posted January 21, 2006 10:27 AM            

Scorpio asc usually has a husky, smokey voice.

Libras have a measured, sweet tone.

Geminis are nervous talkers...they want to get everything out quickly while its going through their mercurial minds. I've met quite a few Virgos like this, too, but only when they're hyped on caffeine or nerves.

posted January 21, 2006 04:22 PM              

BTW I sort of agree w/this since mine is softer in tone and I have libra mars, but with my aqua merc I guess im supposed to sound quite rabid..

posted January 21, 2006 04:22 PM            

re: chakras
Try posting a thread topic to Iqhunk.....

posted January 21, 2006 06:01 PM              

You said:

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...Mars is speech itself, and Mercury is how thoughts are formulated...

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Mars is not about speech: Mars has to do with how we express ourselves by taking action, while MERCURY has to do with communicating about things. So Mars has to do with doing things, while Mercury has to with talking about it. If someone is "all talk"...take a look and see how strong Mercury is in their chart!

Mercurially,

Tim

posted January 21, 2006 08:15 PM            

I was just going on what I had read;

"The planet Mars, in everyone's individual chart, influences or "rules" self-expression. Your speech and actions. Your verbal patterns. These will follow the kind of expression exhibited by the sign in which Mars was located at birth. This doesn't cancel out your Sun Sign personality, Moon Sign emotional attitudes, or your general character involving other planets; it just influences the way you express yourself much of the time. For example, the basic You-of-You doesn't change, but if Mars is in Aries in your individual birth chart, you'll speak and express yourself more forcefully and directly. If Mars is in Pisces in your birth chart, you'll be a mite more soft-spoken and gentle in your expression, perhaps a little more evasive. See?"

Taken from - Relationship Signs, Linda Goodman.

Sorry, it had been so long since I had read it, it took me a while to find which book it was in lol I realise Mercury rules communication, thought processes, ideas etc, but thought then has to manifest itself from the intangible to the tangible. This actual expression/manifestation IS the action. Its the yin into yang so to speak, and I believe this is why Linda linked Mars to expression and speech this way - the Yang activating the Yin, Mars' active principle activating Mercurys intangible imaginative processes.

posted January 21, 2006 09:36 PM            

I've got Libra Asc(progressed Scorpio Asc)
Sun/Merc/Venus in Scorpio
Mars in Aquarius
Neptune in the 3rd house

posted January 21, 2006 09:50 PM              

I have venus in pisces & I get more "huh?"s than anybody. I have a very soft voice and I tend to mumble..or slur my words.

posted January 21, 2006 10:04 PM            

Laura

posted January 21, 2006 10:08 PM              

Also because one of the scorp in venus guys I mentioned has mars in gemini, and he talks slowly with a low tone (When he does talk).

posted January 21, 2006 10:10 PM              

I've seen your posts here and there lately, and have learned a little something from all of them.

Just wanted to let you know that I appreciate your bits of wisdom... and I love your clever sign offs!

Complimentally,

Danielle

posted January 22, 2006 12:24 AM              

You said:

quote:

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"The planet Mars, in everyone's individual chart, influences or "rules" self-expression. Your speech and actions. Your verbal patterns. These will follow the kind of expression exhibited by the sign in which Mars was located at birth. This doesn't cancel out your Sun Sign personality, Moon Sign emotional attitudes, or your general character involving other planets; it just influences the way you express yourself much of the time. For example, the basic You-of-You doesn't change, but if Mars is in Aries in your individual birth chart, you'll speak and express yourself more forcefully and directly. If Mars is in Pisces in your birth chart, you'll be a mite more soft-spoken and gentle in your expression, perhaps a little more evasive. See?"

Taken from - Relationship Signs, Linda Goodman

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Thanks for giving me the source of your thoughts! I'm afraid this is one of the reasons why, although I LOVE Linda Goodman's books, I decided not to get Relationship Signs. In looking it over, it seemed to have a LOT of Carolyn Reynolds, the co-author of the book in it.

Let's take a look at this sentence and put in commonly accepted planetary rulers in it and see what comes out:
"The planet Mars, in everyone's individual chart, influences or "rules" self-expression [Sun]. Your speech [Mercury] and actions [Mars]. Your verbal [Mercury] patterns [Mercury]...it just influences the way you express yourself [Sun] much of the time...if Mars...in your individual birth chart, you'll speak [Mercury] and express [Sun]...you'll be a mite more soft-spoken and gentle in your expression [Sun]...See?"

I understand what Carolyn INTENDED to say, but, unfortunately by combining Mars action with a lot of things completely unrelated to Mars she ended with a VERY confusing statement. Perhaps this is why she added "See?" afterward, hoping somebody ELSE could see something in it! In your studies of astrology, you will find that Mars is consistently associated with the actions a person takes. A person with a strong Mars will tend toward taking action in things...and if Mercury is weak in their chart there may be no talking at all! Just all action all the time!

To sum up:
Mars has to do with expressing the energy of who we are and what we do. Mars is about the actions we take in life.

Self-expression is all about the Sun, which wants to continually "shine" its light on everyone (and be seen and admired)

Speech is the domain of Mercury, which is all about how we communicate our thoughts and ideas to others

By combining different planetary energies in the same paragraph, Carolyn has confused what Mars energy is with at least two other chart energies (Sun and Mercury).

Trying to unconfuse things,

Tim

posted January 22, 2006 05:25 AM            

Thanks for explaining that

Are you sure it was all Carolyns work though? Because I'm almost sure I have read something similar in Lindas Sun Signs book also, thats how I first heard about Mars in Taurus influencing a mellow tone.