Venus is known as the planet of love, and its position in your natal chart can tell you a lot about your approach to love and relationships. It also relates to how you value things in the material world and how you feel about your appearance.
If you are born under Venus in Cancer, you are very sensitive when it comes to love. You are very much in tune with the feelings of your partner and tend to take the small things personally. Your default approach to caring is to take on the role of a caregiver.
In the material world, you are more focused on attachments and things. But having a recognized and steady place within a group is very important to you. You tend not to be able to see how beautiful you are and often underestimate yourself.
Venus Transit & Retrograde Through Cancer
While the position of Venus in our natal chart affects us on an individual level, Venus’ continual transit through the signs impacts us all as it dictates the kind of “love energy that is in the air”.
When Venus transits through Cancer, you can expect to be extra sensitive in relationships and perhaps have a tendency to read too much into things. But this also tends to be a good time to make long-term commitments towards building a home and a family with someone else.
Thankfully, Venus does not retrograde through Cancer often and will not do so for at least another ten years. Considering its disruptive power over the heart, it is good that Venus only retrogrades every 18 months.
Whenever Venus retrogrades, we all tend to misstep when it comes to love. When this is combined with the energy of Cancer, you might find yourself feeling burdened by the obligations of relationships and family and needing to escape.
Venus in Cancer Love & Compatibility
When you are born under Venus in Cancer, you are looking for more than a lover; you want a partner with whom you can build a life. You are empathetic, but also highly sensitive, and often find yourself emotionally overreacting to things in your relationship.
You are so attentive to the feelings and the needs of your partner that you tend to know exactly what they want without them having to say anything. Your default way of showing that you care is also to take on the role of caregiver, and to do nice or helpful things for the other person.
But you are incredibly sensitive, and even small things hurt. This can be problematic if you have a partner who is not careful with their words and actions. You may find yourself on an emotional rollercoaster, feeling on top of the world one minute and low the rest.
In the bedroom, you can be more concerned about pleasing your partner than fulfilling your own needs. This can be frustrating as you are a deeply sensual person. When you do find someone who can fulfil you sexually, you often find new confidence.
Venus in Cancer Compatibility
Venus in Cancer is most compatible with Venus in Taurus, who are sensitive to their feelings and generous in their affections. They also suit Venus in Libra, who will appreciate the home that Cancer wants to build for them.
Venus in Cancer Material Values
If you are born under Venus in Cancer, beyond having a comfortable home, you aren’t very concerned about material things. Home matters because it is the place where you welcome and care for the people that you love.
But having a community around you, and having an established place within that community, are both very important to you. While you don’t necessarily need to be high status, you need to feel like you belong and you contribute.
Venus in Cancer Appearance & Self-Esteem
When you are born under Venus in Cancer, you tend to have relatively low self-esteem in terms of your looks. You tend to think that you aren’t that attractive and underestimate what other people might see in you.
This doesn’t undermine your overall self-esteem, as you don’t value yourself on the basis of your looks. You value yourself on the basis of who cares about you and how you can help the people that you love.
Finding a partner that you can trust and who speaks to your sensual side can give you a major confidence boost when it comes to your appearance.
Venus in Cancer Personality Traits
When you are born with Venus in Cancer, you hold your people fiercely close and can be loyal to a fault. You give excessively of yourself to nourish others, which is often rewarding, but sometimes means your forget about your own needs.
Clannish
When you are born under Venus in Cancer, you innately know that it is the people that you are closest to that define you. That said, you would never cast someone out of your clan, even if you can see that they are damaging you in some way.
Also, you care so much about the people close to you that you can unwittingly be exclusive. You can have a tendency to develop and “us and them” mentality and want to protect your “us” from “them”.
Nourishing
You tend to believe in the importance of nourishing yourself and others. This often results in an interest in things such as cooking and nutrition, yoga and meditation, and other types of self-care. You understand the difference that this can make.
When you are wrapped up with helping someone else, you can sometimes forget to take the time you need to care for yourself. But when you do remember, you innately know what you need physically and emotionally.
Family-Oriented
Your family and your roots are very important to you. In your opinion, people are defined by where they come from, and you can’t escape your past of your family. And you don’t want to. You are someone who wants to feel connected to your past.
This can manifest in an interest in history, especially from parts of the world with which you are connected. But your historic interest is not limited to this; you find nostalgia and the way that people used to live in what you might consider “simpler times” compelling.
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