Cancer Sun, Aquarius Moon

You know four hundred people and you’d help any of them move house. About three of them have seen your actual bedroom.

Warm and a little unusual

Your Sun brings sensitivity, your Moon brings an easy friendliness, and together they tend to impress people with a kind of personal warmth and sincerity. That usually attracts goodwill at work and elsewhere. You like to make a good impression, so you think about what you say and how you say it. You’ve got little patience for pettiness in anyone, including yourself.

Your Moon also cares about people in general: the community garden, the neighborhood group, the friend of a friend who needs a lawyer. It’s an unusually outward-facing way of nurturing.

Close and not too close

You collect people gladly, but you may find it hard to let any one of them in very far. You want attachment and intimacy, and you also want a wide circle of friends who have nothing to do with your partner. In love you can be passionate and a bit zany, devoted and slightly detached, often in the same week.

When it works, you get something rare: emotional fulfillment plus a really stimulating friendship. When it doesn’t, a partner may feel you’ve given your best listening to the group chat. You could also find yourself getting cool and principled at the exact moment you’re most hurt, which can be confusing for everyone, you included.

Saying which one you need

Tell people what mode you’re in. “I need an evening alone with you” and “I need to go and see my friends” are both fair requests, and neither one takes anything away from the other. When you find yourself arguing about principles at midnight, ask whether something’s actually hurting. Often it is. And look for someone who’s secure enough to like your crowd of friends, because they’ll get to come home with the real you.

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