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From Freepedia

The Mars Symbol ♂ may refer to:

• male sex in biology
• the Roman God Mars and the Greek God Ares
• for Iron in Alchemy

The old scriptures draw the Mars symbol like a Venus symbol but rotated around 140 degrees.

So it has a cross instead of the arrow. Alchemists constructed the symbol from a cross (representing matter) above a circle (representing spirit).

The new Mars symbol is sometimes interpreted as the spear and shield from the war god Mars/Ares.