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Mars in Cancer

Mars is in its fall: you fight to protect family and home, and anger tends to come out sideways or as moods.

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What Mars in Cancer means

Mars is in its fall: you fight to protect family and home, and anger tends to come out sideways or as moods.

Mars stands for drive, courage, desire and anger. In Cancer it works tenderly and protectively; it works through home, family and feeling.

At a glance

Planet
Mars: drive, courage, desire and anger
Sign
Cancer, water and cardinal, ruled by Moon
Dignity
Fall
Time in each sign
about six weeks, up to seven months when retrograde

Cancer is opposite Capricorn, where Mars is exalted, so here it is in its fall and has to work harder.

Famous people with Mars in Cancer

Only people whose Mars stayed in Cancer through their whole birth day, wherever they were born.

Wolfgang Amadeus MozartAustrian composer of the Classical period27 January 1756 – 179111masterAquariusKarl MarxGerman-born philosopher5 May 1818 – 18831TaurusPablo PicassoSpanish painter and sculptor25 October 1881 – 19738ScorpioLionel MessiArgentine association football player24 June 19871CancerJimmy Walesco-founder of Wikipedia7 August 19661LeoCarl LinnaeusSwedish botanist, physician, and zoologist (1707–1778); developed the foundati…23 May 1707 – 17787GeminiImmanuel KantGerman philosopher22 April 1724 – 18044TaurusAlexander PushkinRussian poet, playwright, and novelist6 June 1799 – 183711masterGeminiLeonhard EulerSwiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer15 April 1707 – 17837AriesRoald AmundsenNorwegian explorer; first person to reach the South Pole16 July 1872 – 19285CancerMikhail Gorbachevleader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 19912 March 1931 – 20221PiscesXi JinpingGeneral Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party since 201215 June 19533Gemini

Mars in the other signs

Mars in the houses

Other planets in Cancer

Questions and answers

What does Mars in Cancer mean?

Mars is in its fall: you fight to protect family and home, and anger tends to come out sideways or as moods.

Is Mars strong in Cancer?

Cancer is opposite Capricorn, where Mars is exalted, so here it is in its fall and has to work harder.

How do I know if I have Mars in Cancer?

Enter your birth date in the free Mars sign calculator.

Which famous people have Mars in Cancer?

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Karl Marx, Pablo Picasso, Lionel Messi, Jimmy Wales, Carl Linnaeus, Immanuel Kant, Alexander Pushkin

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