ZIP DOBYNS (Astrology) - Film Score Rundowns

the areas where you want teamwork and harmony. The main point is, if you have Mars
strong (or Aries or Leo or Capricorn) then you need an outlet to feel your power,
and not hold it back. If you deny that part of your nature, that's the danger of it coming
out in the wrong place--such as in relationships where you really want harmony turning
instead into power struggles. The competitive part of your nature is displaced into the
wrong area. So instead of having cooperation, they turn into rivalry and power
struggles.
[Question: "What else can you do other than competition in dealing
with anger?"]
You just have to use full power in some way. You can do it by any kind of
vigorous physical activity--running, whatever. Just find a way to let your full power out,
and not feel that you're holding back. And yet it has to be a way that's in harmony with
your conscience, that also isn't going to get you in trouble with the law or alienate your
friends. So you have to find a way where you can fully do that Aries/Mars part of your
nature so that it doesn't upset your Capricorn, Libra or Cancer sides! These are where the
natural squares are, you see, and oppositions.
Somewhere each person has to feel that they can let their full strength out without
having to hold back. And for me it's in my work. For another person it might be games,
or sports, or fighting for something they believe in. You cannot let full power out where
you're dealing with another person with whom you want cooperation, and so have
to give up some of your full power. But I still feel that it is healthy if you can find
someplace where you can let your full power out.
[Question: "Can you do that with art?"]
You can do it with art, with a hobby--somewhere you can go all the way and not
feel you have to hold back. You can't do that all the time obviously. I'm just saying
somewhere in your life there needs to be that sense of "I can go all the way with this, as
far as my strength and experience can take me." If it's really repressed, we get headaches,
we get tired all the time, we have sinus problems, etc. These are signs that we're holding
back. If it's projected and other people use the aggression against you (as when your
boyfriend was hitting you with tennis balls), then it shows you were holding back and he
was using your power against you. And it can be a displacement too because the
competition was expressed in a relationship where you really wanted cooperation.
[Question: "What was I holding back?"]
Your own full assertion, your ability to assert your rights and meet your own
needs.
[Question: "And when I finally asserted that and got rid of his
dominance, that was asserting my needs?"]
That's right.
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