占星术

Mars is the Warrior — aggression, destruction, discipline, and the purifying force that tears down what is false or stagnant. Attributed to Geburah (Severity), he is the cosmic surgeon whose knife cuts away diseased tissue. His Major Arcana card is The Tower (XVI).

Rulership: Mars rules two signs. In Aries (Cardinal Fire), Mars expresses his most direct, initiating, and headlong aggressive nature — the charge, the first strike, the explosion of will into action. In Scorpio (Fixed Water), Mars expresses his most penetrating, strategic, and transformative nature — the surgeon's scalpel, the detective's relentless pursuit, the alchemist's acid that dissolves to purify.

Exaltation: Mars is exalted in Capricorn — the Cardinal Earth sign of disciplined ambition. Here the aggressive instinct reaches its highest expression: not the impulsive charge of Aries or the obsessive penetration of Scorpio, but the focused, constructive, enduring application of force toward material mastery. Mars in Capricorn builds empires.

Jungian Meaning: Mars is the aggressive instinct in its most impersonal form — the universal principle that all structures must eventually fall, not out of malice but because destruction is the necessary precondition for renewal. As ruler of Geburah, he represents the critical function that examines everything the Ego has built and ruthlessly dismantles what is no longer true.