Mars is known as the planet of war and its position in your natal chart is indicative of your more volatile characteristics. It reflects your ambitiousness and approach to pursuing goals, how you assert and defend yourself, and also your primal sexuality.
If you are born under Mars in Cancer, you like to keep busy and work hard, but you tend to be more focussed on helping others than getting what you need. As a result, sometimes you can work very hard, have a lot of success, but not have very much to show for it at the end.
You tend to lose control of your emotions when it comes to conflict, and you are the type of lash out or burst into tears spontaneously during an argument.
You are a very sensual signs and know exactly what you like in bed, and you aren’t afraid to be open and instructive. Sexual encounters in the pool or the shower are very alluring for you.
Mars Transit & Retrograde Through Cancer
While the position of Mars in our natal chart affects us on an individual level, the planet’s continual transit through the signs impacts us all as it influences our fiery energies. It takes six to seven weeks to transit through each sign.
When Mars transits through Cancer, we often find ourselves saying yes to more than we can take on and that our productivity suffers as a result. We will probably find ourselves working hard for little reward. Most people also have a tendency to lose control of their emotions during disagreements at this time.
Thankfully, Mars does not retrograde through Cancer often, as the planet only retrogrades every two years. It last will not retrograde through Cancer again until 2025.
Whenever Mars retrogrades, we tend to feel like our energy is highly diminished. When this is combined with the energy of Cancer, we often find our decision-making abilities clouded by our emotions and that we end up on the wrong foot.
Mars in Cancer Ambition
When you are born under Mars in Cancer, you tend to prioritize security and a nice home. You have firm ambitions in this area but tend to be more focussed on the end result and less focussed on the process. It may be that you are willing to do something you don’t enjoy all that much to get what you want. You follow a “work to live” philosophy.
People born under Mars in Cancer have an innate need to be useful to other people and find it difficult to say no when asked to do something. As a result, you often end up taking on too much or tasks that you aren’t well suited to in order to please others.
While you know that you aren’t playing to your strengths, you say yes anyway, and often find yourself under-performing due to overload. In contrast, you tend to be very good at identifying the strengths of others and putting people in the best place to have a great impact.
Due to your tendency to take on too much for other people, you often find yourself working very hard, and not necessarily seeing the results. Learning to say no and prioritizing your own needs could have a transformational impact on your life.
Mars in Cancer Assertiveness
People born under Mars in Cancer don’t really like conflict, and think that it is important to maintain peace and keep other people happy. As a result, it is usually you who compromises in tough situations. While sometimes this is very necessarily, make sure you aren’t always the one making sacrifices.
When you do find yourself in an unavoidable conflict, you can find it very difficult to control your emotions. What often starts out as a calm conversation about the facts can end up with you in tears, slamming doors, and making threats. Your inability to control your emotions during conflict is one of the reasons why you are so keen to avoid it.
Mars in Cancer Sexuality
Mars in Cancer, you are very sensitive, which is why you are so emotional. But it also means that you are very sensual because you are physically sensitive as well. You know what you like, and, frankly, there aren’t that many things that you don’t like.
Sex is best for you when you can connect on both an emotional and a physical level. Your emotions are so prevalent in every part of your life, that sex without deep emotions can feel empty. Though, of course, that emotion doesn’t necessarily need to be love.
As one of the water signs, you feel your most physically potent in the water, so sex in the shower or the pool can take things to the next level.
Mars in Cancer Compatibility
When you are born under Mars in Cancer, you often do well with an assertive but sensitive type like Mars in Leo, or one of the other water signs, Mars in Scorpio or Pisces.
Mars in Leo can seem overwhelming to you as you are always compromising, and they never budge. But Leo is also very sensitive, and they tend to know what you need without you saying it. They can also push you to start putting yourself first.
Mars in the water signs are similarly sensitive and need an emotional connection to truly enjoy sex. You will probably find that the sex is fantastic, but that emotions run high in day-to-day life, and you have a tendency to fight.
Mars in Cancer Personality Traits
When you are born with Mars in Cancer, you tend to prioritize the people in your life over everything else. You are very intuitive, which has taught you to trust your instincts when making decisions. But you are also highly emotional, which can sometimes cloud your judgment.
Connected
When you are born under Mars in Cancer, you prioritize the people in your life. Being surrounded by people that you love and feeling needed by others is very important to you.
In addition to your family, with whom you are probably very close, you probably have a large group of friends that you consider to be like family, and who you love unconditionally.
You understand that the people who are closest to you define you, and you also understand the risk of toxic relationships. But you aren’t the type to be able to cut someone out of your life, no matter what they do. Instead, you will likely try to help them.
Instinctive
It is likely that you have very good instincts. You are good at reading people’s emotions, so you can tell when they are excited, concerned, or lying. This helps you interpret situations correctly and know the best way to act, even if you can’t explain exactly why.
While you probably don’t consider yourself to have a particular good memory, you are the type that stores things away in your subconscious for later. This means that you have all the necessarily pieces to put together the puzzle in the right moment.
You have learned over the years to trust your instincts, so you often go with your gut, even when the people around you are suggesting you take a different approach.
Emotional
Your emotions are very close to the surface, and so you tend to have an emotional response to everything. This is why you might cry in movies, and even get emotional in the biscuit aisle looking at old favorites.
But this does mean it can be hard for you to see things objectively at times because everything in life is personal. It can also be very challenging for you to hide your emotions from others.
Your emotions can also cloud your otherwise excellent instincts. Your gut might be telling you that you can’t trust someone, but strong emotions cause you to go ahead and do it anyway, even though you know that you are the one who is going to get hurt.
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