Mars in Cancer

How you act

Your engine is emotional. You act when you feel it is time, not when the calendar says so. You are one of those who postpone an important task when the mood is not there, and double the output when it is. Your strength is protection: if a project or a person you love is at risk, you bring out claws you did not know you had.

How you desire

You desire from emotion. Sex without an emotional connection leaves you empty. You prefer a stable relationship with deep sex to many unhistoried affairs. You are drawn to tenderness, the gaze that cares, the voice that soothes. Your sexuality has a lot of nest to it: you want the space to be yours, with music, familiar scents.

How you fight

You fight with withdrawal and long memory. You rarely yell: you shut down, turn cold, go passive-aggressive. You remember fights from five years ago and bring them up at the worst moment. Your weapon is punitive silence, which at times is more aggressive than any shout.

The shadow of this Mars

You mistake memory for justice and bring old wounds into new fights. Mars in cancer needs to learn to say what bothers you when it happens, not six months later, and to tell the difference between defending and punishing.

Mars sign