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Mars in the 5th house

Mars in the 5th house plays to win. Passionate in love, bold in creative work and competitive in fun, you put your full force into everything you enjoy.

Mars in the 5th house: the 5th house lit on the wheel, the glyph of Mars inside it
Mars in the 5th house, as your chart would show it

You cannot play a board game casually, and your friends have stopped asking you to try.

Mars, the planet of drive and desire, was in your fifth house at your birth: the house of play, romance, children and creative work. Your drive pours into what you love.

Passionate love

You pursue the people you desire with confidence and heat. Romance, for you, needs excitement: the chase, the spark, a little danger. You are generous and bold as a lover, and you get bored by love that never surprises you.

Creative force

You make things with force: performance, sport, art that takes physical effort. Competitive games, team sport and anything with a score bring out the best in you. With children you are the parent or friend who gets down on the floor and plays hard.

Too much heat

The risk is drama for its own sake: a fight that keeps a romance exciting, a rivalry that turns a game sour, risk taken for the thrill.

Play one game this month you are happy to lose.

The fun one

The best stories your friends tell about you all start with you saying “let’s” and end with everyone glad they did.

Were you born with Mars in the 5th house?

The houses are drawn from the horizon at the minute and the place you were born, and the whole wheel of them turns once a day, so the house a planet stands in depends on your birth time. Two people born on the same day can have Mars in different houses.

Your chart, below, places Mars in its house and every other planet in theirs.

Find your own Mars

Your chart is free and takes a moment: the wheel, your Sun, Moon and rising sign, and every planet in its sign and house, Mars among them.

Date of birth

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