Judith Hill: Mars in the signs

Medical astrologer Judith Hill on the twelve tempers of Mars — what sets each sign off and how to cool it — and on the quincunx, the aspect she calls the health aspect: checked against the sky, the old texts and the evidence.

15 October 2026 14 min read ▶ 11-min video 15 sources · 1 peer-reviewed

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A grid of the twelve signs of Mars in rows of fire, earth, air and water, each with what sets it off and how its temper shows in Judith Hill's teaching

In brief

Judith Hill reads Mars as the temper, and each sign loses it differently: Mars in Leo puts on a show, Mars in Virgo snaps when short of sleep, Mars in Scorpio waits years, Mars in Cancer fights like a wolverine for home. Her examples check out in the sky, but the temper styles are her practice, untested — and her darker links, to suicide and abuse, are no risk signs. Her geometry of the quincunx holds: signs five apart share nothing, and Ptolemy called them alien. Only its title as the traditional health aspect needs correcting — the 150° aspect dates from Kepler, in 1604; the old health link runs through the houses.

12 tempers of Mars, one for each sign, in Judith Hill's teaching “All signs can have temper — it's an equal opportunity Mars plate.”

53 days Mars's average stay in a sign — far longer when it turns retrograde Average for 1900–2000. In 2022–23 it stayed 217 days in Gemini.

150° the quincunx: two signs five apart — five-twelfths of a circle Latin quinque + uncia: a Roman coin worth 5/12 of an as.

4 of 11 signs with no aspect to a given sign — Ptolemy's “disjunct” and “alien” signs, in aversion The two beside it and the two quincunx. Signs five apart share no element, mode or polarity.

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Judith Hill

Medical and vocational astrologer, herbalist and author of 14 books; founder of the Academy for Astrological Medicine.

She has practised astrology since she was 14 and medical astrology since 1983. Her Academy teaches all six branches of medical astrology, from surgery dates to herbs.

judithhillastrology.com ↗ academy4astrologicalmedicine.com ↗ Every summary of Judith Hill’s work →

Mars in each sign, as she teaches it

Twelve tempers

For Judith Hill, Mars is the temper, and every sign of Mars loses it in its own way. “All signs can have temper,” she tells her class — “it's an equal opportunity Mars plate” — but what sets each one off, and how it shows, differ. Mars in Leo is pride and display: “explosive, very explosive, but it's often just a show… look at me, I got muscles.” Mars in Aries is “pure impulse”, too much adrenaline: “they can suddenly see red”, and these are the road-ragers who are sure the driver in front is an idiot. Mars in Sagittarius, she says, often “just needed more exercise”, or throws a tantrum as a smoke screen and slips out the back door.

A grid of twelve cards, one for each sign of Mars, in rows of fire, earth, air and water, each with its trigger and her description, above a box of her groupings: territory, grudges, dominance, sleep and food — Mars in the signs: twelve tempers. What sets each Mars off, and how it shows, in Judith Hill's words — in rows by element, with her groupings of the triggers.

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🔒 What sets it off
🔒 When Mars is stirred
🔒 The quincunx
🔒 Aversion and the body
🔒 Learn from the source

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Judith Hill: Mars in the signs

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Twelve tempers

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