Metabolizing Mars in Cancer [Finale]
fallen scorpio moon answering to a fallen cancer mars [final pass]
Dear Lovers,
As the waning gibbous fallen Moon moves through Scorpio, answering to a fallen Mars one last time in the next few days. I can’t help but think about IT being a conclusion or metabolization of Mars in Cancer experiences we’ve had. For remembrance, when Mars first passed through the beginning pre-retrograde shadow degrees, the Moon was also in Scorpio!
Mars first passed through the 17 degrees of Cancer around 5 October 2024, before stationing direct there around 24 February 2025. Within this timeframe, Mars has passed through the final degrees of Cancer twice (around 4th November 2024 and 6th January 2025) before this week’s final one.
Throughout the Mars in Cancer pre-shadow, retrograde, and direct experiences, I have been paying closer attention to whenever Mother Moon (domicile ruler of Cancer) was passing through her home sign, AND whenever she’s fallen in Scorpio, creating a fallen mutual reception magick. As a reflective astrologer, this transit documentation process has been illuminating in understanding the transit in my nativity and solar return chart.
Scorpio Moon - Cancer Mars experiences during this timeframe:
18th March 2025: I was in the ambulance with my unconscious autistic brother, who had multiple seizures for the first time in his life. Later that night, I had to miss an iftar meetup with BFFC. Early morning the next day (19th March), I found out from Britten that The Magician’s Table (TMT) cohorts, including my 2 cohorts, are fully enrolled! Wow… what a day.
20th Feb 2025: I blocked my credit card via kill switch since I was receiving multiple fraudulent charges on it. LOL, thank god for the incident being at the right moment, for me to react at the right time. A hidden blessing, it made me reassess certain financial charges in my life that were running on “autopilot” mode, such as paid subscriptions.
22nd January 2025: I remembered waking up very early in the morning to prepare for a TMT team meeting with Britten, Lisa & Teagan. Suddenly, I was crying in the shower, and it was one of the most spiritually cathartic and precious cries ever! I remembered writing something about “…realizing something deeply grateful - existential - experiential - celebratory life kinda way…”
2nd November 2024: I was performing tarot reading at my favorite local underground community queer event Rainbow Rojak for The Woo Woo Party. There are deeper scorpionic-cancerian layers to this particular event personally, since I went on a date with one of the deejays I had a crush on a month+ before that. There were parts of me that almost decided to withdraw myself from the event ~ LMAO the drama. Yet I realized that my relationships with other folks in that community meant so much more to me. Thank you dear cosmic bestie Nickey, for inviting me to be part of this magical night!
5 - 6th October 2024: This was actually around the time of my Mars return. I remembered celebrating my sister’s birthday on the 5th, and then later at night, I went to play board games at MahaRaj, and in one of the 3 rounds of playing Avalon - I played as an Assassin, and it felt such a confirmation of having an 8th House Mars, LMAO. The randomized team I was in, regardless of good or bad, won in all the rounds I was in, so I felt lucky! This was also the time when I was being emotionally honest with an upsetting situation I was in at the time, vulnerable wounds were excavated.
Of course transit astrology is a combination of multiple planetary aspects in the sky, but the Moon-Mars story has been an important one for the Mars in Cancer lessons. Just from the reading the diary entries from certain days of Scorpio Moon above - the Aries (5th House of Romance, Creativity, Games & Students), Scorpio (12th of Hidden Enemies, Hospital, Spirituality & Seclusion), and Cancer (8th of Unexpected Events, Shared Resources & Collaboration) house themes and topics have been loud for sure! There were also loud stories when the Cancer Moon was with Mars in her house, but I shall keep those for myself, for now.
If you feel called to do so, I would love to read reflections ~ comments from any astrologers / astrology-loving readers about something that happened during Scorpio Moon - Cancer Mars transit OR Cancer Moon - Mars since last October!
Around 16th April 2025 - the Moon in Scorpio will trine Mars in Cancer in the final 30th degree of those signs. Before meeting Mars, the Scorpio Moon trines Pisces Saturn (another watery malefic), and after meeting Mars, the Scorpio Moon immediately trines Pisces Mercury - also at 29 degrees.
There were multiple moments during this prolonged Mars in Cancer transit that have taught me the nature of fear & failure, and our relationships with them - whether the fear-failure be familial, ancestral, relational, chosen family & through belonging. The process of cultivating courage during this transit is both an emotional and a spiritual alchemy. Terror has a way of transforming our reality through the metabolizing of what truly matters in our lives. I HOPE YOU REMEMBER THAT YOUR LIFE MATTERS.
your love devotee,
shahir