North Node in Cancer or Fourth House
 
Characteristics to Develop
Noticing and validating feelings
Empathy
Nurturing and supporting others
Building one’s own foundation and security
Honest disclosure of feelings and insecurities
Humility
Accepting others’ foibles and fluctuating moods without judgments
Staying centered in one’s own feelings
 
 
Characteristics to Release
Needing to control everything and everyone
Compulsion to take charge without fully understanding the situation
Ignoring the process; being too focused on the goal
Feeling completely responsible for everything
Hiding feelings and fears in intimate relationships
Doing things to gain respect or admiration from others
Taking care of others’ feelings and neglecting one’s own
Doing what is “socially acceptable” rather than what is totally honest
Thinking that things have to be difficult in order to be important
 
 
Cancer North Nodes or the Fourth House people must to realize their need to be in control and that in reality, they can’t really control people or situations enough to feel that it’s safe to be themselves. They tend to inappropriately seize others’ responsibility by taking charge of situations in other people’s lives without being asked. This comes from a great demand for acknowledgment. Others won’t be able to give enough recognition to their satisfaction. These people will not have enough confidence to feel safe from vulnerability. At some point, they will have to risk in letting others know the truth about their insecurities, along with the fears of abandonment and rejection. After doing this, they will actually gain total safety by revealing their feelings through taking charge of them at a deeper level.
 
They want is absolute control over every area of their lives at all times. Power to succeed is the ultimate goal and an insatiable need. By being in touch with their insecurities, feelings and sharing the truth about this is the way to attain this goal.
Acknowledging their insecurities will give Cancer North Node people a stable base to create success in the outer world, since they are no longer fighting or resisting the truth about who and what they really are. Releasing this hidden agenda gives a calm, inner assurance of accomplishing their goals. This will also help develop an awareness and support of other’s feelings as well as for themselves.

 
Embracing Souls
Abstract Illusions
Jennifer Hillman