Moon in Cancer
What Moon in Cancer means, the traditional facts behind it, and when the Moon is actually in Cancer.
What Moon in Cancer means
Your Moon in Cancer reads the emotional weather early and holds it deeply — home and belonging are where you refuel. Cancer is a water sign, so closeness feels safest when there is room to retreat and return on your terms.
A sign placement reads the same in every house system.
These interpretations are drafted with software assistance and edited by our writers. Astrology is a symbolic language, not a science — take what's useful and leave the rest.
The sign: Cancer
- Element
- Water
- Modality
- Cardinal
- Polarity
- Yin: inward, receptive
- Ruler
- Moon
Essential dignity
The Moon rules Cancer. This is its home sign, or domicile, where the tradition sees it working most freely and most in character.
The four major dignities, from Ptolemy's table as Lilly gives it (1647).
When the Moon is in Cancer
The Moon spends about two and a half days in each sign and returns roughly every 27 days. Its next passes in Cancer:
| Enters | Leaves |
|---|---|
| Oct 2, 2026, 19:54 | Oct 4, 2026, 22:54 |
| Oct 30, 2026, 02:05 | Nov 1, 2026, 04:18 |
| Nov 26, 2026, 10:51 | Nov 28, 2026, 11:20 |
| Dec 23, 2026, 21:58 | Dec 25, 2026, 21:12 |
| Jan 20, 2027, 09:20 | Jan 22, 2027, 08:45 |
| Feb 16, 2027, 18:38 | Feb 18, 2027, 19:30 |
Times in UTC, to the minute.
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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.