

Esoteric astrology explores this, and Mars in one’s chart -by placement and aspects- is where one would look for a “struggle with anger and flashes of great compassion.” Mars will be taken up in its own article in a couple of days, but, to set the stage for that, the three levels of rulership in esoteric astrology must be explained. With the discovery that caring is the root cause of both anger and compassion, one can manage how best to express this root energy. Anger arises because one cares intensely about something, while compassion expresses equal care about everything and everyone.

Anger and compassion have a common energy underneath them: that of caring. Energies also converge, coordinate, ripen, and express as causes, conditions, and effects or results.

Energies demonstrate, manifest, and theatrically display. Someone in a Facebook group wrote: “I struggle with anger and flashes of great compassion.” In a sense, this comment of self-honesty is one where traditional and esoteric astrology converge.Īstrology is a science of energy.
