{"title":"Mars","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMars is the great warrior.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eMythology \u0026amp; Tradition\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe is the force that acts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNot the force that thinks, or feels, or waits. The force that moves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Romans called him Mars.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGod of war, yes. But also god of agriculture, of the boundaries that protect what is cultivated, of the courage required to defend what matters. He was the father of Romulus, the founder of Rome. In him, destruction and creation are not opposites.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Greeks knew him as Ares.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFierce, impulsive, and often alone on the battlefield. Where Athena brought strategy, Ares brought fire. He was not always loved by the other gods. But he was always felt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Vedic tradition, he is Mangala.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe red planet, the planet of energy, ambition, and the will to survive. Mangala governs the blood, the muscles, and the drive that pushes the soul forward when everything in it wants to stop.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJoseph Campbell, in \u003cem\u003eThe Hero with a Thousand Faces\u003c\/em\u003e (1949), writes of the threshold guardian, the force the hero must face and integrate before the journey can continue. Mars is that force. Not the enemy. The initiator.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eAstrology\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn astrology, Mars rules Aries and is the traditional ruler of Scorpio.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Aries, he is pure forward motion. The spark before the thought. The yes before the plan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Scorpio, he is depth and intensity. The will that does not break. The force that transforms through pressure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe is exalted in Capricorn, where drive meets discipline and ambition becomes achievement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eTarot\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Tower (XVI)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe sudden force that breaks what has become a prison. Not destruction for its own sake. Liberation through rupture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRachel Pollack, in \u003cem\u003eSeventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom\u003c\/em\u003e (1980), describes The Tower as the moment when false structures collapse so that something true can be built in their place.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Emperor (IV)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMars as sovereign will.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe one who holds the boundary, commands the field, and takes responsibility for what he protects.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFive of Wands\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe friction of competing forces. The energy of Mars before it finds its direction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStones of Mars\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese are stones of red earth and iron will.   They are red, black, and iron-rich, stones of courage and protection.  The will to act.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey strengthen the body. They sharpen the mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey remind the spirit that it is capable of more than it believes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo work with a Mars stone is to stop waiting and begin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThese stones carry the energy of Mars, for courage, strength, protection, and the fierce, forward-moving will to act.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"url":"https:\/\/intustones.com\/collections\/mars.oembed","provider":"Intu Stones","version":"1.0","type":"link"}