Usually, when talking about planets in detriment, it's not just that the planet is uncomfortable in a zodiacal landscape. It goes the other way too: the space is uncomfortable hosting the planet. Places respond to who is there.
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Okay, I meant to say detriment *and* fall. Not just detriment. This applies to both! Embarrassing that my example is literally a planet in fall and I did not type it out.
I like the metaphor that planets are people or actors, beings who do things, and the zodiac are the environments where they do things. But if you acknowledge that environments are also living things, then the zodiac signs are also responsive to what's going on in their spaces in any given moment.
Mars in Cancer isn't just about Mars being like, "What am I supposed to do in this lunar place?" It's also a lunar place saying what is this hot-head doing stomping around in these waters?
Cancer is a change place. It is the place of the speedy, shape-shifting Moon. Nothing is as it seems because as soon as you identify it, it is something else. Mars, who wants to act, keeps getting re-oriented. The marching orders keep changing. Maybe there is no order at all.
I think at first it is really disruptive for the Cancer environment to host Mars. It hurts. But I even as I see an overwhelmed Mars, a subsumed Mars, a dragged-under Mars, I also see the way Cancer changes the planets who visit it, forcing them to get used to change.
I see Mars struggle to act, contending with emotional entanglements, getting spun around by feeling differently one day to the next, and the doubt that comes in. I see Mars getting better at it though. I see the Cancer space in all of our charts getting braver too, for witnessing Mars keeping at it.
I see the Cancer zone of our charts confronting a sea of grief and anger and hurt, and wanting to turn it into something, to *move* in a direction, *even if* that direction is likely to keep changing on us based on new (emotional or logistical) information that comes in.
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