♂︎ Mars in ♋︎ Cancer
Mars in Cancer places the will to act in a feeling, instinctive, tidal key. Being cardinal, it wants to start things and set them moving.
Cancer is the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon. Its keynote is protection, memory, the tides of feeling. Placed here, Mars (drive and desire) takes on that colouring, so read the two together on the Cancer arc of the wheel.
Here drive, courage, and appetite runs deep and receptive and initiating: Mars pushes forward, but in the Cancer manner rather than any other.
At its best that shows up as courage that is well aimed, expressed the Cancer way. Under pressure it can tip into force for its own sake.
When Mars is in Cancer
Mars is in Cancer right now, and moves on around 28 September 2026.
It returns to Cancer around 20 July 2028 (through about 4 September 2028).
It returns to Cancer around 1 July 2030 (through about 15 August 2030).
Dates computed from the ephemeris (UTC), not copied from a table.
Right now Mars stands at 16° Cancer. Watch it move on the live clock.
Mars’s aspects today
| Mars square Saturn | orb 2.6° |
| Sun sextile Mars | orb 3.4° |
| Mercury sextile Mars | orb 4.4° |
Mars through the other signs
- ♈︎ Aries
- ♉︎ Taurus
- ♊︎ Gemini
- ♌︎ Leo
- ♍︎ Virgo
- ♎︎ Libra
- ♏︎ Scorpio
- ♐︎ Sagittarius
- ♑︎ Capricorn
- ♒︎ Aquarius
- ♓︎ Pisces
Tradition and interpretation, not prediction. See Mars or the sign of Cancer.