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Two spirals set side by side and turned through half a circle from one another, each curling inward, the zodiac sign for births between 21 June to 22 July.
Also known as: Cancer, Cancer zodiac sign, Cancer star sign
Cancer is the zodiac sign traditionally assigned to births between 21 June to 22 July. Astrology classes it as a water sign of cardinal quality ruled by the Moon, and reads the glyph as a pair of crab claws, or two curled forms turning against each other. The sign no longer lines up with the constellation it is named after.
The astrological sign Cancer, which tradition assigns to births between 21 June to 22 July. The dates shift by a day either way from year to year, because they track the Sun's position rather than the calendar.
Encoded at U+264B in the Unicode Miscellaneous Symbols block, alongside the other eleven signs.
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Classified in astrological tradition as a water sign of cardinal quality, ruled by the Moon.
A classification within astrology, recorded here as what the tradition holds. Symbolwise makes no claim that it describes or predicts anything about a person.
The glyph is conventionally read as a pair of crab claws, or two curled forms turning against each other.
The sign and the constellation of the same name no longer coincide. Precession of the equinoxes has shifted them roughly one sign apart since the scheme was fixed around two thousand years ago, and the Sun's actual path crosses a thirteenth constellation, Ophiuchus, that the twelve-sign zodiac does not use.
Two spirals set side by side and turned through half a circle from one another, each curling inward.
Astrological tradition assigns the Moon as this sign's ruling planet.
Both belong to the twelve signs of the tropical zodiac.