With a North Node in Cancer, you are opening yourself up to understanding your feelings, allowing yourself to be vulnerable, and letting go of control. Individuals with this placement often find themselves in life situations that give them the opportunity to express themselves freely.

You may need to be very empathetic and open to accepting the emotional ups and downs of others and yourself. The point opposite the North Node, your South Node, is in Capricorn. This implies that you are learning to focus less on the goal or end results and draw your attention towards your needs. You are experiencing life from a perspective of vulnerability and therefore may need more time to rest, spend time with family, or wallow in your feelings.

Your soul is being asked to honor the process of your intuition, urging you to develop your internal psychic and empathic response systems. The North Node in Cancer placement is there to give you confidence in creating your own sense of security. Your spiritual journey will feel very personal and subjective.

Frequently the nodes are activated when someone or something comes into our lives, whether this is a person, a new job, or a new environment. Nodes may also be activated when someone or something goes out of one’s life too. Read the descriptions below for an understanding of a Cancer North Node through the natal houses.

North Node Cancer in the 1st House / South Node Capricorn in the 7th House

With a North Node Cancer in the 1st house of individuality, you are pulled to become more empathetic in your approach to life. Engaging life with care and gentleness. Feeling your way through the world. Putting your feelings first. Cancer in the 1st house will ask you to trust your sense impressions and not let other people push their rules on you. Putting personal care into everything you do. Treating everything in your environment as if it were your baby. Becoming aware of how sensitive you are. Showing people how sensitive you are by the way you move, your behavior, your mannerisms, and your physical appearance. Not being afraid to wear your heart on your sleeve. Not letting other people convince you that you need to toughen up. Being vulnerable yet self-protective. Learning just the right amount of self-protection and vulnerability. Reserving the right to open up only when you feel safe. Creating a safe emotional environment for yourself. Learning to cry. Getting in touch with your nurturing side. North Node Cancer in the 1st house will ask you to learn to place yourself in situations where you feel safe enough for emotional intimacy and learning to feel all of your feelings. Linking yourself with a strong, responsible, protective partner who makes you feel safe enough to let your guard down. Letting your partner be the emotionally controlled person in the relationship. Learning to balance the responsibility of a relationship with the need to care for yourself. Learning to be okay with leading a relatively domestic life. Stepping in to take care of a workaholic partner. Developing a softer approach. Letting your softer qualities become apparent to other people. North Node Cancer in the 1st house will also bring more emphasis on your individual identity as someone who cares. Learning to let people know what you need. Becoming less concerned with being an authority on relationships. No longer keeping a stiff upper lip when your heart is breaking.

North Node Cancer in the 2nd House / South Node Capricorn in the 8th House

With a North Node Cancer in the 2nd house, you are reminded to develop priorities centered on caring, nurturing, and kindness. Allowing your priorities to change with your mood. Letting go of hard attitudes toward sex. Releasing the need to take control of other people’s money or property. Letting go of rigidity in intimate relationships. Cultivating a softer attitude toward yourself and being kinder to your body. Releasing the need to be an authority on other people’s business. Developing more softness in your body. Being less calculating in intimate relationships. Valuing your feelings. Cancer in the 2nd house will ask you to use feelings to gauge your value system. Not letting other people’s priorities affect you. Realizing that you value closeness and intimacy. No longer needing to set up so many rules in sex. Letting your body become more receptive. Resisting the urge to turn tough in times of crisis. North Node Cancer in the 2nd house will push you to retain your core values of empathy and sensitivity and become more sensitive to your own survival needs. Emotional closeness is a priority. Making your feeling life a priority. Learning to value emotions. No longer viewing intimate relationships as a means to an end. Learning to trust that what you have to give emotionally is valuable.

North Node Cancer in the 3rd House / South Node Capricorn in the 9th House

With a North Node Cancer in the 3rd house of communication, you are reminded to communicate with sensitivity and become more receptive in conversation. Becoming more receptive to the ideas and feedback of the people in your immediate environment. Developing empathy in your communications. Learning to communicate your needs. Learning to communicate your feelings. Becoming gentler in the way you converse with others. Feeling out the subtleties of conversation. Becoming less concerned with being an authority on the big picture. Spending more time with your private thoughts. Becoming more sensitive to your immediate perceptions. Teaching others with care and kindness. Speaking to people from a gentle place. Cancer in the 3rd house will ask you to become less concerned with the recognizable structures of accepted thought, concepts, and ideas. Letting go of an adherence to disciplined learning. Letting go of an adherence to strict doctrine. Easing up on harsh beliefs and philosophies. Talking about your feelings, your fears, your insecurities, and your needs while maintaining a sense of personal security. Opening up to the right people. North Node Cancer in the 3rd house will push you to become less concerned with rigid meanings and more concerned with truly felt, immediate experiences. Learning through your emotions. Easing up on academic discipline. No longer viewing education as a means to an end. No longer “going to school to get a job.” Nurturing people by feeding their minds.

North Node Cancer in the 4th House / South Node Capricorn in the 10th House

With a North Node Cancer in the 4th house, you are learning to become less driven, and less concerned with your outer public identity. No longer living for your career. Letting your guard down at home. Less caught up in your reputation. Spending more time with your family. Nourishing the private you. Getting in touch with your private emotions. Less concern with worldly power. No longer needing to be seen as being in control. Cancer in the 4th house will push you to admit that you have feelings and emotional needs. Resolving your emotions concerning family members. Getting to know your family at an intimate level. Developing fondness for your roots and heritage. Creating a nest. Showing your family that you care. Sharing your memories – the joyful and the painful. Realizing that outer achievement probably won’t bring emotional fulfillment. Letting the world take care of itself. Spending more time taking care of the people close to you. Letting your knowledge of the cold, hard outer world make the sanctity of your inner circle that much sweeter. North Node Cancer in the 4th house will ask you to let go of the need for an established career and the recognition and status that go along with it. Accepting your inner shyness.

North Node Cancer in the 5th House / South Node Capricorn in the 11th House

With a North Node Cancer in the 5th House of self-expression, you are becoming receptive to the arts and nurturing the artist within. Learning to be gentle with your inner child. Enjoying sentimental family get-togethers. Developing more care and gentleness in your sense of play. Allowing yourself to nurture and care for the children in your life. Developing a refined emotional sensitivity to individual creativity. Becoming less concerned with the rules of groups and organizations. Cancer in the 5th house will pull you to become less concerned with the rules, regulations, and requirements needed to have certain people as friends or to belong to certain organizations or groups. Moving away from rigid societal expectations. Not letting the group determine what the rules of the game are. Not letting people you barely know influence how your express your feelings. Giving in to theatrical displays of emotion. Letting yourself need self-expression. Letting yourself need to take a vacation. Becoming more sensitive to your personal self-expression. No longer becoming hard and unfeeling in group situations. Creating emotionally evocative art, music, dance, or theater. North Node Cancer in the 5th house will ask you to pour feelings into creative projects and admit that you need to have fun. Not getting caught up in strict, overly dutiful, achievement-oriented groups, organizations, causes or long-term plans. Easing up your sense of obligation to causes and groups.

North Node Cancer in the 6th House / South Node Capricorn in the 12th House

With a North Node Cancer in the 6th house, you are learning to let emotional expression become part of your everyday routine. Letting go of the subconscious urge to take over. Letting go of your internal controller. Releasing the ingrained voice of your father. Letting coworkers and employees catch glimpses of your real emotions from time to time. Working in a caring, nurturing environment. Releasing rigid internal structures. No longer sabotaging yourself through lack of emotional expression. Bringing more empathy and sensitivity to your work environment. Making it your job to be sensitive to your work environment. Learning to synchronize your diet with your feelings. Using your emotions as a barometer for your health. Trusting your gut on a daily basis. Cancer in the 6th house will ask you to acknowledge your need for empathy and emotional support in the workplace. Admitting that self-reliance is not always the answer. Becoming less rigid in your spiritual beliefs. North Node Cancer in the 6th house will teach you to not be so hard on yourself inside. Releasing your fears of becoming an authority. Releasing your fear of responsibility. Resisting the urge to escape through work. Resisting the urge to escape by reciting the rules. No longer using the rules as an excuse.

North Node Cancer in the 7th House / South Node Capricorn in the 1st House

With a North Node Cancer in the 7th house, you are pulled to becoming emotionally supportive of your partner. Developing a gentler, kinder approach to partnerships. Releasing an overly dutiful approach to life. Becoming less of a father figure in your relationships. Becoming an emotional equal to your partner. Releasing the need to take control of situations and relationships. Cancer in the 7th house will ask you to create a structured environment where you and your partner feel comfortable sharing your feelings. Releasing the need to structure your significant relationships. Releasing the need to impose your rules on your partner. Taking the time to find out how the significant people in your life really feel. Taking time out from your responsibilities to hug, cuddle and caress your partner. Making time for emotional intimacy in relationships. Letting your partner know you care. Showing your partner how you feel. Understanding that your upstanding reputation has little to do with your personal relationships. Learning to let down your guard with your partner. North Node Cancer in the 7th house will push you to finding a partner who is sensitive to the subtle changes in your feelings – even when you aren’t. Finding a sensitive, nurturing partner. Learning to respect your partner’s feelings instead of demanding they toughen up. Accepting that your partner has emotional needs. Learning to meet your partner’s emotional needs. Becoming less authoritarian in relationships.

North Node Cancer in the 8th House / South Node Capricorn in the 2nd House

With a North Node Cancer in the 8th house, you are urged to continue upholding your personal values while becoming more sympathetic to those of other people. Developing a gentler, kinder approach to other people’s emotional traumas. Admitting that you need emotional intimacy in sex. Finding a partner who makes you feel safe enough to reveal your deepest emotions. Becoming less concerned with useful things. Becoming more concerned with the intimate sharing of deep emotion. Learning to respect other people’s priorities as much as you respect your own. Cancer in the 8th house will ask you to retain your personal integrity yet allowing yourself to dive into emotional complexity. Learning that snuggling can be as good as sex. Controlling lusty body needs as you get to know your partner at a more intimate level. Allowing emotional intimacy to open the way to valuing your body beyond the physical state. Letting go of too many dull and uninspiring priorities. Showing how you feel in intimate situations. Moving past the fear of losing control during deeply shared moments. North Node Cancer in the 8th house will push you to learn to value the experiences that can only be shared in intimacy with another person.

North Node Cancer in the 9th House / South Node Capricorn in the 3rd House

With a North Node Cancer in the 9th house of expansion you are becoming more sensitive to other worldviews, and respecting other people’s sentimental attachments to their beliefs. Developing a kinder, gentler lifestyle. Softening up rigid thought processes. Expanding your mind by embracing a philosophy of caring and empathy. Treating people of foreign cultures and with different beliefs as if they were family. Finding a “family” among people who have different beliefs and customs than you do. Finding a family-like bond among people who share your philosophy of life and lifestyle. Letting go of a repressive mindset. No longer needing to speak like an authority. No longer trying to control the conversation. Cancer in the 9th house will ask you to open your mind to emotional knowledge and understanding and become more sensitive to world events and the bigger picture. Embracing a belief system that feels right. Becoming more comfortable feeling out the truth. Embracing a lifestyle, religion or belief system that honors the feminine and maternal. North Node Cancer in the 9th house will urge you to find meaning in personal emotional expression. Broadening your mind by nurturing another creature. Nurturing others through higher education. Letting go of the unimaginative small mind. Letting go of cold, calculating thoughts. No longer planning your next move in the conversation. Learning to be receptive to foreign viewpoints.

North Node Cancer in the 10th House / South Node Capricorn in the 4th House

With a North Node Cancer in the 10th house of structures and traditions, you are asked to maintain inner integrity while letting your vulnerability peek through. Releasing the need to be so hard on your family. Releasing your unconscious need for control. Letting your family live their own lives. No longer duty-bound to your family, ancestry, personal history, or roots. Moving into a more sensitive outward public expression. Becoming known as someone who is caring, empathetic, and kind. Becoming known for your mothering skills. Cancer in the 10th house urges you to show other people how it’s done – how you can express caring and sensitivity in public but still have integrity and earn respect. Choosing a career that lets you experience your emotional identity. Releasing the innate conservatism that prevents you from intimately interacting with the rest of the world. Legitimizing your emotions. Coming to a point in your life where displaying your emotions in public is acceptable and respectable. Letting empathy and kindness be your ambitions. Making the climb to put your most vulnerable self up for public scrutiny. North Node Cancer in the 10th house will ask you to learn how to protect your emotional life while simultaneously exposing it and making it public. Choosing a career that combines sustainability with achievement. Choosing a career that respects the past. Choosing a career that allows your protective instincts to shine through. Becoming a leader in preservation and protection. Choosing a career in which being a sensitive and caring person is respected rather than frowned upon. Releasing the need to be an authority on your personal roots. Finding a sense of family among people who have similar parental conflicts and issues.

North Node Cancer in the 11th House / South Node Capricorn in the 5th House

With a North Node Cancer in the 11th house of friendships, groups, and society you are retaining your personal artistic integrity while developing intimate relationships within groups and organizations. Showing acquaintances and relative strangers that you care. Learning to bring empathy and sensitivity to group situations. Releasing the need for structured self-expression. Opening up more in group situations. Learning to share your creativity in a gentle and nurturing way. Learning to nurture the groups you belong to as they develop and grow. Easing up on your rules and regulations concerning your own children, or your inner child. Learning how to share your creativity with others in a way that feels non-threatening and inclusive. Cancer in the 11th house will ensure you are choosing which groups and organizations you belong to based on whether or not they “feel” right. Forming a “clan” or “tribe” with the people who share your interests. Experiencing intimacy, fondness, and close ties by sharing your interests within a group. Easing up a bit on your personal creative discipline. Learning not to be so strict with your inner child. North Node Cancer in the 11th house will push you to use your understanding of restrained self-expression to find the right time to make yourself vulnerable in a group.

North Node Cancer in the 12th House / South Node Capricorn in the 6th House

With a North Node Cancer in the 12th house of endings and completions, you are allowing yourself to delve into your emotional fears. Developing a softer approach to spirituality. Learning more about your inner shyness. Beginning to recognize your vulnerability. Beginning to recognize your fear of emotion. Letting go of workaholic tendencies. Releasing the need to be seen as an authority on the job. Easing up on overly structured routines. Cancer in the 12th house asks you to let yourself explore your intuitive psychic side. Recognizing that there is more to life than a job well done. Gauging your spiritual progress by your blossoming emotional expression. Quietly sitting with your feelings. No longer fearing emotional overwhelm. No longer fearing getting lost in tears. Feeling the full range of expression of sorrow and grief. Realizing that you have feelings. Developing more empathy for the sick. Developing more empathy for lost souls. Making more room for intimacy in your life. No longer being on such a strict diet and exercise program. Learning to meditate on your emotions. North Node Cancer in the 12th house will urge you to enter the unknown territory of your emotional landscape and face your insecurities and fears. Facing your fear of motherhood. Facing your fear of being vulnerable. Facing your fear of emotional pain. Facing any sorrow or grief associated with your mother, maternal figures, or other women in your life.

Other North Node Combinations:

North Node in Aries / South Node in Libra

North Node in Taurus / South Node in Scorpio

North Node in Gemini / South Node in Sagittarius

North Node in Leo / South Node in Aquarius

North Node in Virgo / South Node in Pisces

North Node in Libra / South Node in Aries

North Node in Scorpio / South Node in Taurus

North Node in Sagittarius / South Node in Gemini

North Node in Capricorn / South Node in Cancer

North Node in Aquarius / South Node in Leo

North Node in Pisces / South Node in Virgo

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