Davison Chart Mars in the 7th House

Davison opens his Windsor relationship-chart reading with the Moon applying to the Sun and Venus conjunct Mars, which he judges signs of sexual compatibility and possible marriage.[1] His account makes attraction a substantive part of the reading. A seventh-house Mars with a supportive Venus contact tends to favor an ardent partnership, while a hard contact more often makes desire and anger difficult to disentangle.

Cooperation on equal terms belongs to the seventh, along with rivalry that can be friendly or hostile.[1] Mars here usually wants both partners engaged. In a daytime sky, a small challenge to equality more readily becomes a contest neither partner wants to lose.[2] A struggle for equality becomes damaging when each must oppose the other to keep a place in the relationship.

Suppose the relationship Mars is at 12° Aries. A partner’s natal Venus at 12° Libra receives an exact opposition, while the other partner’s Venus at 12° Leo receives a trine. The first is read as stronger friction between the relationship’s demands and that partner’s preferences; the second as an easier response to its energy. This follows Davison’s recommendation to compare the relationship chart with each nativity.[1]

Progressed Venus reaching this Mars is read as a period of renewed pursuit or a decision about marriage. When Saturn later contacts Mars, the partnership often has to contain the same heat within obligations both partners can keep.