Mars in Scorpio in the 2nd House
Mars in Scorpio in the Second House
The placement of Mars in Scorpio indicates that you are likely to have desires that spring from a need for power or intimacy and that your actions are likely to be influenced by your intense emotional drives. This often manifests in your actions having an intensity that is the result of focused emotional energy. Others may, therefore, see you as powerful or aggressive. Much of the behavior and many of the personality characteristics associated with Mars in Scorpio are a result of your deep need for emotional security that is brought about through intimacy or feeling that you are in control of your actions and desires.
Although Scorpio was formerly considered to be ruled by Mars, the Mars in Scorpio placement has its ambiguities. This is symbolized by the natural quincunx between Scorpio and Mars-ruled Aries. Scorpio is the Fixed Water sign. The active functions associated with Mars symbolically tap into the source of power inherent in Scorpio’s watery depths. The Mars-Scorpio relationship may be likened to that of fire and water in a boiler. What is produced is high-pressured steam and energy. When there is a controlled and constructive outlet for this energy, it is a powerful source of work. If the energy is blocked, suppressed and bottled up with no outlet, it becomes destructively explosive. Scorpio’s association with sexuality through the intense duality inherent in Pluto, its ruling planet, tends to heighten the sexual dimension associated with Mars.
Mars also symbolizes the animus in the psyche. Thus, if you are male with Mars in Scorpio, you are likely to model your masculinity in order to incorporate characteristics typically associated with Scorpio. As alluded to above, this often is associated with an identification of masculinity with sexuality and often, the Scorpio Mars male must struggle to rise above this tendency or to overcome or control intense sexual impulses. If you are female, you are likely to be attracted to someone who projects or embodies Scorpio-associated traits. This often manifests as an attraction to powerful, magnetic or sexually vibrant men.
Insecurities
Having Mars in Scorpio, because you are inwardly insecure, you are always seeking power in order to validate your selfhood and attain a feeling of security. If you attain power, you mistake the power that you feel as being personal and yours, rather than recognizing the truth that all power is from the One Source and is only lent to us for our use. Because you have a need to prove your superiority to yourself, you use this power to dominate others. Pure lust for power is a symptom of your inner feeling of powerlessness. With Mars in Scorpio, you may also fear being controlled and so, in defense, seek to act to control others. On the other hand, if you are extremely insecure, you may shrink from asserting power either out of fear of the consequences should you misuse that power or out of fear that your use of power may prompt someone with greater power to exercise it against you.
Mars in the 2nd House:
Mars in the 2nd House suggests that your desires and actions are practical and generally aimed at enhancing your physical security and material comfort. With Mars in the 2nd House, you may concentrate your actions on acquiring those things that are desired by you because they are valuable and useful. You may desire a great many possessions because having things may tend to make you feel secure. If this is the case, the first priority in most of your actions may be to establish a level of comfort and sufficiency.
Having Mars in the 2nd House, an underlying question posed before taking any action may be, how will this affect what I have? Thus, if you are continually seeking to protect yourself from loss or possible want, your actions may become risk adverse so that your actions are for the most part cautious and conservative. With Mars in the 2nd House, when you feel that your physical security or comfort is threatened, however, you may be very willing to take risks or act aggressively in order to protect your possessions.
As an individual with Mars in the 2nd House, your value system may not be so materialistic, however, and, if this is the case, then your desires for material security will not bind you so much. In fact, given an idealistic set of values, you may be willing to risk much and act with courage to achieve your ideals and actualize your values.
Insecurities
With Mars in the 2nd House, if you are inwardly insecure, you will be subject to all sorts of desires for material comfort and possessions. You justify pursuing these desires as being necessary for your physical well-being and security. In your mind, your wants are transformed into needs.
In this way, as an individual with Mars in the 2nd House, you are always busy in the pursuit of your material desires and you never have to consider what your values are or should be. To do so would be to discover what kind of person you are and to examine yourself threatens your insecure ego. Not only would you risk finding that you may not like who you are, but you might feel morally compelled to change and this might mean sacrificing some of your comfort.
Having Mars in the 2nd House, it is easier to actively and aggressively acquire things. In this, you can be quite insistent and self-willed. You may trample over others, rushing to be the first to draw from the stockpile, being certain that you have yours at whatever the cost.
Focus of Desires
With Mars in the 2nd House, your desires tend to be focused on objects that you wish to possess or, more generally, on achieving a level of material comfort that makes you feel secure and safe from want. You are likely to desire much, that is, to own much. Having Mars in the 2nd House, you are generally following the values of a consumerist society and your desires are conditioned desires. You may be very much prone to being manipulated by media and advertising into thinking that you need something. It is only when you begin to consider what is truly valuable in life that your desires can begin to change. You can then focus on actualizing the real values that you hold.
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Article referenced from:
Gargatholil, Depth Astrology: An Astrological Handbook - Volume 2: Planets in Signs
Gargatholil, Depth Astrology: An Astrological Handbook - Volume 3: Planets in Houses
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