Sunday, March 13, 2011

Cancerian

The Sun awakened Cancer the Crab, a feminine sign in the zodiac on your birthday. The Sun in astrology stands for your inner nature, your essential character. The fourth sign of the Zodiac, Cancer is ruled by the restless Moon.

A cardinal (creative and original) sign, Cancer governs home life, matters to do with women (especially the mother), as well as sensitivity and emotional intensity. It is a water sign, so Cancerian people are emotionally intense and deeper than they appear on the surface, while quite sensitive and understanding once you get through that tough exterior.



The Sun, ruler of our inner nature, is somewhat dimmed in Cancer, the home of the Moon. Creative and romantic, with a strong love of home, family and tradition, you are a good communicator and a strong provider. Your deep sensitivity presents you with valuable and illuminating intuitions, especially regarding those you care for.
Powerful Intuition

Paradoxically combining a love of travel with a deep need for security, you surround yourself with sentimental objects from the past, including souvenirs, hand-me-downs and keepsakes. Cancerians are remarkably good at accumulating things; indeed, you can be unwilling to throw anything out, even relationships that have passed their use-by date.

Cancer
is also good with money and generally takes a long-term view. The main thing to remember is not to let the powerful, turbulent emotions of the moment crowd out your normally rational judgement. Your intuitions are reliable and should be trusted; you may even have natural psychic powers, which may be developed, given the right circumstances.
Hard Shell

The emblem for Cancer is the Crab, a creature with a very hard shell which protects a soft interior. The crab walks sideways, which is how the Cancerian skirts around a problem until forced to take it on with gritty determination and a creative flair. The crab's large claws hang on to its possessions for dear life, just as the Cancerian collects things to beautify the environment and bravely defends the home turf.

Cancerians make good business people, combining artistry, originality and drive with an understanding of financial matters, marketing and the needs of the public. You can trust your intuitions, but you do need to generate a faith in yourself which will not be dampened by gloom or depression over what, in retrospect, may appear to be relatively insignificant problems. You have the natural ability to be diplomatic and to speak out when necessary or keep your mouth shut. Home and family ties will be significant in your life and developing a secure, comfortable home environment will be a boon to your state of mind, irrespective of your marital state.
Southern Magnolia, flower for Cancer
Emotional Release

Physical fitness or sports activities can become important ways for you to work out emotional stress. Team sports are fun, for you can adopt team members as part of an extended family. Swimming, fishing, sailing and other water activities attract you, along with skiing, ice skating, and mountain climbing.

Cancerians are creative. Even those among you who may not have any particular talent can use some involvement with art, music, or writing as another method of emotional release, rather than indulging in eating binges or other destructive habits. Living or spending time near the water is a relaxing, as well as creatively stimulating environment for Cancerians.

Cancer rules the stomach, diaphragm, upper liver and breasts. People with Cancer active in their charts are subject to coughs, indigestion, gas, gallstones, general problems with stomach, liver and intestines, plus emotional disorders such as depression, hypochondria and hysteria.

Ideal colours for the Crab are white, silver, and pale yellow. Cancer rules metallic silver, while both the ruby and the pearl are the traditional Cancerian birthstones. Silver reflects its environment in its shiny polished surface, yet it can tarnish and become dull unless properly cared for. In the same way, your sensitive nature reflects the people and circumstances surrounding you. The precious ruby, a variety of corundum, is one of the hardest minerals known, while the pearl is soft and easily scratched. Here we have the two contrasting sides of the Cancerian personality: hard and determined, yet simultaneously soft and vulnerable. Cancerian flowers are the water lily (lotus), iris, white poppy, white carnation and southern magnolia.



Cancer and Cancer

When two Crabs come out of their shells and size each other up, an emotional tidal wave is unleashed. Tidal waves generate massive amounts of energy, but are usually short-lived, leaving a trail of devastation in their wake.

Cancer the Crab is a Water Sign, so both of you are deeply emotional and sensitive, almost to the point of being psychic. You are so sensitive in fact that you have learned to build a tough shell around your tender heart, for protection. This is part of the symbolism of the Crab, along with the tendency to sidle around a problem, rather than face it head-on. As a lover you seek security and fidelity, and, although you are not above a few flirtatious peccadillos of your own, you can be deeply wounded if the one you care for betrays your trust. Cancer is poetic and romantic, but also practical in matters to do with the home and raising a family. Cancer is reassuringly protective, even possessive, but can be a jealous lover, though more from insecurity than simple desire to dominate.

Your vein of sexuality runs deep, but follows a path strewn with obstacles, often of your own making. Ruled by the Moon, you tend to flow with the tides and are very reflective of your environment.Opening the floodgates of emotion to a fellow soul is an enormous relief, but this can often lead to a serious problem as time goes on. Sensitive Cancerians under pressure can retreat within themselves and allow repressed emotions to bottle up until they either explode with devastating force, or implode catastrophically, causing general meltdown.

The fluctuating Moon can reflect a moodiness in your nature that is not always understood nor appreciated, even by another Crab, especially when you allow irrational emotions to rule your otherwise sensible head. The problem is this: when one Cancer is on an emotional high, so is the other. This is fine, isn't it..? But what about when both Crabs are have a bad dose of the moody blues and are both crawling dismally along the bottom of a very muddy pond? You have a lot in common, and that's the trouble. You understand each other perfectly and can wound each other without even trying. Both are too sensitive, too demanding, too dependent. Cancer needs the sinuous flirtatious worship of the Fish, or the slinky, supportive sexuality of the Scorpion, not the agonising nippers of a fellow Crab. Enjoy it while it lasts, but don't become co-dependent. Unless you have fabulous Moon and Ascendant connections, look elsewhere for love.

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