Mars Retrograde in Cancer: Harness This Energy in Your Favor
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January 5/6, 2025
Get ready for profound cosmic shifts as Mars retrogrades from Leo into Cancer! This transformative period, lasting from December 6, 2024, to February 23, 2025, is your invitation to dive into emotional healing, self-discovery, and personal growth. Mars began its retrograde journey at 6º of Leo and will strategically move back to 17º of Cancer before re-entering Leo on April 18.
This Retrograde is particularly significant for anyone with planets or angles in the Cardinal signs: Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn. It's your chance to connect with your inner warrior, confront unresolved emotional issues, and fully engage with your ambitions. Moreover, revisiting the situations from early November and October 2024 will yield valuable insights and practical solutions.
Embrace this time as a pivotal moment for your growth - your evolution is here, and it will be gratifying!
Mars Retrograde: Opportunity to Reflect on What We Are Doing and Why
Wherever Mars is, action is happening. Mars’ transits inform us how we initiate, lead, make decisions, assert ourselves, and pursue our desires.
Mars retrograde, which occurs roughly once every two years, is a time of reorientation, reconsideration, and redirection that can help us access a new level of self-awareness and build a new relationship with our will, desires, anger, and sexuality.
This transit invites us to spend more time observing rather than acting and pay more attention to what our choices and actions reveal about our unconscious motivations, needs, and desires. Mars’ retrograde journey is an opportunity to reflect on what we are doing, why, where we are going, and why we experience specific desires and not others.
Mars Shifts From Leo to Cancer: Nurturing Our Emotional Growth Together
As Mars retrogrades through Leo, we seize the opportunity to deepen our understanding of what truly inspires us and brings us joy. This transit compels us to reflect on how our desire for personal significance, visibility, and external validation drives our actions. The Retrograde in Leo challenges us to ensure that our creations are authentic and soul-driven rather than ego-driven, and it encourages us to connect our passions and creative endeavors to a greater social purpose.
As Mars transitions from Leo to Cancer, we assertively confront unfinished business and unresolved issues from our past, including childhood experiences. In Cancer, this retrograde empowers us to review, reassess, and renew our emotional responses. It invites us to explore practical ways to engage with our feelings, especially anger - and closely examine the links between past experiences and present choices.
This Mars retrograde in Cancer is a decisive opportunity to understand what lies beneath our reactions when we feel triggered, frustrated, or irritated. It enables us to identify the authentic sources of our anger, bitterness, or resentment.
The Mars-Chiron Squares: Unlocking Our Inner Healer
Prepare for an uplifting journey as Mars in Cancer squares Chiron in Aries on February 4 and March 26! This celestial alignment invites us to revisit the energy we first felt when Mars entered Cancer on October 13. We may find past wounds rising to the surface during these times, but don't worry - this is an excellent opportunity for healing and growth!
These squares are not just astrological events; they are golden chances for us to reflect on and embrace our unhealed wounds related to asserting ourselves, claiming our space, pursuing our desires, launching new ventures, and going after what truly matters to us.
The focus here is on nurturing our connection with Yang energy, especially the vibrant masculine energy represented by the Warrior archetype, guided by Mars ruling Aries.
As we navigate these Mars-Chiron squares, we may face insecurities and vulnerabilities when we assert our Martian qualities. This self-reflection allows us to examine how we typically respond to feelings of rejection and prompts us to consider how societal conditioning may have led us to suppress or shy away from our anger and assertiveness.
Perhaps we’ve held back from expressing anger due to the fear of conflict or a desire not to hurt others. Now is the time to heal that aspect and embrace our ability to take action, express our emotions, and make bold decisions.
This period encourages us to cultivate healthier relationships through self-assertion, leadership, and exploring new paths.
Mars Retrograde in Cancer: Cultivating Emotional Insight
As Mars dances through Cancer and aligns with Pluto at 1º Aquarius, our sensitivities may be heightened. This is an invitation to slow down and nurture ourselves deeply. Instead of rushing ahead, this moment encourages us to explore our vulnerabilities and address any emotional layers that need our attention.
Mars’ Retrograde in Cancer highlights the emotional currents influencing our choices, often beneath our awareness. It provides the perfect backdrop for us to examine the deeply ingrained patterns from our past and how they still shape our behaviors, our ability to set boundaries, and our capacity to pursue our desires assertively.
This phase challenges us to evolve into a more mature relationship with our emotions, pushing us to confront any issues we've sidelined.
Remember, Mars in Canwe'vee teaches us that true strength lies in recognizing our emotional nature and honoring our feelings. We can navigate life with greater confidence and grace by cultivating intentional action rather than impulsive reactions, especially in emotionally charged moments.
Every day, I experience more synchronicities, events, or opportunities, as my mission as an Astrologer who’s in alignment with the universe has been both extremely painful and genuinely magical.
UNIVERSAL YEAR 9
The sum of 2025 equals 9, which powerfully aligns with your energy. Mars, the ruling planet of Number 9, is a dominant force that inspires you to pursue your passions and embrace courage wholeheartedly.
My Soul Urge—also known as Heart's Desire—is tied to the number 9, which reflects my birth name. This year, however, we're also influenced by the energies of the numbers two and five associated with the Moon (2) and Mercury (5).
So, do these numbers and planets resonate with you? Is your zodiac sign Aries? Mars is actively at work, making things happen! As for me, my Life Path number is 11/2, giving me a strong connection to the Moon.
Being a Virgo, I’m not limited to just Mercury as my ruling planet; I also possess a cosmic connection with the Earth of the mind, and my relationship with the number 5 has a remarkable story!
WELCOME TO THE BEAUTIFUL SAMANTA VERNON
For the second time in only two months - I received a friend/follow request from a female, this time in my professional life, who caught my attention by having the number 11:11 in her bio!
And she's a writer! An INTUITIVE writer!
NEXT! A video she posted on her YouTube Channel said that the New Earth must be here, so pay full attention!
Thank you so much for your consent, The Luminous Lotus !
And thank you to the planets Mars being in Retrograde again and Venus being Virgo’s ruling planet this month!
-Angelo Michael