Hermetic astrology is an early warning system that is grounded in evidence-based statistical research.
An accident is defined as an unfortunate incident that happens unexpectedly and unintentionally. It typically results in injury or damage.
There are all kinds. A lady pruning roses can suffer an accident with a thorn. Accidents can involve guns and knives. Road accidents involve cars. They often involve speed and thoughtless risk-taking. Serious accidents have serious consequences. Some leave people with long-term chronic pain. They disrupt the life and can take years of recovery.
You have an accident story. Maybe you’re accident prone or maybe accidents are rare life events. Whatever, you should document your accident story noting the type of accident and the date it occurred.
Mars is the accident planet
It’s a fact, confirmed by astrological research, that Mars is the planet of accidents; and it’s a theory, because it hasn’t been tested, that the risk of accident increases in proportion to the power and discord of Mars.
So, Mars in your birth chart allows you to learn about your accident potential.
Mars maps your aggressive urge – your desire to attack obstacles and opponents, make haste and energize effort – and its astrodyne power reveals the relative strength of your potential to have accidents.
Aggression has a wide scope of expression ranging from courageous initiative to cruel and destructive harshness and your rather impetuous aggression is very inclined to act on impulse without assessing consequence.
Mars is a social planet and accidents often involve other people. And the house position of Mars in your birth chart reveals the environmental cues aka life-matters, activities and people directly associated with accidents.
Accidents can involve siblings (house 3) partners (house 7) and friends (house 11). They can occur whilst driving (house 3), playing sport (house 5), or travelling overseas (house 9). They can occur in the home (house 4) or at work (house 6) and can result in physical injury (house 1), income loss (house 2) or career setbacks (house 10). And you should know the environmental settings that are directly associated with your accident life.
Mars is the ruler of Aries and Scorpio and their house cusp locations map departments of life indirectly associated with accidents.
The prominence of Mars in your birth chart measures your tendency to have accidents. It will likely confirm what you already know about yourself.
If you’re a male soul you’re predisposed to have accidents. In fact, it can be quite dangerous being a male soul.
Assess your accident potential
Assess Mars in your birth chart: If it’s prominent and discordant you’re inclined to have accidents. The higher its discord the more serious the accident.
If it’s non-prominent or weak your accident potential is correspondingly reduced.
Mars is your chief consideration but there are other planets to consider. Saturn and Uranus seem to have some accident producing potential especially if they’re discordant.
So, assess Saturn and Uranus and if they are prominent and discordant your predisposition towards accidents is markedly increased.
You can only experience an accident event when birth chart or progressed Mars is activated by progression and if, at the same time, there are progressions involving Saturn and Uranus your potential is markedly increased.
And if Pluto is prominent and active by progression the accident can be unusually drastic and involve a group.
Car accidents
Your potential to have an accident whilst driving your car, crossing the street or riding a bike is measured by the prominence of Mars, Saturn and Uranus. Discord ups your potential.
And as Mercury is the planet of travel and house 3 is the house of short journeys, they are always involved in a car accident.
You can only experience a car accident when birth chart or progressed Mercury, Mars, Saturn and Uranus and the ruler of house 3 are activated by progression.
If you have a predisposition toward accidents (and most people do) you need to give your Mars thought-cells harmonious desires. They need to be managed carefully and you should start to develop the habit of using up your Mars thought-cell energy doing some constructive work and learn to take pleasure in doing this work whatever it may be.
And whenever you feel irritation or anger, or when thoughts of combat, destruction or lust begin to enter your objective consciousness aka mind you should immediately turn your attention to this constructive work and think about it pleasantly.
These precautionary measures are especially needed whenever your predisposition towards accidents is activated by progression.
It’s important to understand that each planet in your birth chart measures the relative level and functional status of a distinct type of thought-cell activity and you should put the emphasis on your thought-cell activity not its astro-marker.
So, when it comes to accidents put the emphasis on your aggressive thought-cell activity, not Mars. Mars is simply your birth chart reference.
More accident research is needed
More research needs to be done on accurately timed birth charts to more precisely determine the risk of accident.
Mars discord is the hot spot. It indicates that the aggressive energy is discordant, impulsive, fast, reckless and destructive and naturally inclined to attract accidents.
Astrological research may one day determine that as the discord score of Mars increases so does its accident potential. But at this stage all we know is that Mars discord inclines towards accidents.
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