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Mars opposition Neptune

Mars opposition Neptune is a challenging position, as you have difficulty trusting in your ability to go after things that you want in a direct manner. It may also be that you have difficulty pinpointing what it is that you want, or that part of you doesn’t feel you deserve it due to a basic lack of self-confidence. You fear rejection as well as criticism, and often use roundabout means to go after what you want. With Mars opposition Neptune, your imagination is so powerful that it can be hard to trust your instincts. You easily imagine things going wrong, just as you easily fantasize about good things! Your desire nature is strong yet also very suggestible. You’re attracted to mysteries and intrigue. Sexual experimentation is likely, as you are forever addicted to sensuality and unusual or perhaps even what many would consider perverted sexual scenarios. However, your sensual appetite might be much like a bottomless pit, and you could find yourself forever in a state of wanting more, tiring of regular sexual scenarios quickly, and endlessly searching for the next sensation. If an addiction to fantasy is present, you can find yourself constantly chasing a new and more complicated fantasy. It is only when you get into touch with your heart and discover your true desires that you realize that sensations are merely sensations–not deeply satisfying or fulfilling.

Mars opposition Neptune

Mars opposition Neptune creates an internal struggle against insecurities and other worries. You may initially make up for low self-confidence by showing a brave and assertive exterior, but this bravado doesn’t always seem natural and does not sit well with others. You may have to deal with more than your share of negative influences in the form of deceptive people. Psychic vampires will see through to your insecure inner self and attempt to drain your energy by taking advantage of you. Psychic warfare is not your scene; such interactions will weaken you spiritually and physically. In your battle to attain self-confidence, you may experiment with drugs or different ways of expressing your sexuality. It would be better for you to maintain high ethical and moral standards to avoid scandal and slander, as this would further destroy your confidence. Under Mars opposition Neptune, you can find the appropriate inner strength and courage through more subtle or creative ways. Music, dance, and even poetry will meet your creative self-expression needs. It is also in your best interests to be comfortable with and know your limits, which applies to your competitiveness and passionate desires. You are a more sensitive and caring person than most. It is essential not to feel you must live up to the stereotypical image of a strong man or sexy woman. You are attractive in more subtle and mysterious ways but just as beautiful as anyone else.

Fears of sexual inadequacy can be great with the position Mars opposition Neptune, and you may either deny yourself as a result, or overcompensate, seeking out experiences in which you are pretty much assured positive feedback. Some of you will experience both of these extremes in your lifetime. I have a client with this position who has a “trophy” wife, and she often denies him, and even belittles him, on a sexual level. He accepts this but “gets her back” behind her back, having serial affairs with women who are not considered as attractive for whatever reason and with whom he attempts to reclaim his power. One of the interesting things about Mars opposition Neptune is that if you are involved in immoral activities, guilt has a way of cropping up in unusual ways, and could lead you on a self-destructive path–and you might even know that you’re heading that way, yet you compulsively follow that path. Part of you might want to get caught! You might, for example, know in your mind that doing something is risky, yet you compulsively do it anyhow, perhaps even finding the challenge invigorating. With Mars opposition Neptune, much of your life seems like scenes from a spy movie. There's always some intrigue and espionage, and you must keep an eye out for any and all foes. But perhaps the one enemy you rarely see coming is yourself. This perspective, at its worst, might seem like you're perpetually paranoid. Yet, that's not often the case. What's usually truer is how you relish cloaking your own intentions from others, even when you only have the best in mind, for yourself or others. You fear they won't fully understand your plans. Or that they'll somehow foil what you're attempting to do before you can get anything off the ground. This is how you find yourself at odds with others. In turn, this wears on your own spirit and eventually your own body. Best to believe in the nobility of your intentions and learn when to divulge them at the right moment rather than thinking no moment is ever good enough.

Mars opposition Neptune focused more on your outer relationships with people, although inner projections are often the key to their problematic nature. As with the square aspect, there is the presence of the unconscious mind being activated by a frustrated Neptune, which lead to distortions in action and expression. Inner motivation is often unclear in respect of its true nature, and often compulsive desires are hidden behind a facade so effectively that even you are often essentially unconscious of why you act in certain ways and way is actually making those decisive choices for you. Self-clarity can be difficult to achieve, especially in the areas of emotional and sexual desire, which can have a compulsive quality to them, and which can dominate your options. Those areas may become highly emphasized in your life, excessively so and out of a healthy proportion and perspective. The nature and quality of your relationships can be transformed with opposition, provided that you deal with those problematic areas of your inner nature, trust, emotions, sexuality and illusions. Perceiving how you can negatively condition your experience is the key to realizing how you can positively transform it too.

With Mars opposition Neptune, you probably lack trust and faith in life. Suspicion is a constant companion, and you see others through such a filter, yet this is often mainly composed of your own nature projected out like a shadow over the world. How can you trust yourself when you do not fully comprehend your own motivations and desires for actions? Yet you often mean well, but are let down by your own tendencies of secrecy and manipulation. Your own attitudes are reflected back at you, so that mutual suspicion is often created, and you lose even more trust in people. Sometimes you tend to withdraw from social activity due to this. A refinement in how you choose to assert yourself may be necessary, as well as a withdrawal of these conditioning negative characteristics. Confronting reality is essential with Mars opposition Neptune, so that, by acceptance, a more realistic balance in relationships can emerge - one where your desires are less dominant and threatening, and where the emotional dimension is more integrated and explored. This will help to modify and redirect the blocked Neptune energy so that relationships become deeper, more satisfying and a bridge to renew your experience of social relating. Evaluating your ambitions in life can be more productive once the projections are being withdrawn and using intellect and common sense can be more effective in realizing them than following a path of glamour and compulsive desires which, whilst perhaps temporarily exciting, leads to a dissipation of yourself and your objectives. With Mars opposition Neptune, avoidance of unnecessary stimulants is also wise, as these will not help; and a more perceptive insight into the nature of glamour and illusion will also be highly beneficial. This is especially so if you have become involved in the occult or spiritual realms of life, where there are always many candidates to take advantage of those who are more gullible and susceptible to the power of 'secret knowledge'. Those how have the desire to be 'special' are often abused physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually.

Mars opposition Neptune attracted to mysteries and intrigue but can be paranoid by it

Although Mars opposition Neptune can be very creative at keeping your motives and personal agenda hidden–in fact, many of you seem on the surface of things to be quite gentle and yielding–you might eventually become resentful if you feel the need to resort to sneakiness in order to get what you want out of life. This is one of the things that has struck me as the most common characteristics of Mars-Neptune people. It’s not that they don’t get angry or show that anger. However, many will give in to another’s desires more often than not, yet become resentful of that person who seems to have control over them. Some will give up their power to a partner, for example, often taking the role as the one who gives in or gives up things in order to make the other happy. However, resentment for this builds, and while people with harmonious Mars-Neptune aspects more easily yield to others without anger for doing so, those with hard Mars-Neptune aspects are more likely to feel stepped upon, and to retaliate in covert ways. If you do feel resentment for giving up your power to someone else, learn to avoid giving it up unless you truly understand that you are doing it for yourself, and not for someone else. Resentments have a way of building and distorting themselves into ugly matter if you don’t deal with them properly and directly. You are often passive-aggressive in your approach to others, and this can cause a lot of problems in your life. You are usually found chasing a dream… or a fantasy. The former is probably the better path.

With Mars opposition Neptune, somehow, others are bound to eventually sense that you are not to be trusted, and this is often for good reason! You may not like to admit this to yourself, as you may have built excuses for your deceptive or sneaky behaviour. However, adopting a more direct and assertive approach to life is something that you should be working towards. You will need to get over your feelings of guilt when you do adopt this approach. Learning to take responsibility for your actions, and to avoid blaming others for failures, is important. At your worst, you can be disorganized in your approach to life, easily procrastinating and lacking follow-through when you do begin a task. Some of the most important lessons you need to learn in life are self-control, self-assertion, and trust in yourself. At your best, you are a creative person with a powerful imagination and great stores of compassion. Mars opposition Neptune depicts conflict which, when resolved, results in growth. Oppositions show a tug of war between opposing forces. If they are resolved, then the oppositions become the backbone and strength of the chart. It is important to understand that Mars is busy, hyper and action-oriented. Mars is assertive, aggressive and competitive, while Neptune is in-tune. Think of Neptune as being intuitive, in-tune and tuning in like a Tune-Ah-Fish, since Neptune is the ruler of Pisces (the fish).  Mars opposition Neptune is the classic out-of-control mind that leads to the body being out of control. Sex, drugs, alcohol, violence, debauchery, depression, psychosomatic illness, hypochondriac, etc. All sense of reason is lost. You can be drawn between your assertive self (Mars) and the side which wants to dream (Neptune). Learn to integrate the two sides, which can lead to wonderful creativity. This is how songs are written in a half hour, books are written in a weekend and mountains are climbed in record time. Mars is aggressive and typically hard to control, while Neptune takes us into the unconscious realm and dream state. This can lead to decisions without much thought leading to the decision. The knee-jerk reaction or reflexive action can be so aggressive that it could turn violent. This kind of quick action doesn't leave much room for the individual to consider what motivated them to react that way. With Neptune involved, it is probably deep.

Mars opposition Neptune aspect reveals it is hard to relate to others emotionally. This makes the individual susceptible to deceit and becoming involved in misdeals. This aspect can be very problematic because the emotions are simply out of touch on both ends of the spectrum. The emotions are distorted either too aggressively or too passively. Unless there is a stable influence of Mercury, Uranus or solid-functioning Saturn, then this aspect can be downright dangerous because the unconscious mind is not tapped for reasoning. When the knee-jerk or reflexive action is taken without the mind going through its reasoning power, then the result is living in distorted or possibly violent conditions. This reminds me of the violent and/or alcoholic family that is out of touch with reality. Living under those conditions usually encompasses a high degree of lies, deceptions, cruelty, secretiveness, underhandedness and wild imaginations. Remember, the unconscious mind (Neptune) is not computing properly here, so nothing is as it should be. Mars is a planet that is heavily involved in sex, so wild imaginations with sex (intercourse) or wild imaginations such as infidelity or accusations of such are likely. This is most certainly NOT the aspect to engage in bad or sneaky sexual behaviour because the chances of getting caught are strong. This includes sending sex laced e-mails, texts, taking pictures or meeting in person for a sexual liason. It's all just WRONG! Those who are not wrapped up and obsessed with sexual gratification may be caught up with the obsession of drugs or alcohol. Neptune cannot handle chemicals (drugs or alcohol), so Neptune opposing Mars is a very bad combination to feed the body chemicals. Those with Mars opposition Neptune aspect in their natal chart will likely have chemical dependency or at the very least they will experience trouble with aspect, such as DUI's (driving under the influence) or waking up next to someone they don't know still under the influence. Drugs and alcohol do not mix under this aspect. They never did and never will.

Even those who do not engage in alcohol or drugs, there may be unexplained or mysterious health issues under the influence of Mars opposition Neptune. This is the individual who cannot get enough information from doctors and insist that there is something wrong with them. Keep in mind that Neptune naturally rules Pisces, which rules mental health, including depression. The body absolutely does form chemical reactions as a result of emotional anxiety. This can easily become a catch-22 situation. Psychosomatic illnesses are very real because of the chemical relationship. Psyche = mind and somatic = body. It's real but the illness is caused by the mind. Think of acne, ulcers and even headaches as a result of stress. If they are caused by the mind (worry, doubt, fear, anxiety) then they are psychosomatic. It doesn't mean they are 'imagined'. They are very real conditions caused by the stressed mind. There is also the strong spiritual influence with this aspect where the individual could get caught up in unrealistic mystical, spiritual or religious practices that are more cult-like. The mind gets lost (Neptune) and now it is susceptible to infiltration. The danger here is being taken advantage of by deceitful individuals. While the individual with Mars opposition Neptune may be perfectly honest and above board in their activities, the motives and actions will be questioned and suspected. Be careful not to become involved in any activity that is the least bit shady. Learn to reason with your intellect and not be led by your fascination for thrills and the unknown. Avoid drugs, alcohol, and the occult. These are highly dangerous with this aspect because the susceptibility is so high and the individual is so easily influenced. The individual is easily mesmerized by illusions and those who create them. Avoid setting unrealistic goals.

 

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