Releasing Rage During Mars Retrograde Postshadow in Cancer

(Originally posted March 8th 2025)

Today's transits bring us to a critical moment of reckoning with our anger. The Moon is conjunct the newly direct Mars, still stationed at 17° Cancer, trining the Sun at 18° Pisces. These form a minor grand trine with Uranus at the apex in Taurus. This configuration demands we confront what’s been festering beneath the surface and change what we thought we couldn't with the revolutionary Uranus in fixed earth being activated.

Mars finishing its retrograde in Cancer is not just about momentum returning, it’s about dealing with all the emotional sediment that’s been kicked up in the process.

Cancer holds memory in its bones, its waters thick with ancestral cycles. And when Mars lingers here, it dredges up our deepest, most unresolved wounds.

Today, we are being asked to lay them down.

You may feel strong and intimidating in the moment, but when you’re angry, you are at your weakest. Your body doesn’t know the difference between the rage you allow yourself to express and the fight for your actual survival.

The nervous system reacts the same way: heart pounding, cortisol spiking, breath shortening. It’s an ancient response, designed to protect, but when we are constantly locked in cycles of feeling hurt and powerlessness, the anger doesn’t protect us. It traps us. It festers. It metastasizes into a pit of righteous indignation that we don’t know how to safely expel.

So much of this transit is about confronting the ways we’ve held onto our pain. ESPECIALLY the pain of childhood, the wounds that were never properly soothed. The resentment of what was unfair, what was unsafe, and what left us with scars too deep to easily fade in time.

Mars in Cancer speaks to the wars waged within families, this is why he's in detriment here. These battles were never ours to fight but became our burden anyway.

When parents refuse to put their swords down, the wounds don’t just land on each other. They deeply scar the children that get caught in between. A household divided by anger becomes a battlefield, and even if a child isn’t the direct target, they feel the impact of every slammed door, every shouted word, every tension-choked silence.

And here’s the hardest truth: the way we carry our own anger, if left unchecked, becomes the way we pass it down to the next generation.

Every time we yell, hit, scream, throw something- even if it's not directed at them- we imprint something onto the people around us. We fundamentally alter the way the brain grows and functions in the children who are learning, through us, what love and conflict look like.

This transit is a call to break the cycle once and for all.

To recognize that our rage, even when valid, has no place in our home. We have the opportunity today to release anger in a way that doesn’t make us sick, and doesn’t turn us into someone we don’t want to be.

Uranus at the apex of this minor grand trine reminds us that change is possible. Disrupting the old pattern is possible. But it requires conscious effort from both luminaries- both sides of the Self.

So today, please sit with it. Feel it. Write it out. Recognize where it sits and builds through your body. Find some tangible and workable ways to feel and release your anger in a way that doesn’t require destruction to burn itself out. Go for a walk, take a bath, scream into a pillow, do breathwork, shake it out of your limbs.

Recognize that anger is just unprocessed pain, fear, and frustration that has nowhere to go.

When you're ready, put it down. Burn it up literally and then dissolve it with water. A perfect Cancer Mars expression that honors both fire and water, destruction and renewal.

Please don't gaslight yourself into thinking it wasn’t real or wasn’t justified. Today we release it because we deserve to be free from it.