Your Guide to Cancer in Astrology
what does cancer in astrology mean?
Cancer is a water sign ruled by the moon. It is deeply connected to the emotions and emotional world. Deeply intuitive, cancer feels its way through life.
Cancer is warm and nurturing to everyone around them. Cancer understands how to nurture and nourish others as they have a deep sense of empathy for how others are feeling. Cancer yearns to create a warm, cozy, home environment that makes them feel nurtured and safe.
Sign: Cancer
Dates: 22nd June – 22 July
Ruling planet: The Moon
Symbol: The Crab
Element: Water
Mode: Cardinal
Ruling House: 4th House
Polarity: Feminine / Yin
Ruling body part: Stomach, womb, breasts
Color: White/ Silver
Crystal/Jewel: Moonstone
Key phrase: “I feel”
Opposite sign: Capricorn
Compatible with: Capricorn, Pisces, Scorpio
cancer strengths
Sensitive, highly imaginative, instinctive, loyal, emotional, sentimental, sympathetic, caring
cancer weakness
Defensive, moody, overly sensitive, pessimistic, suspicious, snappy, clingy, manipulative, insecure
cancer ruling planet: the moon
Cancer is ruled by the Moon. The Moon is a luminary that is connected to the emotional world and the deep recesses of our psyche. Thus Cancer is deeply connected to the emotional world, both individually and collectively. The archetype of cancer is nurturing and caring and is quite sentimental, holding onto memories and possessions that hold a lot of emotional connection.
cancer symbol: the crab
The crab symbolizes cancer’s energy of feeling whole and nourished by having a comfortable and secure home to live in. Like the crab, who lives with its home on its back, cancer requires the comfort and sanctuary of a peaceful home life and will often create this in order to feel safe and secure.
Like the crab, cancer can have a snappy side and will retreat if it feels unsafe and can be moody and “crabby”. It can often take time for the cancer native to feel comfortable to “come out of their shell” when meeting new people.
cancer element: water
Water is the element of emotions. Cancer is the most watery of all the zodiac signs. Hence, it has a deep connection to feeling emotions in the self and within others. Cancer has the tendency to be at the mercy of its emotions and can be moody. Cancer will feel the full spectrum of emotions on a deeper level than any of the other signs. This enables cancer to connect with, empathize and nurture others.
cancer modality: cardinal
Like all of the cardinal signs, cancer is the start of a new season – summer in the northern hemisphere and winter in the southern hemisphere. Cancer represents initiatory energy, a fresh season, a new beginning. Cancer has the energy to get things moving and started. Cancer can channel its emotions and feelings to start new projects and hit the ground running with new ideas. Cancer is here to set the momentum in motion.
cancer keyphrase: “i feel”
Although it may seem, and sometimes feel, like cancer sits around all day crying, this is not the case. Cancer feels ALL emotions. All of the elevated and joyful emotions as well as the sad and somber ones.
Cancer is here to feel and experience emotions and feelings more than any other sign. The trick is to not get bogged down in each of the emotions and to know that emotions move and flow just like the cycles of the moon and the seasons. Cancer energy must learn to flow with the changing moods and know it is all transient, all temporary.
cancer compatibility
Cancer is most compatible with fellow water signs, pisces and scorpio. These signs have a mutual understanding and so get along well.
Cancer is also compatible with capricorn – it’s opposite sign. They say opposites attract, and capricorn has the grounded, stable, earth energy that makes cancer feel supported while cancer has the nurturing qualities to assist capricorn in its goal of world domination.
Cancer is least compatible with aries and libra. Aries is much to sharp edged and self focused for cancer’s gentle giving nature. Although caring and focused on relationships, libra is challenging for cancer as libra is much more cerebral and focused on mentally processing emotions than cancer who is deeply feeling.
cancer celebrities
- John Cusak
- Ariana Grande
- Farrah Fawcett
- Lance Armstrong
- Josh Hartnett
- Meryl Streep
- Lana Del Rey
