Mars is the red planet, fourth from the Sun, after Mercury, Venus and Earth. It is distanced from the Sun about 228 million kilometers. It’s bigger only than Mercury. The diameter of Mars is 6,600 km, half the diameter of Earth. It's slightly flattened at the poles. Seasons on Mars change its appearance.
Dry ice covering the polar caps melts a bit in warmer seasons and frost again in the cold season. The atmosphere of Mars consists of about 96% carbon dioxide. Its surface can be invisible for several months due to dust storms.
It has two satellites: Deimos and Phobos, who were given names from mythology, after the children born from the love of Mars and Venus. Mars is the planet of power, authority, severity, high temperatures, aggressiveness, dynamic, enormous physical energy that builds and destroys so it has something to build again. It orbits a half degree of the zodiac a day, while the entire zodiac in about two and a half years. It has a night domicile in Scorpio, and a day one in Aries.
Taurus and Libra are the furthest from its impact. It has a dominant effect on the Capricorn and negative one on Cancer. Its symbol is fire.
Years of Mars: 1904, 1911, 1918, 1925, 1932, 1939, 1946, 1953, 960, 1967, 1974, 1981, 1988, and every seventh year. Its plants are red, barbed, grow on dry ground such as: nettle, peppers, etc. Animals: wolf, fox (carnivores that live by hunting). Metal: iron. Mars day is Tuesday. In humans, it has an impact on tone muscles, male genitals, physical energy, nose and red blood cells.
Mars brings energy, passion, conquest, action, originality. It symbolizes a time when we fight for success, rivals, extroversion, bitter struggle, seriousness, warmth, vitality, firm male sex, iron instruments, weapons, athletes. If favorably placed, it brings initiative, enormous energy, intellectual and sexual potential, magical personality, enthusiasm, courage and sincerity, aggressiveness and assertiveness.
If within a personal horoscope it gets bad influences under angles of 90 or 180 degrees, it can cause inferiority complex, mistrust, doubt, brutality, sadism, lack of tact, tyranny and scrappiness.
