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Mars Opposite Saturn: You have enthusiasm and drive, but tend to lack the discipline and

methods to put your energy to work. Your emotions can cause you to neglect your responsibili-

ties, and you may find yourself going up against authorities or the status quo.

Mars Trine, Sextile, or Semi-sextile Saturn: Applied force. Practical competence. Tremendous

discipline and a love of routine work. Ability to simplify, code, and reduce a subject to its essential

elements. Inner drive to be thorough and responsible in minute details. Self-disciplined.

Mars Square, Semi-square, or Sesqui-square Saturn: Your drive and efforts are not always

well thought out. They can lack the method and discipline needed to build a firm foundation,

a solid footing. You sometimes push against the way things are, the laws of nature ... which is

fruitless.

Mars Conjunct Uranus: Your temper is a hot one and tends to come bursting forth. A drive

for independence and nonconformity takes you beyond the ordinary into the unusual and

eccentric. You could pursue electronics, computers, and the like.

Mars Opposite Uranus: Your emotional life may tend to get into a rut and lose all spontane-

ity. Your drive and ambition lead to some rebelliousness in others, especially partners. You may

struggle to break through your conventional feelings and do something different.

Mars Trine, Sextile, or Semi-sextile Uranus: Powerful urge to be an innovator. Sudden

breakthroughs, flashes, or insights. Avoid the common and seek out the unusual, exotic, and

unique. Travel to far-off or out-of-the-way places. Energetic/athletic. Inventions with comput-

ers and electronics.

Mars Square, Semi-square, or Sesqui-square Uranus: Your drive and impetus are sometimes

very conventional, and you tend to be very independent or innovative when it comes to feel-

ings and emotions. You may find yourself breaking out of the ordinary with bursts of energy, fits

of temper or new ideas.

Mars Conjunct Neptune: You are driven to make your dreams and ideals a reality. “What

could be and should be, will be and must be” is your slogan. You are committed to ideas like

world unity and community. You are living in your own dreams.

Mars Opposite Neptune: Your drive and ambitions tend to be unrealistic or go against your

ideals and self-image. You are torn between what you have imagined or dreamed as ideal and

your more immediate feelings and emotions. You swing back and forth like a pendulum.

Mars Trine, Sextile, or Semi-sextile Neptune: Driven towards the communal, to what unifies

us all. Always seeing what we hold in common, rather than our differences. Idealism of a high

order. Religious themes. Romantic. At home in psychic or psychological realms. The common

denominator.

Mars Square, Semi-square, or Sesqui-square Neptune: You can be self-defeating, often push-

ing in directions that go against your own stated ideals and dreams. You have an aversion to

Appendix A: Reading Your Own Astrology Chart

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