Thanks, Vasanth.
Returning to considering Mars, now in the first house, the first thing that authors say is that the ruler of the ASC in the I means "good".
In
Bonatti's
Book of Astronomy, Treatise 1-3 (Benjamin N. Dykes' translation) p.142.: "if the Lord of the 1st were in the 1st, it signifies the native's good fortune, his acquisition through himself, by his own industry and the exhaustion of his own body /at this point I thought: a wrestler! The Rock! :-D/, own study, own concerns" etc.
In Treatise 9,
On Nativities, p. 1174. speaking about the 3 superior planets, "if they were (?.) in the ASC or in its angles (?.) they ake the soul (?.) capable of freedom, stern and sure of his own counsel, great and open, exalted and bringing his own thoughts into the open, but not very discreetly". Using Placidus houses, only the Sun and Mercury are in the angles, while using WSH, both Mars and Saturn (2 superior planets out of 3) are in the angles, so this point (that somehow sustains the meaning of the "ruler of the ASC in the I house") could make the difference between Placidus and WS houses (Tom will tell?.
).
According to
Masha'allah (
Works of Sahl and Masha'allah, Benjamin N. Dykes' translation), on p. 508., Mars in the ASC means "sorrow and fear and contention, and a horrible thing (?.), also craftiness and contrariety, and entering into a matter which does not pertain to him".
Following
Zoller, the primary motivation of the native, signified by the Scorpio Ascendant, will be emotional security, and it will be sought through the strong domicile ruler Mars and its ways (courageous, zealous, daring, having initiative, ie. Mars' most positive/ly expressed/ features, although wrath and contention can never be excluded) and it will be "able to perform" and will be very "on target"; if this Mars is in the 12th house, a hidden/secret dimension will be "the theatre of expression of the primary motivation", while if it is in the I house, his own person will be the scene of realisation. This sounds very important (as a way of distinction between the two house systems), but from my experience, this "primary motivation" and its place of realistion is not something that can necessarily and be seen and understood easily from the outside, especially not from biographical data (unless the person is still alive and can be asked?.and have enough ability of introspection to understand?. and willingness to formulate it? etc.)
Some other general considerations (related to Mars but indipendent of house systems):
Masha'allah (op.cit.), on p.385., says that Mars in the bounds of Venus means problems related to women (and there is a long detailed guide describing all the possible troubles of this kind)
In
Introductions to Traditional Astrology: Abu Mashar & al-Qabisi (translated and edited by Benjamin N. Dykes), on p.72.
al-Qabisi describes the use of the 3 triplicity Lords of the ASC for determining the quality of the 3 main periods of life. Strong Mars being the 2nd triplicity Lord, and peregrine Venus the 1st one, it is deducible that the second/middle period of the native's life (adulthood) was much better than his childhood.
Iris