Exploring the cancer/moon/4H archetype as ego/emotional core

I think, for me, cancer 4H moon is one of the archetypes that is the deepest and hardest to understand.

I have a few questions and I would love to hear your thoughts.

As far as I understand it, it’s the projector portion of the projector and not the lens.

The lens feels like it would be 7H (persona), 1H (instinctive self) and 10H (public personality?)

It is the emotional center. And fittingly it’s situated at the ic which to me sounds like it’s the core of our human self. Trine to the soul (8H) and i guess Pisces too (higher self??)

And since it’s square to 7H 1H and opposite 10H it implies a tension with our relationship to the phenomenal world.

Since it’s inconjunct 9H I feel like maybe this is where it gets interesting and our core beliefs create a friction or maybe ego (subjective i) has friction with our beliefs.

Why is it that i can feel my ego coming out when someone does something that goes against my beliefs? Mine feels stubborn. Could be cause my moon is in Taurus 9H. I’m trying to separate myself from the equation. Maybe a cancer moon would feel this more emotionally?

But how does this ego seem to project its stubbornness if it’s only a projector without a lens? Is it because the ego (cancer archetype) projects through the above lenses (1,7,10)? Can we say that all of our physical world personality manifestations stem from ego/cancer?

When you can feel someone’s ego (negative sense), is it a mixture of a negative manifestation of cancer/4h/moon ? Would positive ego be called an alignment? An alignment with our inner self as they say?

Can we find if we have a negative or positive self image through the natural zodiac affecting our natal 4H moon cancer placements as well as the aspects?

Would anyone have anything to add to help me understand the complexity of the image we have of ourselves/ego/emotional center?