The way your Moon interacts with the Sun sign makes a huge difference in terms of your personality. While the Sun is how we act, the Moon is how we react. I’m continueing this Sun-Moon combo series with CANCER :)

If you’re an Cancer, look up your Moon sign and use the guide below to find out more about how your needs intersect with your wants. Take everything with a grain of salt, as always. Your other placements will affect your Sun-Moon pairing, distinguishing you further.

Cancer Sun, Aries Moon: Matriarch

You are careful as who you let into your life because you desire such close proximity that you lose track of your own needs for independence and end up lashing out to regain it. Your love is of a tough variety and, though others see you as a nurturer eventually, they sense your strength first. You would like to be babied but do not know how to play pitiful enough to get it. When you demand vulnerability from a position of strength, you confuse people and get the opposite of what you want. Your creativity comes from your ability to take your subconscious urges and sentiments and turn them into direct action, but you require absolute independence to do this.

Cancer Sun, Taurus Moon: Lament

You are awesome at taking pure sentiment and turning it into a visceral image. Your suffering can be made to seem very beautiful. Since so much of what you do, how you think, and what you perceive is based on subconscious feelings, you take care to make sure that you are operating from a position of comfort at all times. This is also why you can never admit when you are wrong or when you have made an error in judgment. Rather, you will persist in doing whatever your soul desires until you succeed or you die, even if that is a perpetual wallowing. Your self assuredness, even in misery, can be so strong that others are put off by you because it is always your own comfort that you prioritize, not those of others. When blamed, you instantly become a victim with convincing emotion to escape changing your ways.

Cancer Sun, Gemini Moon: Anxious

You are capable of stirring intense emotions using your words but there is always the feeling that the root of what you say cannot be expressed, that there is more to the story best left wordless. No matter what drama you stir up, you always find a way to remain blameless because you were just defending yourself. You are a secretive thinker and fill journals with fantasies and fears. These verbose pondering shave a tendency toward the melodramatic. You find a way to defend yourself from everyone you meet because you feel that any of them could come after you at any time. You do have a fear of money, whether it is of having too much or too little. You may always have the feeling that you are denied freedom, which leads you to curse your dependencies, dependents, and anyone you form a contract with. The methods in which you choose to look for freedom through may, if you’re not careful, lead to further entrapment.

Cancer Sun, Cancer Moon: Otaku

When you are sullen, you are sullen. When pleased, you show your pleasure. There is no hiding of emotion for you to those who know you so you make yourself difficult to know. Others will find you extremely relatable because they find it easy to project their own emotional welfare onto you. You tend to stick to those who you already know, or those who are friends of friends to retain a cushion of familiarity. You dislike being in positions that make you uncomfortable and resist actions that challenge your sense of what you already know you are good at, preferring to choose industries that you already know everything about. You are an avid consumer and enjoy watching the same things over and over again, collecting new information over time. You arm yourself with research at all times and feel that once you know everything about someone who once intimidated you, that they cannot harm you.

Cancer Sun, Leo Moon: Only Child

Because you feel that you have so many needs, you may quickly become overwhelmed and imagine that there is no possible way to meet them all. People or institutions that seem to promise both belonging and glory will seem especially attractive to you. The needs of others may be invisible to you because you have a hard time seeing past your own. You have no problem dominating a room with your tales of woe and dislike social interactions in which you do not have someone’s full attention. Thus, you tend to do better in one-on-one interactions than that of a larger group. You need to have someone’s intimate consideration and dislike the anonymity of being just a face in a crowd.

Cancer Sun, Virgo Moon: Critical

You are vastly critical, of yourself and society but especially those you are intimate with. Even if you spend all your time with a group of people, there is a part of you that remains unattached to them. You may tend to control others when you sense that they can or are willing to leave you, though these calculations will not be emotionally over the top but take the form of rational explanations for why they are better off in a codependent scenario. You always try to make your immediate environment better through the form of the complaint but are less likely to make changes, since you prefer things to stay the same. It is through your constant criticisms that you give to those close to you that you create airs of familiarity, one in which everyone knows each other both inside and out.

Cancer Sun, Libra Moon: Cute

You like to be seen as nice and, therefore, never say no to anything even when you feel that you cannot truly handle something. You leave plenty of the decision making up to the friends that you surround yourself with, feeling that others are more capable, so much so that you often give the impression of disappearing. You are truly funny and do not attempt to appear superior than anyone, so it is easy to like you. Your charm is one of being pathetic-cute, like a small animal that one must shield from threatening forces. Thus, it is especially when you make social blunders that people tend to take your side over things. You rely on a charm that is not smooth but full of mishaps, a little goofy, that is just as powerful.

Cancer Sun, Scorpio Moon: Master Manipulator

You understand deeply how to influence others, not just in a persuasive way but in a way that claims loyalty by speaking to their most immediate needs, not in a way that isolates but in a way that brings conflicting tribes together towards your campaign. Intellectually persuading people is not your concern. Instead, you make them feel that they must follow you if it is true that they remain fully empathic human beings. Thus, you easily become powerful and gather an intimate circle uneasily penetrated. You never forget a single betrayal, however slight. However, you never give the appearance of overt control. Rather, your followers feel that, in following you, they are able to become more authentic and freer versions of themselves. This is because you only give freedom of expression to those who have earned your trust through the many emotional tests you put them through.

Cancer Sun, Sagittarius Moon: Lunacy

You are funny. You are able to make fun of social complexes from a place of vulnerability that is simultaneously self knowing and self deprecating. Because you laugh at yourself just as much as you laugh at other people, no one finds your brand of humor offensive or irritating. You have a huge imagination and often imagine yourself as a central figure in your fantasies. Your taste for big cries and big laughs bring a layer of melodrama to every moment and you know how to make even the most outlandish scenarios poignant. Your sensibility translates well into the mainstream, because of the mass appeal of your humor and you do well appealing to mass movements with broad emotional themes than to niche ethos.

Cancer Sun, Capricorn Moon: Insecure

You tend to overestimate your needs in relation to your capability to get what you want in your head. Actually, you are tremendously capable of both planning your moves and enduring through fallow times. A low self image may cause you to neglect your visions, your talents, and your needs and wallow in jobs that neither challenge nor develop your capabilities. You tend to repress emotions that you have no control over, trying to create an outside image of superficial pleasantness even when you feel that everything is falling apart on the inside. When you feel that you lose control, you begin to exert tighter control on things of small importance. You feel that your free command of emotional expression is too easy to give your rather complicated feelings depth. The truth is that you don’t spend enough time getting to know your feelings, even when they are quite obvious to everyone else, and risk being controlled by them.

Cancer Sun, Aquarius Moon: Moonchild

You are capable of translating the unconventional into the familiar, to attach feeling to every intellectual concept so that it cannot be readily dismissed as just a trend. There is a childlike strangeness to how you work and, even when you talk about moving issues, you do so with a relatively detached air. You are like a theoretical poem, which is already full of contradictions in form, that uses discordant symbols to express dissonant sentiments. You are your own contrarian to how you feel and often cannot realize your own feelings without the use of abstract language. Because you are not mainstream, you do best when operating with a motley group of other outsiders.

Cancer Sun, Pisces Moon: Whimsical

You can never quite make up your mind about what you want. Much of your time is spend chasing one extreme idea after another without expending any real effort towards building a real outcome. You are lost in fantasies of who you could be and experiment with personalities, careers, or even drugs to play with the potential roles that you can inhabit without ever making up your mind. Your vision is far bigger than your capacity for action, which is much more careful and security seeking. You may constantly save up money to commit to some drastic action but give up before going all the way in for fear of an alienation that you are actually quite used to, since you imagine it affecting yourself on the daily.