Mars Square Descendant

Mars square the Descendant stirs heat the moment you meet the other. Your will wakes up in relationship, sometimes as chemistry, sometimes as collision. This aspect asks you to learn the art of clean power: how to be fully alive in your desires without turning the people you love into opponents.

Mars wants to move, decide, and test itself; the Descendant is where you meet the mirror of partnership. When they square, your vitality switches on in response to other people. You may magnetize strong-willed partners or find that simple exchanges escalate into sparring matches. Anger and desire run close together here: the same surge that fuels passion can also flare into defensiveness. If Mars is disowned, it gets projected—you spot the pushiness in others first and only later recognize your own appetite for impact. The square doesn’t make you combative by fate; it makes contact feel consequential, like a proving ground where your identity and someone else’s press into each other to see what’s real.

Over time, the work is not to cool the fire but to give it a purpose. Maturity turns reflex into choice: pausing before you strike, saying what you want before you accuse, naming boundaries without threat. The square becomes a forge when you fight fair—clear rules, clean exits, fast repairs. You learn to channel heat into shared endeavors, to argue for the relationship instead of against the person. Autonomy and intimacy stop canceling each other and start trading strength: you keep your edge while keeping your word.