You take home with you, wherever you go
Sun in Cancer lands in your 9th house, so the pull toward the wider world runs alongside an equally strong pull back. You travel with something of home in the bag and you look for the familiar in every unfamiliar place. You need journeys with a return built into them.
That combination is not a contradiction to be resolved. It is why you come back from a country knowing what the family life there is like, which is information most travellers never collect.
Homesickness is a compass, not a failing
Away from your own ground you feel it physically, and it arrives sooner than it does for other people. Rather than treating that as something to overcome, use it as a measurement: how long you can be away, what kind of trip suits you, when a move abroad would actually work. The answer is usually longer than you fear and shorter than you plan.
What you believe came from a kitchen table
Your working philosophy is largely inherited: things said by a grandparent, an assumption absorbed from a household, a religion or an ethic that arrived with the family rather than by argument. Some of it has genuinely proved itself. Take one piece a year and examine it properly, and keep or release it as an adult rather than as an inheritance.
You learn from a person, not from a syllabus
Study works here when there is somebody attached to it: a teacher you trust, a group that has become familiar, a subject you associate with a person who mattered. Abstract self-directed learning tends to stall. Choose the course for the tutor rather than the curriculum, and accept that this is how your learning actually works.
Go far enough that it changes something
The risk in this position is a life lived within an hour of where it started, with the wider world admired from an armchair. The pull is real and so is the anxiety, and the anxiety usually wins if nothing is booked. Choose one genuinely unfamiliar place, put a date on it, and let the homesickness happen rather than avoiding the trip that would produce it.
You get adopted wherever you land
Somewhere in an unfamiliar city, somebody feeds you and the arrangement quietly becomes permanent: a host family, a neighbour, an older colleague who decided you needed looking after. You attach fast because you arrive needing a household rather than a tour. Let that be the plan rather than the accident, and pick accommodation with a kitchen and other people in it.
Carrying the story further than they did
You are often the one who takes an inherited belief or trade somewhere the previous generation could not go, which is loyalty rather than departure even when it does not look like it. Say that out loud to whoever is still around. Framing it as continuation rather than escape changes the conversation completely.
Teaching what you were given
Work suits you where knowledge is passed on with care attached: teaching, pastoral roles, anything where the transmission matters as much as the content. Impersonal expertise is not your strength and never will be. Find the part of your field where somebody has to be looked after while they learn, and stand there rather than competing on technical depth alone.
Drawn to somewhere else, and to being at home in it
You are often attracted across a distance of some kind, and what you want from it is not exoticism but a second belonging. That works when both of you are building something rather than visiting each other. Talk early and concretely about where you would actually live and which family you would be near, because this is the question that quietly decides the whole thing.
Going out and coming back, on purpose
The shape that suits you is not permanent departure or permanent staying but a rhythm of both, chosen rather than defaulted into. Design it: a regular period away, a reliable return, a base that holds while you are gone. Naming that as your pattern removes most of the guilt at either end.