Cancer Sun, Capricorn Moon

You’re warm with the people at your kitchen table, and quite unsentimental about what it takes to keep that table. Both are forms of love for you.

Stitching two ends together

Cancer and Capricorn are opposite signs, so you came along at about the time of a full Moon. One side of you cares about home and the people in it, the other about achievement and what’s expected of you. Your Sun takes the edge off your Moon’s reserve, so you’re warmer than Capricorn Moons often appear. You tend to have a good instinct for what other people are after, and you can drive a hard bargain while smiling at them.

You’re probably the family’s unofficial head of finance, and maybe also the one everyone calls when they have a problem.

Slow to blossom

You do best in a secure partnership with room for affection and building a home. You’re romantic, in your careful way, but fast and highly charged relationships aren’t what you’re looking for. You need time and trust to open up, and peace and quiet to get to know someone.

The difficulty is that your Moon may tell you that feelings have to be earned, or that being needy is a failure. You might work long hours for your family and miss the actual family. You could feel an enormous amount and show someone only a neat list of what you’ve done for them. A partner might be fully provided for and still feel lonely.

Being there as well as providing

Look at the calendar now and then, and see whether the people you’re working for are getting any of your time. Tell someone when you’re frightened, even if you’ve got a plan. Especially if you’ve got a plan. It’s not a weakness, and they’ll almost always be relieved. Give yourself rest before you’ve finished everything, since that day may not come. And let somebody else carry the worry for an evening. You can have it back in the morning.

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