Moon square Mars (Robert Pelletier)
The Moon square Mars indicates that there are great obstacles in the way of successful interhuman relationships. You resist making any adjustments to other people for fear they will take advantage of you if you seem to compromise. Your feelings are vulnerable because you are so sensitive; you are always defending yourself against threats that never materialize. To justify your uncalled-for emotional outbursts, you assert your right to use any necessary tactics to protect yourself. Your lack of control creates problems where none exist, and complicates those that do. There are times when you are simply contrary in your dealings with people. You are satisfied only when others give in to your lack of maturity and indulge your need to feel you've won when you've been challenged.
Eventually you will have to grow up, or you will always suffer from the problems that arise from your lack of moderation in dealing with people. If you understand this problem, you can learn to be more compromising and derive benefits from meeting others halfway. Until you do, you will have a hard time achieving your goals because you will waste so much effort in endless arguments with your competitors. You consider an opinion that is different from yours an affront to your intelligence and competence; those who voice such opinions are assailed with your arrogant and abusive displays of temper. If you are competent, what do you have to fear? Do you need constant reassurances to bolster your sagging opinion of your own worth? If you are not competent, get the training that will enable you to stand your ground with your competitors. Your greatest drawback is your lack of self-discipline.
Your professional distress tends to cross over into your domestic life and cause painful situations to develop between you and your partner. Unless you take steps to relieve these pressures, the scars may heal with great difficulty. It is important to maintain complete separation between your domestic and professional lives to avoid contaminating both of them.
You are forceful in making demands of others, but you are not equally prepared to fulfill what is expected of you. This double standard irks the people who have to work closely with you.
The constant strain of argument and the resulting distress cannot fail to have an effect on your physical constitution. Stomach and intestinal disorders could easily develop from the keyed-up tensions and anxieties of your daily affairs.
Moon opposition Mars (Haydn Paul)
Inner tensions and unresolved issues are likely to be projected into social relationships; and this creates difficult experiences and a scene for crises or turning points.
Your inner pressures are released within relationships, thorugh arguments, dissension, provocation, and antagonism; you take advantage of even trivial issues to turn them into energy-filled confrontations and clashes. This will obviously affect career prospects and domestic life; and these rebellious feelings will always be stimulated by anyone imposing his or her will on you through authority, orders, or criticism. Anyone crossing this line and irritating your feelings is liable to be confronted by an extremely obstinate and stubborn character. Co-workers will soon lose patience with an emotionally erratic colleague, who can suddenly become aggressive when facing criticism or personal comment; and people will learn to withdraw from contact if you behave in this way.
You feel emotionally uncomfortable; and others may find you hard to understand. You need to resolve the difficulty of instincts and emotions co-operating with an active and assertive Martian energy. Sometimes you may favour one of the planets; and, when this is temporarily Mars, you are liable to act impulsively, making sudden decisions which could be irrational, foolish, and lacking in forethought. Yet such actions may sometimes allow you to break free from restrictive situations. Expressing the lunar energy may encourage cautious self-protection, remaining with the status quo, and being afraid to move beyond familiar behaviour patterns. The challenge is to unite both energies, honouring each as equally valid and necessary for a well- balanced personality.
Part of this aggressive and assertive nature may be rooted in your relationship with your mother. Childhood feelings may have been denied through a lack of emotional

contact, or through having to submit to an oppressive home régime of duty and behaviour. In adult life, you refuse to submit to this again, yet unconsciously repeat the pattern by attempting to impose your will on others. Hoping to gain superiority, you may be too assertive in your desire to become a leader and not a follower. This often results in a distorted self-image, both to yourself and to others, as you fall into the trap of becoming 'number one' and behaving in ways which are cold,
arrogant, and overly assertive. You hate others resisting your will; and when this happens, you respond iwth a personal attack. Sometimes such an antagonistic stance may succeed; but eventually its costs far exceed those of other more moderate approaches.
Yet your personality can appear attractive to many; and there is certainly a validity that can intrigue some, even though it is often a distorted expression of the planetary energies. Choosing companions, both friends and lovers, is one area where weaknesses may appear, as you are often attracted to people who turn out to be unsuitable characters with equally volatile emotional difficulties. Intimate relationships may be limited to physical expression, or entered for material reasons, as you may repress the deeper emotional and subtler dimensions of interpersonal contact.
Sustaining relationships is difficult as time passes; and once initial atttractions fade, relationships collapse; satiating superficial feelings is easier than dealing with your deeper needs; and you prefer to avoid these. You are drawn toward 'exciting experiences' which lead into dubious areas of life, where 'excitement' may not prove beneficial. Much depends on your choice of fellow travellers, as personality tendencies can dissipate and deplete energies if efforts are not consistently made to reunify conflicting traits. In a similar way, you may fail to fulfill promises made to others through inner changeability; and commitment and responsible behavior may not be your strongest assets.
Routines and partnerships may fail to satisfy; and reactions against fixed life-style patterns may pose relaxation difficulties, creating psychosomatic illnesses associated with stomach tensions and digestion problems.
Repressing genuine feelings is not wise. You may need to acknowledge your lunar qualities more openly, and find space in your life to allow proper expression. Lessons are needed to discover how compromise is important in developing better relations. You may need to find new forms of self-assertion, which recognize that others exist too and should be given equal respect. This can help to moderate your overbearing tendencies. Through greater insight, you can gain relationship clarity, with perspective, realism, and more positive attitudes proving highly transforming as self- centeredness diminishes. Accepting the need to live harmoniously with others can readjust your sense of proportion and help you realize that you can contribute to the well-being of all, instead of merely indulging in alienated antagonism. Transforming this imbalanced side of your nature will bring considerable personal benefits, improving self-esteem and peace of mind. Achieving this will also heal uncomfortable emotions; and, once their stressful, hidden, contaminating effect on you is reduced, you can discover a clarity of thought and decisive action which can be used for your advantage.
Moon opposition Mars (Robert Pelletier)
The Moon opposition Mars indicates that you are constantly involved in crises in the relationships in your life. This will continue to be true unless you can learn to compromise. Even as a young person you got into disputes over the most insignificant matters. Intense in your feelings, you are quick to strike back at criticism, no matter

how innocently intended. You have a sparkling personality and are outgoing and aggressive when you meet people. But in your eagerness you sometimes choose to befriend individuals who are temperamentally unsuitable. You seek physical or material relationships and usually pay little attention to a person's other qualities. Because you don't have the patience to nourish a permanent relationship, you 'love them and leave them'. Those closest to you are alienated by your overbearing attitude. You tend to be emotionally pushy and intolerant of anyone who refuses to submit to your demands. Men with this aspect lack tenderness, while women tend to assert themselves with unusual arrogance.
Your argumentative nature may cause you some problems in your occupation, for you deeply resent criticism. You don't respond too well to authority and act very stubborn when required to follow rules. If you can learn to understand that everyone must follow the rules and that not everyone can be a leader, you may succeed very well. Your aggressiveness can be an asset in meeting competition. But you should tone down your frequent emotional outbursts, which are generally out of order in a business enterprise. You must make a special effort not to indulge yourself this way, or you will find that your fellow employees will avoid you, and your superiors will not be happy about the overall effect you create. People may be uncomfortable in your company because they know that you tend to fly off the handle at the slightest provocation.
You must learn to exercise greater self-discipline in your relationships. If you do not, you will permanently alienate many people who will not tolerate your kind of abuse. Given a chance, most people are willing to meet you halfway. You can get far better results if you assert yourself in a more moderate way and try to compromise in reaching mutual understanding.
Digestive upsets are common with this planetary combination, mostly because you don't know how to relax.
Moon-Mars in opposition shows a conflict between your emotions and your assertive faculties, which can be modified with even a small amount of effort. You can become more serene about your life circumstances and bring them into some degree of order. You will find that the results are much better than the results you get when you are antagonistic.
Moon square or opposition Mars (Karen Hamaker-Zondag)
Hard aspects between the Moon and Mars give a sizable dose of unrest. The influence of the Moon, which we so desperately need to make us feel comfortable, is rendered less reassuring by the Martian rashness, dynamism and unrest. It is difficult to use energy evenly, and we are liable to act on impulse. Therefore this is counted as one of the accident-prone aspects. We can harm ourselves through lack of forethought. The harm need not be physical, although this is certainly a possibility. We can also spoil relationships with other people. That is to say, due to the tension we are far too eager to make our presence felt. Self-control is definitely not our strongest point because our energy is sporadic and is therefore hard to manage.
Feelings of insecurity can make us very pugnacious; so that, whenever the emotional temperature rises, we sometimes react too angrily, aggressively or sarcastically.
In athletics, we are inclined to overdo things and are probably best suited to sports like fencing, boxing and judo or to sports which test our endurance.
There can be a certain amount of friction between the sexes: a woman with such an aspect is likely (often without quite realizing what she is doing) to become unusually

dominant over her husband, by giving him regular tongue-lashings or (if the rest of the chart points in that direction) by flying at him in a rage every now and then. A man with one of these aspects is liable to arouse the interest of a fierce, aggressive woman, or to have an independent-minded partner who insists on going her own way.
Moon square Mars (Betty Lundsted)
Here the influence of the mother was not particularly helpful to the child in the development of healthy emotional reactions. The child will have to learn to develop these as an adult. The Moon represents the emotions, Mars represents action, and the square aspect represents excessive or unconstructive use of energy. In keyword language, it reads 'I act (Mars) against (square) my emotional needs (Moon)'. Sexual relations may not be emotionally fulfilling.
This person has similar traits to those of the Moon-Mars conjunction or opposition, for the action taken often stems from an overly emotional response to a situation. It may be that the person with this square is exposed to physical violence or to violent explosions of temper in the childhood years. The mother may be emotionally distraught for reasons known only to her. She may be living a life that is either uncomfortable or unhappy. The child emulates this emotional response for he knows no other.
Because Mars indicates anger, the person with this aspect is easily angered. He can react with anger and violence to unpleasant situations he encounters; or he may suppress his anger and implode, causing much internal stress and tension. Implosive energy causes weight problems and other delicate health problems to manifest. The emotional patterns need to be examined, for this person is apt to pick partners who are emotionally ungratifying, or he may even become involved with violent types of people. (It seems that when there are hard aspects between the moon and Mars, and the individual is not physically violent himself, he chooses a partner who is.) A woman may express the Moon-Mars square by choosing to live with a man who beats her; a man with the same aspect might beat his wife and children. Both the male and the female may choose a partner who doesn't satisfy thier emotional needs.
The excess of this aspect tends to make one angry, and the anger is eventually vented on the loved one.
Moon opposition Mars (Betty Lundsted)
The key here is compromise. Any opposition indicates a compromise to be made, and the Mars-moon opposition indicates that action taken may be compromised because of the emotional reaction to what is being done. The mother of this individual feels sexuality is restricting, that her personal needs are different from her professional needs and that she can't have both. She has difficulty expressing her emotional needs, and she may have violent emotional outbursts. Action taken may be ill-planned or have unhealthy results. She may make foolish decisions based on hurt feelings. The child sees this reaction to life as 'normal'.
The Mars placement indicates how we act, how we develop our career, how we function sexually. The Moon indicates our emotional needs, our emotional responses. The conflict of the opposition is expressed as a compromise between the professional action at the expense of personal relationships or vice versa. or the sex drive (much like the Mars square) is at odds with the emotional needs.
People born with a Mars-Moon opposition may compromise several ways. The work (Mars) may be separated from the emotional life (Moon); the loveer may satisfy the sexual needs (Mars) but not the emotional / affectional needs (Moon); they may

choose a partner who shares affection (Moon) but is sexually unsatisfying (Mars); an overreaction to emotional needs may take place; the energy can express in violence.
Men and women use this energy differently. A man with the opposition may take out his anger on women; a woman with the opposition may take out her anger on her self-regard as a woman by becoming involved in basically unhealthy relationships. Both can be physically violent or draw physical violence to them in some way.
The aspect causes so much emotional sensitivity that much time can be wasted blowing minor issues out of proportion. The misuse of energy takes place because, as a child, this person saw no other approach to life. The energy can be rechanneled whenever the underlying causes are understood.
Moon square or opposition Mars (Charles Carter)
The most usual effect of these aspects in the horoscopes of 'nice' people is ill-health - it is rare to find accidents under the Luni-Martian aspects than it is under those in which the Sun is implicated. Often the health is not robust, there are many illnesses of greater or lesser severity, and life is not likely to run its full measure, though one may point to such a case as that of Lord Balfour, who after a very delicate infancy lived to an advanced age. Alan Leo is a case wherein, after a healthy life, death came suddenly and unexpectedly. In another class we find the combative and pugnacious side of the contacts in full play.
The tendency to deep thought is common in the bad contacts, but the native is apt to be influenced too much by his emotions, and there is a rebellious and intolerant element which refuses to see any good in its opponents.
A more disagreeable type is the self-indulgent prodigal, with tendencies to drink and promiscuity. There seems always to be a certain degree of kindheartedness, of a rough and selfish kind - the sort that is kind with other people's money, or when no personal sacrifice is involved. Otherwise this contact may go with a pretty considerable blackguard, the native having little self-respect, self-control or refinement. Thus we have the cases of 'Defalcating Bank Clerk', 'Drunkard', 'Adventuress', 'Young Prodigal' and 'Opium and Alcohol'.
Sometimes there is obstinacy and self-will, and probably in all examples there is a liability to hot temper or sullenness, but it is certain that in many cases this is not very prominent.
The effects of this influence on the vocation are to incline the native very strongly to seek his own career and make himself independent of others. It points to one who strikes out his own course, and it is probably that in some of the criminal examples this course of life was adopted to avoid drudgery, routine, and control by others.
It is unfavourable for the parents, either or both of whom may die young or suffer misfortunes which will affect the whole family. Sometimes this influence seems only to extend so far as to make the parent Martian in character or occupation, and sometimes the native is brought into danger by the example of the father, or when following him. It generally denotes that the family history is not altogether a happy or prosperous one.
It is distinctly unfavourable for marriage in the case of males. The wife may be an invalid, meet with accidents, or be of a domineering disposition; or there may be mutual incompatibility.

In the case of women, I think it is unfavourable because of the independence which it signifies; if there is marriage, then I believe that the husband chosen will usually be of the meeker kind, for this contact is intolerant of restraint.