Moon in Cancer

Cancer is the Moon's only house in Lilly 1659 and the first of his water signs, cold and moist. He calls the Moon cold and moist as well, so planet and sign agree in temperature. Ptolemy (Ashmand's 1822 translation) gives Cancer to the Moon and Leo to the Sun as the two most northerly of the twelve.

A planet in its own house was, for Lilly, like someone master of his own estate, and the Moon adds a face in the last ten degrees of the sign. That language describes standing in the reckoning. Heindel 1918 takes a different line for a rising Moon here and says it makes the nature unstable.

Lilly also remarks on understanding where Mercury sits in Virgo and the Moon in Cancer, though the transcription is rough at that spot. Raphael's Guide of 1877 gives a kind and courteous temper in the entry sitting in the Moon's usual slot, though the symbol there is garbled in the scan. Alan Leo 1899 gives the sign itself a strong attachment to home, which modern writers pass straight on to this Moon.