In these texts, A is the person whose Sun is read and B the person whose Mars receives it.
Mars represents physical energy, action and the expression of anger, whether openly or after it builds up.
Facilitating contact
B brings A energy, initiative and the wish to act. A helps B direct that force. Closeness stimulates both, and B recognizes and respects A’s boundaries.
Obstructing contact
Quarrels and overbearing attitudes may appear. In its most harmful expressions, the tension includes verbal or physical aggression that damages A’s image.
The person who acts in an overbearing way may at first not acknowledge what their partner points out to them. That lack of acknowledgment does not make the behavior acceptable, nor does it turn aggression into an inevitable effect of the aspect.
Aspects of the Sun
The Sun represents personal radiance, the way we defend our own territory and the conditions under which we allow other people to come close. It relates to behaviors we feel are our own, even when we don’t recognize having learned them from those around us.
Sometimes a family is surprised by a reaction and wonders where that way of acting came from. That surprise invites us to look at what we need in order to let someone into our space, why we find it easy to approach certain people and why other presences feel threatening. It also lets us ask ourselves how others perceive us.
When the traits of the Sun match what was learned in inventory 1, their expression may feel more natural. If they differ from what the family or the culture expects, we may try to resemble an image we don’t feel is our own. In that search for acceptance, the “masks” we have spoken about appear.
In your love relationship that question comes back: how much room you have to show yourself as you are, and how much you feel you must play a role in order to be accepted.
The intensity of the following aspects is read together with the other factors of the synastry, which can reinforce or moderate how they show up.