Mars in Cancer

With Mars in Cancer, its sign of fall, you act through your feelings and to protect your own. Your energy rises and falls with your mood, and your fighting spirit wakes up mainly when someone threatens your family.

You can put up with a lot for yourself, but if someone goes after your child, your brother or a friend, you suddenly become formidable. Mars is said to be in its fall in Cancer: action here isn’t direct, it runs through feeling and the protective instinct. You often move sideways, like the crab, avoiding head-on confrontation, but you can be tenacious when defending your territory. Your energy is closely tied to your emotional state: full of strength one day, flat the next. Your desire needs trust and tenderness to come out. The difficulty is anger that doesn’t come out. You may let irritations pile up without a word, then blow up over something trivial, or express aggression indirectly, through sulking, veiled reproaches, silence. You may also take a conflict at work as personally as a family one. Your strength grows when you learn to name your anger as it arises, calmly, before it spills over.

Mars next enters Cancer on 20 July 2028. Dates computed from the ephemerides, Paris time.

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