Mars in Cancer

You’re an inherently emotional person who needs to get a handle on your moods before you can successfully accomplish your goals. You are tender, romantic, introverted, structured, sensual, traditional, and very protective. You are very ambitious and industrious but unfortunate and changeable.

Although you are domestically amiable you are beset by many worries and sorrows. You manifest your physical energy with passion and with feeling. With your natal Mars in Cancer the feelings and emotions are intensified in an undesirable manner, especially upon your family life. The location postulates many obstructing incidents and a direct holding up of plans and personal activities. Sometimes family obligations can destroy your personal freedom and cause occasional disruptions of domestic affairs. Often your patience will be tested and when delays and unpleasant conditions occur, the added emotional tension can incite a temporary loss of self-control. You must cultivate a tenacity of purpose and once you set a definite objective, stick to it until it is accomplished. It is in your nature to be shy and timid. Without realising it, you tend to sulk and you are plagued by volatile moods. You’re highly sensitive, but you may project signals so subtle that many people miss them. You bury your emotions and need to learn to be direct. You’re also responsive, devoted, and imaginative, in bed and elsewhere.

In a relationship, you can be possessive and tenacious when you ought to be angry and out the door.

Your sex drive is powerful and knows no limit. The problem is that it manifests itself depending on how you feel at that particular moment.