A JOYOUS AND MEANINGFUL LIFE USING ASTROLOGY
In astrology, we all treat Moon as the significator of happiness which is not wrong on any basis, but I have another secret to offer that you may find helpful.
Moon represents comfort and convenience — the bed of roses — and hence, it results in happiness. Moon is resting and relaxing. However, Mars, on the other hand, represents struggle, gain, power, and triumph.
The entirety of philosophy and psychology is filled with this notion that happiness is not the highest pursuits of a good life, it is struggle and meaning. When you struggle for something, obviously it’s meaningful to you.
In order to stay satisfied your entire life, you have to have some power over something and a goal that demands bearable struggle; hence, you have to have your Mars functional.
Taking my point forward, to stay satisfied using a long-term strategy, Mars is your best friend. Moon can make you happy but too much and too easy happiness is always a boring factor. It makes us pathetic and weak, and leaves us of no use. Using the ideal heroic life according to higher studies like philosophy and psychology, Mars provides you with a struggle that is rewarded with a supreme prize in the end. That’s what we need to stay satisfied with life.
Now, the actual issue that arises while manifesting Mars is that it can be untamed and brusque. We, as a society, do not appreciate someone being aggressive in their desires and pursuits and trying to snatch things out of hands. That’s a Mars signification. It is not recommended. It will get you killed, leaving you with no life to live at all.
We want to stay alive and find the best way to move forward. I always say that Venus is the socially accepted form of Mars. Venus helps us gain power but in a really endearing way that others appreciate. If you want to have the last bite of cake (that’s gaining power over someone who doesn’t get to have that piece) and you use ‘please’ or ‘may I’, people will actually let you have one (and you shall gain power and feel satiated). That’s a way of Venus. Power is not a negative thing at all, it’s the basic need of a human being. You can never live without having power over at least something. It’s when it goes overboard that it annihilates everything. We’re gaining power over others all the time and it works because we’re socially intuned.
Let’s look at another analogy. Out of all the significations, love and partnerships are the primary ones for Venus.
Now as I said that it’s a socially accepted form of Mars (and Mars wants power), when you get into a relationship or a commitment with someone, you both actually have some power over each other. You can make your partner do things that they wouldn’t do otherwise and vice versa; and yet you both love it! We even say ‘I’m falling for you’ which sounds vulnerable and hands the power to the person it’s directed to. That’s how it works.
We have already established that Moon is not the best-case scenario to orient your life on, and Mars isn’t good in its raw form either; which leaves us with Venus.
To follow with an example, I personally have Venus in Sagittarius in my 6th house and Mars in Virgo in the 3rd. Mars is representing that I’m incredibly competitive and rigorous in terms of knowledge, skills, and moving forward. It also shows that I want to win using whatever it takes and be respected for my energy and hard work. On the other hand, Venus in Sagittarius in the 6th house is representing that I love serving people with wisdom and knowledge in a really creative manner. It also shows that I’m an optimistic guru-type personality who’s just nice and loving to everybody (not bragging but still come on).
So, using these interpretations, if I use my Mars only, it’ll be very healthy for me of course; but it can result in conflict and confrontation with my peers and can end me with a title like ‘narcissist’ or ‘rude bigot’. If I use my Venus solely, it’ll leave me with no skills and goals, and I shall end up being a hedonist. How to balance it out for a perfect outcome?
My conclusion here is that we don’t need Moon or Sun as the noble directors of our life pursuits (they are indeed the most significant planets in the chart, but they have different jobs in my opinion and that encircles the birth of a personality), instead, we should focus more on Mars and Venus when establishing the way of living because both of them combined and at ease can provide us the best we can have. Most benign way to use them is to take them together and balance them out. If you have a struggle with a reward (gaining power) in the end (Mars) and if you have pleasure and socially endorsed persona (Venus), you’re a deadly combination. Otherwise, if one topples the other down, people will not like you and you won’t be able to manoeuvre yourself and your desires in the society. Take my word for it and see how it goes for you.
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