This placement shows a tendency to attract dark, power-based connections, and may be associated with sadism and masochism, dominance games, and a love of control.
Girls with this conjunction in their natal chart may have been aggressive or confrontational in childhood, picking fights or being irritated by trivial things. They may display anger toward other girls and show signs of bullying behavior. There is a risk of abuse – both giving and receiving it. For example, such a girl might laugh when someone falls or gets hurt, yet if she herself is scolded or corrected, she will withdraw and cry.
The type of men this placement attracts are those who enjoy playing with others’ emotions, wasting women’s time, and using them. Such a man might convince his partner that they are “not ready yet” for marriage, even after several years together – and she will agree, out of fear of being alone. For her, being alone feels like failure. This type of man will make her work hard in the relationship, compromise excessively, or forgive the unforgivable.
Women with this placement who are in relationships with such men may experience illness or energy depletion.
Their feminine essence does not blossom, and their values in love become distorted.
If any additional planet joins this Mars–Sun conjunction, the effects become more severe.
Mars + Moon Conjunction – Chandra Mangala Dosha
This conjunction is considered a dosha – a serious flaw in the natal chart. The Moon represents emotions and the psyche, while Mars represents fire and war.
Together, they create an inner storm, hypersensitivity, or a lack of empathy, extremes, drama, and emotional volatility.
It may lead to emotional instability in relationships or attraction to partners who behave in such ways – unstable, moody, impulsive, and at times deriving pleasure from hurting others.
Mars in Cancer
Cancer is the sign of Mars’s debilitation (governed by the Moon), which makes Mars very weak here.
There may be difficulty expressing desires clearly, a tendency toward hypersensitivity and suppressed irritation, which sometimes bursts out unexpectedly.
Emotional imbalance can “castrate” the men involved with such a woman – or, from the start, she may be prone to attracting weak or dependent men.
Men drawn to her may be overly emotional, dramatic, sentimental, or exhausting to deal with.
A woman with Mars in Cancer may also have a tendency toward envy of other women and may unintentionally destroy female friendships.
Retrograde Mars
A person (man or woman) with retrograde Mars often carries deep internalized anger, which leads to disappointment, lack of motivation, laziness, and a habit of shifting responsibility to others.
There may be dependence, or a tendency to seek help instead of taking independent action.
At the same time, there can be strong jealousy toward those who succeed.
Difficulty in self-expression can lead to delayed achievements or even harm to others. There may be frustration related to sexuality, insecurity, or strange and aggressive behavior in romantic relationships.
Such a person may miss opportunities due to anger, fear, stagnation, or apathy. They prefer to believe that success will “fall from the sky” rather than work for it.
Laziness can also manifest in learning – they avoid acquiring skills independently, expect help, and once they receive it, they may “stab in the back” and twist the story to appear as a victim, seeking to achieve a false “victory” through deception and manipulation, when they clearly don’t deserve it.