Cancer ♋︎ Sun in the Natal Chart
Symbols: Crab
Element: Water
Key Phrase: I feel
Ruling Planet: The Moon
If you were born under the Sun sign of Cancer then you will most likely have a sensitive nature hidden behind a seemingly tough exterior. Cancer is symbolized by the crab a skittish creature with a soft inside but a tough outer shell. As one of the most vulnerable signs in the zodiac your identity is marked by a power play between your emotions. You constantly grapple with yourself over whether you should let your emotions be free or if you should keep them bottled inside. Your superpower is empathy. Empathy is the ability to feel what other people are feeling and support them through difficult emotions. Once you embrace your identity as an empath you are better able to accept your own authentic emotions and feelings.
The element associated with Cancer is water. The water element represents intuitive and psychic gifts, bodies of water, romantic connections, and sensitivity. You are definitely tuned into these aspects of life finding these themes dominate your life circumstances.
1st House
Keywords: The keywords associated with the first house are individualism, identity, selfishness, ego, personality, infancy, imitating, starting line, and destiny.
Angular House Type: An Angular house is ruled by a cardinal sign. Aries is the cardinal fire sign ruling the 1st house.
The 1st house in astrology is representative of how you express your self identity. The sign on the 1st house in the natal chart symbolizes the energy through which you tend to filter all of your experiences.
Here you get to know yourself, your basic needs, and desire to be seen as an individual. In the 1st house you are having a “me” experience. This house is symbolic of initiation and impulsivity.
Planets placed in the 1st house in the natal chart tend to be very heavily emphasized. These planets will be expressed more easily in your personal expression and circumstances. This is the house is symbolic of where we first breath life into ourselves, where existence first begins. This part of the astrological chart is ego driven in the search for self identity. Here you get to perform or act out the person you are or want to be.
Cancer is ruled by the Moon representative of your desire to take care of others. There is an acute awareness of the subconscious influences that are happening in the world around you. Your identity is marked by a natural intuitive ability.