Pluto in Cancer

Pluto in Cancer is mostly concerned with domestic matters, often highlighting childhood traumas and deep-seated memories.

If you're a parent, this placement gives you the opportunity to notice how your childhood experiences can be reflected in your parenting skills and what you're passing on to your own children. If not, your job here is to dissect how your childhood fears hold you back today. This placement pushes us to redefine our sense of security and what feels like "home." This can bring up some degree of trauma but letting go of the past is the only way of moving into the future.

Pluto in Cancer: Significance & Meaning

Element And Modality: Water & Cardinal

Positive keywords for Pluto in Cancer:

• Communitarian
• Dutiful
• Giving
• Healing
• Warm

Negative keywords for Pluto in Cancer:

• Insecure
• Insular
• Possessive
• Suspicious
• Uneasy

Pluto in Cancer Personality

Imagine the fury of a mother bear upon some risk to her cubs. This is the core of Pluto in Cancer energy. The Crab's claws are supersized with Pluto, creating a fiercely protective individual. Their home, family, and even country are their most prized possessions. The last Cancer Pluto generation came into the world in the midst of one of the most politically fraught times in modern times: World War I and II, so a certain nationalism or attachment to "home" isn't uncommon with this cohort.

Cancer Pluto loves hard. These individuals feel that love is one of the few things worth doing in the world. However, don't expect grand displays of affection with this placement. Overall, they are a private bunch who are truly most at home in their homes.

Positive Traits

Pluto in Cancer possesses a surprising amount of drive. Because Cancer Pluto is so intensely stability-motivated, they're willing to work an inordinate number of hours to reach that goal. Though they're just as or even more sensitive than the average Cancer placement, Pluto grants Cancer a little more shelter from their emotional storms, so their sensitivity may not be as overt as the average Cancer placement.

At the same time, Pluto's influence adds considerable turbulence to their inner emotional storms. However, this same unrest creates an impossibly deep capacity for understanding.

Negative Traits

Pluto in Cancer fears (and perhaps experiences) threats to their security. They're apt to hold on so tightly that they crush the object of their affection or concern. Fueled by Pluto, Cancer's softer manipulation tactics harden, resulting in a veritable control freak. Paired with a formidable capacity for emotional explosions, those for whom this placement figures prominently can be downright terrifying when upset.

Additionally, due to Cancer Pluto's attachment to the concept of home, these individuals can veer into the realm of tribalism, creating a veritable "us vs. them" mentality.

Conclusion

If any Pluto placement could be pegged as a protector, it is Pluto in Cancer. In fact, contrary to the common Cancer stereotype, they can be quite aggressive when they feel that their own or their loved ones' security is in danger. However, this fixation on stability combined with their contradictory attachment to the past—particularly given Pluto's association with transformation—can make for a fraught relationship with change.

Transformations can trigger their need for control, and these Plutonian Crabs can be quite contrary when they're forced out of their comfort zones. Still, at the core of these sometimes moody individuals is a lover with a heart of gold.