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Cancer
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The sign everyone calls soft, which is a strange way to describe the one that never lets go of anything.
The basics
Cancer is the fourth sign of the zodiac, cardinal water, symbol the Crab, ruled by the Moon. Cardinal water initiates feeling. It is the sign that notices first and decides whether to say so. Its opposite sign is Capricorn.
When the Sun is actually in Cancer
The Sun enters Cancer on 20 or 21 June and leaves for Leo on 22 or 23 July. Neither end is fixed. The leap year exists because the orbit and the calendar disagree by roughly six hours a year, and that disagreement is exactly what moves these dates.
Computed from the same ephemeris this site uses for its birth charts, here is where it actually fell across the eleven years 2020 to 2030: the 20th in 2020, 2024 and 2028; the 21th in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025, 2026, 2027, 2029 and 2030. In 2026 the crossing was at 21 June 08:25 UTC.
Gemini comes before it and Leo after. If you were born on the 20th or 21st of June, or the 22nd or 23rd of July, the sign you have been given all your life came off a fixed table that cannot know.
What Cancer is actually like
The Moon rules Cancer, and the Moon is the fastest-moving body in a chart. Your mood changes faster than you can account for and you have stopped trying to explain it to people who want a reason. There usually is not one you could say out loud.
Cardinal water means you initiate emotionally. You notice first when something has gone wrong between two people, you decide whether to say it, and you are frequently managing the temperature of a room nobody else has registered is cold.
You remember. Not grudges necessarily, just everything: who said what, who turned up, what the atmosphere was like at a dinner four years ago. That is the actual Cancer trait and it is nothing like softness. It is closer to an archive.
The part the lists leave out
You withdraw instead of saying. The shell is not a metaphor for shyness, it is a move: when something hurts you go quiet and inward and wait to be asked, and if nobody asks you file it. Over a few years the filing adds up into a case against somebody who never knew one was being built.
You also give in order to be needed and then resent being needed, and both halves are sincere. The way out is not giving less. It is saying what you want in the same plain words you use for everybody else's needs.
Cancer in love
You attach properly, which is rarer than it sounds, and your loyalty does not require the other person to keep earning it. Being chosen by you is a real thing. It is also quite hard to get out of.
Your pattern is to look after somebody and call it love, and the two overlap enough that you may not notice when it has gone one way. Watch for the relationship where your role is caretaker. You slide into it easily and it takes years to see.
Your sun sign is not your chart
If parts of that were exact and parts were not you at all, nothing has gone wrong. The Sun is one body out of ten, and it is the only one a date on its own can find.
The Moon is the private half of a chart, and in a Cancer chart it is also the ruler, so where it fell matters here more than it does for any other sign. Your Big Three works out all three, free, and the arithmetic runs on your own device.
The Moon rules the sign and it is the fastest-moving body in a chart. The shifts are real and frequently have no reason that could be said out loud, which is why being asked for one does not help.
Are Cancer actually sensitive?
Retentive is closer. Cancer remembers the atmosphere of things in detail, which is not the same as being easily hurt, though it does mean very little gets forgotten.
What are the Cancer dates?
The Sun is in Cancer from 20 or 21 June to 22 or 23 July. Both ends move by a day with the year, so a birthday on the 20th or the 21rd of June has to be worked out from the year and the hour rather than read off a table.
What is the opposite sign to Cancer?
Capricorn. The axis runs between where you came from and what you are expected to become, which is why it tends to surface around family and work at the same time.
