Sun enters Cancer: 4th House Horoscopes for Aries Risings
This month, it's all about uniting your inner and outer worlds through the power of... *checks notes*... love.
Dearest Aries risings, the sun is now in your 4th house of Cancer for the next month. In other words, it’s your 4th house season. Here are some things to think about and look for.
The sun’s ingress to your 4th house may leave you feeling oddly tender and a little bit hungover, like the way you feel the day after you’ve expressed your true feelings to someone. It may be difficult, at this juncture, to differentiate between the felt experiences of solitude and isolation in the body. The resolution to this dissonance may be found in your most immediate surroundings, so don’t feel like you just need to ride it out. There is always a way to alchemize the confusion.
Nostalgia comes up a lot whenever the 4th house is discussed, and especially so when the moon is involved. The connection between the moon and nostalgia is mostly due to the ever-changing nature of human memory and all of the ways your emotional experience of your past shapes what you remember about it.
The house ruled by the moon in a birth chart is usually a dynamic place, meaning it is constantly shifting & taking new shapes based on its container. Your actual, literal home doesn’t need to constantly be in flux in order for this to be true of your 4th house. Your sense of nostalgia may even be of benefit to you, especially if you’ve ever felt like your connection to your past is actually the thing keeping you in flux.
Self-imposed isolation is about blocking out the noise so you can hear your own ideas, before they get filtered through various biases, worldviews, and attachments to routine and the status quo—sometimes you don’t even know you’ve been defending “the way things are” to yourself until you shut off all the external input. This is especially important when you are learning new things, be it a language, a skill, or a magical path. Solitude is what allows the learning process to also include learning new things about yourself as you go, and also why it’s so important not to be too attached to the way things have always been when you’re trying to wrap your mind around a new idea—about yourself or the world.
In 36 Faces, Austin Coppock describes a “hidden reciprocity” in the first decan of Cancer, reflecting on the 2 of Cups card: “Love and need bleed together here.”1 This is a good opportunity to reflect on the emotions of love and need and shame, paying particular attention to where they overlap for you: Are you ashamed of needing the people you love? What were the earliest lessons you remember learning about the acceptability of your own needs? How does your body react when someone else declares that they need you, in ways big or small? How do you identify and cultivate reciprocity in your relationships? In the words of first decan Cancer sun, Ariana Grande: Tell me how good it feels to be needed.
The 4th house is the “bottom” of the chart, but it sometimes makes more sense to think of it as the “core,” specifically in reference to the core of the earth. For one, when planets are in the 4th house of the sky, they are literally on the other side of the planet. If you traveled in a straight line toward them, you’d have to cross through the center of the earth to get there.
Additionally, the core of the earth is the core of all human life and the one thing we all have in common. Everything that exists on our planet, including ourselves, relies upon the molten heart of our planet. As Dane Rudhyar puts it, heartbeats are the most fundamental rhythm.2 The paradox of going deeper into the 4th house, deeper into yourself and your inner worlds, is that you will inevitably touch the core of all humanity at some point. That’s what makes it so overwhelming and simultaneously so vital for heart work. The key to uniting your inner and outer worlds is, ultimately and always, love.
Unity is at the center of the earth, not in the sky.Dane Rudhyar
Love is the most fundamental form of sustenance we have, outside of mother’s milk, when we are first born. As we grow older, our needs and the ways we meet them become more complex and sometimes abstract, such as the need for solitude that doesn’t feel like punishment, but rather nourishment.
The new moon at 14 degrees Cancer on July 5th marks a new chapter, a resetting, or a restart in your 4th house. For more historical context clues, reflect on what was happening in your life (with regard to your home life, the experience of solitude in your body, and how you nourish your own need for love) on previous new & full moons in Cancer.
Other dates you can look on & around for your own personal context & narrative:
January 5, 2015
Full moon at 14 Cancer, Sun separating from a conjunction with Pluto in Capricorn
January 5 1996
Full moon at 14 Cancer, Saturn at 19 Pisces
If you were very young or not even alive yet in 1996, remember that the 4th house is still very much about our parents, so look to what was occurring in your parents’ lives at this time.
