Sun and Moon
Sun Capricorn, Moon Cancer
With the Sun in Capricorn and the Moon in Cancer, the way you shine and your inner life meet. The first says who you are in the open, the second what you feel in secret.
- Sun element
- Earth
- Moon element
- Water
- Sun mode
- cardinal
- Moon mode
- cardinal
- Dynamic: You carry both ends of one axis: an identity that wants to be self-reliant and competent, a need to belong and to be protected.
- Possible strengths: A double strength, the pillar that holds and the refuge that takes people in, able to build security around you for others.
- Where friction can arise: Showing strength can cost you exactly when you'd need comforting; you give a great deal in deeds and hold back in emotions.
- Under pressure: You work harder and show your competence, masking the need for comfort at the very moment it burns hottest.
- In relationships: You lavish concrete care, you provide and you protect, but you keep the tender part inside; the one who loves you can feel showered with gestures and yet held at arm's length from your heart.
- Blind spot: What you don't see: your shell, meant to protect you, deprives your people of what you actually feel.
- Integration: Choose a few people in front of whom the shell opens a little, so your competence serves your tenderness instead of hiding it.
The Arcanastra reading
your competence doesn't have to hide your tenderness, it can serve it; choosing a few people in front of whom the shell opens a little changes everything. The strongest thing in you is often the part that dares to be tender.
These bearings are calculated by our ephemeris; for a true reading of your sky, there is Elvira. See my birth chart
Frequently asked questions
Your Sun in Capricorn describes how you shine and move forward; your Moon in Cancer describes your inner life and needs. The duo shows how these two forces live together in you.
Neither one: the Sun says what you show, the Moon what you feel. Both count, and it is their meeting that resembles you.
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