Chiron in Cancer

What Chiron in Cancer means, the traditional facts behind it, and when Chiron is actually in Cancer.

The sign: Cancer

Element
Water
Modality
Cardinal
Polarity
Yin: inward, receptive
Ruler
Moon

Essential dignity

The dignity scheme was built for the seven planets visible to the naked eye, so it assigns Chiron none. Modern proposals for Chiron's dignities exist, but they are not part of the traditional table we use.

When Chiron is in Cancer

Every stay of Chiron in Cancer between 1900 and 2100, useful for checking a birth year.

EntersLeaves
Aug 27, 1937Nov 23, 1937
May 28, 1938Sep 30, 1940
Dec 27, 1940Jun 16, 1941
Jun 21, 1988Jul 21, 1991
Jul 22, 2038Jan 8, 2039
Apr 26, 2039Aug 28, 2041
Feb 10, 2042May 16, 2042
Aug 28, 2088Nov 18, 2088
May 29, 2089Jun 30, 2092

Dates in UTC, to the day: a slow planet takes hours to cross a sign boundary.

See where Chiron falls in your own birth chart

How this page is made

Sign facts and dignities follow the traditional tables; dates come from our own ephemeris engine. Exact about the astronomy, honest that astrology is a symbolic language.