Big three
Sun, Moon and Ascendant (rising sign) together. The Sun and Moon come from the date; the Ascendant needs the birth time and place.
How common
1 in 1,700
0.060% of 2,000,000 simulated births have the Sun in Leo, the Moon in Leo and Cancer on the Ascendant.
about 690th most common of 1,728big threes
Sun in Leo
In Leo, the Sun expresses itself in a warm, open way.
Moon in Leo
In Leo, the Moon feels and responds in a warm, open way.
Cancer Rising
In Cancer, the Ascendant approaches the world in a protective, attached way.
Generic readingA generic description in the style of modern astrology, the same for everyone who has this placement. Not a prediction.
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What the three govern
What the three signs add
How common it is
Step 1
Sun in Leo1 in 11
8.78% of 2,000,000 simulated births
the most common of 12
Step 2
Moon in Leo1 in 12
8.37% of 2,000,000 simulated births
within noise of an even split of 12
Step 3
Cancer Rising1 in 11
9.50% of 2,000,000 simulated births
3rd most common of 12
Step 4
Leo Sun, Leo Moon1 in 141
0.71% of 2,000,000 simulated births
about 53rd most common of 144
Step 5
Leo Sun, Leo Moon, Cancer Rising1 in 1,700
0.060% of 2,000,000 simulated births
about 690th most common of 1,728
Share of simulated births. Single placements are ranked among 12 signs, the pair among 144 Sun and Moon pairs, all three among 1,728 combinations.
An even split of the 12 signsBars start at zero.Share of simulated births with each of the 12 signs on the Ascendant. Share of 2,000,000 simulated births (1950–2024), tropical zodiac.
As of 16 October 2026, 15:16 UTC. Dates are UTC, tropical zodiac. The Sun's and the Moon's own passes through each sign are on their placement pages. This page refreshes hourly.
AI-written text that an AI research review then checked against sources. No person has reviewed it; the notes and references behind each check are under its label.
The Sun in Leo is in domicile, the planet's own home, and the tradition lists no other planet's rulership here. Leo is a masculine, fixed fire sign; the Sun is a masculine, day-team planet, so sect, gender and sign agree.
Leo is the fifth sign of the zodiac, a fixed fire sign with positive polarity, and the only sign the Sun governs in traditional astrology.
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The Moon in Leo is in the Sun's home sign, a masculine, fixed fire sign. The tradition lists no domicile, exaltation, detriment or fall for the Moon there.
Leo is a fixed fire sign with positive polarity, the sign the Sun governs, and a Moon there sits in the Sun's home. Modern psychological astrology reads the emotional need here as warmth returned: to be noticed, appreciated and welcomed.
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The astrology of the Greek-speaking Mediterranean from roughly the 1st century BCE to the 7th century CE, as recorded by authors such as Vettius Valens, Dorotheus and Ptolemy.
1 Oct 2026
A Cancer Ascendant means Cancer was the sign rising at your birth, which depends on birth time because the Ascendant crosses a sign about every two hours. In whole-sign houses each sign is one house, so Cancer is the first house. The Moon rules Cancer and so becomes the lord of the Ascendant. Like the Sun, the Moon rules only one sign, so Cancer gives its lord no second home elsewhere in the chart. The Moon is exalted in Taurus, which would be your eleventh house. Cancer is a feminine, cardinal water sign and the Moon's home. Under sect, the tradition's sorting of planets into day and night teams, the Moon is a night-team planet. Its condition depends on whether the chart is a night chart. Where the Moon is by sign, house and phase is among the first questions.
Sources
What was checked
An AI research review checked this text against sources on 1 Oct 2026. No person has reviewed it.
Reviewer's notes
Dignities, houses counts, genders and modalities matched the project's own dignity tables and Ptolemy/Valens. Lord-of-the-Ascendant importance confirmed only in secondary sources (Astrology Podcast); softened 'first/main' to 'among the first/key'.
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The 20th-century Western approach shaped by Alan Leo, Dane Rudhyar and Liz Greene, drawing on Jungian psychology.
1 Oct 2026
With Cancer rising, the sign Cancer was crossing the eastern horizon at birth. The Ascendant, or rising sign, changes about every two hours, so it needs a birth time. Modern psychological astrology reads it as an approach to new situations and not as the core self. For Cancer, a cardinal water sign, authors describe a careful and receptive entrance, attentive to mood and slow to disclose. The first impression is associated with softness and guardedness together. The tension named is protection that reads as distance. Hellenistic astrologers treat the Moon as lord of the Ascendant here. They weigh its phase, sign and house in judging the chart, with less attention to manner.
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What was checked
An AI research review checked this text against sources on 1 Oct 2026. No person has reviewed it.
Reviewer's notes
Element, modality, ruler and Ascendant-concept claims confirmed in secondary references; the per-sign manner descriptions attributed to modern authors are tradition-level and not checked against Arroyo or Sasportas text. Softened "main indicators for the chart" to a weighing of phase, sign and house.
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