Uranus in Cancer

Like Taurus, Uranus can be a stressful counterpoint to sensitive Cancer.

The energy of the Crab is all about safety and sentimentality, while Uranus can be calculating and unemotional. This can make for uncomfortable tension, as it can highlight childhood wounds and trauma. If you have Uranus in Cancer in your chart, it may manifest as being flighty or having difficulty with commitment. When Uranus is in Cancer, it can be difficult to regulate emotions with the intense tension between feeling things strongly and wanting to be logical. Therefore, the key to living with this placement is self-awareness and balance.

Uranus in Cancer: Significance & Meaning

Element And Modality: Water & Cardinal

Positive keywords for Uranus in Cancer:

• Emotive
• Imaginative
• Intuitive
• Receptive
• Warm

Negative keywords for Uranus in Cancer:

• Defiant
• Hypersensitive
• Irrational
• Moody
• Uneasy

Uranus in Cancer Personality

Uranus in Cancer has major black sheep energy. They're the kid who breaks from the family business and makes their own way in the world. Naturally, they later return richer and more confident, finally the apple of their family's eyes. Despite Uranus' disturbing influence, they can't help but be family-oriented individuals. Still, standard notions of family and family life don't satisfy these people.

The nuclear family is thrown to the wind with this placement in favor of novel ideas of what a household should look like. Perhaps it's a group of friends communally raising children or even no children at all. Cancer Uranus is willing to give all situations a chance. After all, their affection must go somewhere. In addition to their big hearts, these folks have big intuitions. However, on account of their fluctuating confidence, they may or may not listen to them.

Positive Traits

Though more independent than the average Cancer placement, Uranus in Cancer remains incredibly caring. Community and domestic concerns are near and dear to their hearts. Their loved ones mean the world to them, though their circle may be a little on the smaller side.

Though they're best known for their sensitivity and empathetic capacities, Cancer Uranus is also fairly creative. Natural dreamers, they slip from reverie to reverie. Moreover, the positive side of Uranus makes it so that they're less attached to their homes and more willing to explore their community and world than the average Cancer placement.

Negative Traits

Uranus in Cancer makes one a sponge to the world's happenings. Combined with their natural emotionality, those with their Uranus in Cancer can be veritable emotional fireworks, exploding seemingly at random. When they're unable to cope with their feelings, especially those provoked by their relationships, they have a tendency to run.

With extreme Uranus at the helm of so emotional a ship, those with a particularly strong Cancer Uranus can come across as erratic, straining their close—romantic and platonic—relationships. In this way, they risk alienating the ones who care for them most with the stress of it all.

Conclusion

Those born with Uranus in Cancer have the strange condition of being both unstable and reliable. On the one hand, they do truly care for their loved ones. However, with such raw sensitivity, they're at the whims of their changing moods. As alien as their emotional landscapes can seem from outside, those with their Uranus in Cancer value their loved ones and do mean well. The inclement emotional weather just complicates its expression.

Beyond their feelings, their quirky nature can make them a source of truly novel ideas that could change the world—provided, of course, that they overcome their self-confidence struggles.