ALMUTEMVenus in Cancer
Venus represents what you love, what gives you pleasure and the things you value. In Cancer, it expresses itself with sensitivity and a wish to look after your own.
In Cancer — cardinal water ruled by the Moon — Venus is peregrine, without dignity belonging to it, and takes the nature of the Moon that governs here. Affection becomes moist upon moist, tender and maternal, bound to memory, to the home and to the lap. It inclines to a protective and sentimental love, that loves by nurturing and clings to the nest; the desire of union seeks shelter, belonging and the sweetness of home. It gives affections changeable as the tides, easily moved, given to longing and to family attachment. The concord here harmonises by care, sweetens by tenderness, but draws back at the first cold and closes into the shell. It tends to a soft and lunar beauty, of gentle features. The danger is dependence: pleasure is drenched with emotion, and what ought to unite grips too tightly, hostage to the dread of losing what it loves.