Effects of Mars

Mars is considered as the Chief of Defence within the council of planets.

With respect to one's birth chart, one can perceive the favourable or unfavourable position of the Mars, based on the following "symptoms":

Benefic Effects: Gallant, valour, courage, determination, wealth, knowledgeable, high designation, honorable, respectable, working with defense/police/surgeon, hard working.

Malefic Effects: Increasing debt, loss in property matters, delay in building of house, delay in marriage, illness, injuries, accidents, surgery & dry-cracked lips, etc. 

It is difficult to judge or ascertain in which category a person exists. It is not usual that every benefic or malefic character would be effecting a person at the time. There can be mixed effects too. To reduce the malefic effects, the under stated remedies can be considered suitable:

• Make sweet chapatis (bread) in a tandoor (clay oven) & offer it to dogs and cows, especially on Tuesdays.
• Donate red lentils (whole masoor dal) with jaggery on Tuesdays. It can also be donated to a temple.
• Take blessings from the elder brother & his wife. In absence of a brother, even the cousins can substitute.
• Recite Bajrang Baan & Hanuman Chalisa (holy praises) of Lord Hanuman.