All about Mars in Gemini or in the 3rd house
Like a celestial sentry, Mars readies us to fight for what we hold dear. Here’s where you feel passionate, fired up and may have a surplus of energy.
Temper alert! You may find that your fuse is shorter when it comes to this area of life. Or you may run hot and cold. You’re willing to act instinctually instead of deliberately—and sometimes things get messy as a result.
Lusty Mars is the forthright companion to seductive Venus and can bring out the “cosmic caveperson” in us all. Raw desire is directed by Mars, and that includes everything from our sex drive to our professional pursuits. Where there’s smoke there’s fire, so why not build upon that heat? Daring, energetic Mars provides exothermic momentum for our most trailblazing missions.
Natal Mars or Mars Sign
Whatever zodiac sign and house Mars was orbiting through at your time of birth determines your “natal Mars” or “Mars sign.” More specifically, this will guide you in the following ways:
- Motivation: How driven you are to achieve and what lights your fire
- Lust: Your passionate instincts and erotic drive
- Leadership: Where you’ll readily jump in and take charge
- Fight: What gets you riled up and ready to throw down; how you do battle
- Initiative: How readily you’ll start a project, relationship, etc.
- Raw instincts: What makes you move into action without thinking twice
Mars is one of the inner planets, along with Venus and Mercury. Because of its closer proximity to the Sun, it moves through all twelve zodiac signs in 687 days, spending an average of 6-8 weeks in each zodiac sign.
What is my Mars sign?
Use our cosmic calculator to discover what zodiac sign and house Mars was in when you were born. To accurately determine the house, you will need to know your birth time.
What if the zodiac sign and house are different?
This is common! Read both the sign and house description below. Do these interpretations pull you in two different directions? That’s not unusual. We human beings have range. Astrology is an interpretive dance, a tool which provides a fascinating layer of self-discovery. Do some “astro mixology.” Reflect on how you can work with both energies to enhance your life.
Find your Mars Sign
Special positions of Mars
Retrograde
Mars turns retrograde once every two years for a span of approximately two and a half months. It’s not that unusual to be born with this planet in reverse. You may have to work harder to muscle through its lessons, but once you nail this planet’s energy, your additional effort may actually lead to a rock-solid mastery of working with Jupiter in your life.
Domicile: Aries
The planet’s home base, an easy flow if placed here in the chart
Detriment: Libra
Opposite sign of home base, may need to work harder to integrate the planet’s energy if placed here in the chart
Exalted: Capricorn
The planet’s most powerful position; indicates ease and added fortune with using the planet’s energy if placed here in the chart
Fall: Cancer
Opposite sign to the exalted position, can indicate struggles with utilizing the planet’s energy if placed here in the chart
Mars in Gemini or the 3rd House
If you were born with Mars in Gemini or the 3rd house, the way to your heart (and bed!) is through the mind.
Mars in Gemini in love
Since you’re aroused by stimulating and intellectual conversation, brainy raconteurs will have you at hello. (Or a few witty exchanges thereafter.) With warrior Mars in this expressive sign, you may actually get aroused by a heated debate.
The person who dares to challenge Mars in Gemini can be the one who turns you on, and fiercely so, even if your values seem diametrically opposed! But to keep the fires burning for the long haul, there must also be plenty of common ground since you DO have Mars in the sign of the Twins.
Ultimately, you need someone flexible who can keep up with your ever-shifting persona, as Gemini and 3rd house placements are social and cerebral. Brainstorming zanily innovative ideas can also provoke passion with a partner—especially if they add their own dynamic ideas to the collective.
Dextrous Gemini also rules the hands and this Mars placement can give you manual stimulation skills par excellence. Roaming fingertips (yours or theirs) can be your favorite playtime activity—and besides sending a partner into paroxysms of pleasure, you may have a talent for actually making things by hand.
The Mars in Gemini gift of communication
Writing and communication fields can also call your name. You have an ability to boil down complex ideas into simpler sound bytes, which makes you an excellent teacher—and Tweeter!
Caveat: Mars in Gemini or the 3rd house can make you argumentative and sometimes prone to flying off the handle about minor grievances. Usually, this is a result of not vocalizing your needs or clarifying your feelings. It can help to regularly scribble some of those thoughts in a journal—or to engage in talk therapy that can allow you make sense of those jumbled up thoughts moving through your head at lightning speed.