Cancer Zodiac Sign

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Symbolism of the Crab

• Living in tides of water where there is a push and pull
• Ruled by the Moon
• Prone to being tossed around in waves
• There is an emotional aspect
• A vulnerable interior protected by a hard external form

CANCER RISING SIGN – Physical Traits

MOON – Ruling Planet of Cancer

• Full round face and round eyes
• Stout physique and sparse hair
• Weight in the hip area
• Short legs and stocky build
• Very defensive
• Retreat at first sign of rejection

Most True For Cancer Rising – Avoidant | Defensive | Clingy

• Constantly trying to put yourself in a place where people can’t do without you
• They feel they are the (water) “Well” that people can’t live without
• Saturn rules the 7th & 8th House for Cancer Risings
• They take loyalty to the extreme – “til death do us part”
• A forever bond that can be taken as clingy
• They take their relationships very seriously

About Cancer Zodiac Sign

• Cancer rules the chest and stomach
• They live a soulful experience of the people
• Cancer doesn’t want just facts – they want to dig
• There is a long memory and storytellings
• Crabs use their pincers to write scribes
• Scratching and carvings connected to messengers
• Changeability and flickerness of moods in connection with the moon cycles
• Cancer is the starting point for something changeable or moveable
• They can be seen as the cry baby as they are comfortable with emotions
• Cancer is willing to experience a full range of emotions and what it’s like to be human – learning to incorporate all states of being
• They can be curious about any emotional state and see it as beautiful
• They have an appreciation for mood fluctuation
• There is a constant and predictability to their emotions
• As in the repetitive motions of child care and rhythms
• Cancer’s focus is on taking care of others
• Healing and restoring or the dream world is Cancer Moon
• Resting the body and recharging the brain is crucial to the meaning of life
• They are good at hurting their own feelings and taking things personally
• Cancer’s have conversations in their head that is not really happening
• A lot of what they perceive in others may not be correct – 30-40%
• They think others know and feel what they’re thinking – But they don’t
• Cancer needs to understand others can’t know what you are thinking
• And you also cannot know what others are thinking
• Cancer tends to draw on past experiences and it can have an effect on the present – throwing things off
• With sensitivity comes irritability and mood-ability
• Everything becomes louder in sensations and experience
• Cancer can be shy with a tendency to read the room and environment
• Once comfortable with their surroundings they become more confident
• When Cancer is done with someone – they are really done
• The wall (shell) goes up and it’s hard to get back in if they shut you out
• Cancer does not like things that disturb their attachments
• Attachments being routines, bonds and things they cling to
• They have an inability to let go and trouble detaching
• They can romanticize the past – trying to hold tightly to someone
• Cancer doesn’t like things hard and tough and prefer to coddle
• They want to create a soft environment
• Cancer can create a sense of home wherever they go
• They can create intimacy with others over food
• Food is a way you can support someone else 
• It creates a central gathering place over a common need
• Cancer has a sad, sweet, empathetic quality
• Other’s sadness is appreciated with Cancer
• Their empathy can be confused as sadness
• Their sensitivity and poresness is why they need a protective shell

Correctness from Gemini To Cancer

• Brings in the “feeling” to the “facts”
• Remembering the emotional impact it had on you
• There is an association with nostalgia

Corrective Function Into Leo

• More focus on taking care of self and what is important to you
• Cancer has a way of “making the way” for others
• Adapting to others and their surroundings
• Their focus is on interiority and receiving expression
• Leo’s focus is on exteriority and self expression
• The Moon takes in the light (Cancer)
• The Sun emits light (Leo)
• Cancer is imaginative and expressive
• Leo wonders, “how am I going to get it out there?”
• Moving into Virgo it becomes refined

Moon Ruling Cancer

• There is an incarnation within the Moon
• Light is descending and coming into form
• It’s the embodiment of the physical (body) and emotions
• The moon rules the physical body
• Food and water is needed to take care of the physical body
• Food is in connection with the stomach in Cancer
• Water is connected by the Moon and Cancer (sign and ruling planet)
• The Moon reflects light and is connected to memory
• Just “knowing” how to nurture
• Remembering how to care of the soul’s needs and being
• It’s the spirit that lives within them

Cancer Is Psychic & Intuitive

• They have psychic dreams “premonitions”
• There is an emotional intelligence – anticipating the needs of a person
• Cancer is attuned to sensitivity and pick up on things that others overlook
• Time is being served as loops
• Remembering psychically and an instinctual familiarity with cycles
• Cancer is overly sensitive when receiving intuitive hits
• Impressionistic when feeling a perceived rejection

Strangeness of Cancer

• There is a surreal quality of the Moon
• Strange visions as in dreams
• It is hard to express subjective dreams and the impact it has on them
• They can never explain the emotional impact through words
• Trying to convey something internal and emotional in a world that is logical

Cancer Detriment In Mars & Saturn

• It can be chaotic and detrimental
• Distorting themselves to get by – it’s a strange environment
• Veracity can be associated with Mars
• Coldness with Saturn when Cancer has its shell up
• The boundary has a warped quality
• With Mars, Cancer become the Mother Bear
• With Saturn, Cancer crawls into its shell
• Mars is depressed in Cancer – severing the action of bonds
• It’s a hard place for bondedness to have things that sever
• Saturn in Cancer is the feeling of being emotionally bound
• Responsible of things that feel heavy
• They can be overly sentimental, overly sweet, or over barring
• Capricorn is off put by that – their skepticism isn’t buying in to it

Cancer In Aversion To Leo & Sagittarius

• Once the bonds are created it can feel restrictive to Leo and Sagittarius

Other Signs With Cancer Zodiac Sign

Capricorn & Cancer

• Cancer embraces emotion
• Capricorn is cold and rejects emotion
• They focus on the cold hard facts and objectiveness of time with limitations
• Capricorn’s attempt to control emotion is unsettling for the Moon
• Saturn in Cancer has to let go and will have difficulty with that
• The Sun and Moon are subjective – Saturn has to do with objectivity
• Cancer takes things literally and is warm
• Capricorn is the absence of warmth
• Cancer has to remember the health form and still stay objective
• They can potentially forgot something that matters in a big objective way
• If Capricorn doesn’t have the emotional sense of investment
• They will want to enjoy life but be devoid of emotion and detached
• If they are too invested – they may fall asleep and forget what’s important
• Losing track of the big picture

Scorpio & Cancer

• They both have a protectiveness – but it’s different
• Cancer is defensive and protective (retreating)
• Making a bunker for everyone to be safe
• Scorpio is protective and offensive (attacking)
• Spying on the enemy

Pisces & Cancer

• These two signs can vibe with each other
• Cancer is Pisces with better boundaries
• Cancer directs love to their inner circle
• There is a clannishness to Cancer – clinging to bonds and ancestral
• They desire to find a past connection
• Pisces is truly welcoming to everyone – love without boundaries
• Cancer literally sweats empathy 
• Pisces just dissociates when it’s too much

Taurus & Cancer

• Cancer is a homebody – withdrawing and clinging to the familiar
• Familiarity is important to Cancer and where they find joy
• Taurus loves the repetition of what feels good – that’s their joy

Virgo & Cancer

• Virgo can be helpful with day to day support

Leo & Cancer

• There is a generosity with Leo and Cancer
• Selfishness with generosity
• Cancer wants to feel needed
• This is the nurturing motherly instinct
• Sensing what others need and wanting to do it for them
• Leo wants to feel appreciated

Libra & Cancer

• They are both people pleasing
• Cancer is emotionally invested if you are doing ok
• Libra is responding to a sense of what the other person is feeling or needs
• Abiding by the abstract of relationships – social etiquette
• Libra is uncomfortable discerning a situation rooted in feelings
• They are about rational thought and content
• Cancer is quick to discern those things
• They are about emotional choices and content

Aquarius & Cancer

• Cancer has an attachment to everything
• Aquarius is detached from everything
• Cancer is passionate and Aquarius is not passionate
• Emotional engagement is what Cancer wants
• Aquarius is objectivity and stands outside

3rd & 4th House with Cancer

• The 4th House is home to Cancer
• It is the roots and where the Moon and Sign feels familiar
• The 3rd House is everything that is joined to the roots
• Disbursed outward around the roots to friends and neighbors
• The 3rd House is adhering to the 4th House