Okay, so you've read Part One and know all about projecting Mars and Venus onto other people. Before we move on to discuss how other planets are tossed into the romantic mix in Part Three, let's take a closer look at what Mars and Venus indicate in the signs.
Everyone has a natal Mars and Venus placement (if you don't know yours, you can obtain a copy of your natal chart at http://www.astro.com/ .) If you take a look at your birth chart, you'll find that your Mars and Venus were passing through one of the signs at the time you were born.
It's just like Sun sign astrology, in a way. Your Sun in Capricorn indicates that you share traits in common with other Capricorns. You can use your Mars and Venus in the same way. But whereas the Sun symbolizes core identity (which is why we place heavy emphasis on Sun signs) the other planets symbolize other parts of your life and psyche.
In general, Mars represents the way you go about acting in the world. If you need to use drive, will, effort, or physical expenditure to do something, you use your Mars. In terms of love and sex, Mars represents the more assertive, active side of things. Among other things, Mars represents the sex drive in its raw form.
In general, Venus represents the things that please and connect you. If you need to feel comfort, security, love, or aesthetic pleasure, you access your Venus. Venus is also responsible for our preferences in social interactions. In terms of love and sex, Venus represents the manner in which we receive love, the things that make us feel warm and wanted.
To put it another way, Venus represents the object, and Mars represents the subject. The term "objectification" gets bad press, but at times everyone needs to feel like the object of total devotion-- worship, even-- and Venus is the Object par excellance in all of us.
Mars is the subject that strives for the Venus object. Mars fights, woos, chases, delivers bad pickup lines, does goofy stuff to gain the attention of the object. Since the nature of the subject/object relationship is not necessarily a gendered polarity, it's easy enough to see how this works in nonstandard relationships as well as the prototypical straight setup.
(For more keywords on Mars and Venus, refer back to Part One.)
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