Cast & Chart

Placement

Venus in Cancer

A chart describes tendencies in a symbolic tradition. It cannot decide health, money, law, marriage or children.

About this entry

Venus and Cancer agree in temperature by Lilly 1659, who calls both cold and moist, and her face covers the first ten degrees of the sign. Her terms reach from 21 to 27, so in his tables the start and end of the sign belong to her in different ways and the middle to neither.

Cancer is the only house of the Moon, so this Venus stands in a lunar sign. Raphael's Guide of 1877 calls the placement gentle and mild, and also careless and indolent.

Alan Leo 1899 gives Cancer a strong attachment to home and past events, and modern astrology adds the idea of love expressed through feeding and caring. That tender picture is modern, and no source read here says it of Venus.

Where this text comes from

Statements credited to an older writer follow the scanned text named here. The modern readings are labeled as modern and come from none of these works.

Our own plain wording. Quoted lines keep the spelling of the scanned source.