Nostradamus’s birth chart
Mars in Cancer
4 December 1503, 12:00, Saint-Remy-de-Provence, France
A reading speaks to the person it was written for, so this one talks to Nostradamus as “you”.
Mars is a planet of physical energy and action. It rules the Aries sign and traditionally (before Pluto was discovered) also Scorpio. Mars is also one of the personal planets, because on average it stays in one sign for less than 2 months and therefore has an important influence on our personality.
In personal horoscope, Mars is connected to action, energy, competitiveness, hot-bloodedness and impetuousness. The position of Mars tells us in what way and in what form you express your activity. Mars also indicates your ambitions and the work you do, which is connected to these ambitions.
Mars in Cancer
All your actions depend on emotions and on how you feel at that particular moment. You enjoy working in peace and quiet, you definitely have a hobby in life that relaxes you and it is probably connected to beautiful things or art. In peace and quiet you create, carve, paint, collect antiques, you work from the background. At first glance, you may not radiate a lot of physical power, but are overcome with exceptional passion when you relax and feel at home (you are almost certainly a good lover), you are also a very persistent and reliable person – but everything depends on how you feel.
Mars in 4th house
You are a diligent and hard-working person, you are always doing and creating something, at the same time you are very sensitive to your environment. When you are alone, you often feel somewhat awkward or clumsy; you need a lot of space around you. It is also possible that you move often or change things in your family life, you often also experience quarrels and accidents in your life, injuries that happen in the house and alienation or loss of one of the parents or the relationship with one of your parents cools off.
Mars conjunction Saturn
You are usually a very decisive, ambitious and enterprising person who is always planning something. You have good strategic abilities with clearly defined goals, also will, persistency and patience to reach them. You have good sense of organization, a methodical and practical, yet also a very disciplined character. You have an enormous amount of physical energy and ability of incredible exertion, but you find it more difficult to relax, when it comes to in rest and/or pleasures.
Mars opposition Neptune
You are very emotional and sensitive, on the other hand you also have a lot of inner strength and well-developed intuition, but unfortunately, it often harms instead of benefits you, because you can mistake true premonitions with fears and deeply rooted patterns, so you can either give up too quickly (‘I feel nothing will come out of this’) or persist on the wrong path for too long, because you don't admit to yourself, that it is not the right path, or you get lost in your thinking and emotional worlds and so distance yourself from the right path and continue progressing on the current path, because you don't see other ways or you lose will. You often run from reality into your own world, but you also don't find satisfaction in it, until you accept your sentimentality and learn to use it to your benefit.
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