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Pluto in Cancer

Pluto stays twelve to thirty years in a sign, so this marks your generation's deep transformation: it remakes things tenderly and protectively; it works through home, family and feeling.

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What Pluto in Cancer means

Pluto stays twelve to thirty years in a sign, so this marks your generation's deep transformation: it remakes things tenderly and protectively; it works through home, family and feeling.

Pluto stands for power, depth, endings and rebirth. In a personal chart its house, and its contacts with your own planets, say more than its sign.

At a glance

Planet: Pluto: power, depth, endings and rebirth
Sign: Cancer, water and cardinal, ruled by Moon
Dignity: Peregrine: neither strong nor weak by sign
Time in each sign: twelve to thirty years

When Pluto is in Cancer

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

Sep 1912 – Jun 1939: in and out with its retrograde turns (Sep 1912 – Oct 1912, Jul 1913 – Dec 1913, May 1914 – Oct 1937, Nov 1937 – Aug 1938, Feb 1939 – Jun 1939)

Famous people with Pluto in Cancer

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

Nelson MandelaPresident of South Africa and anti-apartheid activist18 July 1918 – 20138Cancer Johann Sebastian BachGerman composer31 March 1685 – 17509Aries Elizabeth IIQueen of the United Kingdom from 1952 to 202221 April 1926 – 20227Taurus Marilyn MonroeAmerican actress and model1 June 1926 – 19627Gemini Elvis PresleyAmerican singer and actor8 January 1935 – 19779Capricorn Martin Luther King Jr.American Baptist minister and civil rights leader15 January 1929 – 19681Capricorn Pope Francis266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 202517 December 1936 – 20253Sagittarius John F. Kennedypresident of the United States from 1961 to 196329 May 1917 – 19637Gemini Yuri GagarinSoviet pilot and cosmonaut, first human in space9 March 1934 – 196811masterPisces Che GuevaraArgentine Marxist revolutionary14 June 1928 – 19674Gemini Neil ArmstrongAmerican astronaut and lunar explorer5 August 1930 – 20128Leo Gabriel García MárquezColombian writer and Nobel laureate6 March 1927 – 20141Pisces

Pluto in the other signs

Pluto in the houses

Other planets in Cancer

Questions and answers

What does Pluto in Cancer mean?

Pluto stays twelve to thirty years in a sign, so this marks your generation's deep transformation: it remakes things tenderly and protectively; it works through home, family and feeling.

Is Pluto strong in Cancer?

Cancer is neither Pluto's own sign nor its exaltation, detriment or fall, so Pluto 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 Pluto in Cancer?

Everyone born Sep 1912 – Jun 1939 has Pluto in Cancer. For the exact day, use the free calculator.

Which famous people have Pluto in Cancer?

Nelson Mandela, Johann Sebastian Bach, Elizabeth II, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Martin Luther King Jr., Pope Francis, John F. Kennedy