By Len Wallick
Mars enters the cardinal water sign Cancer early on Wednesday morning. The Moon, Cancer’s ruler, enters Libra less than an hour later and squares Mars within two minutes. Promptly thereafter, the Red Planet forms a water trine with Neptune, which is retrograde in Pisces. That’s lot of activity packed into a short time. It is especially auspicious as a beginning. If beginnings mean anything, we can expect water, in all of its representations, to be an assertive presence in our lives over the next seven weeks or so.
Astrologers disagree on whether the the martian archetype, as expressed in your life, is bad news or good. There appears to be a consensus, however, that Mars is associated with the vigorously assertive. According to astrologer Robert Hand, Mars functions to “energize” and “incorporate” the characteristics of any sign or house it occupies as well as any planet it aspects. The elementary astrological characteristic that Cancer, Pisces, Neptune and the Moon have in common is water.
Clearly, water means the stuff that makes up most of your body and covers most of Earth’s surface. It’s an amazing substance. As a gas, its expansion can’t be confined. As a liquid, it cannot be compressed. As a solid, it can overcome the hardest rock yet form lacy crystals that float through the air. It’s essential to life as we know it, but also a formidable potential threat to human life. The list of unique properties attributable to the tangible, familiar substance goes on and on. Yet, astrology takes water even further, into the symbolic.