Sun and Mars: aspect cards

Sun conjunct Mars puts wanting and doing in the same step. You decide and act, you like to compete, and you do not want to wait for permission, so you lead by showing it in action. Your wants and your moves are almost the same thing. The thing to watch is speed: you may start a task, an argument or a new project before checking who it affects.

• You act as soon as you decide, with no need to wait for a push
• You are willing to start things and to take the job nobody wants

• You grow impatient and irritated when others cannot keep up
• You focus on winning and overlook the effect on people around you

In a group project nobody takes the key topic. You raise your hand at once and start assigning tasks before anyone answers. The team moves fast, but two people feel they are being ordered around. You stop and ask them, "Which part would you like to own?" Starting two minutes later lets the team keep working together much more smoothly.

Pause for a beat before reacting, and your speed will carry the team with it.

When the Sun is on good terms with Mars, intention and drive back each other up. You start work the moment you decide, keep going for a long time, and say what you want without making people feel pushed. The energy flows so freely that you sometimes do not need to try hard, so you may never pick a goal difficult enough to bring out everything you have.

• You start and keep going without the strain of forcing yourself
• You assert yourself in balance, so people around you do not feel pressured

• You do not challenge yourself, because everything is already easy
• Your energy has no direction when no goal is big enough

The office sports team has no one to lead it. You take over training without much thought and everybody turns up. After three months it is going in circles, so you suggest entering the team in an outside tournament. Everyone gets excited, and you have a fresh starting point for your own energy as well.

Set one goal bigger than before, so your steady energy has somewhere real to go.

When the Sun challenges Mars, your drive often collides with rules, authority or whoever blocks the way. You get irritated fast when stopped and react harder than you meant to. Impatience brings old conflicts back around. At the same time you have a lot of energy and do not back down easily; aimed at a goal with clear rules, the same force becomes the stamina a team needs.

• You do not give up easily, even when work stalls several times
• You have the energy to push what others have already dropped

• You react too fast when blocked or ordered around
• The same conflict repeats with bosses or whoever holds the rules

Your boss changes your plan midway without telling you first. You feel a flash of heat and almost type a reply in the group chat, but you stop, walk out and breathe for ten minutes. Then you ask for a private word and say you want to understand the reason before you rework it. Your boss explains, and next time tells you first.

Stop before you react, and aim your energy at a goal that has rules.