Mars-Jupiter

Overview: Mars-Jupiter in tense alignments reflects the bravery, competition, and agency of Mars as a personality and/or endeavor that, in the spirit of Jupiter’s archetype, is broad in its scope, and is celebrated for its high ideals and its tendency toward success.

The challenges: taking on goals (mars) that are too many or too big (Jupiter). The fight (mars) that is so lofty and high-minded in its principles (jupiter) we become overly righteous.

The strengths: the large and successful (Jupiter) effort (Mars). the broad successfully executed (Jupiter) to-do list (Mars). the successful (Jupiter) fight (Mars). The victor (mars-jupiter).

Below are examples of well-known individuals born with this combination in their natal charts (an astrological birth chart is a symbolic map of the sky at the moment of birth). Observing how this combination appears in their lives can help us recognize it in our own. The more consciously we engage with these astrological alignments—or “aspects”—the more their underlying tensions can be integrated, allowing their strengths to emerge.

Please note: the expression of this archetypal tension, as seen in the lives and work of the people below, may reflect varying levels of integration.

 

  • The Mars/Jupiter combination in the chart of Lionel Messi can be seen as the soccer player’s role as a celebrated (Jupiter) striker (Mars), and as a celebrated (Jupiter) athlete (Mars) in general. The following quote combines growth (Jupiter) with sport (Mars): “Every year I try to grow as a player and not get stuck in a rut. I try to improve my game in every way possible. But that trait is not something I've worked on, it's part of me.”

  • The Mars-Jupiter combination in the chart of Brad Pitt shows up as the successful (Jupiter) warrior (Mars) or the ideological (Jupiter) warrior (Mars) and can be seen in his roles he has played in movies, such as in the following examples (Graphic Content):

Troy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_z5UKystdZg

Snatch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUrnCK4zEPo&t=201s

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlUuNg6PEXA

Fight Club: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHXXqlcCxPs

Fury: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaQiNU6Ix-E

  • Mar’s association with bravery, when linked with Jupiter’s association with celebration, can show up as a celebration of bravery. Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, born with this combination in his natal chart, expresses this in his work entitled, “Thus Spoke Zarathustra.”

“For courage is the best slayer, courage which attacks; for in every attack there is playing and brass.” (Thus Spoke Zarathustra [The Portable Nietzsche; Viking Press; 1954], p. 269.)

  • The Mars-Jupiter combination in the natal chart of Bruce Lee reflects his stature as a celebrated (Jupiter) warrior (Mars). The Mars-Jupiter combination in the natal chart of Mahatma Gandhi can be seen in his life’s work of fighting (Mars) for equality and high ideals (Jupiter).

  • The Mars-Jupiter combination in the natal chart of actress Lily Collins can be seen in her role as “Emily” in the Netflix series Emily in Paris. In this series she plays the loud and garish American foreigner (Mars-Jupiter) who bravely (Mars) travels abroad (Jupiter) to Paris where she constantly rubs the more subtle and nuanced locals the wrong way, yet who always ends up successful and on top (Jupiter) in her endeavors (Mars).

  • Pilot Amelia Earhart, born with Mars-Jupiter in her natal chart, demonstrates this combination through her striving (Mars) for big (Jupiter) goals, in that she set many records, including being the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

  • The tense Mars-Jupiter combination in the natal chart of Michael Stipe, lead singer of the band REM, showed up in the abundance of ways the singer has been a principled (Jupiter) fighter (Mars) that has fought (Mars) for his ideals (Jupiter), including advocating for AIDS awareness and LGBTQ+ rights, environmental activism, gun control (REM donated $100,000 to gun control efforts), the pro-choice music initiative “Rock for Choice,” anti-censorship, plus opposing U.S. foreign policy in the Gulf War and participating in numerous benefit concerts to support the homeless.