Mars In Cancer: Breaking Free Of Fear
Mars in Cancer is going to be a memorable time for healing the inner child.
Cancer, the sign of the family, inner child and emotional safety is the latest host for the red planet after it stayed in Gemini for a little over half a year.
Mars in Gemini highlighted wounds to our inner teenagers, the triggers, fears and doubts of being a young adult with all its drama and trauma was being intensely revisited and relived and now that we’re over fighting with our minds and seemingly the universe..we enter the depth of Cancer examining the source of the wounding.
When our inner child is wounded, it produces intense fear that holds us back or freezes us. Always stuck in a state of grief over needs that were neither understood nor met, over time it becomes increasingly scary to admit to having needs or feel confident in taking risks.
Mars in Cancer activates your moon by sign, house and aspects. With that being said, the hallmark of a wounded moon is fear of outside world and with that comes an overwhelming despair. There’s something to be said about the relationship between a wounded moon and an excruciating need to self isolate to guard against the world.
When the moon is wounded, our inner life craves one thing only and that’s comfort at all costs.
You see when the moon is wounded, the side of us that recovers from shock, trauma and negative thoughts is rendered inefficient. We search for our moon (safety and love) incessantly albeit subconscious, the overpowering push to find the lost part of ourselves to feel whole again overcomes any other urge or need. In simpler words, we are in survival mode trying to both protect the part of our inner child that have been dislocated or disappointed before and to compensate for the wounded parts by means of artificial or external forms of validation. When the moon is wounded, our inner life craves one thing only and that’s comfort at all costs.
While the moon does not exactly rule desire, it-however- rules the feeling of deserving what we desire. The moon rules satisfaction and when it’s wounded, we are overtaken by excruciating hunger.
We can think of your moon as the cushion between you and the hard object that is reality. Having a strong moon means you can adapt to the crash of reality and bounce back. When your moon is wounded, the structural integrity of the wall between your mind and heart collapses or there’s at least a constant fear of going through a moment of being frozen that we avoid the world altogether and with it, we avoid our potential.
On the other side of the extremes of a wounded moon, there’s the typical negative traits of the lunar archetype: selfish, demanding, manipulative, at all costs energy that disregards everyone else’s feelings or well being in the pursuit of what is desired which stems from a wounded expectation that everyone is supposed to prioritize our needs before theirs. The lack of boundaries and sense of victimhood this wounded side of Mars in Cancer views getting others to compromise their boundaries as victory and this is when karmic complications occur. The more we define our needs as something other people can give us whether that is validation, love or security, the more they withhold, resist or outright push us away.
This transit of Mars in Cancer is here to teach us that although it is incredibly tempting to take the twisted route towards our desires by twisting arms, manipulating or even relying our security needs on others, the more we are going to come up empty handed with much damage. This is especially true in romantic connections, the test with this transit is to break away from projecting our needs of safety or responsivity on a person we love and to face our own inner emptiness, fear and terror of forming a healthy connection without enmeshment.
Back To The Source:
Mars in Cancer is about going back and confronting where we never felt safe. This can be because parents especially mothers who took from our safety to feel safe, attempted to overcontrol, dismiss or live through us. Mars in Cancer is energetic violations and the wounds they have left on us. It is bringing confrontation to the forefront whether this is confrontation of the self or family. Acknowledgement of wounds from the past and placing new boundaries that stop this overwhelming feeling of helplessness in the face of woundedness of others they unconsciously project on us.
If we fail to place our fingers on where it all started, we get caught in a huge whirlwind of helplessness, feelings of weakened sense of self and an inability to take a stand for ourselves. This of course extends to relationships outside of our family scope. It extends to manifestations of ourselves feeling like targets, constantly in anticipation mode waiting for the next person we perceive as an enemy.
Excellent interpretation!