Two placements of the western sky

Cancer Sun, Cancer Moon

Your Sun in Cancer wants to be the person other people come home to, and so does the half of you that has to settle before you can rest.

Your Sun and Moon sit in the same sign, which is less common than it sounds. What you want and what settles you are the same thing — so when it's missing, there's no second system to fall back on.

Sun in Cancer · Moon in Cancer · water on both sides · cardinal on both sides · tropical longitudes, computed rather than looked up

What each half is doing

The Sun in Cancer: The Sun is what you are building a life around. Yours wants to be the person other people come home to — that is the water half of the pair, and it is the half other people describe when they describe you.
The Moon in Cancer: The Moon is what has to be in place before you can rest. Yours needs a door it can close and people behind it — the water half, and the one that rarely makes it into the introduction.

How the two of them move

Both halves open things. You start what you want and you start what settles you, so nothing in your week is waiting to be handed to you — and nothing gets finished by anyone else either.

Element says what the two halves are made of. Mode says how they arrive, and here both of them arrive the same way: cardinal. Whatever this pair does, it does at one speed.

What this page cannot tell you

The Sun holds a sign for about a month, so a birth date settles it. The Moon changes sign roughly every two and a half days, so anyone born near a crossover has to check the hour before trusting the Cancer half of this page. We would rather say that here than let you carry the wrong Moon around.

This is also one sky out of four. The Shaman reads your BaZi day master, the main star of your Purple Star life palace and the star that owns the Thai day you were born into alongside it, and the reading is what happens where those four disagree. Your Moon does not get a vote in that verdict. It changes the weather inside it.

How the four skies are counted

The same Sun, a different Moon

Eleven other people with your Sun and a different thing keeping them steady.

The same Moon, a different Sun

Same thing settles them. They are building something else with it.

Two placements, computed. The reading crosses four skies.

Your birth date and place settle this much for free. The rest needs your hour, and what all four skies add up to — the crossing, and the argument inside it — is the reading.

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