♋Moon in Cancer

The Moon in Cancer feels at full depth and remembers. This is the Moon in its own sign, and the emotional life is unusually vivid, absorbing the atmosphere of a room and the moods of the people in it without deciding to. Safety is found in belonging — a home, a small number of people, a sense of being held somewhere. Old feeling stays accessible here in a way it does not for everyone; the past is not really past. This produces great tenderness toward others and a tendency to protect, sometimes preemptively. What it needs is a private space to feel things fully and people who do not require the feeling to be justified. Withdrawal, when it happens, is usually recovery rather than rejection, though it is rarely read that way.

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