♂ Mars ⚼ Sesquiquadrate ♃ Jupiter

135° · minor aspect · tense · default orb ±2°

Mars sesquiquadrate Jupiter binds the lesser malefic to the greater benefic at the 135-degree angle of the eighth harmonic. Classical sources give Mars war, iron, and daring, Jupiter law, faith, and increase; their hard contacts are traditionally read as zeal, force enlarged and sanctified, conviction armed, and the minor angle carries the theme at reduced grade: crusading energy that overruns its brief, enterprise quarreling with principle. Lilly's professional lists for the pair, soldiers of rank, magistrates, hunters, suggest the domains practitioners still cite. The friction is counted vigorous rather than destructive, an affliction of overcommitment.

Traditional reading

Mars, the faster body, applies to Jupiter. Sect doctrine divides the two cleanly, Mars serving as malefic of the nocturnal faction and Jupiter as benefic of the diurnal, an opposition of allegiance older than the aspect that some modern traditionalists read into its friction. The 135-degree angle carries no ancient warrant, entering practice with the Kepler-era minors, so classical comment reaches the pair only through the Ptolemaic aspects. Cosmobiological indexes assign Mars-Jupiter eighth-harmonic contacts to rash enterprise and contested rights, retaining the combination's energetic cast even under affliction.