Sun in Cancer in the Tenth House

Having your Sun in Cancer, you may appear gentle, kind, sympathetic, and a patient listener. Then someone asks for advice, and you turn cranky, snappish, and appear to be completely indifferent to anyone’s problems but your own. You may wallow in self-pity and complain endlessly about how mistreated you are by the world. Turn another page of the calendar and suddenly you are back to being helpful, solicitous, and ready to do anything asked of you. More than any other sign, Cancer is a series of contradictions. With your Sun in Cancer, you prize security above all else, yet love new adventure. You are the soul of caution but you’re also a courageous initiator who goes out of your way to push over obstacles with your driving personality.

Complex, fragile, unpredictable, temperamental, the typical Sun in Cancer individual needs constant support and encouragement. You want desperately to be loved and approved of but resent needing approval so badly. Cancer’s big lesson is to recognize the hidden anger you carry within you and not allow this to corrode the relationships that give you the emotional support you seek. Happily, when you get what you need, you give the best you have in return. Those who make you feel secure command your undying loyalty. With your Sun in Cancer, when you really care for someone there is nothing anyone can say about that person that will make the least bit of difference. You have a real blind spot when it comes to seeing a failing in those you love.

With your Sun in Cancer, you tend to be a worrier and a silent brooder. People may pour out their hearts to you, but the flow never goes in the other direction. You are cautious about revealing too much of yourself; you guard your secrets well. If offended, you do not strike back directly. Your method of retaliation is to sulk, and it is often very effective.

Having your Sun in Cancer, beneath your tough exterior you are a sentimental softie who will make any sacrifice for someone in need. If someone asks for a favor, your first reaction will probably be no, but the final answer is always yes. With your Sun in Cancer, you should be judged not by what you say but by what you do. You are possessive. Anyone who becomes part of your life will never again be entirely free.

For the individual with their Sun in Cancer, once you overcome your shyness and touchiness and master your turbulent emotions, your intellect and imagination enable you to become a success in almost anything you undertake. You have the ability to dig into your own inner life and turn creativity into practical ideas. Contrary to the impression you often give, you can be shrewd and canny in business. Cautious, conservative in your approach, you possess an antenna that quickly gauges public taste and opinion and senses new trends in the making. You’re also an on-the-mark judge of people. With your Sun in Cancer, this instinct for business combined with imagination is magical for acquiring financial security, and Cancer is called a “money sign” because of its ability to attract wealth. Cancer people hold on to money as tenaciously as they do to everything that belongs to them. To you money spells security, yet no matter how much wealth you accumulate you never feel really secure. That is true of your emotional security also.

The Inner You with your Sun in Cancer

With your Sun in Cancer, on the surface you’re the picture of calm and strength, but underneath you tend to feel insecure and inadequate. You are positive that other people know what they’re doing while you’re just winging it. Harmony is important to you—any kind of conflict or quarrel leaves you feeling depressed. However, you’re definitely not wishy-washy; you have the courage of your convictions and the strength to stick up for what you think is right. You don’t welcome change, and are hesitant about going ahead with something untried, yet this doesn’t stop you from doing what has to be done.

The sign position of the Sun indicates how we seek to express ourselves, develop ourselves, fulfill ourselves, and assert our will and power to shape our environment. The house position indicates the area of life in which we choose to focus the energy of our Sun sign and fulfill the purpose which it represents.

Sun in the 10th House

With your Sun in the 10th House, you are likely to be motivated toward achievement and accomplishment. Much of your identity comes from your career or from other ways in which you find success, acquire status, or accomplish your goals. Generally, involvement in areas of life that are public in nature, such as career, leadership, politics or public involvement will be important for you. If your fate does not allow you to participate much in public life, you may either identify with someone who fulfills that role. Alternatively, you may harbor latent desires to have a more public life. You may resent being confined to a more private role where opportunities for achievement and success are limited.

As an individual with your Sun in the 10th House, you may feel some pressure to succeed, since your sense of being and self-worth is likely to be related to your achievements, recognition and success in the world. You are, therefore, more likely to work hard and be goal-oriented. You are also more likely to work within structures that support your quest for measureable success in life. Appreciation and positive feedback for the work that you have accomplished may be important in building and maintaining your self-esteem. You are also more likely than most to have clear goals and to take the initiative to accomplish those goals.

With your Sun in the 10th House, one issue that you may face involves the extent to which you take your self-worth from external accomplishments and recognition. It may be a struggle for you to feel a sense of being that is not derived from your career and or the recognition that you receive from your achievements. Because so much of your self-esteem depends on your success and status, you can suffer from self-induced stress that results from your overly ambitious expectations.

Insecurities

Having your Sun in the 10th House, if you are inwardly insecure, you will feel that you must accomplish and succeed or you are worthless. Since your self-worth is solely determined by what is external to yourself and beyond your control, you can never feel secure in your worthiness. Consequently, no success is enough and you push yourself until you are stressed and hollow inside. You may be outwardly successful but you are never secure internally. You use your success as a shield and a prop to substitute for your own authenticity. Another manifestation of your insecurity with your Sun in the 10th House, is that you may be so intimidated by the need to succeed that you cannot ever see yourself measuring up to that standard and you fail constantly. Your low self-esteem and lack of confidence perpetuate this cycle of failure. You may continue trying, always stressed and anxious, or you may give up in frustration.

Focus of Identity

As an individual with your Sun in the 10th House, you tend to identify with what you have accomplished and with your successes in life. Unless you have transcended your need to succeed, you probably believe that you are what you have achieved. Your identity is also defined by what you do to achieve success. If you have achieved much, you will tend to have a high opinion of yourself. If you have achieved little, you may see yourself as a lesser player in the scheme of things. However, you may console yourself by seeing yourself as having performed a job well done. Having your Sun in the 10th House, it is likely to be a struggle for you to extract your identity from the limitations of your external accomplishments and the view that the world takes of these accomplishments. The tendency to identify who we are with what we do in society is already a strongly conditioned perspective. It is one that you will almost automatically share with most others in society and it is a tendency that you will have to overcome if you are to develop a whole and authentic identity.

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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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