When Mars entered Cancer on the 4th September 2024 for its long 23 week occupation, across two visits, due to the Retrograde [which first began in Leo on the 6th December, and reversed into Cancer on January 6th] he was in an almost exact and very tense Square with the Moon in the sign of balance, Libra.
• With Mars in Fall in Cancer, the sign ruled by Moon, a far from auspicious seeding Event Chart.
• With supreme Astrological irony and synchronicity, as Mars Stationed direct today in Cancer, the Moon is in detriment in Capricorn and face to face with Mars, in an almost exact opposition.
• Thus the reactive, over-emotional, bullying, incendiary hate speech which has dominated the last week and recent months is unlikely to end, just because of Mars’ about turn, which is slow too, only emerging from 17 degrees by 9th March.
• That said, Mercury, the planet of communication and precision, itself not best positioned, does link well to Mars, so we may see some more incisive discussion.
• Indeed Saturn, the greater Malefic to Mars’s lesser, also is in support, but with such a lot of planetary players currently gathered in the sign of Pisces, unseen contacts, motivations and outcomes can be born from sleight of hand.
• In the Mars Direct Event Chart based on UCT and the Prime Meridian Mars is in House 8, Moon 2. Interesting that, when the real subtext of last week’s power plays has been land, unmined resources and control, and coercion.
• Thus there is little to celebrate, other than the process of moving on, has begun.
