Mars Synastry: 1st House Overlay in Astrology

hen you’re around the Mars person you’re more likely to act on your 1st house sign’s positive and negative potentials in a forceful and direct way. This is not a passive influence like the 1st house Venus overlay can be. Someone with Mars in Cancer falling in your Cancer 1st house, for example, might cause you to act defensively, be smothering and behave in an overly emotional way. With the overlay in Cancer, you might even find yourself crying more around the Mars person. The Mars person activates your 1st house and the first house has to do with your behavior and your point of view. Around the Mars person you might suddenly make it your business to let everyone know what your pet peeves are, what you find annoying, and what types of behavior bother you. You might find yourself using more Mars words like “irritated, annoyed, agitated, pissed, angry, etc…” However this person might also spur you to action and compel you to take more direct action in your approach to the world.

You could find yourself getting irritated by the Mars person’s actions. Whether or not they are trying to provoke you, you could feel that the Mars person is “in your face.” Or, it could be that, because their actions are right up front, from your point of view, you feel that it’s necessary to comment on everything they do and the way they do it.  It’s as if they are waving their hand in front of your face forcing you to watch what they are doing- but, they are not actually doing that, that’s just the way it seems. This person’s actions have a direct affect on your outlook; they impact your immediate environment. Their behavior is glaringly obvious to you. Because you can focus on nothing else, this person’s presence can aggravate you so much that you want to shout, “Stop doing that!”

The Mars person might just be annoying. You might get frustrated with this person more often than with other people. Positively, you’ll notice that you assert yourself more when the Mars person is around. Perhaps they inspire you to make your point of view known. They might support your approach. They can help get you motivated to act. Hopefully, your new self-assertive expression isn’t entirely directed toward getting the Mars person to behave however it is that you think they should be behaving.

In a sexual relationship, this overlay might inspire you to be the aggressor. This is the type of overlay that can bring a love of “the chase.” The same energy that can make you focus on how irritating this person is can also make you focus on how sexy this person is. Mars is the planet that rules conscious sexual desire. The Mars person triggers something in you that makes you want to pursue and win them. The Mars person brings out the aggressive side in you. You feel more confident than usual with the Mars person. They have qualities that you identify with, but with Mars, in a sexual way. Once you get the Mars person you still have to find a way to sustain the initial excitement.