In a session with a client the other day, she asked me if I saw her moving any time soon. 
She really wanted to move from where she was, and she was hoping that was indicated in her chart somewhere.
Sometimes we have planetary events that clearly indicate a change is coming: for example, when transiting Uranus (radical change and innovation) crosses over the Midheaven/Nadir axis (cusp of the fourth house of home and tenth house of career). Twice a year or so transiting Mars will cross that point, stimulating the desire for some sort of change. But change is not always seen as just an event triggered by a planet; it is often the result of an activated Will that occurs after a longer-term cycle.
This client had what I like to call a "Mars Problem" in her chart, with Mars in the twelfth house, where it operates in the subconscious realms, and stressed by both Saturn (limitation and challenge) and Chiron (wounding and healing). Mars acts as the Will of our personal self; in many ways it is our Free Will. Mars is our desire nature; it shows how we go about getting what we want and keeping what we have and in that role it also shows how well we set boundaries and defend ourselves. When Mars is stressed in the chart we have difficulty in all of these areas and our Free Will loses its functionality as a result. Sometimes we can feel paralyzed, not knowing where to turn.
In the case of my client, she was in a longer-term cycle of Uranus transiting through the tenth house which had caused her to leave her job and pursue a series of other opportunities. She didn't feel that any of them were right for her but judged herself for wanting yet another change. Because her Mars, her own inner direction of Free Will, was challenged in the birthchart it was difficult for her to feel safe in her choices.
We don't always get to exercise our free will, and we don't always get what we want as the Rolling Stones so aptly put it many years ago. Sometimes our individual will (Mars) is blocked by the gods in the form of Saturn (restrictions) or Pluto (transformation) and in those cases fate takes over and all we can do is surrender. But we still must exercise that free will or it will become atrophied and useless.
Exercising our free will and empowering our Mars is as easy as this: Ask yourself, what is it you WANT to have happen. And then DO IT!
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Thank you all for your kind comments. This is a particularly interesting issue for me as I really see Mars issues as the root of many problems, both psychological and health-related. Kat, thank you for always sharing so much of yourself! It's so useful to understand more about the way the planets operate within us.
Lynn -
I'm a longtime reader, first time commentor. First of all, welcome to your new home! Good article. I have Mars (in Pisces in 10th - conj Sun & MC in AQU) opposed Saturn in Virgo in the fourth. Tightest aspect in my chart. And right now I'm amidst my second Saturn return. With Uranus transiting 10th and Pluto in the 7th
Been an amateur astrologer for over 30 years and I don't pay nearly enough attention to Mars transits - will pay more attention thanks to your great article. And will cut myself some Mars/Saturn slack, too - smile.
Diane
Sometimes when you go completely against your life path you can move house in a much bigger way and actually exit your body. It may be that you constantly make poor choices in your life or that your energy is blocking others important life paths. Not everyone who incarnates on earth learns the lessons that they are given. New Years 2008: My Little Brother Chris Dropped Dead - a moving testimony to a brother with Asperger's Syndrome, by Zen Peace at amazon.com. If you know someone who is socially naive, shy and intelligent then read this book.
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Diane, thanks for joining us and for commenting. I hope you'll share some of your experiences during the second Saturn return, which also of course involves that Saturn/Mars challenge as well. Neptune will be crossing over your MC in the next few years, and that ought to be interesting too!
YES!!! SURRENDER!! That's it when you get confused as I did in Jan. 2008. It was a start of my whole life just in such a dis-o-ray, really, just nothing I could do to get my JOY back, and really didn't know were it went. But finally just SURRERENDERD and now my dead end job is just that its dead and found one right in my own backyard really, I don't have to spend 1hr. driving anymore. and for friends that said they were. I knew they weren't' but I'm the kind of person that ALWAYS believes that EVERYONE has love in the heart and doesn't judge. But, now I am at were I NEED to be and making money I NEVER, EVER thought I would and doing things all that were in my dreams. Just because all I did was SURRENDERD my whole being and old ways.
IT'S ALL TRUE. ALL YOU DREAMS CAN COME TRUE. THEY DID FOR ME AND MY SON.
PLEASE JUST SET ALL YOU BEING TO THE UNIVERSE AND ALL WILL WORK OUT EVERN BETTER THAN YOU COULD IMAGAINE.
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