Mars in the 6th house
Mars in the 6th house is a worker. Tireless, efficient and impatient with idleness, you put your fire into daily tasks and get more done before lunch than most people do all day.
You have finished the whole list by eleven and started another one.
You were born with Mars, your drive and stamina, in your sixth house: the house of daily work, routines and service. In the old astrology this is Mars’s house of joy, where it was happiest, and your drive is at its best when it has a job to do.
Getting it done
You attack tasks: fast, focused and thorough. Physical work, demanding jobs, any role with a lot to do suits you. You are the colleague who fixes the problem while others are still discussing it.
A body in motion
Exercise is not a chore for you but a need. A day without moving leaves you edgy, and a hard workout clears your mind. You like routines that challenge you.
Impatience
The risk is frustration with slower colleagues, and working yourself past tired because stopping feels like losing.
Stop when the work is good enough, and leave the rest for tomorrow.
The one who sets the pace
Every team you have been on got more done with you on it, and they noticed the difference when you left.
From a real analysis
In her chart: Mars in Aries, in the 6th house · 11°16′ Aries
“If you want it done by Friday, hand it over.” A colleague or a friend has said something like this about you, and it is fair: on an ordinary working day you clear the pile, push the stalled task forward and get restless when nothing needs doing. Your Mars, the planet of drive and fight, sits in Aries, the sign of the first step and the bold start, and it is at home there: picture a warrior in its own camp, quick and unafraid. It stands in your sixth house, the house of daily work and routines, so your courage shows up in the plain business of the job.
Were you born with Mars in the 6th 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.