ALMUTEMMars in Cancer
Mars represents your energy, your desire and the courage to act. In Cancer, it expresses itself with sensitivity and a wish to look after your own.
Mars is in its fall in Cancer — a cardinal water sign ruled by the Moon —, its essential debility: here it wears the skin of the wolf of the fables, misunderstood. It brings an inner hunger, frustration, and an unbreakable strength born of its own dissatisfaction. Family and intimate affections are its battlefield, where the struggle tends to be silent and indirect, made of grievances left unspoken. The planet’s fire, drowned in the water of the sign, acts at a cost and by crooked ways. But from that very sensibility is born a rare instinct to sense danger and fiercely defend those it loves — if the native learns to tend the garden it has cultivated within. A Mars that fights better in protecting than in attacking.