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June 21 – July 22 · The crab

Cancer

Belonging: home, memories and caring for your own people.

  • Caring
  • Intuitive
  • Guarded
Element
Water
Mode
Cardinal
Ruler
Moon
Opposite
Capricorn
Body
Chest and stomach
Degrees
90°–120°
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Strengths

What Cancer does best

You notice how people feel before they say it, and you make any place feel like home. Your loyalty is strong and long-lasting.

Challenges

Where it trips up

When you are hurt, you hide and stay hidden. Your moods can control your day. Looking after everyone can hide what you need yourself.

Love

Cancer in love

You are deep, protective and devoted. You need to feel safe before you open up. You remember every kindness, and every unkind word too.

Work

Cancer at work

You do well wherever care matters: teams, hospitality, health care, family businesses. You lead by looking after people.

Compatibility

Cancer with the other signs

This uses Sun signs only, which is the simplest kind of compatibility. Tap a pair for love, friendship and work.

Easiest

Most challenging

Two of a kind

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What are Cancer’s dates?

Cancer season usually runs June 21 – July 22. In 2026 the Sun enters Cancer on 21 June 2026 at 08:25 UTC and leaves on 22 July 2026. If you were born near a change of sign, your exact birth time and place decide your sign.

What element and mode is Cancer?

Cancer is a cardinal water sign. Its ruling planet is Moon.

Who is Cancer most compatible with?

By sign alone, Cancer’s easiest matches are Pisces, Taurus, Scorpio. Its most difficult matches are Aquarius and Aries. Real compatibility depends on whole charts: the Moon, Venus, Mars and rising signs.

What is Cancer’s opposite sign?

Capricorn. Opposite signs have the same mode and elements that complete each other. Each sign has what the other one is learning.

What does it mean to have a Cancer Moon or rising sign?

A Cancer Moon has Cancer feelings and needs (caring, intuitive, guarded). A Cancer rising shows these qualities to other people. Use the birth chart calculator to find yours.