I talk sometimes about how effort trumps aptitude. There is many a gifted kid out there who is outperformed by a child with less talent who tries hard.
I also talk about how your skills degrade if you don’t use them. All skills are like this. If you’re a weightlifter and you quit lifting weights for a year, those weights are going to be very heavy when you try to pick them back up. I read charts every day, 7 days a week. I am on top this stuff.
I was just writing to a client with Aries in her chart, deliberately using the word, “train” in reference to the psychic ability. When you’re talking about the 12th house, it’s not all automatically roses. You can undo yourself and readily but in whatever case it got me thinking about training.
I would associate training with Mars. People train to be the best or to be effective. It follows then that while you can use Mars to get what you want in any area of like, you’re going to most definitely see it play in the house where it’s placed, and in tandem (for good or ill) with the planets it aspects.
For example with Mars conjunct Mercury, I train my mind. I constantly challenge my intellect and yours. I am driven to to learn and push beyond limits to see what is over the horizon. I also train myself in relationship in that I try to manage my impulsive (Mars) reactions to others (Libra).
As another example, someone with Neptune in aspect to Mars may intend to train but never quite manage. The same Mars Neptune could express in any number of ways, for example my husband told me of a priest he knew who was a boxer. He may have had Mars Neptune or Mars Jupiter, see? Or Mars, Jupiter, Neptune for that matter.
My point here is that while “training” might come easier or be more palatable to some of us, if you are not training anything, you’re probably divorced from your Mars which is never, ever good.
What are you training for and where is your Mars?
27 Responses to “Astrology, Mars And Training To Win!”
Seriously,what can I do with a heavily afflicted Mars in H/12.Other than what I’ve always done.I’m not asking for advice.Just talking out loud(during a Moon void-of-course no less)!
Wish I could train my social skills!! My mars is in taurus 11th house. It’s not working!!!!
But I remember in the last year of secondary school, half my A’s where for effort not talent. It makes a difference sometimes… At work however it’s counterproductive …do more ,get more work and drown;-P
Mars in cancer in my 1st house conjunct mercury.
I’m always learning(mercury) new ways to nurture (cancer) new beginnings(1st house).
I could figure out how to put that as a “train” statement, but it still sounds ok to me 
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Angie
my mars in cap is starting to kick me to be a good business woman. right now i’m taking notes on all the ones i admire!
Caroline.. I have a 12th House Mars as well, in Taurus.. meh. I’m just at a loss about it still.
training for a sense of security that is generated from within. mars in 4th square moon.
I am in training with words. Studying what certain words really mean. It all Gemini. The Moon and Mars.
I’m training for life. Mars conj. Sun.
I’m in training for anarchy at it’s finest.Mercury opposite Mars,Aries/Libra.”First know thyself”.
This is a great post, Elsa.
I’m training for world domination. My Mars is in Sagittarius.
yep training for life and it’s hard work!
forgot to say: skills degrade w/o a challenge, when things get too easy. Training has to involve increasing difficulty to keep its edge. mars/saturn
Mars in an almost exact conjunction with Saturn in the 6th….. I live it every day….. don’t know what else there is to do with that pucky. Just gotta love, embrace all of ourselves…..
My Mars in Scorpio is in the 10th house and I am on route to becoming a surgeon if God be willing. Of course I have to be accepted into medical school then a residency of training for surgery. So its not an easy route. But other than the obvious, my Mars is also conjunct Saturn, makes me prudent in attaining this career. And having Mars conjunct Saturn would also make a good surgeon to be careful during surgery. It shows because whenever I had a chance to dissect I was also careful with my specimen 
Unlike the other rascal students who cut it all apart just because it was dead!
mars in scorpio in the 11th: I’m training for psychological insight on humanity. what makes us tick as a society. why we do what we do and say what we say.
Good Luck Victoria!
Mars in Cancer in 9th. Training my Mercury in Aries in 6th to shut up and be patient.
In terms of training to win–repeat repeat repeat.
Talent is great but effort still rules.
Like the client you mentioned Elsa, I’ve been using my Mars to train my psychic ability! My Mars is conjunct Mercury in Pisces trining my Neptune/Moon conjunction. I’m training my ‘mind’ to read and interpret my ‘intuition/feelings’.
Mars in Libra in the 8th house and apparently its playing with everyone else..square Jupiter, trine Saturn and in conjunction with Uranus and Pluto natally. As a matter of fact, my 8th is a pretty busy little sector containing 2 planets (Mars/Uranus) and my sun.
I chose this thread as my lesson for the day and have found various interpretations of what it may or may not mean. My take is two-fold, I’m studying death and resurrection (any coincidence I have a tattoo of a phoenix?? and never really knew why I chose it??) Of course my take on death/resurrection reminds me much of metamorphisis..which isn’t just for butterflies anymore. I kill myself off and force myself back through that portal of re-birth all the time and am continually searching for the next best way to do it.
Another interesting fact that I correlated to this aspect, for 14 years I spent my life helping people deal with death/dying of loved ones and dealing directly with individuals who were actively dying. I was their caretaker physically and many times the only companion they had while they passed over (boy, do I have a plethora of stories from that time period..I would love to go back). Now, I’m a community member and fundraiser for Hospice. Go figure..
Thanks for the topic Elsa
i have to create a sense of responsibility or obligation in order to keep it up. and periodically i need downtime to crash and burn or my whole self rebels against it. generally by getting sick.
i need to build better routines. build the down time into the day to day so i’m never teetering on the edge of implosion the way i have, sometimes.
i also tend to expect to go into a fog during merc Rx. it being my ruling planet, it’s pretty predictable that way. one way or another it ends up happening. usually in some unexpected fashion.
sometimes the fog is very pretty.
the only aspect to my mars is neptune, btw.
i am training for mars in the seventh. in pisces. it’s starting to make sense now. i have had such a hard time putting my finger on the meaning of that placement over the years.
Mars in Pisces square my Moon/Venus Nodes and trine my Uranus/ascendant. I was better off when I was painting, and/or learning something. Also, doing the dishes tends to bring me more answers, and clears my mind, than sitting still and waiting for an answer via meditation.
Mars in the 10th. I’m training to be a grown up.
Mars conjunct Moon in the 3rd in Scorpio. I am training my intuition and insight to be able to communicate it clearly to others – trine to Venus in the 7th. I have also spent many years now training / containing my wayward emotional-victim moon and to harness her abilities into a positive light. And then, of course, I have had to train my mother into having some respect for me and my life by instilling boundaries which she does not really accept, but at least she now knows when she is out of line.
Mars in 7th. I see “Others” training. Me? Dunno. Mm, training to not project that Mars onto others. I ought to start a board thread “owning personal planets in the 7th house”.
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