The journey every Scorpio must undergo of underworld traveling and ultimate redemption is here, for this combination, instigated through perusing haunting photos of family members and ancestors. The person is extremely tied to his or her roots and the past. In every day life, even if the Scorpio-Cancerian is far, far from their country of upbringing, the rituals and recipes are reproduced and honored, and thus live on through them. Cancer is the sign of lineage and loyalty—just as it is through its opposite pole sometimes the sign of wanderlust and striking down a home elsewhere, anywhere, wherever the person must go, trusting to his or her emotional body to sprout new roots. Emotional affinity to a new place is dug as wells are dug down to the common water table. Here is a person who does not need to prove his or herself to others. Every night, like a cat’s cradle within their own breast, the person is creating something complex, nightly pulling on yarn, tucking here, yanking out here, a practice of both establishment and remembrance, that is deeply personal to them. This manifests in the daytime as countless ritual and nameless, thankless, anonymous tasks that have a secret chemistry for their them, not so communicable to others. A Scorpio Sun has been born to have-out with the family trauma, to wash themselves clean of it, and extricate it from their line somehow. The regenerative, natural law of death and rebirth serves the actual family line through the Scorpio born. And with a Cancer Moon this becomes a solemn duty. The person, as a double water sign, leads a life of emotional attachment and unimaginably deep ties. She or he is extremely emotional, can easily cry, and everything he or she does is impressed with the oscillating, bobbing weight of the heart. Sweet and deep at once—the calling to nurture is very strong with this one. There is a penchant for stewing in emotional depths, no doubt, and the person can go deep down. His or her psychic landscape is rife with caverns of trickling water and stalgamaties. The energy of the person is frequently holy and hard to put into words. The woman I knew who owned this combination shared best through her cooking, the giving of sustenance to those she loved, which contained her deep wish for them to survive and regale her with stories at her table. She loved stories, listening as well as telling. Her life was not easy; it was constrained, but she made it as beautiful and meaningful as possible. Cancer has natural rulership of the Moon so the capacity for empathy and emotional interplay with others, and within the self, is extremely nuanced and deep. The emotional world is so deeply felt it is almost all. But the person does well with channeling this watery energy into useful practices or containers of discipline. Scorpio-Cancer people tend almost always to work out their own methods for things that honor their emotional capacity. It is difficult for them to be put into formulaic life or time blocks. Having said that, if need be, they are almost always on time. Scorpios are capable of enduring much they don’t want to, and waiting, waiting, waiting for inevitable change. At the same time, this person will happily languish and linger and have long conversations; despite what’s going on, they would not miss the dawns or the sunsets for anything. And they relish just as much long and deep, uninterrupted silence if something is bothering them. The gravity and rootedness of this person is extremely strong; despite the fact that they are of water, entirely, and not earth, and their rootedness may be more psychic and roving than the literal offerings of the earth sign people, their loyalty, their remembrances, and, again, their penchant for the continuance of rituals and practices makes it so that their lives become gourds of living memory. Their lives becomes so weighted and powerful that they heal their ancestral lines through the way that they live, infusing fresh energy into what had become automatic. The Moon here has just begun to wane and exhale with release, in this life. They put the many old souls who dance around them to rest.