Interestingly, I also have Mars on the ASC, and I picked ‘Low’. Our family is very competitive and I HATED that growing up so being Libra, to balance that out, I choose the opposite path . . .

I voted ‘fierce’ even though I hate competing, and in fact ‘avoid’ it at all costs. Of course, it ‘finds’ me!
I have a theory I’m scared to open the gates. I have Mars in Aries, so it would be ludicrous for me to claim I am not competitive. However, it’s trined Saturn, so I’m more prone to get excited about something and feel completely, utterly, UNREASONABLY dejected when I lose.

My mother, who is an Aries, never played games with us as kids, and it carries on to this day. She’ll play half a game of Scrabble and then claim she’s too bored to continue…if she’s losing. I really have to work very hard not to indulge the same sort of impulse of ‘If I can’t win, fuck it.’

Luckily I have lots of good-sport friends to rile me up and laugh at me when I get too serious about something silly, like tackle frisbee.

I try to be a pretty good sport about losing, but inside I am caving…feeling diminished and plain stupid. Mars in Cancer, Merc. in Capricorn. I am pretty good at games if not under pressure. But, for instance, recently, I had to retake my certification oral exam for Spanish interpreters and I failed, I failed big time….not just by a small margin, it was really bad (they gave me another shot because fortunately, the monitor had seen me work a trial) but my point being that going into a little white room with no windows, no other chairs…just a desk, two chairs, and a tape recorder and a very serious monitor telling you when to speak and when to stop and it takes about 2 hours. My mind went literally blank, I could not even think of the simplest translation to the word “pleasure”….very ridiculous and I walked out of there and I was so shaken…..I could have sworn I was panting like a dog….very weird what happened. But, put me in the courtroom and interpret for a murder trail, rape case, drug traffiking…. no problem, in fact, I love it….it’s like being on stage. So what do you make of that?