Planets in Houses: Mars in the Fifth House

by
DR. Wm. M. DAVIDSON

If Mars was in the FIFTH HOUSE at the moment of your birth, it will affect your life as follows:

Disposition

Inclines you very much to venturesomeness, a readiness to take a hazard, gives you a love of gambling, of athletics and (depending upon the rest of the chart) to make you excessively passionate in love. It begets jealousy, possessiveness and an undesirable tendency to associate with those who are not your social equals. It betokens great courage; givdes some capacity for animal training and even love of circus life. It is strong for adventure.

Gainfulness

The gain or loss here is strongest in all matters of risk venture, gambling, sport promotion, athletic activities, sports photography, amusements and pleasures involving animals or many men, as in circuses, pageantry, or gymnastics. It is concerned with every kind of promotional venture where sheet hazard exists. Is favorable for speculative real estate deals, options and quck turns. Often involves the partners of friends, and sometimes acts through the death of employer or superior, favorable or otherwise according to the kind of aspects. Your father tends to make, or los, money rapidly. The gains-losses of this position are also possible through the friends of your mate (as in card games). Favors such activities as sports instructor, physical director, fencing or boxing academies; martial music; sport goods stores, animal shows; adventure fiction or western films, or animal shows; all are signified and gainful or losing according to the influences in operation.

Things - Circumstances

Governs all athletic and sporting equipment, boys’ camps, games, sports, personal or animal contests, animal show contests, animal judging; wild ‘love-affairs’ based on sex rather than on idealism; important bodyguards, military ceremonials, action or sports photography; exhibitions of strength or daring, wrestling, boxding matches, fencing. Less decorous taverns.

Health

This position tends to affect the heart but functionally rather than organically. It begets danger of heart strain when afflicted, through over-exertion or heart injury incurred in games, sports or exhibitive efforts. In some signs it signifies acute infections through illicit sex relations. It warns against sexual excess toward which there is a tendency. Back strain or injury through over-effort is also shown. In Fire signs avoid too much activity in strong sunlight as danger of heat or sun stroke. It begets much physical vigor when in good aspect and generally a bounding pulse.

Marriage

The influence in marriage will be largely centered in the problem of adjustment of sex relations, in agreement about offspring and the turbulence or emotionality of the first born. Friends of partners also tend to affect your life favorably or unfavorably. The first born child is likely to be jale, rather forceful, adventurous and somewhat uncontrollable, needing early discipline. Beware of entanglements with marital partners of your friends. The path of love tends to be somewhat stormy, and even in good aspect signifies victory only through conquest.

People

This tends to bring many friends among athletic, sporting or military persons or those of a gambling, venturesome type. Any women friends of men tend to athletic, masculihe types – if in Water signs, addicted to drink. Sometimes there is trouble through mental disturbances of kindred. It also signifies the friends of your marriage partner.

Attunement

To control this power and attain the most good from it, it is necessary that you realize primarily that it gives a very strong emphasis on the mental side of sex and that one of your major problems is to turn this increased libido into constructive channels. In this way you will attain much in life, but if you allow it to dominate you it can bring much difficulty. It contributes greatly to the virility of your mental life and thus can, by transmutation, beget greater dynamicness in any given field of activity. Your key is – use your force in constructive lines, especially those which contribute to the progress of humanity.

DR. Wm. DAVIDSON was a homeopathic physician who practiced in the Chicago area some 50 years ago. He was an active member of Friends of Astrology, and frequently lectured for us. These notes are part of his lessons from 1954, and have been donated to us through our member, EDNA KAYE.