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THE INHARMONIOUS ASPECTS

These are frequently stated in text-books to be of a violent character, indicating brutality,

cruelty and bloodlust.

It may at once be said that this is by no means invariably the case; in fact, the writer has at

least two friends with this combination (the Square) who are conspicuously kind and in fact gentle,

there being of course other indications of this nature in their maps.

It may be said that it may incline to a certain hardness and sternness, but if the rest of the

horoscope is good this may be necessary to the native by reason of his occupation and the tempers

of those with whom he has to deal. Again, the severity may be turned inward and there may be an

inner austerity and self-discipline.

Its chief effect on character appears to be of a quite different kind. The Saturnian influence

acts as a brake on the Martian energies, and I have certainly often noticed a sort of erraticity in these

people, so that their enthusiasms are sudden and violent, but short-lasting, with alterations of

blowing hot and blowing cold. Sometimes there are spells of laziness, due to the inhibition of the

Mars action; sometimes there is a restless energy without good directing common sense when Mars

overcomes Saturn. Definitepurposeoften seems lacking, as if the native regarded life as

something of a childs game, passing from one interest to another lightly and inconsequentially.

However much in earnest such people are (and often they seem very much so), I have noticed that

they commonly forget their pursuits as soon as they cease to amuse them. True depth is generally

deficient. In one case there was great love of starting fresh enterprises and considerable ability in

this way; but the native soon lost interest in them when the initial difficulties had been surmounted,

and left them to another; here Mars was also Square Uranus.

There is usually a certain amount of selfishness or egoism. Thus, even when there is real

kindness of heart, the native likes to go his own way, and will not readily turn aside from what

interests him personally in order to minister to others. There is an inclination to impatience with

those who do not readily agree.

Exteriorly Mars-Saturn tends to a life of hardship and suffering, as well as to the undergoing

of physical violence.

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The former may occur in the way ofhealth.There is a danger of strain and excess; and this

may be followed by the need for prolonged rest, rigid attention to dietetic and other restrictions, and

otherwise paying the price.

It seems to have a distinct affinity with enteric fever.

There is also a liability to burns and scaldings(*).

The Square is not uncommon in the horoscopes of victims of murdering, as for instance

King Humbart, Willie Starchfield and Savonarola. In all such cases other potent factors will occur in

addition, for the bad aspect of two planets (as apart from Sun, Moon and Angles) cannot, however

serious, destroy the life prematurely or violently.

General Charles Gordon had the two planets in Trine, but Mars was debilitated by sign. The

same occurs in the case of Alexander II of Russia (killed by bomb).

It does not by any means forbid success, though this will come late and after severe

struggles.

(*)Mars-Saturn seems connected with fire in a wide sense, for Warren Leland, who lost wife

and children in a great fire and died of shock in consequence, had them in Conjunction. Also Dr.

Alfred Russell Wallace, who lost his scientific collections by fire, had them in Square. In another

case communicated to me privately an officer with this aspect was recommended for the D.S.O., but

never received this decoration because the papers were destroyed by fire and the recommendingofficer was killed at the same time.