Cancer rising
Its own mind
Cancer rising gives an imaginative, receptive mind, reserved and slow to trust, at times given to gloomy moods; yet once it decides on something it holds on with great tenacity, and it is sympathetic, hospitable and kind.
Cancer
Rising
The Cancer ascendant
Cancer was coming up over the eastern horizon when you were born. Its image is the crab, and the Heindels traced its shape in the body: a large upper frame on slender limbs, and a quiet, home-loving nature.
Cancer rises today
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Cancer rising
at a glance
Rulerthe Moon
Element and modeWater, cardinal
Symbolthe crab
Opposite, on the seventh houseCapricorn
Time to rise each day in London
Your rising sign is the sign that was coming up on the eastern horizon at the minute and place you were born. Astrologers read it as the way you meet the world: the first impression, the manner, and in the older books the look of the body too.
With Cancer there, the chart starts in a cardinal water sign ruled by the Moon. Capricorn, its opposite, sits on the seventh house, the house of partners.
How Cancer
rising looks
After Max and Augusta Foss Heindel, The Message of the Stars, 1918
- The build
- A large upper body on very slender limbs, so the frame can look top-heavy, like the crab's.
- The face
- Full and widest between the ears, with a strongly hinged lower jaw and a large mouth, recalling the crab's claw.
- The hair
- Brown.
- The eyes
- Blue.
- The walk
- A rolling gait.
These are types, written a century ago. Planets close to the ascendant, and where the Moon stands, change the picture, and pure types are rare.
Cancer rising
personality
After the Heindels, chapters V and XIX
People with Cancer rising love their home and its comforts. They are quiet and reserved and adapt themselves to circumstances, which makes them easy to get along with. Their anger passes quickly and they hold no grudge.
They may not be physically forceful, but they are never hypocrites. They have the courage of their convictions, and they speak up for them and defend them. The Sun rising here strengthens these good qualities and adds ambition, pride and vitality, while the Moon, the ruler, makes the nature less steady, and Jupiter rising here brings fortune and fame.
The mind is imaginative and receptive, reserved and slow to trust, and at times inclined to dark moods. Once decided, though, it holds to its ideas with real tenacity, and it is sympathetic, hospitable and kind. Like all the cardinal signs on the ascendant, it is quick to grasp an idea and brave in what it starts.
The Cancer rising
mind
The Heindels read the rising sign as the shape of the mind, first by the sign itself and then by the group it belongs to.
The cardinal signs
Its group
With a cardinal sign on the angles, the mind is alert and quick to grasp an idea, active and enthusiastic in its work, with the ability to organize a venture and carry it to success, and a bold, brave, unbeatable spirit.
Questions
It depends on where you were born, because signs take different lengths of time to rise. In London Cancer takes about 2 hours 31 minutes of every day to rise, more than the two-hour average, so it is a little more common there. In Sydney it takes about 1 hour 58 minutes, close to the two-hour average.
No. Being a Cancer usually means the Sun was in Cancer, which happens from late June to late July. Cancer rises every day of the year for a few hours, so a person born in any month can have it.
The Moon. The ruler of the rising sign is called the chart ruler, and where it stands in your chart colours the whole reading.