posted July 09, 2013 10:19 PM            

It is the 12th House which makes it so much worse. I have Mars in Cancer and it is hard but the 12th house makes it much harder because it forces it more inward and we don't need that with this Mars which is inner directed and oriented as it is.

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posted July 09, 2013 10:29 PM            

I think if you feel strong and capable you'll project that to others. it's just about being more confident.

12th house rules hidden talents, so there is much potential..

posted July 09, 2013 11:47 PM              

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Originally posted by cfall614:
How would one handle having mars in cancer in a natal? Especially w/ issues of expressing yourself in a moment of conflict or high stress?

I have mars in cancer in 12th house, and for most of my life I've had such a hard time verbally expressing my thoughts and opinions! In momentary debates, quick flashes of emotion and thoughts run through my head, but they can never seem to materialize as spoken words for some reason!
Then I never figure out how to eloquently articulate it until the moment has well passed

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You too? I have Mars in Cancer also, and when I'm truly, truly ****** off...it's like the connection between my brain and my mouth shuts down or like my brain stops functioning so I can't really light into someone the way I want to.

I actually think it's part of an intentional design by the universe, because honestly if I had a functioning connection between my brain and my voicebox during times of extreme anger, the amount of psychological damage I could probably do is brutal; my mars squares pluto, and pluto aspects mercury also. As it is I already get told that I can be really verbally nasty and I'm always like, "You think that's bad? I actually hold BACK because I don't want to hurt people, and then when I do wanna let go and just unleash full-power...it's like there's a block there stopping me from physically getting the words out."

posted July 10, 2013 04:11 AM            

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Originally posted by cfall614:
How would one handle having mars in cancer in a natal? Especially w/ issues of expressing yourself in a moment of conflict or high stress?

I have mars in cancer in 12th house, and for most of my life I've had such a hard time verbally expressing my thoughts and opinions! In momentary debates, quick flashes of emotion and thoughts run through my head, but they can never seem to materialize as spoken words for some reason!
Then I never figure out how to eloquently articulate it until the moment has well passed

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This is sooo ME !!

posted July 10, 2013 04:20 AM            

Ive mars in cancer in 11th house but my 12th house is also in cancer.

posted July 10, 2013 12:53 PM              

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Originally posted by LovelyKitty:
How is your 3rd house?

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I don't buy that this has anything to do with it at all LMAOOOOOO.

First off, because really Mars in Cancer explains it in totality. Really think about it, who doesn't lose the ability to talk, or doesn't wind up screwing up all their words when they're super-emotional about something? Everybody does it, even people with great third houses, so no dice.

Now, with Mars in Cancer, there's a natural tendency to always get super-emotional. Which means that because we're in that emotional place more often than the rest of the populace...you're gonna see us go all Word-Retarded when we're riled up. In that sense, looking to the third house to explain it is really nonsensical although I can see how at first glance that assumption can be made because of the connection between the third and mercury, but ultimately it is a bit simplistic.

To give myself as an example - I have Aries on the third house cusp, and Chiron in that house. Actually it manifests more as conflicts and issues with my siblings, and having had selective mutism as a teenager (and having developed a stuttering problem in my 20s). But in general, my ability to communicate is fine when I'm not upset - my writing in particular, I'll admit I'm a damn good writer, and could probably write you under the table. Intellectually I'm of above-average intelligence; and no I don't have any psychological or mental instability either.

posted July 10, 2013 05:39 PM            

@ textbook, that's an interesting take--the fact that we can't verbalize all the words we want because it's actually PROTECTIVE for others. I remember a couple instances where I just let it all out and the people who I had issues w/ just had this stunned silence and wave of hurt pass through their faces. Then I felt bad after I noticed it, but on the plus side, they never messed w/ me again

posted January 06, 2014 03:14 AM            

- ''Any planets found in the 12th House so close to the Ascendant naturally indicate some deep buried psychological problem or issue''

mars in cancer 12th house with a cancer rising and mars opposite neptune aspect... let me tell you... Most mortifying thing