Where you find the planet mars in your chart indicates the way you go about achieving things, it also shows you physical energy level. Just knowing the element and modality Mars is in gives you an idea of how a person expends their physical energy, Mars in Cardinal Signs, Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn is determined and forceful, Mars in Fixed Signs Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius is focused and steadfast, Mars in Mutable Signs, Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces is scattered, Cardinal signs have a sustainable energy, fixed signs have a stoic energy and mutable signs have nervous energy.