Mercury expressions: Literature, writings, oratory, study, memory. If frustrated may become
conceited, profane, unprincipled, tale- bearing, forgetful, addicted to gambling.
Venus: Physical faculties: friendship, romantic amativeness; the affections, particularly love
and the emotions derived therefrom; aesthetic sense, but not analytical; responsive to beauty
whether of person, adornment, art or environment; enjoys elegance, comfort and pleasure;
good taste; sex sensitivity, but discriminating; parental instinct; a youthful, almost childlike
simplicity of approach and viewpoint; a gracious yet almost patronizing attitude; subject to
negative moods and extremes of feeling; given to self-pity in moments of depression; mind
highly receptive but largely concerned with social affairs; memory sense frequently
unreliable; gentle, amiable, pacific, graceful, cheerful, temperate, passive. When thwarted,
inclines to extravagance in self-indulgence; slothful, licentious, sensual, vain, dissolute, and
generally abandoned; fond of gaudy apparel. Evolved venusian sensibilities incline to art,
music, peace, justice, grace, faithfulness, fruitfulness.
Mars: The vital faculties: combativeness, acquisitiveness, desire, enthusiasm, passionate
amativeness, courage, ardor in pursuit, not easily rebuffed and seldom discouraged,
indiscriminate sexuality, haste, anger, intolerance, fretfulness; a centre of power and energy,
whether for good or ill; acute, penetrative mind, largely concerned with physical
accomplishment, through direct-action methods, rather than aims, and fitted for enterprises
requiring seer-assurance; dynamic force, whether applied constructively or destructively;
domineering, brooks no interference and is often ruthless in disregard of others; fearless and
unhesitating as to hazardous undertakings and occupations; love of family - and on a wider
plane, patriotism; ever ready to protect its own, whether family, country or organization;
strong sense of brotherhood with humanity at large, though appearing to be self-centered.
Mars is forceful, active, inflammatory, generally careless and destructive, expert, high-
spirited. Normally synonymous with force, activity, ambition, pluck, endurance, desire, strife.
When thwarted, Mars becomes cruel, egotistical, sarcastic, quarrelsome, coarse, vulgar.
Jupiter: The abstract and creative faculties: comparison applied in generalizations upon the
broader aspects; idealism; powerful sense of the dramatic, and obsessed with the desire to be
of service to society; symbolizes a person of sound judgment with an ample store of common
sense; optimism, order, harmony; the principle of expansion and growth as expressed in the
accumulation of material wealth, but without the miserliness of a marked Saturnian trait.
Idealism generosity; a balance of feeling and thought, of heart and mind, that yields
optimism, devotion, benevolence, good nature, generosity, temperateness, sociability,
hopefulness; peace-loving, law-abiding, philosophical; usually of marked religious
tendencies, especially of a ritu- alistic order; convinced of the integrity of his motives and that
his judgments are tempered with mercy; love of beauty as applied to grandeur and the
sublime, with a leaning toward art, especially sculpture; the ability to overcome opposition
with forceful but impersonal arguments; broad vision, open-mindedness; listens to reason.