{"id":68539,"date":"2013-07-11T00:01:57","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T04:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=68539"},"modified":"2013-07-10T23:27:27","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T03:27:27","slug":"mars-in-transition-what-is-maleness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astro-daily\/mars-in-transition-what-is-maleness\/","title":{"rendered":"Mars in Transition: What is ‘maleness’?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mars is making its way through the last degrees of Gemini, and will ingress Cancer on Saturday at 9:22 am EDT. This change of gender for the planet representing the male principle brings up questions about \u2018maleness\u2019. Gemini, like all air signs, may technically be classified as a masculine sign, but its ruler blurs the lines of gender identity just enough to make things interesting.<\/p>\n

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Mars (red ‘male’ symbol) upon ingress to Cancer, and the rest of its Cancer cohort (l-r): Black Moon Lilith (a calculated point in the Moon’s orbit), Jupiter, retrograde Mercury and the Sun.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mercury, ruler of Gemini, is said to be rather androgynous. And of course, Gemini is a sign marked by duality. That duality takes many forms, but can sometimes come through as some level of bisexuality (or having two distinct and contrasting sexual wavelengths\/personas). Mars in this sign tends to be verbally agile, energetic and mechanically minded. But raise your hand if you look at Mars in Gemini and think, \u2018Boy, that looks like some hot kink in the bedroom that could go both ways if it could just focus its energy\u2019. <\/p>\n

Which brings up a question: how static is the concept of maleness? Is it only ever that aspect of us that is driven, action-oriented, penetrating, dominating and assertive? Does \u2018maleness\u2019 give up something of itself when it allows a wider spectrum of desire or manifestation?<\/p>\n

This weekend, Mars moves from an androgynous sign (in terms of its ruler) to possibly the most feminine sign of all: Cancer, which is ruled by the Moon and stands for emotions, nurturing and home. The Moon is even a symbol of women\u2019s menses, which roughly follow the Moon\u2019s cycles (albeit with great variation). <\/p>\n

What happens when the planet of maleness enters the sign of ultimate femaleness? Traditional texts tend to emphasize Mars\u2019 tendency to get overly emotional, and to have none of its typical outward \u2018fight\u2019, instead holding things in and \u2018steaming\u2019. But steam, when applied with focus, can be very powerful and propulsive. <\/p>\n

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What happens to \u2018maleness\u2019 when it gets dressed up in feminine form? This is not about cross-dressing; all women have an inner masculine and feminine, and so do all men. So if women do not completely lack drive, desire and the ability to assert action, why should Mars in Cancer? What happens to \u2018maleness\u2019 when it allows passivity, receptivity or a sensitivity to cycles? What is \u2018maleness\u2019, anyway?<\/p>\n

With Mars entering a conjunction to Jupiter not long after its entrance to Cancer, we have a unique opportunity to watch for the ways the planet of expansion affects the planet of maleness in a feminine sign. It just may be an opportunity to step forth with true confidence and results in whatever matter you most care for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mars is making its way through the last degrees of Gemini, and will ingress Cancer on Saturday at 9:22 am EDT. This change of gender for the planet representing the male principle brings up questions about \u2018maleness\u2019. Gemini, like all air signs, may technically be classified as a masculine sign, but its ruler blurs the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1734],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68539"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}