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Venus in Cancer
Venus in Cancer loves by caring. Attraction is to safety and kinship; the partner is family, or becomes it. Affection is tender, protective and easily hurt, and it remembers. Pleasure is domestic — the shared meal, the home made together. Taste is sentimental in the best sense. The work is to love without needing to be needed, and to let the shell open when it is safe.
In plain words
Venus stands for what you love and enjoy. In Cancer, that works in a Cancer way: caring, protective and easily hurt. You look after your own and remember everything.
Full guide
| Venus signifies | love, value, pleasure |
|---|---|
| Cancer is | water, cardinal — belonging, care, memory |
| Sign ruler | Moon |
| Venus here is | with minor dignity at some degrees (triplicity, bound or face) |
Reading it by degree
Within Cancer the placement is coloured by its decan (the ten-degree face) and its bound (the Egyptian term), each with a planetary ruler of its own. Your chart shows both for every planet.
Decans (faces) of Cancer
| 0°–10° | Venus |
|---|---|
| 10°–20° | Mercury |
| 20°–30° | Moon |
Egyptian bounds of Cancer
| 0°–7° | Mars |
|---|---|
| 7°–13° | Venus |
| 13°–19° | Mercury |
| 19°–26° | Jupiter |
| 26°–30° | Saturn |
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See also Cancer rising and Venus in the other signs.
Common questions
What does Venus in Cancer mean?
Venus in Cancer loves by caring.
Is Venus strong in Cancer?
Venus in Cancer is with minor dignity at some degrees (triplicity, bound or face). The house and aspects in your own chart decide how it plays out.
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