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Cancer
Soft on the inside. Armored for a reason. Here is what Cancer means wherever it shows up in a birth chart: as your Sun, your Moon, your Rising, your Venus or your Mars.
- Element
- water
- Mode
- cardinal
- Ruled by
- Moon
- Sun in Cancer
- Jun 21 – Jul 22
Sun in Cancer
You remember everything, especially how people made you feel. You look after everyone and quietly keep score of who looks after you.
The Sun is in Cancer from about Jun 21 – Jul 22. If that is your birthday, this is your Sun sign.
Moon in Cancer
You need a home base, a person or a place that’s yours. You pick up on moods instantly and take them home with you.
The Moon changes sign every two to three days, so your Moon sign needs your birth date and, near a change, your birth time.
Cancer rising
You seem gentle and careful at first, someone who watches before joining in. People tend to tell you things they don’t tell others.
The Rising sign changes every two hours. It needs your exact birth time and place, and it is the part of a chart most people have never seen.
Venus in Cancer
You love by taking care of people. You need to feel safe before you open up, and once you do, you hold on.
Venus is how you love and what you value. It is never more than two signs away from your Sun.
Mars in Cancer
You act to protect what’s yours. You avoid direct conflict, and then it comes out sideways.
Mars is how you want, how you fight and how you get things done.
Cancer right now
No planet is passing through Cancer today. The Moon is in Libra and comes back to Cancer within four weeks, as it does every month. See where every planet is today.
Signs like Cancer
The other water signs: Scorpio, Pisces. The other cardinal signs: Aries, Libra, Capricorn.
Questions about Cancer
What are the Cancer dates?
The Sun is in Cancer from about Jun 21 – Jul 22 each year. The exact boundary moves by a day in some years, which is why the time of birth matters near the edges.
What does a Cancer Moon mean?
You need a home base, a person or a place that’s yours. You pick up on moods instantly and take them home with you.
What does Cancer rising mean?
You seem gentle and careful at first, someone who watches before joining in. People tend to tell you things they don’t tell others.
Your own chart
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