The Cancer Horoscope

Our delineation of the Cancer horoscope follows a very logical method, based on ancient basic and archetypal principles. It's NOT about stereotypes.

Every zodiac sign is the result of the so-called Quadruplicities or Modes (Cardinal, Fixed and Mutable signs) and Triplicities (related to the four elements: Fire, Air, Water and Earth).

The Cancer horoscope is based on the Cardinal Water energies:

The Cardinal principle is about acting (doing) and urges. It implies initiating activity and executing power.

Cardinal is changing, disturbing and unsettling. Cardinals are the "do-ers" and initiators.
The Water principle is about emotion and compassion. Water runs deep and is highly sensitive, working in a subtle, non-physical way.

It is quiet, receptive (introvert) and collecting. Water is imaginative and hiding, retiring (invisible).

Blending cardinal water into something tangible or material, you get the keyword of "the source."

The main characteristics of the Sun (representing your self-expressing life force) in the cardinal water sign Cancer are:

family- and/or home-minded
caring, nurturing and a love of the heritage and the past (protective)
courteous
very attached to someone or something when familiar with him/her/it
unobtrusive but tenacious
easily feels pushed away or neglected
careful about money
female Cancer is attracted to a 'family man'

Depending on your birth date, the Cancer horoscope divides into the following three decanates:

June 21/22-30

July 1-10

July 11-23

June 21/22-30

very ambitious and business-minded
motherly but more home- than family-minded
loves the own home or apartment
if born during a waxing Moon: energetic; if born during a waning Moon, rather slow and dislikes working (i.e. takes it more easy)
highly sensitive and receptive
shy in early life
very romantic and devotional (needs an idol)
wants to remain anonymous, private
can be assertive
easily seduced!
has innocent charm
sympathetic
loves to work at home
lives in a dreamworld
passive selfishness
needs love, love, love (even a platonic one)
persistent
capable of giving love... and withholding it
seldom has children
high romantic needs
emotionally complex people (the emotional chameleon)
needs protection
financially astute
very persuasive

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July 1-10

passionate, possessive and very jealous
persevering and more forceful (stubborn)
very active in household activities
wise and with premonitions (more mystical)
very family-minded
very attracted to the bizarre and the unusual (very wacky, especially in their free time)
lives in a secret world!
wants to remain anonymous and not disturbed
the collector
drawn to the dark sides
loves extreme persons
obsessive compulsive behavior
uncontrollable desires
self-destructive tendencies

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