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Neptune in Cancer

Neptune stays about fourteen years in a sign, so this is your generation's shared dream: it idealises things tenderly and protectively; it works through home, family and feeling.

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What Neptune in Cancer means

Neptune stays about fourteen years in a sign, so this is your generation's shared dream: it idealises things tenderly and protectively; it works through home, family and feeling.

Neptune stands for dreams, faith, imagination and illusion. In a personal chart its house, and its contacts with your own planets, say more than its sign.

At a glance

Planet: Neptune: dreams, faith, imagination and illusion
Sign: Cancer, water and cardinal, ruled by Moon
Dignity: Peregrine: neither strong nor weak by sign
Time in each sign: about fourteen years

When Neptune is in Cancer

Everyone born in these months has Neptune in Cancer. The edges can shift by a day with the time zone.

Jul 1901 – May 1916: in and out with its retrograde turns (Jul 1901 – Dec 1901, May 1902 – Sep 1914, Dec 1914 – Jul 1915, Mar 1916 – May 1916)

Famous people with Neptune in Cancer

Only people whose Neptune stayed in Cancer through their whole birth day, wherever they were born.

Ronald Reagan40th President of the United States6 February 1911 – 200420hidden 11Aquarius Salvador DalíSpanish artist11 May 1904 – 19893Taurus Johann Wolfgang von GoetheGerman writer, artist, natural scientist and politician28 August 1749 – 18323Virgo Walt DisneyAmerican animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and entrepren…5 December 1901 – 19661Sagittarius Frida KahloMexican painter6 July 1907 – 19543Cancer Francisco GoyaSpanish painter and printmaker30 March 1746 – 18286Aries Thomas JeffersonFounding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 180913 April 1743 – 18265Aries Alan TuringEnglish computer scientist23 June 1912 – 19546Cancer Akira KurosawaJapanese filmmaker23 March 1910 – 19981Aries Richard Nixonpresident of the United States from 1969 to 19749 January 1913 – 19946Capricorn Jean-Paul SartreFrench existentialist philosopher21 June 1905 – 19806Cancer George OrwellBritish writer and journalist25 June 1903 – 19508Cancer

Neptune in the other signs

Neptune in the houses

Other planets in Cancer

Questions and answers

What does Neptune in Cancer mean?

Neptune stays about fourteen years in a sign, so this is your generation's shared dream: it idealises things tenderly and protectively; it works through home, family and feeling.

Is Neptune strong in Cancer?

Cancer is neither Neptune's own sign nor its exaltation, detriment or fall, so Neptune is peregrine there: neither strong nor weak by sign. It takes on Cancer's style: tenderly and protectively; it works through home, family and feeling.

How do I know if I have Neptune in Cancer?

Everyone born Jul 1901 – May 1916 has Neptune in Cancer. For the exact day, use the free calculator.

Which famous people have Neptune in Cancer?

Ronald Reagan, Salvador Dalí, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Walt Disney, Frida Kahlo, Francisco Goya, Thomas Jefferson, Alan Turing