Cancer Sun with Capricorn Moon and Cancer Rising
Sun in Cancer with Moon in Capricorn and Cancer Rising Personality Traits:
In the Cancer Sun Capricorn Moon combination the Sun and Moon are in opposing signs. The Cancer personality is shy, emotional, and sympathetic, while the Capricorn inner nature is ruggedly ambitious, aloof, and calculating. As with all polar combinations, you have many inner conflicts to resolve as well as many strengths to develop.
Having a Cancer Sun Capricorn Moon, it is likely that your early childhood environment was somehow strife-torn or restrictive, but inner resolve and determination helped you overcome those early obstacles and in turn made you far more shrewd and introspective than your fellow Cancers.
As an individual with a Cancer Sun Capricorn Moon, you learn readily and take everything with utmost seriousness. Experience has given you keen insights into your fellow men and women, but just as your dual combination gives you special perceptions, it also gives painful inner struggles and inhibitions.
Having a Cancer Sun Capricorn Moon, unlike most Cancers, you are not threatened by an uncertain future. Ambitious and desiring recognition, you set high—almost unreachable—goals for yourself. But your gentle Cancer personality finds it hard to meet the challenge of a tough Capricorn inner nature.
Thus, you forever feel you must prove yourself—not just to the world at large but to yourself. Such continual dissatisfaction with yourself can lead to frustration, depression, and withdrawal. And, in extreme cases, you might seek escape in alcohol or drugs.
If you’re an individual with a Cancer Sun Capricorn Moon, learn to appreciate yourself! Recognize your many talents and accept your limitations. Acknowledge rather than deny your sensitivity and consider it a strength rather than a weakness. Self-acceptance and self-love are two things individuals with a Cancer Sun and Capricorn Moon must really work on.
With a Cancer Sun Capricorn Moon, once you have learned to work in harmony with your inner nature, there is little you cannot accomplish. Cancer’s perception and intuition combined with Capricorn’s pragmatism, organization, and ambition can give you excellent business sense. Never satisfied with superficial impressions, you have a somewhat unorthodox approach to life.
Whatever you do, you approach it with an eye towards change and innovation. The writer Ernest Hemingway and the astronomer Galileo were both individuals with a Cancer Sun Capricorn Moon, and their work demonstrates the uniqueness of the Cancer-Capricorn complex.
As an individual with a Cancer Sun Capricorn Moon, you have a tendency to seek seclusion. While a certain amount of solitude may be beneficial, too much can lead to alienation from the world and worse feelings of inferiority. Try to stay sociable. Your sense of humor is remarkable (though it is usually attuned to the dark, wry, and melancholy side of life) and will usually assure your popularity. Others will also be intrigued by your unconventional approach to life.
Having a Cancer Sun Capricorn Moon, In romance, that dual nature of yours may cause considerable problems. You do not feel the need for the comfort of one lasting relationship, yet something within desires warmth and security. Eventually, it will be important to have someone to share with, for you do have a strong need for companionship, whether you know it or not. Your partner may have difficulty understanding some of your sudden mood changes: sympathetic and kind one moment, cold and aloof the next. Find a lover who can appreciate and tolerate your unique nature.
Keywords For A Cancer Sun Capricorn Moon:
Gentle disciplinarian; capable and caring; tenacious; shrewd; responsible; considerate; patient; introvert; reflective; authoritative; maternal; sense of humor; dutiful; strong family person; professional; perceptive.
Cancer Rising
If you have Cancer Rising, you are very sensitive to emotional signals from other people. You have extraordinary insight into human motivation. There is a reserve about you that is sometimes difficult to penetrate, but underneath is a warm, affectionate, loving, and giving nature.
With Cancer Rising, you are adaptable to different kinds of people even though you are not liable to make instant friendships. It takes a while for you to let someone get really close.
Cancer Rising individuals tend to moodiness, and others may not always find you in a receptive frame of mind. Sometimes you can be crabby and impatient and exhibit a snappish temper. You are touchy, and others have to be careful of what they say lest they hurt your feelings. Your sensitivities are so heightened that you sometimes take offense where none was intended.
However, with Cancer Rising, this same sensitivity is what sets you apart from the crowd. You possess great imagination and awareness. Many Cancer Rising individuals are extraordinarily gifted as writers, poets, and painters. Because you are so tuned in to the nuances of other people’s motivations, you are able to absorb what others are feeling and thinking. You pick up opinions, thoughts, facts from all around you and, being very clever and practical (as well as visionary), you are able to put all this information to work for you.
Cancer Rising individuals are also clever with money, prudent and cautious, and have a native shrewdness in business. You know how to make wise investments and where to get the best value. Though you usually have to climb the ladder through your own efforts (rather than the efforts of others), you are likely to accumulate material success as the years go by.
You won’t hog the spotlight, but on the other hand you want public recognition for your talents. With Cancer Rising, acclaim and applause can be hard to come by, so you tend to have a way of feeling sorry for yourself. You complain that the world does not appreciate you, but your complaint is usually an effort to win reassurance that quite the opposite is true.
As a Cancer Rising you have obstacles in your path, especially when young. However, as you surmount each difficulty and succeed (Cancer Rising has great tenacity of purpose), you become stronger and more self-assured.
If you have Cancer Rising, you are likely to have a round expressive face, pale luminous eyes, slender arms and legs, and a rolling gait to your walk. Your body may be thickset through the middle, and you are prone toward putting on weight as you get older.
The Moon, which rules Cancer, is very prominent in your birth chart. The influence of the Moon bestows kindness, imagination, sympathy, deep emotion, an ability to cherish and protect, a retentive memory. It also encourages laziness, inconstancy, restlessness, passivity, and untidiness.
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