What Uranus in Cancer means
Cancer starts things by feeding or sheltering someone, and Uranus walks out the door. Home, under this pairing, gets chosen again every few years: the household changes shape, and an old phone number is dropped and then missed.
Moods are the fast part. Cancer already moves with the tide, and Uranus adds shifts with no visible cause: a calm Sunday turns into a sudden need to be alone, or to call a sister you have not spoken to in a year. Feelings arrive before the explanations for them, and the same speed gives the placement its inventiveness, in new ways to look after a parent or a household built around friends.
Timing is the overlooked half of this placement. Transiting Uranus reaches the sign opposite its birth position about halfway through its trip around the chart, which here means Capricorn, and that opposition is a common midlife marker in astrology. The Capricorn stay runs from February 15, 1988 to January 11, 1996 in our table, with a loop back into Sagittarius from May 27 to December 2, 1988 and a brief one into Aquarius in 1995, so most of 1988 to 1996 is the stretch to check in your own chart. The exact month depends on the degree of the natal planet.
The Uranus in Cancer generation
This cohort is a slice of the Baby Boom (commonly 1946 to 1964), not the whole of it. Boomers born from January 1, 1946 to August 30, 1948 have Uranus in Gemini, and Boomers born from June 10, 1956 to November 1, 1961 have it in Leo. Kazuo Ishiguro (born November 8, 1954) and Jackie Chan (born April 7, 1954) belong to the cohort, which is now between 70 and 78. Its oldest turned 18 in 1966 and its youngest in 1974. Apollo 11 landed on the Moon on July 20, 1969, when the oldest (born August 31, 1948) were 20 and the youngest (born June 9, 1956) were 13. Saigon fell on April 30, 1975, when they were 26 and 18.
Uranus in Cancer in love
Cancer says yes by cooking for someone, and Uranus adds a clause: the offer can be withdrawn the same week. You want a partner who feels like home and leaves the door open anyway. Original, loyal people attract you, especially the ones who unsettle you a little. Feelings come in sudden bursts, and you change your mind about what a family should look like more than once. A relationship holds when each of you can have a bad mood alone without it becoming a verdict, and when the ordinary jobs of caring are divided by agreement.
What this generation works toward
Cancer Uranus aims at a home that can change without falling apart. One version stays in the town it grew up in and remodels everything else. Another leaves and builds a household of friends, with a holiday table that seats people who are not related to anyone else at it. Inside one chart, the Moon, ruler of Cancer, shows how comfortable the person is with that kind of change.
Men and women with this placement
Uranus in Cancer man
Uranus in a man's 4th house moves, splits or rebuilds the family home. Uranus opposite his Moon, the ruler of Cancer, sets the wish to be looked after against the urge to leave.
Uranus in Cancer woman
Uranus in a woman's 6th house rewrites the daily routine and the work around care. A contact with her Mercury makes her thinking quick and her opinions about family changeable.
Find your Uranus sign
Enter your birth date. The calculator places every planet on the zodiac wheel for that day and tells you whether your Uranus is in Cancer. If Uranus changed signs on your birthday, add your birth time.
| Planet | Sign | Degree | Stands for |
|---|---|---|---|
| ☉ Sun | ♑︎ Capricorn | 11°01′ | core identity |
| ☽ Moon | ♒︎ Aquarius or ♓︎ Pisces | depends on time | emotional needs |
| ☿ Mercury | ♑︎ Capricorn ℞ | 25°36′ | how you think and talk |
| ♀ Venus | ♒︎ Aquarius ℞ | 6°11′ | love and taste |
| ♂ Mars | ♐︎ Sagittarius | 10°08′ | drive and anger |
| ♃ Jupiter | ♋︎ Cancer ℞ | 5°07′ | growth and luck |
| ♄ Saturn | ♑︎ Capricorn | 15°40′ | duty and limits |
| ♅ Uranus | ♑︎ Capricorn | 5°47′ | change and rebellion |
| ♆ Neptune | ♑︎ Capricorn | 12°02′ | dreams and ideals |
| ♇ Pluto | ♏︎ Scorpio | 17°05′ | power and renewal |
| ☊ North Node | ♒︎ Aquarius | 18°25′ | life direction |
| ⚸ Black Moon Lilith | ♏︎ Scorpio | 6°29′ | what you refuse to tame |
Without a birth time we check the whole day in US time zones. If a planet changed sign that day, both signs are shown; add your time to settle it. ℞ marks a planet that looked like it was moving backward (retrograde). North Node and Lilith are the mean positions.
Uranus in Cancer in numbers
- Share of birth dates
- 7.06%
- Years in Cancer, 1930–2035
- 1948–1956, 2032–after 2035
- Retrograde at birth
- 40.5% of them
- Element · quality
- Water · Cardinal
Our count of all 35,064 birth dates, January 1, 1930 to December 31, 2025, at noon UTC.
Work, money and change
Money with this Uranus moves in jumps tied to home, such as a sale, an inheritance or a move that changes the rent, and your income follows those events. Work that fits serves households, as in home care or real estate. Before an inheritance or a house sale gets split, getting every sibling on one call takes some of the shock out of it. A house sale or a change of rent can move more money in one year than a promotion does.
Uranus in Cancer in the houses
The house needs your birth time and place; the sign is the same for everyone born in these years. What each house covers on its own: 1st · 2nd · 3rd · 4th · 5th · 6th · 7th · 8th · 9th · 10th · 11th · 12th.
Uranus in Cancer in the 1st house
Warm and slightly startled, like someone caught off guard by their own feelings, is how the face reads to others. Strangers confide within minutes of meeting you, and the wardrobe swings with the mood, soft sweaters one month and something sharp and odd the next. The first sign of a move is the closet, where half the sweaters are already gone.
Uranus in Cancer in the 2nd house
A gift from a relative or a stake in a family business can arrive one year and be gone the next. A big saving plan gets rewritten by spring here. Spending is generous and uncounted when the money goes to someone else's needs, like a nephew's tuition or a sister's deposit.
Uranus in Cancer in the 3rd house
The sibling who left first writes the letters everyone reads aloud. Ideas form on long phone calls and in the car, and the subject keeps returning to family. One call from a brother or sister can reorder the year, with a parent coming to stay or a move across the country. You speak and write most freely about memory. A recording of an older relative's stories, made on your phone before the details fade, puts this house to work.
Uranus in Cancer in the 4th house
A date is attached to the family house, the year it was sold or the year a parent left or arrived. Sudden moves cluster in this part of the chart. The home you build on your own terms looks unconventional from outside and is the one place where the guard comes down. You choose the street on purpose, and nobody inherits it from a job or a relative.
Uranus in Cancer in the 5th house
Surprise is the pattern, whether it is a child who arrives early or by adoption or a romance that starts at a cousin's wedding. Play happens at home, in the garden and on the floor, and the creative work is warm and slightly odd. Much of your creativity goes into looking after other people, so the work gets made in the one evening a week that belongs to nobody else.
Uranus in Cancer in the 6th house
Daily work involves care or the house itself, and a job change follows a family event, like a parent's illness or a sibling's move. Your energy follows your mood, so a bad morning decides the afternoon. Meals at set times keep the body steady through a bad week.
Uranus in Cancer in the 7th house
Partners turn into family fast. The in-laws move in, or a friend of the couple stays with you for a year. A second marriage is possible, or a partnership that looks nothing like your parents'. Closeness needs defining early, because resentment left unsaid comes out as a sudden exit.
Uranus in Cancer in the 8th house
A parent's death or an inheritance shifts the picture of who you are, and it happens in jolts. Intimacy here is tender and cautious, and the test of whether someone will stay comes before the soft part is shown. Objects carry the argument, and the person who ends up with the good clock is never neutral about it.
Uranus in Cancer in the 9th house
Belief starts in the family and gets revised. You can leave the faith you grew up in and build another, or keep it and read it differently. Trips are visits to relatives and searches for roots, such as a village your grandparents left or a street in an old photograph. Higher study follows an unexpected path, and the diploma hangs in a house that is not the childhood one.
Uranus in Cancer in the 10th house
Your career is built around home or community and turns suddenly, as with a family business taken over at thirty or a move into an agency that serves households. People bring this person matters close to their lives, and the trust builds slowly. A change of field after a family event belongs to the pattern, and the new field looks like the old one from a distance.
Uranus in Cancer in the 11th house
Friends become chosen family, like the neighbor who waters the plants or the friend with a standing place at every birthday. Groups form around neighborhood causes, and you end up as the person who brings people together. What the future should hold, for you, is a home that accepts everyone.
Uranus in Cancer in the 12th house
Old houses and relatives who have died turn up in dreams, and waking from them leaves a mood that lasts the morning. A restless sadness sits under the caring, or a fear of being left. The phone gets checked for a message that has not arrived. Letting someone look after you without announcing that you are fine is the work of this house.
Your Uranus and your Sun sign
A Cancer Sun puts the Sun and Uranus in one sign and the family question at the center: whose turn is it to host, and can the tradition change this year? Pisces and Scorpio Suns feel the answer strongly and say little. Capricorn, the opposite sign, writes the new house rules. Aries and Libra Suns want a fresh arrangement before the old one has been tried.
When Uranus was in Cancer: years and retrograde loops
The calendar for this sign has two gaps, and both belong to neighbors. Cancer holds Uranus from August 31 to November 12, 1948. Gemini holds it from November 13, 1948 to June 9, 1949, and births in that window carry Gemini. Cancer has it again from June 10, 1949 to August 24, 1955. Leo takes over from August 25, 1955 to January 27, 1956, and births in that window carry Leo. Then Cancer has it for the last time in this group from January 28 to June 9, 1956. Uranus appeared to move backward on 40.5% of the days in these stretches. Check your own birthday against the two gaps. A later Cancer stay is listed from August 4, 2032.
| Entered Cancer | Left Cancer | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 2032 | Dec 11, 2032 |
Dates in UTC: days when Uranus stood in Cancer at noon UTC. In US time zones a change can fall a day earlier; on the first and last day the exact time matters, and the calculator above checks it for your birthday.
Share by decade of birth. It rises and falls with the planet's cycle, not with fashion.
Uranus in Cancer compatibility
Gemini and Leo flank Cancer Uranus. A Gemini-Uranus partner talks a mood through quickly, sometimes before it has been felt. A Leo-Uranus partner brings pride and a larger stage, and competes with Cancer's loyalty for the spotlight. With a Gemini partner the conversation moves faster than the feelings do, and with a Leo partner the feelings get an audience. Two Cancer-Uranus partners read each other's moods quickly, and each needs a night away now and then, which works as long as the two nights do not fall in the same week.
Both partners with the Sun in Cancer: Cancer and Cancer compatibility.
Famous people and celebrities with Uranus in Cancer
- Steve Jobs, American entrepreneur; co-founder of Apple Inc.Feb 24, 1955
- Kazuo Ishiguro, British novelistNov 8, 1954
- Jackie Chan, Hong Kong actor and martial artistApr 7, 1954
- Orhan Pamuk, Turkish novelist, academic and Nobel laureateJun 7, 1952
- John Travolta, American actorFeb 18, 1954
- Oprah Winfrey, American talk show host, actress, producer, and authorJan 29, 1954
- Sigourney Weaver, American actressOct 8, 1949
- Robin Williams, American actor and comedianJul 21, 1951
- Richard Branson, British business magnateJul 18, 1950
- George R. R. Martin, American writer and television producerSep 20, 1948
Birth dates from Wikidata, only entries with a single sourced date. We list a person only if Uranus was in Cancer for the whole of their birthday in every time zone. A placement describes a style in the astrological tradition; it does not explain anyone's success.
More Uranus signs
How common each Uranus sign is, and where Uranus is today: Uranus signs.
Other planets in Cancer: ☽ Moon in Cancer · ☿ Mercury in Cancer · ♀ Venus in Cancer · ♂ Mars in Cancer · ♃ Jupiter in Cancer · ♄ Saturn in Cancer · ♇ Pluto in Cancer · ☊ North Node in Cancer · ⚸ Black Moon Lilith in Cancer. Three or more of them together: stellium calculator.
Cancer elsewhere on the site: Cancer zodiac sign (the Sun in Cancer: traits, dates, love) · Midheaven in Cancer · Cancer compatibility by birth date · Moon sign calculator · water signs · The Hanged Man (the tarot card of water) · in tarot, The Chariot (the Cancer card) · The High Priestess (the tarot card of the Moon, ruler of Cancer).
Uranus in the sky now: where every planet is today · transit chart calculator (today's planets against your birth chart) · Cancer horoscope 2027 (the year ahead for the Sun sign) · all planet sign calculators.
Uranus in Cancer in a full chart with a birth time on record: Robin Williams's birth chart · Steve Jobs's birth chart · Meryl Streep's birth chart · Oprah Winfrey's birth chart · Bruce Springsteen's birth chart · Kurt Russell's birth chart.
Questions people ask
Which birth dates have Uranus in Cancer?
August 31, 1948 to June 9, 1956, minus two exits. Gemini holds November 13, 1948 to June 9, 1949, and Leo holds August 25, 1955 to January 27, 1956.
Are people with Cancer Uranus baby boomers?
The Boomer label, commonly 1946 to 1964, is wider than this cohort. Cancer Uranus births sit inside that range, while Boomers born earlier have Gemini Uranus and later ones have Leo or Virgo.
Does a Cancer Uranus mean family upheaval?
Astrology points at a push to rework home and belonging, though a sign describes a theme and not an event. Whether it feels like upheaval depends on your 4th house, your Moon and your aspects.
Is a Cancer Uranus the same as Uranus in the 4th house?
No. Cancer is the sign tied to the 4th house, but your house comes from your birth time and place, and a Cancer Uranus can fall in any of the twelve. The match is a natural fit, and a chart can ignore it.
Which birth dates fall in the Gemini and Leo gaps?
Gemini holds Uranus from November 13, 1948 to June 9, 1949, and Leo from August 25, 1955 to January 27, 1956. Births on those days carry the neighbor's sign, and everything else from August 31, 1948 to June 9, 1956 is Cancer.
Where does Cancer rank among the Uranus signs?
Eighth of twelve: 7.06% of the birth dates we counted for 1930 through 2025 carry it, and the sign holds 60.1% of the 1950s dates on its own.
Sources
- Astronomy Engine: the open-source ephemeris library behind our planet positions, dates and statistics
- Wikidata: birth dates of the famous people listed
- How we create our readings: our own calculation of sign dates, positions and the 1930 to 2025 statistics
Written by The Zodiac Atlas editorial team with the help of AI and edited by a person. Planet positions come from the astronomy-engine ephemeris (tropical zodiac), and the statistics from our own run of every birth date from 1930 to 2025. Astrology is a symbolic tradition, not a science; read a placement as a set of questions about yourself.