Essential Dignities

♂︎Dignities of Mars

Rules Aries & Scorpio · exalted in Capricorn · detriment Libra & Taurus · fall Cancer

Mars's places of strength and weakness — at home in Aries and Scorpio, exalted in Capricorn, in detriment in Libra and Taurus, in fall in Cancer.

Mars acts cleanly in Aries and Scorpio and turns disciplined and effective in Capricorn; in Libra, Taurus and Cancer its drive slows against harmony, comfort or feeling and can grow frustrated or indirect. It marks where you assert yourself easily and where anger and desire ask for a wiser channel.