Mars

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Mars is the first planet past Earth, heading out into the solar system. As we have recently seen from the Mars Pathfinder and Global Surveryor, the topograpy of this "red" planet is more like the Earth than our other solar system neighbors, though it is only about half as large. Its day is the same as Earth. Its solar orbit is almost two years, so Mars covers about half the zodiac each Earth year, and retrogrades once per orbit. A predominance of ferric oxide, rusty iron, accounts for the red surface and sky and, probably, its blood-lusty reputation in the pantheon. Mars has two tiny moon--Demos and Phobos, fear and panic. Named for the god of war, Mars takes action. It is the principle of strength and assertion, initiative and drive. Mars has to do with the immune system, the way we push out into fight back at the threats in life. The Moon may instinctively define what the threats are, Mars gets out the weapons. The "masculine" emotional dynamic complementing the feminine emotional nature of Venus, they work together to define our sexual-emotional nature. Venus is what we want and Mars is how we go about getting it. Take note, popular psychology readers: some men are from Venus and some women are from Mars.

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