Venus in Cancer: Love Style, Attraction & What You Value

What Venus in Cancer means

You love by caring. Home, family and emotional security come first, and you hold on tightly.

Venus stands for love, beauty, pleasure and what you value. In Cancer it works tenderly and protectively; it works through home, family and feeling.

In love: You love like family. Tenderness and safety attract you; you nurture, you remember, and you need to feel needed.

At a glance

Planet: Venus: love, beauty, pleasure and what you value
Sign: Cancer, water and cardinal, ruled by Moon
Dignity: Peregrine: neither strong nor weak by sign
Time in each sign: about four weeks, up to four months when retrograde

Famous people with Venus in Cancer

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

Donald TrumpPresident of the United States (2017–2021; since 2025)14 June 19464Gemini NapoleonFrench military leader, French Emperor 1804–1814 and again in 181515 August 1769 – 18211Leo Jimmy Walesco-founder of Wikipedia7 August 19661Leo Alexander PushkinRussian poet, playwright, and novelist6 June 1799 – 183711masterGemini Nikola TeslaSerbian-American engineer and inventor10 July 1856 – 19431Cancer Roald AmundsenNorwegian explorer; first person to reach the South Pole16 July 1872 – 19285Cancer George H. W. Bush41st President of the United States12 June 1924 – 20187Gemini Harry S. Trumanpresident of the United States from 1945 to 1953; politician8 May 1884 – 19727Taurus Fidel CastroCuban politician, author and revolutionary13 August 1926 – 20163Leo Benito Mussolinidictator of Italy from 1922 to 194529 July 1883 – 194511masterLeo Ernest HemingwayAmerican author and journalist21 July 1899 – 19611Cancer Lyndon B. Johnsonpresident of the United States from 1963 to 196927 August 1908 – 19738Virgo

Venus in the other signs

Venus in the houses

Other planets in Cancer

Questions and answers

What does Venus in Cancer mean?

You love by caring. Home, family and emotional security come first, and you hold on tightly.

Is Venus strong in Cancer?

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

Enter your birth date in the free Venus sign calculator.

Which famous people have Venus in Cancer?

Donald Trump, Napoleon, Jimmy Wales, Alexander Pushkin, Nikola Tesla, Roald Amundsen, George H. W. Bush, Harry S. Truman