Mars sign calculator
Your Mars sign is the sign Mars stood in when you were born: how you go after what you want, what makes you angry and what gets you moving. Enter your birth details to see it, with every planet beside it.
How your Mars sign is found
Mars spends six or seven weeks in a sign, and up to seven months when it turns back. Your birth date nearly always settles your Mars sign.
On a day Mars changed sign, the time of birth decides. Your chart is cast to the minute and says when that is so.
If you do not know your birth time
You can still find your Mars sign. The date alone is enough unless Mars changed sign on your birthday, and then the chart says so and shows both signs.
What drives each Mars sign
Mars is the part of you that wants, acts and fights back: your drive, your temper and your nerve. Here is each of the twelve in a few words, and a page for each that goes further.
Fire
Mars in Aries
In its own sign, Mars is first through any door. With Mars in Aries you start fast, fight fair and in the open, recover from a setback by lunch, and lose interest once the challenge is gone.
Earth
Mars in Taurus
With Mars in Taurus your drive is slow to start and very hard to stop. You work steadily, build things that last, want with all your senses, and once you have dug your heels in, nothing moves you.
Air
Mars in Gemini
Mars in Gemini fights with words. You argue for the fun of it, run three projects at once, win by being quicker rather than stronger, and get restless the moment a task stops changing.
Water
Mars in Cancer
Mars in Cancer, the sign of its fall, fights for the people it loves rather than for itself. Your drive rises and falls with your mood, your anger goes sideways before it comes out, and your loyalty is fierce.
Fire
Mars in Leo
Mars in Leo acts with heart and wants the effort seen. You lead from the front, work hardest on what you believe in, fight for honour more than advantage, and hate to back down in public.
Earth
Mars in Virgo
Mars in Virgo puts its drive into doing the job properly. You work with care and precision, fight with facts rather than volume, fix what others leave broken, and cannot rest while something is done badly.
Air
Mars in Libra
Mars in Libra, in its detriment, fights for fairness rather than for itself. You act best alongside someone, argue with charm, defend the underdog with real force, and can take far too long to decide to act.
Water
Mars in Scorpio
Here, in its night house, Mars works in silence. With Mars in Scorpio you move toward a goal nobody else knows about, never forget a wrong, want with a force that frightens you, and do not give up.
Fire
Mars in Sagittarius
Mars in Sagittarius aims far and moves fast. You fight for what you believe, need room to roam, throw yourself at adventure and big causes, and lose steam once a thing turns into routine.
Earth
Mars in Capricorn
Mars in Capricorn, where the tradition exalts it, is ambition with discipline. You work toward long goals with patience, keep your temper under control, respect results over talk, and climb steadily until you arrive.
Air
Mars in Aquarius
Mars in Aquarius fights for the future and the group. You act on principle, rebel against rules that make no sense, work best alongside people who share a cause, and cannot be bullied into line.
Water
Mars in Pisces
Mars in Pisces moves like water: indirectly, around obstacles rather than through them. You fight hardest for others, act on instinct and feeling, give your strength to a dream, and struggle to be angry on your own behalf.
Questions
What does my Mars sign mean?
It is how you act on what you want: how you start things, how you compete, what makes you angry, and what you do about it.
Can my Mars sign be any sign, whatever my Sun sign?
Yes. Unlike Mercury and Venus, Mars keeps its own pace around the zodiac, so it can stand in any sign beside your Sun.
Do I need my birth time to find my Mars sign?
Usually not. The date and the place are enough unless Mars changed sign on your birthday.
What if Mars was retrograde when I was born?
Mars turns back for about ten weeks every two years and two months, so about one birth in eleven has it retrograde. Your chart marks it if yours was.
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