Positions
Descendant in Cancer
Modern
With Cancer on your Descendant you are drawn to partners who are caring, sensitive, and protective, the ones who make a home and tend to feelings. You look across at someone who can hold you emotionally, often because that tenderness is what you find easier to receive than to express yourself. The shadow is seeking a parent rather than a peer, attracting moody or clinging partners, or projecting your own needs for care, until you learn to nurture as well as be nurtured.
Traditional (Hellenistic)
With Cancer on the seventh cusp the partner is signified by the Moon, sole lady of the sign, and comes as a caring, protective, and feeling figure tied to home and family. The native seeks a mate who offers emotional safety and shelter, and because the Moon waxes and wanes the bond moves with moods and phases. When the Moon is well placed the union nourishes; when afflicted it clings or the open enemy turns touchy and withdrawn, so weigh the lord of the seventh with care.
- cancer
- descendant
- nurturing partner
Sources
- Lilly, Christian Astrology (1647), p. 300Reads marriage and open enemies from the seventh; a lunar cusp gives a domestic, tender, and changeable partner.
- Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos, IV.5Judges the marriage partner from the angle and the Moon among the significators of union, here cast in a watery, nurturing sign.
- Greene, Relating (1977)Reads the Descendant as projected need; a Cancer seventh disowns its own dependency and meets it in the partner.