Cancers make fabulous partners for home-loving people. The Cancer's nest is where she feels safest and at her most secure. �As security is the main preoccupation of most Cancers, a good home with comfy furnishings, a few kids and dogs and a built-in wall safe is about the best thing that can happen to them. �In this atmosphere of cushions and curtains, Cancer thrives. �For the Cancer subject, home is love is home is love, etc.

Cancers are good at making money; they hold executive positions and assume responsibilities with aplomb. �You will rarely find a poor-but-happy Cancer. �Cancerians very seldom decide to throw it all up and become a hippie or a free-lance bohemian. �They don't necessarily like the system or the constraints it places on them, but of all the signs of the occidental zodiac, Cancers are the most capable of placing nose to dull old grindstone and keeping it there. �The Cancer wants comfort for herself, but she also enjoys providing for her family in a generous way.

Cancers are traditionalists. �Where you might have hung a supremely abstract painting over your mantelpiece, the Cancer will have put portraits of her dour-looking grandparents, which she dug out of the attic because nobody else wanted them. �They will surely be framed in antique frames and will hold the place of honor in Cancer's heart. �Cancer prefers antiques to formica and longs for her son or daughter to become a doctor, a lawyer or a surefire accountant.

If you have a Cancer for a friend, you know what loyalty and devotion mean. �Cancer people usually make their friends young and keep them for life. �And, as Cancers are fairly intransigent, they are easily hurt if the friends in question do not return their devotion. �They will forgive. But Cancers never forget.

If someone asked me to describe the worst aspect of Cancer subjects, I would not say "moods" or "crabbiness." �Instead I would have to speak of the Cancer's tendency to hypersensitivity. �Cancer is easily offended and susceptible to criticism the way six-year-olds are susceptible to chicken pox. �A tiny word of criticism can bring on one of Cancer's legendary moods and the criticizer may go on the black list for quite a long time.

Cancers are jealous, too. �They own the people they live with and are possessive to a fault about their loved ones. They are not, however, tyrannical about this weakness. The idea is not "I bought you and therefore I own you." No, it's more like "I love you so much and care so profoundly for you that I cannot believe you listened to that other less serious person." �Cancer is not only angry. �She is hurt. �In love, Cancer gives her all. �It's practically impossible for her to understand someone who only gives a small part.