Mars in Cancer in the Twelfth House

The placement of Mars in Cancer indicates that you have a need to feel emotionally safe with respect to your desires and the actions that you take to pursue these desires. This usually manifests in your having desires for those things and situations that confer an emotional sense of well-being. These include things such as closeness with family, being nurtured and nurturing, etc. Generally, both the close attention that you pay to satisfying these desires and your concern that actions taken by you not jeopardize the foundations of your emotional security result in a certain cautiousness. Having Mars in Cancer, your natural caution often causes you to self-limit the scope of your desires and action. Much of the behavior and many of the personality characteristics associated with Mars in Cancer are a result of the emotional qualities of your desires and actions.

The placement of Mars in Cancer is often problematic. This is symbolized by the natural square between Cancer and Mars-ruled Áries. Cancer is the Cardinal Water sign. The active water element of Cancer symbolically drowns out the Mars fire. The active and forceful energy symbolized by Mars is slowed and diffused as it is forced to operate through the water element. Circumscribed by a wall of water, Mars may find its place boiling pots or stirring emotions.

Mars also symbolizes the animus in the psyche. Thus, if you are male with Mars in Cancer, you are likely to model your masculinity in order to incorporate characteristics typically associated with Cancer. If you are female, you are likely to be attracted to someone who projects or embodies Cancer-associated traits. For a male, there may also be some conflict between the masculine energy associated with Mars and the feminine energy of associated with Cancer. You may, in some sense, feel emasculated by being under the influence of the “womanish” Cancer energy. However, if you have a more secure and positive sense of your masculinity, this placement suggests an opportunity to explore and incorporate your feminine side. If you are female with Mars in Cancer, you may either be attracted to “weak” men or to men who have balanced their masculine and feminine natures, depending upon your own conceptions of masculinity and other psychological factors.

Inseguranças

With Mars in Cancer, your insecurity is expressed when the active principle within you is hesitant to assert itself, lest it provoke a threatening response. Ironically, your fear of what the world outside your safe confines can do to you has only made you weak and vulnerable. Thus, you serve others, complacently, while your own needs and desires fail to find expression.

Mars in the 12th House:

The Mars in the 12th House placement is most often seen as problematic or detrimental. This is especially true if you are male. This is because the active and assertive nature represented by Mars is opposite the passive and inward looking focus of the 12th House. The blending of the two energies must take place at a high level of consciousness and with care and discipline. In its more positive mode, this placement suggests a desire for hidden knowledge or for the dissolution or transcendence of the ego, with action taken to achieve these ends.

Mars in the 12th House also indicates that you may have an impulse toward compassion and sensitivity. This may shape your actions and desires in a spiritual direction, but it may also result in you holding back your assertiveness out  of regard for others. You may also be attracted to the subtler arts, particularly to music.

Dissolution and boundarilessness, which are associated with the 12th House may also produce negative tendencies without the discipline necessary to hold to a high spiritual path. Having Mars in the 12th House, deception, escapism and self-destruction may infuse your motivations and actions.

Inseguranças

With Mars in the 12th House, if you are inwardly insecure, your attraction to the unknown and your sense of boundarilessness will make you fearful. Without boundaries, it is difficult for you to impose discipline on your actions and desires. You realize this and may be afraid to act. The “unknown” which frightens you are the Unconscious, which would swallow up and destroy your conscious ego.

Having Mars in the 12th House, one defense against your fears is to flee from those things that are symbolized by the 12th House and lead a very conventional life. In ignoring the unknown and failing to deal with it, however, you leave yourself open to its unwelcome intrusion in the form of unlooked for sorrows, illness, deceptions, etc. These are nothing more than calls from your subconscious for you to pay attention to your inner self.  Another type of defense against your fears is the opposite of the first. You define your desires and your actions within the purview of the 12th House. With Mars in the 12th House, you undertake roles and actions that are caricatures of the process of Unbecoming.  This is basically a self-destructive, as opposed to a self-transcending path. You can be consumed by addictive and destructive behaviors, such as substance abuse, pathological lying, dependency, etc. The self-destruction may be done openly, or it may remain hidden, with you leading a “double life” – hiding your actions and desires with deception.

Foco dos desejos

As an individual with Mars in the 12th House, your desire tends to be inward and for things that are immaterial or hidden.  Mars in the 12th House may signify spiritual desire or a desire to explore the realms of the unconscious. It generally indicates that you do not have much attraction for material objects. Instead, you desire the universal. Mars in the 12th House may also signify desire for things that are hidden or forbidden. Your aims and motivations may be obscure, or your aims and desires may be deceptive.

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Artigo referenciado em:

• Gargatholil, Depth Astrology: Um Manual Astrológico - Volume 2: Planetas nos Signos

• Gargatholil, Depth Astrology: Um Manual Astrológico - Volume 3: Planetas nas Casas

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