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Drive, anger, appetite, and how you go after what you want. Enter your birth details below and the answer is computed from the Swiss Ephemeris, the same data professional software uses.
Mars spends about six weeks in a sign, longer when retrograde, so a birth date is enough except on the day it changes.
Mars is at home in Aries, so this is drive with nothing between the impulse and the action. Read as physical courage, a temper that arrives and departs at speed, and a genuine difficulty with waiting. The classic strength and the classic problem are the same thing.
Slow to anger and enormously difficult to stop once started. Read as stamina rather than speed, as effort that continues long after other people have given up, and as a temper that takes a long time to build and does not blow over quickly when it does.
Argues rather than fights. Associated with mental energy, quick reflexes and a sharp tongue, and with effort that goes in several directions at once. The traditional caution is dissipation: a great deal of activity and not much of it in the same place.
Does not express anger directly. Read as drive that works through protecting somebody else, as passive resistance rather than confrontation, and as a formidable stubbornness in defence of what matters. Mars is in fall here, which the tradition reads as effort that has to get past a feeling first.
Acts with confidence and a certain amount of theatre. Read as sustained creative drive, courage that likes a witness, and a temper that is loud, brief and rarely vindictive. Effort here is strongest when somebody is watching.
Works precisely and steadily rather than forcefully. Associated with skill, stamina for detailed work and irritation rather than rage. The traditional caution is that anger here goes into criticism, which is a slower and more corrosive delivery than a shout.
Dislikes conflict and is surprisingly good at it. Read as drive that works through persuasion and negotiation rather than force, with anger that arrives late, politely, and often as a very calm statement of exactly what is wrong. Mars is in detriment here, which the tradition reads as effort that has to justify itself before it can act.
Mars is the traditional ruler here, so drive is at full strength and entirely under wraps. Read as stamina, strategic patience and an ability to wait a very long time for the right moment. Anger here is rarely displayed and rarely forgotten.
Acts on enthusiasm and at scale. Read as adventurous, physically confident and inclined to commit before the details are known, with a temper that is loud, brief and startlingly blunt. Effort here needs to believe in something before it will start.
Mars is exalted in Capricorn, so this is effort at its most effective: disciplined, patient and aimed at a result. Read as stamina, cold competence under pressure, and anger that is controlled, delayed and extremely precise when it finally arrives.
Acts on principle and at its own pace. Read as drive directed at changing something rather than winning something, with a stubbornness that outlasts most opposition and an anger that expresses as cold withdrawal rather than heat.
Acts indirectly and in service of something believed in. Read as effort that flows rather than pushes, strong when inspired and hard to sustain when not, with anger that goes underground rather than out and tends to surface as withdrawal.
A mars sign is one line of about forty in a birth chart, and reading it alone is how astrology gets its reputation for being vague. The full chart is free and takes the same three details you have just entered.
