The water sign of Cancer (the Crab) implies a sensitive, intuitive, tenacious, and parental nature. It can also represent a moody, worrywart type of individual. Of all the signs, it exerts the greatest influence on culture, the home, and family. Ruled by the Moon, your emotions are very complex. You can give the impression of being a pillar of strength at one moment and that of being very vulnerable and overly emotional the next. Over-sensitivity usually results in a fear of being ridiculed. Accordingly, most Cancerians, hide such vulnerability by placing a hard shell around themselves--just as the Crab has a physical shell. Very few people manage to lift this shell. To protect yourself from injury in this area, you may voluntarily go into isolation at times. This isolation may conflict with your need for a warm home life with certain people close to you. For you, a sense of wholeness or completeness in life can only come when you are able to live out your protective instinct for those around you.

Your highly developed drive to attain personal security will clearly influence your material and domestic structure so as to provide that security and stability. The fact that Cancer is a cardinal sign allows you to be quite enterprising in either commercial or domestic activities. For some, an inherent nurturing instinct also extends to ideas and projects that involve some form of development. Many nurses often have a healthy dose of Cancerian energy in their chart.

Your diplomatic talents are admirable, often enabling you to achieve what you want. However, when you think someone is treading on your toes, you may act quite illogically and be unable to cooperate with others. Security is very important to you, and you are prepared to go to any lengths to attain it. When the maintenance of this security requires a risk to be taken, you will do so--but preferably with someone else's money! In such cases, however, your strong sense of responsibility will ensure that you proceed with the utmost caution.

Your heart is really in the right place, but the influence of a ruling Moon in this sign can make you seem affectionate and open at one moment and yet sentimental, reserved, and withdrawn the next. Depending on the house and sign in which the Moon resides, you can be extremely naive and stubborn.

Family tradition and history are quite important. You like the place you call home, probably having a good memory for the events that took place there long ago. If you are too sentimental and touchy, it is likely that you are also clannish. Try to be aware that any negative traits you exhibit are often the result of your essential needs not being accommodated. Try to nurture your own growth, so as to set the pace to expand outwards.

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