Chiron in Cancer

You have a gift for arriving at a stranger’s party and leaving with three new friends. You also know the hollow feeling of a long weekend spent with someone else’s family, laughing at jokes you were not there for.

Your Chiron is in Cancer, the sign of home, family and the Moon. Chiron marks the place in a life that never quite stops aching, and the care that grows around it. In Cancer that place is belonging: a home that kept moving, a parent who could not be there in the way you needed, or simply the feeling of standing slightly outside the warm circle.

Looking in

Some part of you still watches families through lit windows. You are careful about needing people, in case they go. You look after everyone, and turn awkward when anyone tries to look after you.

Open door

Because you know what it is to be outside, you never leave anyone there. You remember the new colleague’s name. You set an extra place without being asked. Your home, however small, is where people end up late at night, and they leave feeling like family.

Home, made

Belonging turns out to be something you build rather than something you are handed. You build it every time you welcome someone in, and over the years the circle you made becomes the home you were looking for.