Sun in Cancer, Moon in Leo

You have a great longing for home and a calm, steady family life, and you love your homeland, the place where you were born and grew up. Your goals in life are strongly shaped by the needs of your family.

Behind your active, impulsive side there is a tender core, and you feel things more deeply than people may guess. At times you shut yourself away or step into the background, afraid that someone could hurt you and disturb your rich inner world.

Your influence can work as gentle pressure, drawing on your instinct for what people feel. Yet if your pride, your dignity or your honor are suddenly wounded, you can flare up and even raise your voice, less out of anger than to defend your bright image and show who you are.

Your decisions are always careful, and it matters to you that they never put your safety or your family's at risk. You also weigh the financial side, because material stability means security to you. You carry your decisions out with drive, optimism and full confidence that others will be glad to help you. Your strong intuition helps you a great deal on the way to your goals. You are sensitive, compassionate and romantic. You live through your feelings, and feelings are the very ground of your life. You express your emotions with great intensity, brightly, impulsively and dramatically, wanting to show yourself in all your glory.

You like to rest in a quiet, calm, cozy atmosphere, close to the people you love.

It is good to have water nearby, since it calms you and puts you in a romantic mood. You relax in an atmosphere of warm attention, where you can show all your generosity and kindness. Criticism is hard for you to bear, especially when it is about you personally, and remembering that it touches only a small part of who you are can help. You love children, and you easily find your way to them. At home you like to reign, and you love it when family life revolves around you. Worry and wariness visit you often, at times as a fear with no clear cause. You are cautious about the future, so you like to stock up on whatever you can, especially food. You love inviting guests, cooking for others and hosting parties at home.

You are drawn to luxury, style and abundance, and you try to make sure your home at least has all of it. Flattery reaches you easily, especially when it is about your home and your loved ones. You trust with the openness of a child, which is lovely, and it is worth keeping a little of that trust for people who have earned it.

What you set out to do and what you need inside do not always mix well. Your emotions can be very strong, and flexibility and lightness may not always come easily. In a man's chart, this combination turns him toward home, family, caring and romance, and it often draws him to a partner who is active, kind, generous and expressive and has real presence. In a woman's chart, it can make adapting harder and puts a strong emphasis on expressing her feelings, and she tends to look for a partner who is practical, thrifty, affectionate, gentle and fond of home.