Your Cancer Ascendant

Your Cancer Ascendant indicates that you are dedicated to satisfying your personal ambitions. However, you can appear so vulnerable that it is difficult for others to determine just how determined or strong you really are. You can be quite circumspect and hesitant to reveal your true goals until you are certain of success. There is potential for you to have traumatic partnerships, especially marriage. Many Cancer Ascendants prefer to marry late in life, and tend to select older or more mature partners or those who represent an authority figure.

You are emotionally oriented and may attempt to hide this vulnerability behind a facade of forcefulness even though, more often than not, the ploy is unsuccessful. Emotional vulnerability does not deny personal magnetism or ambition. In fact your emotional commitment to something often causes you to work twice as hard as anyone else, becoming quite successful in the bargain. Home is not just where your heart is, it is usually where you want to physically spend most of your time and attention.

Cancer is ruled by the moon, which implies strong nurturing instincts that are evidenced in your caring, sympathetic personality. In return, you also seek to be "mothered" and may be guided in life by a strong person (usually female) who fills this role. Your personality is subject to great changes. Consciously or subconsciously you are highly influenced by others. You may, for example, adopt the latest fashions or mode of behavior whether or not it is personally flattering, or you may pursue certain activities you feel give you social status rather than doing something you may truly enjoy.

You are apt to possess culinary skills, and design or architectural ability. Whether or not you have talent in these areas, you are apt to have great interest in them. Roundness of face, pale, sensitive skin, and baldness or finely textured hair are physical attributes identified with Cancer Ascendant. Your body may have a strong tendency to retain water. Your emotional orientation is indicative of an addictive nature, which means it is difficult to escape a battle with excess weight or addictive substances. The breasts, stomach, and digestive system are apt to be your most physically vulnerable areas.