The Element of Fire, Mars and Positive Mindset (Maelinhon)

There is a strange tendency with my articles, that there are always two of them on interesting topics. Sometimes three. Either I can’t talk enough with the keyboard, or the world is too complex for its important processes to fit completely into ten paragraphs.
And here is the situation with Mars: first I dug into it, then dug deeper, and then started another upaya at the “nightmare” level to squeeze out all possible information about the Red Planet. Alas, to describe the deep essence of Mars, not only ten paragraphs, but even one full-scale article is not enough. I published one of these last year, and I am very pleased with it, but since I set myself an interesting goal to work through ALL the planets of my natal chart, I have something to add in almost a year!

After surfing the net a bit, reading what astrologers and chiromancers write about Mars, I realized that this information simply wanders around books and articles without changes. The red planet, with which men, our strength, endows with determination, purposefulness, is associated with the god of war Ares, Indra, war…
– And they somehow forgot Matt Damon! I saw it in the cinema! – Mylene cried out and laughed vilely.
What does “associated with the god of war” even mean? By whom? What should this tell me or explain to me? How should I use this information if I want to work with Mars?!

Over the last few years, I have completely worked through almost all the main planets. A year-long vow to Saturn (just on its back), a half-year one to Venus and the Moon, learning a new language “for” Jupiter, a hardcore three-day stay with Uranus and Neptune, a week-long upaya to the Sun, and absolutely nightmarishly delightful work with Pluto, which I described in a separate article. Two articles. This is such a deep, interesting, and large-scale work that it is difficult to even describe how much it changes the entire filling of the brain and puts it on the right track!

But it’s all in us, in our brains, psyche, consciousness… Upayas change us mostly from the inside. And from the outside? And events? What and why shapes changes and events? How does the popular and hackneyed phrase about all changes starting from within actually work? But let’s look into this issue. For “everyone has long been aware” that thinking somehow shapes events, but at what expense? And does that very positive thinking work to create positive events? Spoiler: yes, it does. But there are nuances. And it seems that no one has really described the mechanics of this process.

The Element of Fire, Gas Tank and Depression

The first question that has been brewing in me since I read Louis Hamon’s works as a teenager is why are there two hills of Mars on my hand? All the planets are just planets, but Mars has two units. Is there some explanation for this phenomenon, other than tons of air about “determination and following through”? As much as I love Hamon, even he doesn’t have a proper explanation.

There is not a single sphere in the world that would work outside the elements and planets. Even what would seem to lie beyond the elements is still an element. Each of our movements, each object and any phenomenon around it is a cross-section of the activity of some planet, and therefore an element. Some elements form the “fabrics” of objects and reality, others create waves and vibrations that change these objects. Accordingly, there are dense elements that can be touched with your hands, and there are thin and invisible ones. You can touch your knee, but you cannot touch your ego, here is the difference between physics and metaphysics.

The element of Fire is an extremely complex thing that covers both dense and thin slices, and it is represented not by one, but actually four planets: Mars (aka Yin Fire in Ba-Tzu) and the Sun (Yang Fire there), and since the planets work in “octaves”, then these two, moving to a higher level, move to Pluto and Uranus, respectively (in total, we have as many as 3 Yang fires). The first pair directly affects us, little people living on Earth, and the second – large crowds of people, nations and large-scale events. And it turns out that the element of Fire is not three miserable lines about determination and male energy (the fire of Mars is female), but a complex set of concepts. A slice of the element of fire is, at a minimum:

— The heart, the circulatory system, the small intestine, the mouth and tongue, the brain, nervous activity, the soles of the feet and physical strength.
— Anything that is circular in shape, burns and rises upward.
— The entire spectrum of emotions, especially joy, aggression and anger.
— The culmination of anything,
— Events and changes, filled with energy.
— Red color and south direction.
— Birds and feathered creatures.
— The ego and the perception of oneself.
— Hierarchies and the perception of hierarchies of anything.
— Joy and the movement of energy that is released and forms events.

“Distant Fire” is:

— Wars.
— Decay and decay (here Pluto touches the element of Death).
— Epidemics and mass disasters.
— Cults and mass gatherings of people.
— Any large-scale events where at least 500 people or more take part in the bacchanalia.
— Worldwide fame and glory (both positive and negative).

The list can be continued. For each person, Fire will cover some area of life and the people in it, for some it is parents, for others it is work or personal life, others will have children only if they have a well-endowed element of Fire. But the overall essence of the Element of Fire is ENERGY. Gasoline, engine, fuel. Firewood. Resources for life and changes, if you like. And once again I will repeat the axiom: everyone has different resources, do not compare yourself to anyone, because other people have completely different amounts of natal chart resources, other distortions and certainly not the same set as you. What you can handle playfully will break and kill another person. And vice versa.

So how does Mars work?

In the process of life we ​​constantly change, encounter other people and places, experience needs and emotions, desires and changes. This mechanism, the movement inside and outside, is provided primarily by Mars. This is the inner planet that lights the fire inside us and brings a spicy awl to soft places. Yin Fire has the ability to lead, because it is the fire of a torch or candle in the dark, it does not warm much, but leads through the darkness. This same energy gives us strength, both physical and psycho-emotional energies, on which we live. If this energy runs out, we fall, sometimes literally, but more often – into depression. From the point of view of metaphysics, depression is when you run out of gas, and you don’t even want to want anything, just lie with your nose to the wall, because you have no strength for more. This energy is our inner Mars.

We spend energy and receive it, and when we receive more than we spend, we are on top! We have enough not only for physiology, but also for work, hobbies, interests. If the energy is above the norm, magic and influence on the world around us appears. A weak person who cannot get up from the couch cannot do magic a priori, he has nothing to even lift himself up, let alone others. All this is Martian gasoline, which is spent, including on the formation of events. When we think a lot and emotionally about something, it immediately happens, because our Mars has powered this line. This is why what we are afraid of happens (we get emotional about it) and what we have invented in our heads does NOT happen, but from the inside we do not want it, we do not put emotions (and therefore energy) into it. The world does not hear our rational desires, this is a fact. The world hears only what the heart wants, because this is where the element of Fire flows and the mechanics of the movement of events around is launched.

How does this work?! Let’s take it to the point of grotesquery!

I go to a concert – I experience a pleasant emotional shock – I begin to burn with the desire to become a musician. That’s it, the Yin Fire has appeared inside, which cannot be large, but when constantly burning, it pushes us to different actions. Yes, in the process of becoming, we will pass through other planets. Saturn will lay down obstacles and the path to the goal. Venus will give heat to feelings and creativity. Jupiter will ensure learning a craft and gradual progress and entry into the walk of fame. Mercury will provide probability lines and everything that happens on them. The Moon, Ketu and Rahu will work as an engine of consciousness, memory and plans for the future. The Sun will drag the ego and self-esteem.

But the real pain in the ass, which gave impetus to the work, is Mars. It burns inside like a torch, constantly burning up the wood from emotions and igniting internal desires. It is both an engine and gasoline at the same time.

Desire drags us to the goal against any linear logic, difficulties and problems. We translate the internal fire into external events, feeding them with our stubbornness and strength. And so, having achieved the goal, at some point we ourselves become external fire: someone young and stupid sees us on stage. Admire. And now our “sun” has lit Mars in someone’s young heart and a person with burning eyes went to buy his first guitar. That’s two Mars.

When you are “too much sunshine”, the inner lights of millions of people are lit from you and the Sun is transformed into Uranus (if the lights are lucky), or into Pluto (if not very lucky). There are many examples in history of people who were so fired up by some idea that they overcame everything with their inner fire: obstacles, time, unpopularity, stereotypes, persecution… And changed the world forever. This mechanism is the path from Mars to Uranus, from an idea to worldwide fame.

This is how this duality of Fire happens: we look ahead, at the Outer Mars, which is our guiding star, and the Inner Mars, which changes us from the inside, transforms the inner and the outer harmoniously. Flared up with emotions – poured energy into the line – received changes. And each person and his activity, hypothetically – the Sun for other people. And this is an endless, perfect, perpetual motion machine: each inner fire is external for another person. This is precisely why Mars is associated with the nine in numerology – this is the form of its movement from the inside to the outside and back.

And all suffering appears when the inner desire is not true, and accordingly is not embodied by the natural mechanism. For example, you want to be a musician (Mars drags you there), but your mind and mother tell you to become a lawyer. At some point, you yourself already believe that you want to become a lawyer, but it turns out badly, because Mars is aimed at irrationality and pours energy there, and not into the law school. The main humor for Western astrologers is that Mars is the female polarity of the element of Fire, because to be emotional about your goals, to cherish and feed them with energy is the prerogative of the female cut of Fire, the male fire is of a different kind. And the Universe, unfortunately, works precisely on the Yin spectrum, so those who live only by reason do not receive sweets.

This is exactly how Mars works with emotions. Ratio is secondary, primary is the internal desire for change, passion, anger, expression, joy… And they push a person to change themselves to suit their goal. And the more changes are burning inside, the more powerfully the probability lines are filled with energy, and external events follow the internal ones: they lit up, put in emotions, the lines reacted to the influx of fuel and changes began. Then Mars creates aspects with other planets, setting in motion the mechanics of these changes. In general, all planets are somehow connected with the formation of events, for example, Jupiter fixes the position of objects on the line. Mercury draws the plans of events themselves. Mars gives them fuel for implementation.

Isn’t it more interesting now? And now many things become clear. For example, the fact that if you lie on the couch and have no desires or goals, then nothing happens. Just as Mars pathologies influence precisely the fact that either “nothing happens” or events fall on your head, like from a mad conveyor. Since Mars is the culmination, then everything that is connected with movement and stagnation (anti-movement) – everything is towards it.

Mars, Junk and Joy

Well, a few words about stagnation. A separate point of the Martian epic can be mentioned about the joy and energy of Shen Qi, which this joy generates. You drink water, zero substance, and inside your body it becomes something – blood, lymph, urine, etc. In the same way, you need to take “zero energy” somewhere, so that it can then be transformed into the energies of events and other things. In Chinese metaphysics, it is called Shen Qi and all sorts of yogis, qigong masters and other workers of energy practices are well acquainted with it. This is energy without any special features, a nutritious broth. To live, you need to eat, and not just sandwiches. And one of the sources of pure Shen is… joy.

Joy, laughter, positivity are very interesting emotions, because it is on them that the initial stage of the exchange “emotions -> events” occurs, and they are, as it were, the reverse side of aggression. A person who is happy is similar to a person who is angry, only as positive and negative. The same with screaming and laughter – this is the release of aggression, only in different polarities. Aggression itself, by the way, can also be transformed for the benefit of your beloved self, if you do not yell at loved ones, but let this impulse work on yourself: anger can be an excellent engine and incentive. The more joy in the consciousness, the greater the influx of Shen and the more strongly the line that a person is currently building is nourished.

But what brings you joy? Things, purchases, time with loved ones, good deeds, delicious food, new experiences, creativity… Go to the closet, take a thing from the top shelf that you haven’t worn for a long time and hold it in your hands. Does it bring you joy? Answer: no. Go to the phone book on your smartphone, would you really like to see EVERYONE there and would it bring you joy? Of course not! And how many different things were bought under the influence of the moment or greed, and then they settled as dead weight in closets, balconies, storage rooms, heads? … You spend your energy on these things (money is also energy), you put fuel into something that now just lies on the shelf and does not make you happy. And it does not make anyone happy, the energy is locked in this junk.

This thing is ballast that simply locks your gasoline inside. The more of these things, the more ownerless gasoline, the more of it is locked, the fewer events, because there is nothing for events to “drive” on, and the space is already occupied by things. Do you smell it? It smells like logic. By giving, gifting and selling such things, you free up a resource for movement, exchanging 100 units of junk for 1 unit of something that will really bring you joy, you dump a ton of gasoline into the probability lines. Even if someone else is happy with this thing, you will still get your piece of the pie! Therefore, by getting rid of half of the junk from the balcony and buying even a pack of delicious coffee with the money you get, you will do more for your life than if you “think positively” for 10 years, sitting among dead, empty and cold things. And coffee is invigorating and pleasing. Drank some coffee – It became good and blissful – Shen flowed – Small changes began. Sold something big – Bought a guitar, which we had long dreamed of – Events went even faster.

Of course, I’m exaggerating. And by handing out rubbish from the balcony, you will not become a happy and rich person tomorrow. But by following these mechanics, you can become one after some time, since from the point of view of energy, it is better to have empty space than mountains of things. Empty space can be filled with Shen and new things, and junk there will remain junk, blocking your resources. By the way, about Feng Shui. Rich houses are usually “empty” for this reason: the more space is NOT occupied by anything, the more room for maneuvering energy and the influx of Qi. To make changes, you need to squeeze the maximum pleasure out of each thing around you personally. And it is better to have one favorite pair of shoes than a whole closet of shoes that are not fun. Of course, no one has canceled routine and obligation, but this is the mastery of life, so that joy and deliciousness outweigh routine and dullness.

So here we go. ©

The Mars upayas themselves, like any other upayas, are built according to a standard scheme: a mantra (or simply an appeal), your desires, and then a quest to realize them. But what to ask for? … The problem with most articles on astrology is not that they are untrue, no. But they often give a general conclusion from a million units of information, including ambiguous and individual, passing it off as complete information for everyone. And without having details and without understanding the logic of the planet’s work, it is impossible to make a correction based on a bare conclusion.

Mars gives energy, Mars gives changes, Mars cleanses from stagnation in any sense… But, speaking about Mars, you first need to talk about its cut, polarities, manifestations, energy and events, lines, about Shen and Qi in general… And then triumphantly conclude “Well, in order to work through all this, decide on changes and throw out trash, take steps towards joy, YOU WILL NEED DETERMINATION!” And the ability to bring everything to the end. Without understanding the mechanism of the planet, it will not be possible to work with the planet itself, because if we ask Mars for “determination”, we will get nonsense. Even very determinedly sitting in a pile of trash and wanting changes – the same will happen. Mars first of all teaches how to work with energy balance: how to distribute energy, how not to accumulate it as dead weight, but to spend it and get pleasure from each object around.

To sum it up, take off the protective cover from your life. Use things and squeeze all the juices out of them, smash precious dishes from the sideboard, stain expensive things, laugh, don’t hold anything in your outstretched arms, hide it in chests and don’t use it. You have little time for everything, and Shen itself flows to you little and reluctantly. And, sitting on a chest with an expensive and cool scrub that no one really uses – this is signing your own death sentence for the absence of changes for many years.

(c) Mylene Maelinhon / Material of the Marginal Metaphysics project

Translated by Schwarzenstern

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