostly saturn doing his job, but does mars in libra make this more severe? less?
I have both Venus and Mars in Libra, both in 5th house. I’m so glad to have found people who understand my dislike for my crappy libran mars!
I am the QUEEN of indecision even with my Scorpio Sun, Saturn, and Pluto. Does having both Venus and Mars in the 5th house mitigate the wishy-washy attitude somewhat? I’m able to make decisions, obviously, but the way this mars manifests itself is through a constant nagging stream of “what-if that’s beter” after a decision has been made. It’s extremely inconvenient, BUT I must refuse to let it get the best of me.
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