Pluto in Cancer

Pluto was in Cancer when it was discovered in 1930, at close to 18 degrees of the sign by our calculation for that February. Astrologers therefore met the planet here. Whatever they said afterward falls outside the books gathered for this section.

The placement runs from between 1912 and 1914 up to sometime between 1937 and 1939, about twenty-five years, and all births in it share the sign. Cancer is the Moon's house in Ptolemy, exalts Jupiter and holds the fall of Mars, which are statements about other planets. Adams in 1930 names Pluto only as the god.

Popular modern writing links these births with home, homeland and upheaval. That link is later than the planet's discovery and belongs to modern astrology. A span of twenty-five years covers too many people for one temperament to fit them.