Cancer at a Glance

• General

• Emotional; not the crybabies they’re touted to be, but certainly in tune with their emotions

• Powerful; a trait often given to their axis partner, Capricorn, Cancers are just as scary when someone they love needs protecting

• Intuitive; being so connected with their own emotional state, they can easily sense a disturbance in the energy around them

• Introspective; spending all that time in their head allows them to have an immense understanding of themselves

• Symbol

  • Crab

  • Hermit crabs carry their house around with them wherever they go; their hard shell protects their very soft insides

  • Big, big claws warn you before they have to use them for defense

• Element

• Water

• their tendency toward nostalgia

• their emotional focus

• their ties to family and even past lives
  

• Modality or Quality

• Cardinal

• their tenacious attitude

• their protective nature

• their comfort with being themselves

• Ruler(s)

  • Moon

  • One of Earth’s luminaries, birthed from the Earth itself, tied to it like a mother tied to her fetus in utero

  • Luna (Greek: Selene), with her chariot pulled by oxen (the Moon exalts in Taurus), pulls the Moon across the sky

  • Phoebe, the grandmother of Apollo and Artemis, mean’s “bright” and is often an epithet given to other Moon goddesses

  • Diana, the Roman amalgamation of Artemis and Hecate (both granddaughters of Phoebe), is a one-in-three goddess; Diana of the Hunt, Diana of the Moon, and Diana of the Underworld

• Hidden Trait

  • Manipulative; they know themselves so well, you think they can’t figure out what makes you tick?

• Deadly Sin

  • Sloth; they aren’t at all lazy, but they do love their alone time where they can unwind and truly be themselves

• Crime if Arrested

  • Bribery; it’s literally the criminal version of a guilt trip

• Loves

  • Family; they’re tied to the fourth house, the house of heritage, family, and home

• Hates

• Being pressured; they know what they do and don’t want to do and hate any sort of manipulation

• Will

• Ask you as many questions as they please; how else will they know what’s going on in that head of yours; plus they’re nosy.

• Won’t

• Be uncomfortable if they can help it; they aren’t ones to put themselves in situations where they lack control