I think it can be really hard to tell some peoples' ascendants in cases like this where the moon is in the same element that their rising has a possibility of residing.
You could be identifying with cancer rising because of your moon in pisces. Do you feel strongly watery or do you sense a balance of fire inside as well? Do you have any forces antagonizing your ascendant? Or a strong force that is very opposite in expression?
For a while I thought my rising sign was wrong. According to birth certificate my rising is 4 degrees leo. At first I thought it was awesome because it seemed a cool sign, but then I wondered how it could be accurate.
I am a very shy, introverted, private person. Growing up I was EXTREMELY shy to the point of phobia.
But, my sun, mercury and jupiter are in Scorpio. My moon and mars are in Capricorn. That right there indicates a shy and introverted private person.
Adding to that, I have saturn conjunct pluto square to my ascendant and saturn and pluto square my moon. (which is why I asked if there were stronger forces interacting with your ascendant)
I come off as scorpio, capricorn, cancer or even virgo I am sure if you were to ask people. I hide my leo side in most ways.
But it is there on the inside, trying to get out. Because of the opposing scorpio/capricorn influences I don't feel comfortable expressing a lot of the leo traits one associates with the sign. It doesn't mean I don't feel those things or that I don't want to express them though.
Do you feel any leo traits regardless of whether or not you express them? Or do you feel more strongly attuned to cancer? How strong is your pisces side?
I would normally assume someone with libra and leo strong would be outgoing. How does your libra express itself? Since you have strong libra placements, you could have cancer rising if you are really shy and introverted. I am probably complicating matters.
My point is it is not always easy to figure out.
I would think that by really contemplating it as a whole--how you FEEL--it might be more clear. If you feel the water influence much more strongly, if you feel your quiet side outweighs your more social sides, then maybe you are cancer rising.
However, maybe if you feel your shyer side is but one small part of you, and you feel the outgoing social aspects to be far stronger, then maybe you are leo rising. You will still have that quieter side because of moon in pisces. But it could be much much stronger with cancer rising.
For instance, I have two extremely private and quiet signs and one outgoing placement. Now, overwhelmingly I am quiet, but I do have a more outgoing side and a need to be social. I have a feeling if I were actually cancer rising I probably wouldn't have that need for social outlets nearly as much because all three of the "biggies" would be quiet signs.
So contemplating the balance could be a key.
My moon is in Pisces and I relate to it (90 %),
Growing up I remember being very shy with other kids also, I cried allot holding my mom before going to the kindergarden... because I have always this feeling to be the "black sheep", always left aside.
I'm a kind person, i don't like confrontations, unless I'm very irritated with something or someone.
I'm not a social type. I like to be at home. I like to be at peace, and that, I find alone just with myself.
I like to write, and think about life, I'm mory the dreamy idealistic type.
I'm very humble also, and also individualistic.
I really don't know.
I'm generous but not in a prodigal way, but also jealous sometimes because I'm very insecure. Very suspicious also, when I meet new people I'm always judging them in my mind, and always thinking that they have bad/nasty intentions....
I see in me, much more water than I see in fact in my birth chart.
I'm overemotional,but I can show a really cold side when hurted. I'm a bit revengefull also, and that I have since I was a kid.
I'm not optimistic too.
About guys, untill now... I had always guys with strong scorpio influence... My husband has Cancer moon... maybe for that it's possible that I'm cancer rising, that's why maybe he chose me