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Venus in Cancer

Venus in Cancer is where Venus sat in the zodiac at the moment of birth, the part of a chart read for how you love and what you find beautiful. Venus stays in a sign for three to five weeks, up to four months around a retrograde. Cancer is a cardinal water sign.

Of the 6,194 well-known people in StarMap's dataset, 455 have Venus in Cancer for the whole of their birth date. Donald Trump, Jimmy Wales and Fidel Castro are among them. Their commonest Sun signs are Gemini (141), Leo (124) and Cancer (107). 42 more were born on a day Venus moved into or out of Cancer and are left out, because the hour decides and StarMap has no birth time for them.

Donald Trump and Jimmy Wales both have Venus in Cancer.Is your Venus in Cancer?Find out with the free Venus sign calculator

What Venus in Cancer means

Read for how you love and what you find beautiful. If this is your placement:

You love by nurturing, and you value emotional safety over almost anything else in a relationship. Old hurts stay with you long after the person who caused them has changed. You feed people, check on people and quietly keep score of who has shown up for you.

One placement is one part of a chart; the Sun, the Moon, the rising sign and the planets around them change how it plays out. Draw your whole chart to see the rest.

Famous people with Venus in Cancer

All 455 people with Venus in Cancer, A to Z

Venus in Cancer, from last year to two years ahead

  • 19 May 2026 to 13 June 2026
  • 3 July 2027 to 27 July 2027
  • 7 August 2028 to 5 September 2028

Dates are UTC. A retrograde close to the sign boundary shows as two stays a few weeks apart; born between them, Venus was back in the sign before.

Questions people ask

How do I know if I have Venus in Cancer?

From your birth date: the Venus sign calculator works it out from the real sky. Venus stays in a sign for three to five weeks, up to four months around a retrograde, so most birth dates settle it; on a day it changed sign, the time decides.

Which famous people have Venus in Cancer?

Donald Trump, Jimmy Wales, Fidel Castro, George H. W. Bush and Angelina Jolie all have Venus in Cancer. StarMap's dataset of 6,194 well-known people has 455 with it for the whole of their birth date, each with a birth chart.

When is Venus next in Cancer?

Venus enters Cancer on 3 July 2027 and leaves on 27 July 2027. It was last there from 19 May 2026 until 13 June 2026.

More of Cancer

Positions are computed from each person’s birth date and place with the astronomy-engine ephemeris, checked against Swiss Ephemeris. Birth data comes from Wikidata; a placement is listed only when it holds for the whole birth date, and a rising sign only with a birth time Astro-Databank records. Readings describe tendencies, for entertainment and self-reflection; StarMap predicts nothing. Every planet in every sign.

Photo credits (48 photos from Wikimedia Commons)

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