Mars and Uranus: aspect cards

Mars conjunct Uranus makes your energy arrive in bursts and resist any frame. You act fast on instinct, like to try risks, challenge the old way and build the new with a courage unlike anyone else's. Innovation, sports that need quick reflexes or changing a system suit you. The things to watch are impatience that skips steps, snap decisions and clashes with people who cannot keep up.

• You act on a new idea at once without waiting for everything to be ready.
• You dare to question the old way when it no longer works.
• You cope well with fast-changing situations.

• You may skip needed steps because you want to see results now.
• Impatience may bring you into conflict with people who work slower or need a set pattern.

Your team uses an approval process that is slow. Over a weekend you build a new system without telling anyone. On Monday your teammates are confused and some are unhappy at being bypassed. Try presenting the new system and asking for views. Your idea will gain more acceptance.

Tell the people involved before you change things, and your boldness will carry others with it.

When Mars is in harmony with Uranus, courage and initiative work together nimbly. You act on a new idea at once, respond fast and dare to change method when you see a better one. Technology, sports needing quick reflexes or launching new projects suit you, because you do best where there is room to improvise. The thing to watch is changing goals so often that you never reach the end.

• You adjust how you work the moment you see a better way.
• You respond to new situations quickly and without alarm.
• You launch new projects without needing someone to prod you.

• You may change goals so often that no project is truly finished.
• Boredom with repetition can make you neglect the last stage of a job.

You have three ideas for small apps and build a prototype of the first in one night, but two weeks later you jump to the second. Try choosing one and setting a date for three friends to try it. A real result that people use is more fun than three prototypes.

Pick one project and finish it, and your offbeat courage will have results to show.

When Mars challenges Uranus, your energy jerks and is hard to predict. You may retort suddenly, defy a rule just to defy it, or act without thinking and have to fix it later. Tension can build and come out as sharp words. The upside is that you do not fear change and speak up when you see unfairness. When there is an outlet for the energy and you pause before deciding, this force becomes reform with direction.

• You do not fear change and dare to try a route others will not.
• You speak up about unfairness even when it is not your own matter.
• You act at once when the situation calls for it.

• You may answer in the heat of the moment and then need time to repair the relationship.
• You may resist a rule only because you dislike being told, even when it has a reason.

In a meeting, someone proposes something you think is unfair to the smaller team. You stand and speak sharply before they finish. The room goes quiet and your view is dismissed as emotional. Next time, jot down your points first, pause for three seconds and then present the facts and a way out.

Pause three seconds before replying, and your drive becomes change with direction.