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Sun Conjunct Mars: You are very motivated, with a strong drive and urge to do and accom-

plish. Others could find you a bit pushy. With an eye to progress and the future, you feel com-

pelled to try for what is just out of your reach. You support authority in all forms.

Sun Opposite Mars: Your drive and ambition may tend to be counterproductive or work

against your own best interest at times. You may feel challenged and competitive with authori-

ty figures. Your feelings and emotions can get out of control, go against your will.

Sun Trine, Sextile, or Semi-sextile Mars: A natural ability to use emotions in productive

ways. Entertaining others is one form this might take. Hard work and all things physical (such

as sports and outdoor activities) should be a snap. You are able to manage and see how to work

with the energy of others.

Sun Square, Semi-square, or Sesqui-square Mars: Your drive to succeed is strong, but you

often push yourself in a direction against your own best interests. Your ambitions may find you

at odds with authority figures again and again. A tendency towards arguments and emotional

drama exists.

Sun Conjunct Jupiter: Probably always popular with others and at home in the crowd, you

tend to radiate success. Others may value the fact that you can always manage to unravel even

the worst problems for them. You could benefit from older people or those in authority.

Sun Opposite Jupiter: You could find yourself pursuing options and paths that end up leading

away from your own best interests. Your particular solutions to problems may go against, or

prove challenging for, those in authority. Your methods may provoke the establishment.

Sun Trine, Sextile, or Semi-sextile Jupiter: You have a sense of justice and an innate ability

to understand the law, whether natural or manmade. Showing others the way through or

beyond the problems in their lives comes easy, for you sense how to manipulate the opportuni-

ties of life. Lucky.

Sun Square, Semi-square, or Sesqui-square Jupiter: You may tend to take paths at right

angles to your real ambitions and self-interest. Trouble with authorities or older people can

result. Your struggle to succeed is aided when you show self-control or discipline and find that

middle road.

Sun Conjunct Saturn: You could be a bit too serious for most, but all would agree that you are

organized and able to take care of business. You may seem older than you are, and probably

treat authority and the law with great respect. Very disciplined, perhaps too sober.

Sun Opposite Saturn: Your sense of order and discipline could, at times, prove to be counter-

productive and work against your own better interests. You may feel that others (such as part-

ners or friends) hold you back from organizing your life the way you want.

Sun Trine, Sextile, or Semi-sextile Saturn: There is a real love of science and natural laws.

You are a hard and tireless worker, with absolute determination and the ability to accomplish

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