Sesquiquadrate Moon – Mars
(Transit Moon → Natal Mars)
Avelom Podvodny. Aspects
Moon’s tridecile: Life holds approximately the same significance for this person as landscape does for a novel. The individual will tend to take very personally the developmental issues of life in the areas of the Planet; these will resonate within them as an intimate, warm feeling and a desire to help, with a maternal nuance—such as comforting, warming, feeding, etc. At the same time, the person may be quite selfish, striving to extract the maximum benefit from life for themselves personally, and substituting genuine care with fussiness centered around their own perceptions of others’ needs. A weakened Moon may manifest as considerable capriciousness in such interactions—many aspects of others’ lives may displease the individual, who may then attempt to reshape them to fit their own image, all under the guise of sincere concern and assistance. A well-aspected Moon provides excellent intuitive understanding of life and its challenges in the Planet’s domains, allowing for appropriate involvement, yet simultaneously enabling a similarly harmonious form of vampirism upon it. Integration leads to a symbiosis—more or less tense, depending on the major aspects of the Moon and the Planet—and enables subtle, deep personal expression through participation in life’s development: in doing so, the person will feel their truly human essence. Mars’ tridecile: A barrel of tricks does not replace a spoon of conscience. This aspect gives the individual both the capacity and the desire to direct their energy within the Planet’s spheres toward supporting life, in the forms they are inclined to perceive it. Through energetic involvement in this life, self-expression unfolds successfully—meaning external realization, and often also the shaping of inner life—which, when worked through, grants the person a sense of belonging to the human race itself, a rare and precious experience for the average individual. The condition of the Planet makes the task of supporting life processes challenging, and a weakened Mars introduces coarseness into the person’s energy, yet at the same time emphasizes the tridecile as one of the pathways toward its harmonization. Subjectively, this manifests as the individual becoming softer and more delicate in the Planet’s areas, without fully understanding why, as if someone constantly reminds them: “Careful, life!” (An attentive observer will notice the softening effect of the decile, quintile, and their derivatives in people who have fallen the furthest). If Mars is well-aspected, the person’s energy in the Planet’s sphere will typically be directed effectively, supporting life (in the case of Mars-Pluto tridecile, through efficient elimination of its parasites), which will seem entirely natural to the individual, yet the results will inspire them more than they realize.
