Gonino School
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SCHOOL OF ASTRAPSYCHOLOGY · THE PLANETS
Mars
WILL · COURAGE · ACTION
The forge of will — how one asserts, desires, and fights.
I.
The Aesthetic
iron, blood-red, a forged blade, flying sparks
Every image the School makes of Mars begins here — the motif set on a parchment ground, painted in the School's house style: Van Gogh's impasto crossed with Monet's open air, drawn toward the Greco-Futurist line.
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PORTRAIT OF MARS — FORTHCOMING FROM THE SCHOOL OF AESTHETICS
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The Attributes
ARCHETYPE
The Warrior
The one who asserts, defends, and forges through will.
PSYCHOLOGICAL FUNCTION
drive, aggression, and assertion
The part of the personality Mars governs — its job in every chart.
THE ROMAN NAME HOLDS
♂ Mars
Mars goes by its Roman name, which is already its astronomical name.
III.
The Astronomy
The outermost of the rocky worlds — the red planet, its color rusted iron, the first orbit the wanderers cross beyond Earth's own.
ORBITAL PERIOD
687 days (~1.9 years)
TIME PER SIGN
~6 weeks–7 months per sign (longest when retrograde)
RETROGRADE
Retrogrades every ~26 months for 60–80 days — the rarest retrograde of the classical planets.
At opposition, when Earth overtakes it, Mars blazes brightest and appears to reverse course — the loop that baffled sky-watchers for two millennia.
Keeps a day almost exactly the length of ours (24h 37m), polar caps, and seasons; two small moons — Phobos and Deimos, Fear and Dread — attend it.
IV.
The Meaning
The forge of will — how one asserts, desires, and fights.
In the natal chart, Mars governs drive, aggression, and assertion. Where it stands — its sign, its house, the aspects it casts — shapes how that part of you shows up in practice: as will, courage, action.
THE SHADOW
anger and aggression; force used to dominate rather than to build or defend.
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Dominion
RULES
Aries
Scorpio
CO-RULER
Rulership updates on new information — the modern ruler commands, and the classical ruler remains as the explicit co-ruler, the secondary voice.
EXALTED IN
Capricorn
NATURAL HOUSES
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The 1st House — the Helm
The horizon of the self — embodiment, appearance, the way one enters.
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The 8th House
co-ruler · The shared depths — death, intimacy, others' resources, transformation.
VI.
The Study
The Study — forthcoming
A thorough scholarly treatment of Mars is being prepared by the School — its history, its cycles, and its full psychology.