Famous Cancer Risings
Cancer rising is the first impression of softness with a shell around it: gentle, watchful and private. Famous Cancer risings include Angelina Jolie, Cher, Salvador Dalí and Joni Mitchell.
The Rising sign, or Ascendant, is the sign that was coming up over the eastern horizon at the moment of birth. It describes how a person meets the world and how the world first sees them. Cancer rising, ruled by the Moon, gives a manner that is sensitive, protective and slow to reveal itself.
The Rising sign changes about every two hours, so it can only be known with a birth time. This page shows only charts with a time on record, rated AA or A.
The charts
What Cancer Rising means: the guide
What these four share
Each of them is famous, and each has kept a private world apart from the fame. Angelina Jolie has Venus right beside her Cancer Ascendant: beauty on show, and a very guarded inner life. Cher has worn costume after costume for six decades and kept her own feelings close. Salvador Dalí painted the coast and the dreams of his childhood, and Joni Mitchell turned private feeling into songs. For more on this placement, read the full Cancer Rising guide.
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