Cancer rising symbolizes that you react from your emotions in encountering people, taking things personally that may not have been meant that way.  It would be helpful to build in some objectivity in this regard.  You're extremely sympathetic, passive and receptive, responding to everything through the feelings.  This makes you moody, going up and down like the tides.  When upset, you have a tendency to indigestion.  You're sensitive to the point of being psychic, and retreat when threatened.  You need the security of a "home base" from which you can conduct your outer activities and sally forth to meet the world.  The degree of creativity or insecurity in your self-expression can be a direct result of the success or failure of having established this home base.  You like to nurture others and include them within your protective envelope.  If the Moon is angular, you'll probably be involved with the public in some way.  The house your Moon is in shows experiences necessary in developing self-awareness and your expression as an individual.  The Moon's sign and aspects will indicate your ease or difficulty in doing so.

Famous people with Cancer rising are/were Ben Affleck, Lauren Bacall, Max Baer, George Balanchine, Tyra Banks, Richard Benjamin, Polly Bergen, Karen Black, William Blake, Richard Boone, Jorge Luis Borges, Kenneth Branagh, David Brinkley, Benjamin Britten, Davi Brubeck, Lord Byron, Cher, Eldridge Cleaver, Tony Curtis, Salvidor Dali, Robert De Niro, Cameron Diaz, Albert Einstein, Farrah FAwcett, David Frost, Annette Funicello, Eva Gabor, Judy Garland, Bill Gates, Mel Gibson, Merv Griffin, Jim Henson, Glenda Jackson, Peter Jennings, Billy Joel, Angelina Jolie, Mila Jovovich, Klaus Kinski, Lisa Kudrow, Hedy Lamar, Lorenzo Lamas, Jerry Lewis, Anna Magnani, Henry Mancini, Jayne Mansfield, Guglielmo Marconi, Marie Antoinette, Johnny Msthis, Ed McMahon, Robert McNamara, Steve McQueen, Carmen Miranda, Joni Mitchell, Oliver North, Ryan O'Neal, Sam Peckinpah, Joe Piscopo, Ram Dass, Molly Ringwald, Julia Roberts, Charlie Rose, Jane Russell, Kurt Russell, Mort Sahl, Arnold Schwarzenegger, George C. Scott, Al Sharpton, Steven Spielberg, Robert Stack, Lily Tomlin, John Travolta, Peter Ustinov, Vincent Van Gogh, George Wallace, Dennis Weaver, Peter Weller and Jonathon Winters.

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