Planets in Profile: The Moon in Cancer

Hey everyone, this is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology. Today we're going to continue our Planets in Profiles series by looking at the Moon in the sign of Cancer. So, in this series, I've been taking the Moon through the 12 signs, but if you look back in my archives, I have already done Mercury, Venus, and Mars through the 12 signs.

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On that note, let us now delve into the magical world of the Moon in Cancer. So, I'm going to put this little presentation up on the screen here and show you guys where we'll share the screen. Okay, here we go. Alright, so we're looking at the Moon in Cancer. And as I've been saying throughout this series, there are some things you have to remember when taking any planet through the 12 signs.

In order to understand any planet in any sign, you have to start by understanding the nature of the planet itself. So, the Moon's universal significations are the broadest in their meaning or application. Those are the broadest philosophical meanings or the broadest symbolic applications for individual souls. And on this universal level of symbolism. The Moon represents the realm of fortune. It is the world of daily life in the material universe, the daily flow of events, the constant changing and impermanence of the environment of mood, emotions, mind-body events, and circumstances; it is Life in Motion, that is, the Moon, who's up latitude is always changing whose face is always changing, who's moving the swiftest who's closest to Earth. The Moon was said to be the ruler of the realm of fortune, which is the Choose Your Own Adventure book that we're living here.

By contrast, now, the Moon's topical significations are going to be any of those that represent the most specific or concrete people, places, or things. For example, the Moon can represent things like body and health. It was one of the signifiers of body and health: mothers, women, home and family, or even your dwelling place, or land that you live on, can be associated, of course, more broadly with Ancestry things like tribe, village clan culture, the Moon can represent things like marriage and pregnancy and childbirth because it is an extension.

The Moon, as the ruler of the family, is connected to things like marriage, pregnancy, and childbirth as well. So it's not just that Venus represents love. We're just the seventh house, but the Moon can also represent marriage, broadly speaking. It's also whatever we nurture or devote ourselves to, as well as very specific things like food or cooking. Now, the significations of the Moon are then going to be modified according to the sign the Moon is traveling through at any given time or at the time of birth as a natal signature.

So, if you have the Moon in Cancer, it means that the Moon was traveling through that sign when you were born. The meaning of a sign is most primarily related to the planets that are said to preside over that temple of the Zodiac. So when we think of Cancer, we're thinking of the natural temple of the Moon. It's actually the Moon's home sign, but it's also Jupiter's exultation.

All right, let's move on here. All right, moving on. The Moon in Cancer can thus be understood according to the following features of the sign of Cancer. Cancer is the feminine sample of the Moon. And so the Moon is actually very at home in Cancer; it's one of its natural dwelling places. The Cancer as a sign is likened unto the Moon as the Moon is likened unto the Temple of Cancer. It is a tropical Yin water sign.

Tropical means that it comes it starts at the moment of one of the four turning points of the solar year Tropicos at the root of tropical means to turn and the Summer Solstice from the northern hemisphere is associated with the starting point of Cancer in the tropical Zodiac tropical Zodiac means that the Zodiac is rooted in the four turning points of the year, which are the equinoxes and solstices.

So, it is a tropical Yin sign. So, it is a turning point that is considered to be a feminine turning point, and it's a watery feminine turning point. Cancer is also the exultation of Jupiter; it's the sign of the crab. One of the things that you have to remember about the sign of Cancer is that the Sun, from this point of view, is starting to set in the solar year, although we're still in the light, dominant half of the year, and there's three more signs to go while the light is still more, there's more light than there is darkness, I should say.

The Sun is now starting to sink from its highest point down toward the southern horizon of the Earth. And it's this idea of the Sun descending from a high point down into the earthly sphere that was associated with the descent of the Spirit into the matter, or the birth of the cosmos as in the ancient Thema Mundi chart that had Cancer rising, it was also called the gateway of mankind, and it was associated with conception and birth or the entrance of the soul into the body in the womb of the mother. So there's this idea of something kind of, in Spirit moving into the modifying process coming down into Earth, and that that's the sign of the mother.

So, really beautiful symbolism relating the Moon and Jupiter, who is also a giver of life, to the sign that is associated with the descent of Spirit into the material world of manifestation. It's the first sign of zodiacal summer. That's important; we just said that. Now, the Moon in Cancer can be understood as a lunar, watery, tropical Yin kind of Moon, which is the sign and environment most like the Moon herself. So there's again an affinity between Cancer and the Moon.

So here are the kinds of things along with the sort of Jupiterian, maternal Jupiterian Great Mother qualities that you will see reflected in Cancer Moon placements in Natal charts. Cancer and Moon individuals are often maternal, and if they're not maternal, then they are highly devoted people.

Oftentimes, if you had to split it down gender lines, you'll often see that there is this kind of very, very deep emotional sense of loyalty and devotion to things and attachments to things that people care about. And that could be described as sort of maternal, or can be described as sort of devoted, but either way, there's a sense of caring, tending, nurturing. There are also a lot of nature-based themes that come with Cancer. Anything that is a combination of romantic and earthly, there's definitely like romanticism and Cancer, but it's often very Yin right, so it's very, it's connected to the world of the body and the Mother Earth Kind of energy even though you think water.

Some people will think of Taurus Mother Earth energy, which is fair; that's the exultation of the Moon. But Cancer also has a lot of nature-based themes, very romantic placement, very romantic in the sense of the heart and its attachments and its ideals and its sense of being connected. Mind, heart, body, mood, emotions, and feeling safe and at home because it's connected to things that it loves and desires. So it's romantic but very emotionally romantic. Like Pisces is a little bit more otherworldly romantic, it's a little bit more like the fantasy world is a little bit more ethereal.

However, Cancer's romantic world sometimes almost makes me want to call it a little bit more like I don't know how to describe it; it's a little bit more familial and cultural. Its connection is often to things that have been assigned great personal value in the earthly realm, like your attachment to a photo album. But anyway, distinguishing things a little bit moody, which is a classic Cancer Moon theme, as well as needy or clingy, which are sort of shadows.

But also remember the opposite of needy or clingy is oftentimes devoted, loyal, maternal nurturing, often the very healing presence in the Cancer, Moon, embodied sensual and compassionate; you'll find that Cancerians are very, the Maiden and Mother dichotomy, as well as the say, Crone, they're all sort of present in Cancer very fluidly, and will often make for a very well rounded and very attractive, kind of feminine archetype because the moon phases themselves reflect this different stages of femininity unfolding in the story of life, so to speak, and archetypal, it doesn't have to be literal. And along that path. This is often; the men or women who carry this archetype will just feel there's a softness and a sweetness and a very embodied, fertile kind of feeling. So often, it is considered very attractive by many people.

Now secretive and nocturnal, that's it as well. It is very private, sometimes very secretive, and can be covert, passive, and aggressive at times. emotionally intelligent, environmentally sensitive to moods, feelings, actions, and things. Cancers can really feel what's going on in a room. Often natural caretakers or caregivers, healers, nurses, and wound tenders, sometimes there's a need to be needed, though that can be problematic where a person may derive their self-esteem from being needed.

Sometimes, the Cancer Moon points to the need to be emotionally individuated or have better boundaries. I care for people, but I also know how to care for myself; I don't derive all of my meaning from being useful to other people in some caregiving capacity. I'm going to save he'll fix everyone, childlike, as well as maternal. There's an interesting way in which the Cancerians are often just very innocent and sort of childlike. And then oftentimes, they can flip and show the face of someone sort of wise, grandmotherly, you know, parental, and so forth.

You'll also find that Cancer Moons are often protective and defensive, sometimes a little shy. The protectiveness and the defensiveness have to do with the fact that the Moon is so intimately connected to fostering a feeling of connection, safety, and security in the Earth. It's like thinking about the impulse that so many animals and species have to create a nest to create a den and a safe place for rest.

So there's a protectiveness and a defensiveness, sometimes that's overly developed, and it becomes problematic. Will often seek out emotional and physical shelter security in the world and will often have to learn lessons about opening up and becoming more vulnerable or learning how to feel safer. Interested in the past and family history, culture, or roots is quite common, including anything, even things like archaeology and history. Lovers of the embodied world who are reflective and often contemplative will often mirror or match their environment and lose track of how they actually feel and what they need. That's a real tendency. It's very relational, and it tends to mirror, like a mood ring, what environment it's in mood rings, and moon rings.

Reclusive or hermit-like, especially the men, this has been kind of well documented by a lot of modern psychological astrologers that men often embody who embody Cancerian archetypes will often be sort of private and shy or tend to be more reclusive. One thing that people don't know about me as a card-carrying Cancer, Sun, and Mercury in Cancer. Is that outside of creating content like Oh, like this, like I'm quite shy and reclusive? I'm not the world's most social person; this is this one specific area of my life where I am, and it's not that I'm antisocial or anything, but like I'm definitely more introverted, and people wouldn't necessarily guess that about me because you know, I share stuff on a podcast or whatever.

But anyway, that's it's funny because especially men, in my experience, will often be more hermit-like and reclusive, but that can also be true for women, and it's not just a gender thing. So throw that stare rotate out if it's not working for you.

Now, following famous people were born with the Moon in Cancer, and I was able to see some interesting connections to these people. You may be will or will not. And believe me when I say that I am not. People always seem to get this twisted when I use examples. It's not because I have any opinion or judgment about these people or their worth or there's no like, this is not hagiography, as they say, I'm not here to like, you know, make these people saints or anything. You know, I honestly don't have any opinions about the people that I share this stuff with.

So, I'll tell you why I think that archetype connects. Conor McGregor is interesting because he's a very famous MMA fighter and quite cantankerous. And one of the things that has been described by just about every commentator in the mixed martial arts world. I have an interest in that stuff. I got into jujitsu a few summers ago and really had fun with it. And then, you know, occasionally, I've watched matches and so on and heard commentary about mixed martial artists, and they've always said that Conor McGregor is one of the moodiest and like, shy, moody, shy, sensitive, and highly romantic and sentimental. I couldn't believe that when they described him, and so I had to look it up. And I found that he was a Cancer moon, and I just bookmark this is something to talk about when I got to the Moon in Cancer episode; you wouldn't think that because he's such a, I don't know, there's so much like bravado, and there's he's a fighter, and so on and so forth. There are other placements in his chart. That makes sense.

To me, when it comes to the other parts of him that kind of come forth, but three planets in Cancer, he's often described as incredibly, like emotionally changeable. And that's an important detail about him. Okay, of course, there's Taylor Swift. I don't know what to say if I say, just like you say anything about Taylor Swift, there's gonna be a million people who know more about her who have their own opinions or whatever. Here's the one thing that I found really interesting about her, though, is that she has always been able to capture the moods and experiences that people have had, that are sort of timeless and archetypal, especially like teenagers, teenage love, feelings of being not understood. So she and she really, like started, as I understand, she started writing, you know, a lot of her most profound music; she would come home from, like, junior high or high school or whatever it was, and write music about what she was experiencing at school. I think you will find in a lot of Cancer Moon cases, that there is this really creative, poetic, romantic sensibility that's able to capture moods and feelings that every human can relate to.

As though she's somehow, it's like she's transmitting the archetypal stages of youth, adolescence, teen years, your 20s, Falling in love, and breaking up. That is so that people with Moon and Cancer are somehow able to captivate our emotional and romantic imaginations; they can just speak to things that are sort of timeless and that we all experience as the moods and atmospheres of the different stages of life. And I think that that's something that really stands out about her work and what's probably contributed to her fame. And I was reading about that. And I thought, yeah, that's a Cancer moon. That makes total sense to me.

Maybe there are other things you could say as well, people who are. If you're a Swifty, you know, if you know more about Taylor Swift than I do, please chime in as to what else you think may stand out about her work to this point. That might be considered a kind of Moon and Cancerish. The thing is, we have to remember that these placements, like all I'm able to do with famous or historical people, point out certain elements of what is known about them publicly and how they relate to archetypes. There's so much, of course, that we don't know that's really just about their personal lives. So, I never mean to look at a chart to delve into people's personal lives. It's just purely from the standpoint of what this person has shared as a public icon, a public myth, so to speak, in that we can see some connection to those archetypes in their chart. Kurt Cobain is another interesting one. He was born with the Moon in Cancer.

One of the things that really stands out to me is that he was someone who is again described as highly romantic, very reclusive, and shy at times; he had super intense issues with codependency and in relationships and kind of coming from some of the trauma of his upbringing, and also, you know, drug problems that were a standout feature of, you know, his marriage. The Moody sensitive themes of Cancer are often really difficult to pair with a whole bunch of planets in Pisces for him and some also in Scorpio got a very watery person, but one who was very moody and romantic and who also captured the angst of being a teenager or young in your 20s he was you know, he really captured that angst Enos of growing up and also had a lot of the features of the Cancer moon that are honestly like some of the shadows, especially around like codependency. Dave Chappelle.

Now, whether you like him or not, one of the things he's very famous for is being reclusive. I actually did a list, I did a search, I said, who are the most famous reclusive celebrities? And I just Googled it. And I was like, this will be interesting. He came back with several different articles as someone who has just completely vanished and is self-described as very reclusive. He's got the Moon and Saturn and the South Node in Cancer, by the way, I think that's interesting.

But I just thought he was an interesting example, specifically because he has been, he has described himself as incredibly reclusive and is also someone who, although he's very famous, likes to take long periods of time. I think he lives on a farm if I remember correctly, but anyway, he likes to take time away from the press and from the outside world, and he just sort of disappears for long periods of time. And that's something that he said he just feels like he has to do for his sanity. That was really interesting. Anyway, Lena Dunham is an interesting, another interesting character. The reason that I thought of her is just to see if I can hold on; I gotta grab a note here. I'm not gonna be able to bring it up unless I stop sharing for a second. Okay. Where is it? So Lena Dunham? Yeah, so here it is.

I thought this was interesting. First of all, she's another person who really captures the essence of being a young woman. So the maiden kind of thing, like, again, like we think so regularly about the Moon, only in Cancer, only in terms of mothers. But actually, the Moon in her cycle reflects all the different stages and phases of the Goddess. And she's really famous for just sort of writing about being a vulnerable young woman and being a powerful young woman and being a sexual young woman like her, her the series girls and everything like that. She also developed something called, I want to call the friendly house. It's a women's rehab center and sober living facility in Los Angeles. It was interesting that it was specific, something specific that she developed for women. So anyway, that's Lena Dunham with the Moon and Cancer as well.

William Blake was a famous romantic poet and someone who was enamored by the way in which the ideal world, like you think of Tiger, and the way in which the ideal realm is here embodied in flesh and, and that there's this kind of duality between light and dark in this embodied world and he was his he had a way of capturing the ferocity and beauty of nature and connecting it to something otherworldly and heavenly. I find that William Blake is a great example of a moon in Cancer as he was someone who developed a very deep relationship with the material world and impermanence and suffering within it with also a healing and kind of compassionate and devotional touch, whether you like him or not again, and not saying anyone's perfect, but that's one feature of a Cancer moon here that really stands out to me, William Blake. Eleanor Roosevelt is interesting.

Again, let me just take a look at my notes here. You know, one of the things that I thought was really interesting is that she was really known for advocating for women's rights and ability to be in the workplace as well as civil rights, human rights, care, and concern for refugees. So I think Eleanor Roosevelt really has this kind of, she had a very motherly quality, and there's a kind of a concern, especially for women and for the care of families and refugees and, you know, so again, a great Cancer Moon kind of archetype at work and some of the things that she did with her life.

Pablo Neruda, again, is a romantic poet. Look at that huge stellium in Cancer. But the Moon in Cancer is a new moon in Cancer. So, there's more than meets the eye than just the Moon, right? There's a whole bunch of planets here, especially Venus and Mercury as well; like that's the poet, right? But the Moon in Cancer for Pablo Neruda, who is often described as a kind of magical, realist, surrealist, romantic poet. So if you like Pablo Neruda, there's a moon in Cancer for you for sure. Henry David Thoreau is very similar in the sense of, here's someone who sort of went out into nature to have this kind of devotional romantic poetic relationship and, you know, kind of a reclusive guy as well, was very mooning Cancer.

Shakira. This is super interesting to me because one of the notes that I have here is that she was inspired in large part by her Father, who wrote poetry. So she grew up in a family that had some elements of, you know, artistic-like sensibilities. And she in particular like it, and we know, like, if this chart, I can't remember off the top, my head of this chart has been rectified, or if it's a double A rated or what, but if you look at this chart and in the Moon actually is in the fourth house, that would be the place of the Father in ancient astrology. I think that it's interesting that she had a very sensitive and sort of romantic poetic Father and grew up in a family where that kind of artistic heritage was present. But anyway, she is obviously also just all kinds of woman in one. And I find that that's often true with Cancerian women, especially the Moon and Cancer, that they can embody multiple feminine archetypes at once. That's kind of neat.

Anyway, Tom Cruise, famous Cancer, Sun and Moon in Cancer. But one of the things that is interesting about him is that he's also been described as incredibly moody, very shifty, and changeable. He reminds me a little bit of the same kinds of things that have been used to describe Conor McGregor, where it's almost being described as sort of unstable at times.

He also had a severely mentally ill father, who he was. His Father was severely mentally ill, according to the descriptions that I read about, was very abusive, and there was oftentimes a Cancer, Moon in particular. There are other things in the chart that can affect this, of course, but you'll often see that there are the family of origin becomes incredibly important for the development of the native soul, where they're coming from, and how they seek out emotional security. I just thought that was an interesting thing worth mentioning.

It's also not surprising to see Cancer and Moon people get involved in cults, religions, families, groups, tribes, communities, and cultures that end up serving as something like a replacement for a damaged home. And I'm not saying that that is necessarily Tom Cruise, but he is famously involved in the Church of Scientology. I don't remember what it's called. But so I don't know if that's something to think about.

Courtney Love, this is really fast. First of all, she grew up in a family that had all sorts of artistic people in its background. Her godfather is Phil Lesh from the Grateful Dead. Her dad, I think, was a publicist for the Grateful Dead. So she grows up and again, almost like a secure situation where there's just this richness of romantic kind of like a, she grows up in sort of like a village of romantic sensibilities. However, she also comes in later in life along with Kurt Cobain, who also has the Moon in Cancer and develops, you know, heroin addiction and some other really extreme issues that will likely result from, in some ways, the family of origin that she was raised in who also apparently were, you know, hippies, that were doing a lot of drugs and you know, so I just read briefly about it.

But, you know, I think it's very common when you have a Cancer moon to see that your ability to find a sense of wholeness, emotional security, etc., later in life versus, say, codependencies, unhealthy attachments, or whatever, you know, it, a lot of it comes from what you were raised with. The Cancer Moon is like that symbol alone, which can reflect people who need to find emotional security because they lack it or because they were given the great gift of some kind of strong family background. Anyway, Aretha Franklin also has the Moon in Cancer, and one of the things I loved when I read about her is like, you know, there wasn't one thing that stood out. I mean, obviously, she's got that very romantic and like, I'm every woman kind of vibe like she literally again, like I think that one of the greatest things about Cancer, Cancer, Moon women is they often can embody like all of the archetypes of you know, Maiden, mother, Crone, whatever other we want to throw out there. But she's got all the feminine archetypes, like working very fluidly for her.

One of the things that she has been described as, and I read this article, and there were several times in the article where she was described as the matriarch of her family, and that her kids, even though she's like a, like a star, described her as their matriarch. And I thought that she was cool. She's been described as a strong, strong mother figure. But again, like one of the things that also it has, she's been known and loved for is how, how many women and you know, just in general, how many women she's inspired because of how deeply she has been able to embody feminine strength and that's one of the most beautiful things about Cancer moon, again, often it's in the chart of women, but it really can be regardless of gender and so forth.

So, anyway, this was A little adventure into the realm of the Moon in Cancer. I hope that it was useful and interesting for you to get to know this moon placement a little bit more. If you have a story to share, please drop us a note in the comment section. Tell us about your experience of the Moon in Cancer. Maybe there are some other archetypal patterns that we didn't cover you could mention. Or you could confirm or sort of corroborate and tell us a little bit about your story and how it matches with one of the themes that we mentioned today. All right, well, that is it. I hope you guys enjoyed today's episode; I want to remind you that if you stick around, Kaley Haynes is back with us, giving us some Moon poetry. So, she has been adorning this series with some beautiful poetry focused on the Moon. Through all of the signs, you're going to hear her spoken word poetry right after I sign off. Enjoy Kaylee's beautiful moon poetry here with the Moon in Cancer.

Hello, It's me, Kaylee Artemis Moon's child. And I'm back here again with Adam to share my poetry of the Moon through the signs. I'm so grateful to be back, Cancer. What a sign my Mars is in Cancer; I feel all the feels it's in the 12th house; my mom is a Cancer sun. So I definitely understand the Cancer vibes, you know, from my perspective, and our charts are complicated things. But I tried to tap into the archetype of the sign as Adam shares it through the traditional lens. But of course, my poetry is always going to carry my own life experiences and the context through which I experienced astrology and the archetypes.

So, I have three poems because I think Cancer is such a sign with such depth. And I think that, especially in the context of the world that we live in, how Cancer presents in the patriarchy that we all live in is going to be different than kind of the pure archetype. Because if you live in a world where emotions are not valued, in a capitalist world, where they don't align with maybe productivity through that lens, and the family is not valued, and the work of women is not valued equally, then I think that a sign like Cancer really can become distorted, or, or the, yeah, that maternal archetype is going to be experienced through the lens of the culture that we're living in.

So that's my own two cents, or my own, I guess, experience. And I think you might see some of those themes in the poems that differ a little bit from the pure archetype that Adam was speaking about. But I just hope that you know that art is meant to provide an emotional context and a personal context. And I hope you receive that today. So, in the first poem I wrote specifically for this, I have two others to share that have come through at different times in my life. You would be moody, too, if you carried the world on your back if you knew tidal waves could sweep you away with the appearance of just one crack. If you only knew the oceans banging at my door, you would forgive me for sometimes pretending that I don't know what emotions are for. If you only knew how I desperately ushered you into the light. You don't remember, but I do the mystery of the coming night. So that's the first poem.

I'll just let the second poem speak for itself. If you want to know me, come find me. I am not hiding. And I will open the way every step you take into me. But I will not turn myself inside out, expose all my softest bits to the elements just because you're not paying attention. Knowing me is a gift that is given to those who are willing. And here's the third poem. This is specifically about the mother archetypes with Cancer and about children. Oh, and just for context. I have a 13-year-old son, and I've been a single mother the entire time, and so yeah, I think I really resonate with, you know, that maternal experience and especially being a single mother just the Yeah, just what it is to be a solo parent and specifically a mother They're in this world to a child. Night.

That's kind of where this poem came from, you know, now seeing friends of mine, with their partners having children. When I had mine 13 years ago, this poem kind of really came through from that experience of seeing them, really struggling through what it means to become a mother and how difficult it is, so many levels, and just kind of re-seeing my own experience and really honoring what I went through. When a child is born, it's a blessing. We celebrate the arrival of this wise soul. We honor the presence of God; we bow to the reminder of what devotion really means. We surrender. Sometimes gracefully, usually chaotically, like a tumbling river surrendering to a cliff, plummeting thunderously into the abyss scattered like rain broken open again and again. When a child is born, it's a blessing. We learn the cracks are where the light comes in. Oh my god, chills. Once again, thank you so much to Adam and the whole team at nightlight and, of course, to everyone who listens to this. I am Artemis.Moon.Child on Instagram. It is such an honor to share my art with you. Have a beautiful day.