☉︎ Sun in ♋︎ Cancer
With the Sun in Cancer, the core self takes on a feeling, instinctive, tidal key. Being cardinal, it wants to start things and set them moving.
Cancer is the cardinal water sign, ruled by the Moon. Its keynote is protection, memory, the tides of feeling. Placed here, Sun (identity and vitality) takes on that colouring, so read the two together on the Cancer arc of the wheel.
In Cancer, expect selfhood, confidence, and creative vitality to feel deep and receptive and distinctly initiating. The planet keeps its nature; the sign sets the style.
Well integrated, it looks like a steady, generous sense of who you are in a Cancer register; strained, it slides toward pride that has to be the center.
When Sun is in Cancer
Sun next enters Cancer around 21 June 2027, staying until about 23 July 2027.
It returns to Cancer around 20 June 2028 (through about 22 July 2028).
It returns to Cancer around 21 June 2029 (through about 22 July 2029).
Dates computed from the ephemeris (UTC), not copied from a table.
Sun’s aspects today
| Sun sextile Mars | orb 3.4° |
| Sun square Uranus | orb 7.0° |
| Sun conjunction Mercury | orb 7.8° |
Sun through the other signs
- ♈︎ Aries
- ♉︎ Taurus
- ♊︎ Gemini
- ♌︎ Leo
- ♍︎ Virgo
- ♎︎ Libra
- ♏︎ Scorpio
- ♐︎ Sagittarius
- ♑︎ Capricorn
- ♒︎ Aquarius
- ♓︎ Pisces
Tradition and interpretation, not prediction. See Sun or the sign of Cancer.