Mars enters Cancer

Mars crosses into Cancer on 6 January 2025 at 11:20 UTC, moving backwards — it had already been through this sign and is returning to finish something.

An ingress is simply a body passing 0° of a sign, but it marks a genuine change of register: Mars in Cancer operates through water means and at a cardinal tempo. Mars redirects where effort and irritation go, and how directly people are willing to compete.

Cancer is ruled by the Moon, so for as long as Mars is here its behaviour is coloured by that planet as well as by its own nature.