Moon in Cancer in the Tenth House

The Moon is in its natural home in Cancer, for this is the sign that the Moon rules. Here the best qualities of the Moon – devotion, patience, sensitivity—are brought out. The romantic, intuitive sign of Cancer and the sensuous, receptive Moon are in harmony with each other. If you have your Moon in Cancer you have strong emotions and perceive the world around you through your feelings rather than your intellect. However, because you do not openly show your feelings, it is sometimes difficult for others to figure out where they stand with you. In general, with your Moon in Cancer, you are more receptive than active. You store away impressions, reactions, and information until the time comes when you can use them. Moon in Cancer individuals often excel in an artistic or literary way. Imaginative and creative, you work best when you set your own pace and are not subject to the tyranny of time clocks.

With a Moon in Cancer, any impression that sinks into your mind makes an indelible mark. You have an extremely retentive memory. Moon in Cancer individuals are often found in professions where memory plays an important role: historians, teachers, actors, writers.

Having your Moon in Cancer, at heart, you are refined, delicate, and gentle. You may appear to be aggressive and forceful, especially if your Sun or Mars is in a fire sign (Aries, Leo, Sagittarius), but underneath you are vulnerable and easily hurt. With your Moon in Cancer, you tend to let your feelings fester, and indeed, touchiness, moodiness, and a kind of quiet self-pity always lie near the surface. Though you are subject to greater mood swings than other Moon signs, your ups and downs don’t last long. If you are left alone for a while, the dark clouds will soon blow away. One of the most striking characteristics of Cancer is the continual ebb and flow of emotions, which combined with the waxing and waning influence of the Moon produces quick shifts in temperament and at times makes you emotionally exhausted.

As an individual with your Moon in Cancer, you are at your best in a deep and committed love relationship. Unfortunately, you often have to go through an unhappy love affair before you find the contentment and security you seek. Even though you are motivated strongly by your feelings, in a curious way you are also afraid of them. With your Moon in Cancer, it is your nature to mistrust love, to feel you are somehow unworthy of someone else’s devotion. You will hold on too long to a relationship that’s destructive because deep in your psyche you don’t believe you’ll ever find another love. You also believe that to be alone is a fate worse than death. Very often early in life a Moon in Cancer individual must go through an emotional trial. But when at last you find love that feeds your soul and you feel secure, your personality blossoms.

Having your Moon in Cancer, you have a tendency to hold on possessively to a loved one, and a knack for subtly instilling guilt in someone you love, usually to test the person’s depth of feeling. However, among your most endearing traits are intense loyalty and dedication.

The sign position of the Moon describes how we habitually respond to other people and to the circumstances of our lives, as well as how we experience our emotions and seek emotional fulfillment. Its house position corresponds to the area of life in which we operate most unconsciously, according to past patterns and instinctive responses.

Moon in the 10th House:

The Moon in the 10th House indicates that you have a strong drive to succeed and also indicates the importance of a career in your life. The Moon in the 10th House placement suggests a number of strengths. It may be easy for you to develop habits that lead to success and accomplishment. Accomplishment and being goal oriented tend to be second nature to you. With your Moon in the 10th House, you may seem naturally capable of intense focus and a drive to accomplish tasks. Your ambition is likely to be generated from a deep place, responding to subconscious motivation and colored by emotional attachment. This often results in a determination to succeed.

With your Moon in the 10th House, you are also capable of bringing a sense of caring and concern into your career. You may have a career that provides an outlet for your desire to protect and nurture others. Another manifestation of the Moon in the 10th House placement is that your career path and the steps that you take to achieve success and accomplish your goals often seem instinctively guided. You may possess a very sure intuition when it comes to matters of success in life. Having your Moon in the 10th House, your emotional attachment and drive toward successful outcomes can be an important factor in your being able to achieve a high level of success.

However, with the Moon in the 10th House, the Moon is opposed to the house which it rules (the 4th House), this shows an opportunity for tension and stress to be present. You may be driven and emotionally attached to success, but the “natural” role for the emotions is that  of nurturing and involvement in private, not public, life. Therefore, having your Moon in the 10th House, you may experience some conflicted emotions, guilt over neglecting your family and domestic matters, or feelings that you are missing something with respect to your emotional life. While you may possess a visceral drive to succeed, you may still be intimidated by public life, seeking protection from its uncertainties and harshness. If you give into these feelings, you may not be as successful as you want to be.

Insecurities

As an individual with your Moon in the 10th House, if you are inwardly insecure, you may feel so driven to succeed, particularly due to the conditioning and expectations that you received as a child, that you feel  that you can never live up to these expectations or be successful enough. As a result, you are never content and you are constantly under self-produced stress generated by worry and anxiety over whether you will achieve success and meet your goals.

Having your Moon in the 10th House, you are likely to experience stress especially at the emotional level. Stomach problems or other problems with your digestive system may result from too much stress. You seem to have no time for family or for experiencing the world emotionally, except as stress. You may also experience guilt and conflict as a result of your neglecting family due to your involvement with your career.

You may try to suppress these emotions of guilt. However, this often results in all of your emotions being suppressed. With your Moon in the 10th House, you may, therefore, appear cold and only concerned with your career and ambitions. Your inner conflict between career and family responsibilities, however, is likely to reduce your effectiveness in pursuing your goals.

Focus of Emotional Development

As an individual with your Moon in the 10th House, your early emotional development is likely to be shaped by your reaction to the expectations of others with regard to your achievements and accomplishments. You may continue to rely on emotional “strokes” that you receive from achieving successful outcomes. Regardless, events in your career and your experience and reaction to your attempts to achieve andmeet your goals are likely to play a role in your further emotional development. Also, it is possible that, if you focus on your emotional development, you could treat this as a task or goal to be accomplished.

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Article referenced from:

• Gargatholil, Depth Astrology: An Astrological Handbook – Volume 2: Planets in Signs

• Gargatholil, Depth Astrology: An Astrological Handbook – Volume 3: Planets in Houses

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