Solunars by Aldebaran Sidereal Academy

Welcome to the Mars in Cancer discussions project, which will run July 17 - August 17, 2019 (and then will remain around in case people want to revisit it in the future). Please gather your list of Mars in Cancer people (especially those you know personally) and join us.

Here are Mars in Cancer interpretive resources on the forum:
Primary section: viewtopic.php?f=13&t=32#p118
Garth Allen: viewtopic.php?f=13&t=33#p133

Mars in Cancer has similarities to and differences from Sun in Cancer. To help discern these similarities and differences, here is a link to the earlier Sun in Cancer viewtopic.php?f=14&t=1547

My current concise summary of Mars in Cancer (always subject to change) reads:

Inner strength (prodigious imagination & fantasy) usually holds private demons at bay; but clings to old wounds (angry, acting out, selfish, retaliatory from old mistreatment). Breeds confidence, makes things happen; loyal, speaks truth to power; but wants a chance to lead. Magnetic (passionate following?). Wants adoration sexually (otherwise business-like in sex).

Here on Solunars, Mars in Cancer is in the birth charts of Arena, sotonye, Lunar9, Tina, and Spiritus Sanctus XCIII, in addition to Lance's wife

To this we can add Sidereal pioneer Brigadier R.C. Firebrace. Of figures currently in public awareness or recently discussed here, consider Hillary Clinton, Mike Pence, Kamala Harris, and Ram Dass.

I know one personally.

I am always curious when I see what feels like a very negative affliction listed for the placement. I see those statements like a red flag saying " bad habit" or " worst case scenario or a tendency to slip to the lowest common denominator.

For mars in cancer it is said it clings to old wounds.
Sounds like picking a scab almost.
But I dont think that is what it is as much as maybe its not a clinging to old wounds as much as being a slowness to heal.

I do see the clinginess to the wound but I think that maybe more of a defensiveness to the reality that Super sensitive Cancers get hurt easily and deeply and because of the soft gentle conditions of there nature it takes longer to heal.
Possibly because of the watery nature. Wounds that are constantly waterlogged take for ever to heal.

I noticed when talking to my ex who has a Moon in Cancer that her memory seemed like a spotless repository of offenses taken and that, given the opportunity, she'd recall all the small instances where some rudeness in action or in a word of mine had had an upleasant affect on her for a moment, and not really because they were actionable offenses but almost because she just wanted me to know that she remembers everything, and I realized then that I do this exact same thing, that I never really forget when I'm wronged and that I don't ever hesitate to bring up instances where that all has happened! I really think clinging onto old wounds is a huge part of Cancer in general and we are so strange in this way, I can't say we sincerely care about the past, it seems more like we use the past as leverage in the present, and for whatever reason this seems very businesslike to me, as if we want to ensure positive performance in our relations by issuing a warning that we are watching

Here are Mars in Cancer examples from my Example Chart Catalogue:

• Pres. William H. Taft, Pres. Harry S Truman, Queen Catherine de Medici, King Louis XIII, VP Kamala Harris, Sen. John McCain, Maximilien Robespierre, Justice Stephen Breyer, Gov. George Wallace, Heinrich Himmler, Mayor Rudy Giuliani, William J. Bratton
• Audrey Hepburn, Esther Williams, Sophia Loren, Natalie Wood, Goldie Hawn, Candace Bergen, Elvira, Naomi Judd, Demi Moore, Janeane Garofalo, James Dean, Martin Sheen, Michael J. Fox, Willem Dafoe, Diane Sawyer, Conan O'Brien, Roger Ebert, Gene Roddenberry, George Lucas
• Dinah Shore, Cher, Gladys Knight, Bernadette Peters, Bette Midler, Melissa Etheridge, Alanis Morissette, Miley Cyrus, Amy Winehouse, Buddy Holly, Paul McCartney, Stu Sutcliffe, Ringo Starr, Brian Wilson, Bruce Springsteen, Leonard Cohen, Julian Lennon, Beverly Sills
• Hans Christian Andersen, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Blake, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, George Eliot, Sylvia Plath, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Algernon Swinburne, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Stephen King, Anne Frank, Clifford Irving, Marsha Norman, Linda Sexton, Dymphna Cusack
• Frank Lloyd Wright, Marie Laurencin, Amanda Knox, Gabriella Papadakis, J. Pierpont Morgan, Jerry Rubin, Jessica Mitford, Marcia Clark, Mata Hari, Olga Wormser
• Hera Myrtel, Henri Desiré Landru, Edward Gein, Angelo A. Buono Jr., Jim Jones
• Carl Linnaeus, Buckminster Fuller, Richard Krafft-Ebing, Fritz Perls, Hans Eysenck, Oswald Spengler, Nate Silver
• Sri Aurobindo, Richard Alpert, Jane Roberts, Mary Greer, Raymond Buckland, Johann Muller (Regiomontanus), Brig. R.C. Firebrace, Zipporah Dobyns

A lot of these people are way weird - many are very deep into the shadow realms (perhaps all of them).