Old Mars

Now, the first Decan of Aries is under the Presidency of the Planet Mars. The Sign of Aries is ruled by Mars, as well; so we have Mars in Aries, Ruled by Mars. Perhaps now would be a good time to learn about Mars. Mars, of course, is the Roman name for their god of war; it corresponds to the Greek god of war, Ares. Let's look at the Mythological Ares.

The actual Greek word is a noun referring to the throngs of war. Its etymology relates to meanings such as 'ruin' and 'curse' (bane). War is truly the curse of man. The Birthplace of Ares was placed far-off among the barbarians (thus labeling him as a stranger to the family-circle of Virtuous Mankind).

Ares was the son of Zeus and Hera, at a time when their family life had undergone stress. As anybody can see, the progeny of unhappiness is detrimentally aspected.

Ares had an infamous affair with Aphrodite, the union producing several children, among them Deimos (terror ), Phobos (fear ), and Adrestia (revenge ) who is also sometimes Nemesis (Divine Retribution for Arrogance)  and also know as the 'inescapable'.  Another of his off-spring was Anteros (requited Love; from anti-eros ( opposite of True Love), meaning it is not freely given but must be paid for). His attendants are Achlys (Death), Androktasiai (Slaughter), Eris (Strife), Enyo (Violence), Polemos (War);...etc. incl. Murder, Noise, Combat, Confusion, Spirit of Death, Spirit of Battle, Charge, and Retreat.  Those familiar with NLP will have no trouble assessing what these Archetypal Characteristics will do to the Psyche and personality development on a human.

One of Ares's sons (Cycnus 'Swan') tried to build a temple with the skulls and bones of travellers   that he murdered. Cycnus was so murderous that the Mighty Herakles (aided by Apollo and Athena; Ares' half-sister) had to slaughter him. Ares flew into a rage against his half-brother Herakles and the mighty warrior Herakles wounded him. He had to return to Olympus and beg his father, Zeus to heal him. His father healed him, saying that as he, too was one of God's children he supposed that he would do so but added, "You are the most hateful to me of the gods who hold Olympus, forever strife is dear to you and wars and slaughter".  Apparently the Word of God (the words of his father) meant nothing to him for, upon being healed he went straight back out to the battlefield.

Whenever one reads in the olden books of the stories of these battles the heart grows impassioned and the heat in the spleen rises up; one experiences thumos.

Deimos and Phobos in Sparta

The two brothers Deimos and Phobos were particularly worshiped in the city state of Sparta as they were the sons of Ares, the god of war.

Deimos and Phobos in Theosophy

In the Grand tradition of Theosophy; when there are enough 'non-evolvers' to become a hindrance to the bulk of the inhabitants of any Planetation, the impedimentaries must be cast out and thrown off. This happened with the Sun Sphere when the Planet Earth was cast out and later, to the Earth Sphere, when the Moon was cast out.

Continuing along these lines; The same thing has happened to Old Mars (former god of war). We see that two of its vice-hindrances were cast off: Deimos and Phobos.

In Greek mythology, Deimos (Ancient Greek: Δεῖμος, pronounced [dêːmos], meaning "dread") was the personification of terror. He was the son of Ares and Aphrodite. He is the twin brother of Phobos and the goddess Enyo who accompanied Ares into battle, as well as his father's attendants, Trembling, Fear, Dread and Panic. Deimos is more of a personification and an abstraction of the sheer terror that is brought by war and he never appeared as an actual character in any story in Greek Mythology.

The two Moons are not native to Mars

A Brief History of 4th Kingdom Humanity

The old paradigm is a 'tooth and claw' paradigm, where survival is won through constant struggle and insured by the survival of the tough. This is accompanied by a sensitive balance affected by the 'predator-prey' relationship. Whenever successful breeding species overpopulate an area they are forced to spread out in search of sufficient resources. Once they saturate the available resources, survival pressures are incurred upon the supporting environment at the expense of the biome. To off-set these pressures, predatory species appear which reduce the numbers of the successful group. In so-doing, an interesting dynamic is set up where only the weak and slow and aging members of the prey are picked off; the remainder being too swift or cunning to make their predation efficient. Consequently, upon thinning out the  feeble, the predators move on to thicker numbers. In this way a hierarchy is set up so that there are fewer predators and far more prey. The beauty of this is that the predatory species only do well when the prey are really prosperous. If the prey suffer, then the predators suffer more.

Once primitive man banded together and developed language, he became the most formidable hunter on the planet. The eventual result of this became the fact of his obvious intolerance for predatory competition. As the chief predator himself, he virtually extinguished all other predators within his domain. This meant that he had no natural population control mechanism and this imbalance swung wildly in his favor. As the dominant species of the planet his population eventually grew beyond control.

This in turn lead to famine, suffering, and the use of force and cruelty against his own species. Thus man developed  warfare and its technological destructionism; from the socio-biological perspective, including the built-in means of self-annihilation, should the need for planetary extermination arise from the perspective of Mother Earth.

Recent history concludes that we have  perfected all the means to complete our arsenal of technological self-annihilation; thereby completing the circle of Life of Death at our choosing (cf. 'thanatos').

The proclivity of humans to band together leads to a progression of allegiances (which reflect in his degree of advancement; either revealing his spirituality through sharing and service, or exposing his selfishness) through loyalties, first to self, then to family and kin; then to clan, tribe (party) and nation (patriotism); then to religion, and thence to race. This is an 'enemy-based' mentality which compels him to 'circle the wagons' against attack. With the dawn of cloning from Neanderthal cells, it will soon extend to species. The fear-based allegiances are related to instinctualities of the animal kingdom; such as survival, territory, mating and resources while the Spiritual advancements of sharing, moderation and selfless service stand in contradistinction.