today mars leaves Gemini and enters its fall in Cancer.
medieval astrologers of the Islamic world were especially nervous of this transit and wrote it meant:
-Danger and bloodshed in the land of Arabs
-boiling blood and pestilence of chest and stomach
-the changing of kings
-sudden conflict and strife
-imprisonment and betrayal
-a plague of insects
-winds which destroy trees
-the rise of a great rumor
-danger to lesser rulers
-fire in homes
-humiliation of soldiers
-the prominent laid low
they were particularly worried about the conjunction of malefics in this sign which happens every 30 years
For historians these interpretations are interesting. Did the anxiety of conflict stem from the Cancer season and summer months historically being a time of war?
What about the connection with insects? Is that just the symbolism of the crab or was there as season of bugs?
I’m not an environmental historian but I’m curious if the Middle East has a summer of locust or something.
Either way Mars in Cancer was a time of anxiety for them
adding this for further research
apparently Lebanon has locust already. It’s interesting they associated bugs with Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces
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