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In case of special aspects sometimes the planet might be present in the house of the planet whom it is influencing. Following is a valid example:

In this case Mercury is under Jupiter's 5th aspect and Mars' 8th aspect. Both of them are located in Mercury owned houses. Hence such a person will be technically very sound with and very pleasing personality and would have taken higher studies for sure in his/her life. This person must be very tactical at his/her work place too!

Another example: if Jupiter aspects Moon present in Scorpio when Jupiter is in Cancer (owned by Moon),  both the planets will aspect each other equally. 

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Well now you will feel why I am writing this post when the special aspects have all been covered. There are some points that we need to remember when we are interpreting any chart with respect to special aspects. 

Most of the time when two planets are present in 7th to each other or they are together they will influence each other mutually. It will be good if they are good friends! But what is the case when there is planet with special aspect involved? Oh yes, as you can guess, they will definitely influence and be influenced by planets present in house 7 and house 1, but what about house 5 and 9 in case of Jupiter? House 4 and 8 in case of Mars and house 3 and 10 in case of Saturn? Following holds good in those cases:

1. The planet which is under aspect cannot see them (as in case of 1 and 7), and hence cannot influence back, obviously if someone is pushing you and you cannot see that person, you will get pushed but you might not be able to push back, right? Example: 

In this case Mercury is being influenced by all 3 planets, Jupiter - 9th aspect, Mars - 8th aspect and Saturn - 3rd aspect. But Mercury will not be able to influence them back. In such a case, the aspect and influence is very strong on the planet under aspect. Hence they will not only influence with respect to House 1 and House 3 but also for Houses 4 and 7 (ruled by Jupiter here), houses 3 and 8 (ruled by Mars) and houses 5 and 6 (Saturn).

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Coming back to special aspects. Well following holds true for Mars:

Mars aspects the fourth and the eighth house from its location besides the first and seventh. In that case, Mars will influence planets located in 1st, 4th, 7th and 8th houses and also the activities of that house, specially during its major/minor period and during transits through those houses. The below diagram can help you understand this concept better:

As you can see, Mars is present in house 1, numbered 8 because the ascendant is Scorpio. Hence it will influence all houses and planets in Scorpio (8), Aquarius (11), Taurus (7) and Gemini (3). We must also know that depending upon the sign the planet aspects, it aspects will be inimical or friendly. In the above example, Mars will actually negatively influence the first house positively (since it is the master of Scorpio), while it will mostly negative influence the other houses (4,7,8) since it is enemy to Saturn (Lord of 4th), Venus (Lord of 7th) and Mercury (Lord of 8th), unless otherwise influenced by any other planet. So, if you have above configuration in your chart (Mars located in first house in Scorpio), then during Mars major/minor period you can see positive influence with respect to your personality (indicated by first house) but negatively with respect to your Mother and Spouse (indicated by 4th and 7th house) and may be interest in occult (indicated by 8th house). One thing to keep in mind is that, even though Mars is influencing these houses and planets situated herein, the final result still lies with master of that house. So, in all above example, Saturn, Venus and Mercury are the final judge in giving you what you deserve. Actually, Mars might not be able to give its negative result if these planets are well placed!