I was talking to Scott about his transcendent nature.

“Well, you never write anybody off. Most people can hit their limit. They say that’s it! I’m not going to have any more of that and they mean it.”

“I rarely get that pissed off,” he said. “In fact, the only person I have ever been that mad at is you!”

I laughed. “I know, and then you get over it. That’s my point. You decide I’m not that bad after all and we started talking again. This is what I mean. I don’t think you can write anyone off for any reason, it’s just not in your nature.”

I’m talking to the soldier here. It’s very obvious my Mercury (thoughts) are is conjunct Mars (sex and aggression).

“I realized something,” I said. “I get pretty stupid at times. Like when I am happy and having a lot of sex, I get positively docile. It’s as if I can’t think at all. No need! But just as soon as I feel threatened, you better look out! All the sudden my brain fires up and I become… well, I become freakishly brilliant. All the sudden I can think up, down into the ground, and next thing you know a persons is screwed, blued and tattooed. I have them wrapped up tight and this is all done before it’s even occurred to them I might rise from my slumber. That I might have any ability at all. But until I’m threatened? Nothing. I appear to be some kind of pure fool.”
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Here’s a good bit for Mars (anger) square Venus (love):

At 65 years old, feminist writer and activist, Vivian Gornick writes in an essay titled, “What Independence Has Come to Mean to Me: The Pain of Solitude. The Pleasure of Self-Knowledge”

Continue reading Mars Square Venus… Boldly Wrought by “Vivian Gornick” in “The Bitch In The House”

From the Financial Times: Men bear the brunt of US jobs lost

Sarah O’Connor writes:

“The US recession has opened up the biggest gap between male and female unemployment rates since records began in 1948, as men bear the brunt of the economy’s contraction.

Men have lost almost 80 per cent of the 5.1m jobs that have gone in the US since the recession started, pushing the male unemployment rate to 8.8 per cent. The female jobless rate has hit 7 per cent.”

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Togi writes regarding the repression of Mars energy in our culture:

“We were just not meant to live this way. Look how many people are on anti-depressants and other mood stabilizers?!”

That’s right - people are drugged you and passive. Those anti-depressants do what? they kill the sex drive!

Don’t get me wrong, I know there is such a thing as clinical depression but for many, they’d be better off to treat the problem with endorphins.
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anesa writes on A Fierce Diet:

“Hi Elsa, the book you mentioned here - “Heal your Body” by Louise L. Hay - lists “oversensitivity, often represents fear and shows a need for protection. Fear may be a cover for hidden anger and a resistance to forgive” for fat issues.

Do you relate to that kind of issues? And is it in reaction to those issues that you have decided to go on a fierce diet and have you chosen a timing based on your chart?”

anesa, good question. While I don’t relate to the fear and oversensitivity Dx, with that Mars Mercury conjunction in my chart, anger is always an issue for me. You can just count me furious at all times and you’d not be far off. (Swearing below the break)
Continue reading Astrology, Diet, Mars And Anger: Hell Yes I Have Issues!

goddess writes:

“What helps people deal with anger? I don’t get angry all that often, but one of the absolute best things I can do when I’m feeling angry is to clean the house. That helps more than anything else I’ve found, including other types of physical activity. My Mars is in the 4th, trine Saturn. Energetic cleaning leaves me both feeling free of the agitation and satisfied at the accomplishment when I’m through.”

goddess - Being ultra-Marsy, I work out regularly (daily if possible) and I on top of that I walk if I can. With Mars conjunct Mercury, I also write and write and write…

What do other people do to dissipate anger, and can you see it in your Mars?

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It’s occurred to me with Mars (anger) opposing Neptune (fog) like this, people may very well be mad and not know it. Or maybe they do know they are mad but they are not sure who they should be mad and even if they are able to fix on a person, it’s likely the anger will dissipate. Blink and you transcend.

You may also be hiding (Neptune) from someone else’s angry attack (Mars) which of course would piss you off!

I was on the phone with Claire-France and she mentioned the war in Iraq is not being reported at all.

“Mars Neptune,” I said. “What war? Hide the war!”

Are you pissed off today? Describe your anger.

a asks on Do Miserable People Make You Miserable

This might sound like a weird question, but I’m being serious. How does one know if they are one of those “unhappies” or if they are buoyant?

It’s a great question and I am sure some people have no idea. Other do though. I recall on one of the cock-blocking bits I mentioned (girl)friends who when you start dating a man (and spending less time with them / abandoning them to a degree), they methodically take the man out to restore the status quo and several people copped to doing exactly this.

When your friend is happy, are you able to be happy for them even when you are not happy yourself? I suppose that’s the litmus test.
Continue reading Astrology And The Frustrated Mars: Anger, Depression, Resentment, Attacking…

Lynn Hayes of the Astrodynamics blog writes on People Who Hate Me, Guessing Reality:

“I’m just impressed that you find time to go to the gym.”

Thank you, Lynn but for a person like me the gym is non-negotiable. As many know, my sister is also an astrologer,we have both studied since we were pre-teen and she caught on to this Mars of mine, 25 years ago. Her exact words were, “Don’t let that shit back up on you.”
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