Cancer's element is Water. Symbolic of the emotions, water signs need to give and receive. They thrive on the exchange of feelings. They need security and love to be wrapped in an environment of love and comfort. Truly a wonderful example of Yin receptivity, Cancer seems to absorb memories, feelings and psychic messages.

The Sign
The Crab symbolizes the sea, cradle of all life. The symbol of the Crab is highly emblematic of Cancerian nature. Metaphorically, Cancerians have a hard outer shell and a soft interior. They need to feel safe if they are to put aside their brittle exteriors and expose their considerable vulnerabilities. . Like the Crab, they approach the world obliquely, sideways. The Crabs' antennae are amazingly acute; another distinctive Cancer gift is power of perception.

Positive Sides
Cancer represents the passive, receptive, but profoundly powerful and encompassing female force in nature - the all-nourishing, or all-devouring, mother. Cancerians build boundaries, make homes, and gather things into incubation, protection, nurturance, and mothering. Cancerians are family centered, tradition bound, tied to the past, fearful of the future and of the unknown. Security is one of their major goals. Cancerians look toward introversion and melancholy. They are as restless and moody as the shifting tides. Memory is one of Cancerians' special gifts. People born under the sign of Cancer are usually intuitive and nurturing.

Negative Sides
They find the real world threatening, Astrologers say, and like to retreat into dreams and fantasies and to shelter themselves in the relative safety of the past. If they are disappointed, they become withdrawn and hostile.

The Ruler
Cancer's ruling planet is the moon, linked in astrology to nature, gestation, motherhood, and the creation and preservation of life.

Compatible With
Scorpios and Picses.

Friendship
Cancerians hunger for love; there is never enough to satisfy them. But they always feel compelled to doubt it, and therefore test it, seeing how much a friend or partner can endure before withdrawing or withholding love. But nevertheless, Cancerians are among the most loving of people, profoundly intuitive, and quick to grasp and respond to the emotional needs of others.

Some Famous Cancerians
Princess Diana, Dalai Lama, Tom Cruise, Harrison Ford, Kevin Bacon, Sylvester Stallone, Julius Caesar, Tom Hanks, Bill Cosby, Meryl Streep.

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