Welcome to Ghost of a Podcast. I'm your host Jessica Lignato. I'm an astrologer, psychic

medium, and animal communicator, and I'm going to give you your weekly horoscope and no

bullshit mystical advice for living your very best life.

My darlings. It's time for more Ghost of a Podcast. Astrology hot takes. So this week

I want to talk to you about Mars. I'm not going to get into the Mars retrograde that

will begin September 9th of 2020. That'll require its own episode and I will be happy

to unpack all of it. But before that happens, let me just give you a primer on Mars. Mars is

a really important planet when understanding yourself and understanding your life. So

I'm going to talk to you about it on lots of levels, the first of which is Mars in your

birth chart. Now when we look at your birth chart and we look at Mars, what we are seeing

is a number of things. One thing is your body. So there's a lot of ways of looking at physical

health in the birth chart and they're not in any way limited to looking at the planet

Mars. But Mars is really a physical planet. It governs your musculature, your red blood

cells, it's your virility and your strength. So it's really very much a body planet. This

planet represents so much of your vitality. So that doesn't necessarily mean your physical

health. But it's how you feel in your body. You can have no serious health issues and feel

exhausted all the damn time. You can have tons of health issues but actually have a very

resilient and strong nature. So this is when we look not to Mars for a health diagnosis,

but to Mars for information about how you feel in your body. Another important thing about the

planet Mars in your birth chart is it describes your sense of ownership of your body. Now of course

there are many social considerations, but so many of those social considerations actually

can be read in the birth chart. That is a whole other topic. When we look at your birth chart,

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