Cast & Chart

Rising sign

Cancer rising

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

In an older source

The active and passive types characteristic of Cancer are more clearly differentiated than those of any other sign.

Evangeline Adams, Astrology: Your Place in the Sun (1928)

About this entry

Adams 1928 splits this rising in two and describes the types at length, one sharp-featured, the other round and pale. Lilly 1659 and Raphael's Guide 1877 know only the round face. The split is Adams's own, and neither Lilly nor Raphael has it.

This sign rises slowly at mid northern latitudes, so it holds the horizon longer and a small error in the recorded hour matters a little less than it does for Aries. Even so, the calculator needs the time of birth to place it at all. Modern popular astrology speaks of a guarded, watchful manner when this sign rises, a reading drawn from the crab's shell.

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