Polarity: passive / feminine / negative
Element: water
Modality: cardinal
Ruling planet: Moon
As a Cancer rising sign, you leave a caring, sensitive, and modest impression. By nature with a great protective instinct, especially towards your loved ones and family. Home and family are very important to you. In relationships, you value emotional closeness and are ready to offer it in return. On the other hand, if you yourself cannot accept it, you can easily fall into melancholy and self-pity.
Since Cancer is ruled by the Moon, your moods tend to fluctuate as the Moon affects the tides. When making decisions, you are based on emotions and intuition, rather than rational thinking. Being a water element with a very sensitive nature, you can react to different situations too easily and take things more seriously than you let on.
At the first meeting, you immediately create a warm and safe feeling in people, thus gaining the trust of others. That's probably why people dare to open themselves to you already at the first meeting more than with any other person. You leave a caring, protective, and motherly impression on others, as you always make sure that the people around you are well.
You can also be a big worrier at times, looking towards the past and the future at the same time - like the Cancer's symbol crab, who moves sideways to see both ahead and behind. Just like a crab, you too have a hard shell on the surface, but you are actually soft and tender inside. At first glance, you are quiet, shy, and cautious to protect yourself from danger, but when people get to know you more closely, you are a tender and sentimental soul on the inside who is ready for anything for the sake of your loved ones. In case of danger or offense, you withdraw into your shell, from which it is difficult to come out again. As already said, home is very important to you - you like to travel, but with the knowledge that you have a home - your safe place - to always return to.
In appearance, the body has a medium height, softer and rounder in shape and disproportionate. The upper body tends to be bigger (just the chest area) and the arms and legs are slim. The hair is brown, the complexion is pale or rosy, and the eyes are large and blue. The face is more rounded. The sign of Cancer is associated with the digestive system, so digestion can be more sensitive and prone to flatulence or other digestive problems.
Celebrities with Cancer rising sign:
Adele, Mel Gibson, Julia Roberts, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ben Affleck, Bill Gates, George Michael, Liv Tyler, Robert De Niro, Kurt Russell, John Travolta, Cameron Diaz, Matt LeBlanc, Milla Jovovich, Cher, Angelina Jolie, Julie Garland, Steve McQueen, Mark Wahlberg, Juliette Binoche, Kate Hudson, Cindy Crawford, Stephen King, Steven Spielberg, Tyra Banks, Salvador Dalí, Michael Jordan, Billy Joel, Franz Schubert
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