CANCER RISING

You're timid and quiet, especially in your early life. You're very sensitive and retreat when you're threatened. You're passive, psychic, receptive, sympathetic and respond to life through feeling, not thinking. You're easily upset, but don't remain so for long. Your moods are changeable like the tides. You're fond of traveling, but need a home base to return to. If the Moon is angular, you'll be involved with the public in some way. You often suffer indigestion when you're emotionally disturbed.

Decanates
Degrees	Planet	Traits
0-9.99	Moon	Your reaction to life is very subconscious and you're extremely timid and shy in you early years. You have strong receptivity but must learn not to react emotionally to those impressions or feelings.
10-19.99	Pluto	You have strong mystical tendencies, tenacity and stubbornness. You must overcome jealousy and resentment.
20-29.99	Neptune	You're very sympathetic and emotional and too likely to identify with passing currents. You're very psychic and absorb the atmosphere around you.

Cancer on the 1st House: As a child you have a very strong imagination and great timidity that needs to be given a constructive path and lots of encouragement, respectively, in order to overcome your deep insecurity. If the Moon is strong, you almost always have a mother complex that prevents you from maturing. You strongly identify with your family and their concerns and you cling to the past and tradition. In a male chart, the soul is female, which may cause confusion. You're emotionally volatile and expend lots of energy through your feelings. Your will supports your emotions, which are expressed romantically and dramatically. Your chosen career usually deals with the general public. You don't feel close to your family despite strong ties.

Leo on the 2nd House: You express power through financial matters, often earning money by being placed in a position of authority. Finances are your major objective, but you want the money to be used for your family, children and home. You're far more materialistic than you seem and although you often get the money you want, you don't get peace until you learn that true security is not in material things. You can make money by instinctively supplying what the public needs or wants.

Virgo on the 3rd House: Your inferiority complex, especially in early childhood, can make you critical or your siblings and neighbors. You're precise in speech, letter writing and the formation of ideas, which are always practical and workable. You go into minute detail when storytelling and journeys are meticulously planned and organized. Although you handle big crises well, you're fussy about and bothered by inconsequential details. You have a natural intellectual interest in health. Don't eat when you're overtired because you have a very sensitive stomach.

Libra on the 4th House: You consider family a partnership and insist on fairness and justice for all members. Otherwise, emotional problems arise and throw off the balance of the household. You cultivate art, beauty and refinement in your home and are emotionally attached to household objects because owning what you have, be it people, a home or things, gives you emotional security. You need the proper balance between your soul and your personality in order to find peace. You find it difficult to sit still long enough to find out who you are. You must anchor yourself in eternal value to find inner peace.

Scorpio on the 5th House: Although you're very generous in supplying the needs of your children, they're subject to your intense emotionalism and your excessive concern can become domination. You're tenacious and intense in love while it lasts and you tend to be jealous of loved ones, but once love is gone, you recover quickly. You're extremely sensual in your romantic life and often have secret or unusual love affairs. Jealousy and possessiveness will corrode any relationship they enter. Since you need others to assure you of your own self-worth, you can be very selfish and self-centered unless Uranus, Neptune or Pluto is prominent.

Sagittarius on the 6th House: You love to be on the move and do considerable travel in your work, even if only short distances. However, unless Mars is prominent, you don't have a lot of physical energy and need extra sleep. Your generosity in helping others and the belief that if you help one you help all enables your spiritual self to mature. You have great faith in the power of positive thinking and in faith healing. Your work must allow you to freely follow your inspiration. You tend to crave sugar and eat too much of it and of starches.

Capricorn on the 7th House: You tend to be too cautious in forming partnerships and in marriage. You find it difficult to maintain and sustain long-term relationships, so you marry late in life and often for status. You don't want to feel restricted but you restrict others out of over-concern and over-possessiveness. You want the tie that binds but not the responsibility and worthwhile relationship requires. Your partner is often self-indulgent, lazy and has fluctuation emotions. You're shy in public relations and large crowds frighten you. You have a keen sense of humor but are subject to moodiness and self-centeredness. You love to entertain in your home and are a good cook and excellent host.

Aquarius on the 8th House: You're interested in the spiritual side of life and may have ability as a medium. However, if you're unevolved, self-indulgent and handle your emotions unwisely, your extremely psychic nature may leave you open to depression. You're uniquely connected in some way with the goods of the dead. Misuse or abuse of bodily functions can result in your death due to shock or circulation problems. The loss of a friend affects you deeply though you rarely show it. You have problems with sex due to a love of sensationalism. You hate to exercise but need plenty of it.

Pisces on the 9th House: Religion plays a dominant role in your life and your beliefs are devotional more than intellectual. Insights seem to come from heaven to solve problems and, if you choose the higher way, you have strong mystical or psychic tendencies. You may write books on mystical subjects that have emotional appeal. Those you contact receive tenderness, compassion and healing. You're not aggressive or troublesome and your greatest need is peace. You often lack this until you give up your ego, but you're able to give it to others because of your gentleness and a strong desire to please others. You may take long journeys by sea.

Aries on the 10th House: You rarely know what you want to do or be while still in your early years, so you often rush into a profession and find out it's not what you want. You must work hard in your profession and channel immense energy into your job and maintaining your public reputation. You're easily hurt by harsh or unfair treatment on your work by those in authority. You feel born for the spotlight and your desire for recognition outside your family is great despite an innate shyness and insecurity. You adapt quickly to new situations and conditions.

Taurus on the 11th House: You're attracted to artistic, stable and wealthy people, enabling you to amass wealth and financial resources and wealthy friends often finance your meticulous plans. Your objective is too often money, which you need for the prestige and importance it gives, but you get no lasting satisfaction from the material things it buys. You need to feel first in anyone's affections and if you don't, you can become extremely jealous. Guard against holding your friends too close and leaning on them too much.

Gemini on the 12th House: You're innately very psychic and very impressionable, making you very susceptible to the atmosphere around you. You're often at the mercy of your moods and feelings and you find it difficult to separate what you feel from what you think. You function from your instinctive and subconscious mind rather than reason and you absorb knowledge by listening rather than studying. You provide your own impetus for growth, yet you have a self-destructive habit of discussing your emotional problems and verbalizing what should remain hidden. However, your hidden support is your ability to keep ideas secret. Difficulties come through relatives and you're apt to feel close only to your mother. You'll be happier away from close ties to your siblings.

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