MARS MOVEMENTS

Mars Retrograde in Cancer Squaring Chiron in Aries: An Apocalypse of Selfhood—with Zodiacal Perspectives

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Imagine Mars, the hot-blooded soldier of the cosmos, temporarily stripped of his armor, sulking retrograde in the emotional waters of Cancer…

He’s not at his best here.

The tide rolls in and out, dragging him into the depths of nostalgia, vulnerability, and raw emotional reckoning.

Across the zodiacal battlefield, Chiron stands in Aries, the wounded healer whose every scar is a story, every ache a lesson.

And between them?

A square—a hard, unyielding angle that doesn’t ask for growth so much as it demands transformation by fire.

This isn’t a subtle cosmic nudge; it’s a celestial earthquake, and the degrees involved?—they’re the architects of obliteration and rebirth.

This is not a transit of balance—it’s a wild paradox: all livingness excluded by consciousness, and all consciousness excluded by livingness.

Mars, retrograded and sluggish in the sign of the crab, finds his usual impulsive drive stymied…