Cancer Sun with Capricorn Moon and Capricorn Rising
Sun in Cancer with Moon in Capricorn and Capricorn 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.
Capricorn Rising
If you have Capricorn Rising, you tend to have a serious turn of mind. One would not call you melancholy, but you certainly aren’t frivolous. Cautious in your dealings, you are reluctant to commit yourself until you know the score. With strangers you are often quiet, reserved, and perhaps a bit shy. But once you open up you can be lively, friendly, warm, and expressive.
Capricorn Rising individuals have strong personalities, possess great willpower and determination, and diligently pursue their goals. These goals are usually for a better life—money, status, a higher standing in the community for your family. It’s important to you to feel that your life is meaningful.
With Capricorn Rising, you have self-esteem and are reliable, dependable, and stable. Sometimes, though, you will strive toward a goal and when you achieve it will still not be happy. You have a sense that something is missing, and you continue your search.
Having Capricorn Rising, you have an active mind with quick intelligence and an ability to concentrate. You can ferret out information, see flaws in a plan, and map things out ahead in detail. Sometimes you may be accused of being too calculating, because you add up all the pros and cons before embarking on a project. If an opponent has a weakness, you are also quick to spot it—and not entirely above using it to your advantage.
With Capricorn Rising, you tend to fuss over details to make sure all contingencies have been covered. It’s your way of being in control—you don’t want bad luck to catch you unprepared. Capricorn Rising individuals are worriers; in youth you worry about life, in old age about death. In middle age you worry about success.
It isn’t always easy for Capricorn Rising individuals to show their feelings, though powerful feelings do exist. You love deeply, are loyal and protective, and go out of your way to do kind deeds for others. However, you are often torn by jealousy and resentment (which you hide), and down deep you never really forgive someone who does you an injury.
As an individual with Capricorn Rising, what you achieve is mainly through your own efforts rather than through the influence of others. Though it happens that Capricorn Rising individuals seem to benefit financially through marriage, your own hard work within the union is largely responsible for your gain.
With Capricorn Rising there is often a rivalry with brothers and sisters, or some kind of disagreement with their fathers. As an individual with Capricorn Rising, you tend to have a small, well-shaped head, deep and penetrating eyes, and a beautiful smile with good-looking teeth. You have strong feet and usually enjoy walking or jogging.
The planet Saturn, which rules Capricorn, is very prominent in your birth chart. The influence of Saturn bestows discipline, ambition, patience, determination, good endurance, and carefulness. It also encourages stubbornness, hardship, melancholy, aloofness, pessimism, and selfishness.
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