Mars in Cancer ♋︎ in the Natal Chart
Archetypes: Advocate, Caregiver, Matriarch
What Drives You: If you have Mars in Cancer in your natal chart than you are driven to fiercely protect the people you love. There is almost an aggressive quality to how far you will go to make sure those you care about are safe. Mars in Cancer is deeply affectionate towards others. You give freely of your energy knowing that you deeply want to receive affection in return.
Mars in Cancer drives you to want to take care of people. Your often make an excellent cook as this is a tangible way you can express this intense need to nurture others.
This Mars placement also comes with a great deal of loyalty. You find yourself joining up with causes you care deeply about and you are willing to put up a fight in order to see the results actualized. Mars in Cancer individual’s have the power to manifest their desires. These people will put passion behind what they want and go for it without restraint. At times you may loose your temper getting swept up in the moment.
Sexuality: This Mars placement tends to be very generous in bed. You have a deep well of passion often being drawn to sexually intense relationships.
4th House
Keywords: Keywords for the 4th house include home, home life, parents, ancestry, relatives, privacy, birth place, nurturing, self-care, self-love, security, and spiritual initiation.
Angular House Type: An Angular house type means it is ruled by a cardinal sign. In this case Cancer is the cardinal water sign ruling the 4th house.
The 4th house in astrology is symbolic of our most private self. It is the part that is the hardest to express, representing things we often keep hidden from others. This house can also be representative of one’s parents, typically one or the other. It can represent what the earliest relationships in one’s life were life and home life environment. The 4th house is representative of one’s relationship with authority, thus the association with a parental figure.
The areas of life the 4th house oversees include the ways in which you create a home for yourself. It looks at how important having a home base is for you. The 4th house is the security blanket of your natal chart. The sign on the 4th house is symbolic of how you take care of your deepest needs, where you need the most nurturing, support, and comfort. If you have an emphasis of planets in the 4th house in your natal chart this may indicate you tend to be shy or keep things to yourself, only revealing your true self to a select few individuals.