Cancer

General

Can you picture this: You are getting cozy inside a corner watching the candles brightly entwined in the warmth of cookies fragrance. That’s literally Cancer energy! If you are a Cancer born between June 21 and July 22, you belong to the zodiac parenthesis that nurtures best. The Cancerians make a crater everywhere they go. So Cancer belongs to the water body which is why deep emotions and intuition are pretty common in them. They are also cardinal which means initiating is where they excel (especially when it comes to emotional commitment). Their ruling planet is Moon which is the planet of feelings and the inner self. No surprise that they’re such emotional power plants!

But do not be lulled by their tender heart. Just like the crab who is a spiritual totem of the respective ones, Cancers have their own principles which they do not shy away from fulfilling. They defend those close to them like tigers and snap their claws at any outsider who gets too close to their sacred territory.

Cancers are great decorators of the homes and rooms of the different zodiac signs. They tend to sop up emotions the way a Bounty paper towel absorbs every spill in the house. They’ve got a superpower where they can accurately assess any room and whom everybody in it requires, often before the said everyone even knows it themselves. It’s as if they invariably have a sort of embedded “emotional Wi-Fi” which constantly seeks out such waves.

Strengths:

Cancers know how to comfort their friends when they are feeling down, especially heartbroken and seeking solace. You can count on them to come over with ice cream , tissues, and a shoulder if you need one because they will also probably facelift your apartment since you are in such a sorry state.

There is one thing that these moon children never forget: emotional attachment- and they will remember any attachment that the two of you have. They even remember how you like your coffee from a day three years ago when you spit that out once. It is really fascinating and rather scary at the same time.

For Cancers creativity comes out like a tide. Be it making gourmet food with whatever’s in the fridge, or making a piece of art out of a blank canvas, they always possess some creativity that is fueled by their emotions in many ways.

Weaknesses: When the Crab Gets Crabby

So, what is the topic about involves Cancers and what is the sea like during a storm then? The way they shift from one mood to the other is beyond ridiculous- they are high fives! Jung is somewhere turtling back into some shell because somebody makes that face and looks at you.

That trader loyal towards them gets overboard at times because they get obsessed sometimes with what they are protecting. They have such an intense love that even a simple goodbye is impossible to say whether it is to a person, an old and beloved sweater or grievances from the year 2007.

And while we are dealing with issues about people holding grudges, Cancers seem to keep them permanently, as if they are gold medals at the Olympic games. It’s great that Cancers can remember your birthday but forget that time you unintententionally offended them by being rude about their food.

Leveling Up: Riding the Emotional Waves

Emotional boundaries: Solve the problem of intrapersonal conflict by drawing a line between your emotions and those of other people. It is acceptable for not doing everyone’s emotional errands.

Express yourself: Those emotions are delicate and need to be channeled into things like art, music, or writing. Who knows, you may even make the next masterpiece!

Overcome and let go of anger: Drop those memories of things other people did to you and spent a lifetime holding onto. It is like decluttering but of the heart.

Self-care isn’t selfish: Try to agree that alongside caregiving for others, this ITT also demands that the self is taken care of. You can’t pour from an empty cup.

Famous Crabs:

Elon Musk, Princess Diana, Ariana Grande, Tom Hanks, Selena Gomes, Lana Del Ray, Meryl Streep, Julius Ceasar.

What a genius I guess – one more image of a Cancer, hunble, loving home and people close to him. Let’s assume someone in your life is Cancer, rejoice; such a person is a sensitive friend, although you may need extra mascara. If you are a Cancer, well, continue and go around creating warm environments in your wake, I suppose your unique waves of nurturing energy would be welcome in all places. All are going to say, that yes, it is quite fine to come out of the closet – brave souls like you are precious.

Love

Love Characteristics: Cancer, the fourth astrological sign, is regarded as the most sensitive sign and is undoubtedly the emotional center of the zodiac. It is likely that you harbor an immense heart, as deep and as enigmatical as the sea. This category is more maternal, devoted and sensitive with a loving affinity that is unlike any other. When you fall in love with someone, a heart is not all you give – every inch of you puts your soul into it. It is all about constructing a nest where love abounds with decorations of safety and trial treats. Netflix and chill, no a dramatic love inspired date where you cuddle and sob over a real life tailored movie and then pout! Relationship Superpowers: Nurtures Elimination, Empathic, and Accurate than the best therapist. Strong nurturing instincts, surpassing even that of Mother Nature. Instincts that will perfect every crab’s claw. An average beast and its formulation is better than sweaty details. Out of the empty air, food can physically burn and sear taste buds with all over the room. Relationship Kryptonite: Menace enough to cause whiplash snobbery. Compulsion to get into your shell and stay there at even the slightest threat. Clingy to a way that makes super glue look like an instrument a child would use in kindergarten. A medical diagnosis which can be accepted in the Olympics – passive aggressive disorders. The hoarding of emotional pain as if it were a piece Made of glass. Best Zodiac Matches: Taurus: And the world stands still, as the two of you set out on a pure and easy loving odyssey to build the warmest love shielding home.

Scorpio: As Aristotle put it, it is deep that knows deep. The waves of your emotions will give rise to tempests of passion.

Pisces: I mean it’s probably like mermaid romance book but the story is happening underwater.

Virgo: They provide you with the framework, you provide emotions. It is precisely a perfectly coordinating emotional roller-coaster ride.

Sexual Temper:

Oh Cancer, even the bedroom graces you with duality, for sometimes you are gentler than the sea and at other times you are the wave of ecstasy that drowns the partner with passion. Sexiness for you is about warmth and affection because intimacy creates love. You are always in charge of the ambiance – dim lights, soft slow music, and lots of cushions for a nest. You believe actions speak louder than words, and cuddling feels so right to you that you wear a medal for it. While you can be considered the inert sign, you manage to turn every rendezvous into a psychedelic experience. For those who enjoy and are open to possibilities, do not resist this emotion. Just be ready to shed tears after the deed, most likely, tears of joy.

Breakup Management:

It will come to a point where you will have to accept that this is over, Cancer. Every inch of your body might be that of a crab that just got its claws rattled and is attempting to get out of a room full of landmines. The order of heartbreak follows from then onwards: Denial (This isn’t happening, we are meant to be!) They are there, allowing the emotional flood (I hope you stocked up ice cream and tissues) Retreat into the shell (I’m not really adding any more darkness to this conversation) Slowly peeking out, I mean usually with help from loved ones. Pro tip: for the better part of it, please stay away from that shell and the retreating phase. Friends and family would like to see you too, and in any case, sunshine is not injurious to your health.

Catching and Keeping Your Cancer Crab:

Did you fancy capturing a Cancer and making them fall head over heels in love? You better start behaving like a parent because this sign requires parental care as if it is some sort of a plant that requires water. First, ensure that a haven is constructed where such a one would be secure in their affectedness.

Fancy showing a genuine interest in their feelings and being available for company to listen and offer a hug? Prepare them their favorite comfort food for the day and don’t forget important days – Cancers have a pregnant memory for emotional moments. Leaving your Cancer happy is impossible if you do not sneak on his emotions and make sure that affection is a two way street. Restore the romance with affectionate warm gestures and lots of physical interaction. But be careful! Try to remain objective, emotional unavailability or treating their feeling lightly will take you to the Crabby Town. Don’t crowd them when they don’t want to go out and never use what they have shared with you against them. Also, keep in mind that their balance contains both types of security – financial and emotional. Remember that Cancer requires a lot of love, patience and tender care to flourish. Think of it as caring for a plant that is extremely delicate – it takes time to grow strong and blossom into breathtaking flowers.

Baby Cancer, be assured that your love can be compared with the deep blue sea, it can connect two different worlds together, can be tempestuous and is always reliable in any circumstance. Embrace your compassionate self, and while you’re at it perhaps try not to drown your significant other in oceans of your feelings, and yankoda earlier gayein. Write down a love narrative so heartbreaking even a solid crab’s shell may be ruptured in the feelings.

Money

Cancer, when it comes to money, you’re like a hermit crab in a shell: ferociously protective, and slightly off-center, from any danger that might appear. Your attitude to cash is quite volatile, changing with moon phases, which happen to be your ruling planets. One minute, you are wholly into tightfisting, penny-pinching as if begging with your crabs claws, while the next you are showering yourself with all the fatty food imaginable and fluffy furnishings.

But here’s the tea: your intuition is your best wallet. You can spot a disastrous financial investment miles away, Michael Collins is a fraud to people chumming the waters with gory details. Plus, your ability to empathize and understand people gives you a great knack for picking up market sentiment trends. Just remember, oh tender heart, that not every financial decision is called for to bypass the feelings – some of the time, the calculator has to come out of retirement!

Work Zones of Interests: The Speedboat of Cancer

Nursing or any Medical Profession: Because caregiving is literally your middle name.

Café Proprietor: Nourishing? It’s as essential to breath to you.

Property Dealer: It bursts your heart to help other people in obtaining the home of their dreams.

Counselor: Anyway, you’re the unofficial mic for everyone seeking emotional spas.

Executor of the Auction: Thrift shopping for home decor with a history? Yes, please.

Career Superpowers and Kryptonite

Strengths:

Intuition: Your gut feeling is more accurate than a Swiss watch.

Empathy: Most don’t read emotions as effectively as you do books.

Tenacity: When you have a goal, you treat it as a barnacle treats a ship.

Creativity: Your imagination is whale smacked with catnip.

Frugality: You can squeeze a penny so hard that it forces even Lincoln to cry.

Weaknesses:

Moodiness: The fluctuations in your feelings are crazier than a pendulum during an earthquake.

Oversensitivity: You have a very difficult time with criticism as if someone smack your face with a sledgehammer.

Risk aversion: You will go to any extent to avoid any kind of financial risk, the Louis Vuitton kind in this case.

Pessimism: There are times when you are so sure about something bad happening than how doomsday preppers are.

Nostalgia: Your clinging to the past more often than not than a stubborn bad habit, hindering your progress.

Most of the children enter into sports activities after attaining a certain age. However, there are few kids who showcase incredible skills at an early age. There are a few activities like swiming which are done by a parent in the water and for most parents, you do not have to pay more than the cost of the entry.

Office Shenanigans: Cancer and Coworkers

In the office, you play the role of the nurturing parent, someone ready to listen or provide a comforter and more importantly glue the team together. Above all your colleagues in overworked picky Mondays love the fact that you are maternal. You are that person who scuttles up the family theatrics as plankton does to the ocean; grab hold of a tumbler and hover before you choke the words ‘group hug’, become younger still.

Pro tip: Although a hearty nurturer you may be, restrain in being overzealous as some individuals do not require to be treated like an infant. There are times when you ought to be professional because your coworkers only need you to be their colleague and not their mother. During those times, do not scold yourself. Strike a compromise between care and professionalism.

Leveling Up: Boosting Your Career and Cash Flow

Look for risks: Always assume and know that some investments will not bite you back.

Use your staff: Management is about people and facts, let them work for you.

Network with heart: The most difficult part of any attempt at building relationships is about engaging emotionally with your audience.

Do not put your eggs in one work basket emotionally: It is never appropriate to have intense feelings about one job.

Let your house be a source of income: Rent it out through sites like, use it as a home-office or small business headquarters.

Taurians sure know how to save money. Likeness of Cancer in the real life is that sense of protection and care is blistering even when it comes to pulling out some finances. It is noteworthy that you can diligently save for any future plans (and one never knows it may take a decade to execute those plans). Your sense of recalling details in a matter is also your Achilles heel, since, in matters of finance, you are bound to be persistent never forgetting any loans, that you owe or someone owes to you.

Adjustable room is considered to be amazing as these could be turned into profit making centers in different ways including home or commercial businesses, real estate purchases and the like. And possessing those skills makes one almost the best money hunter out there – it is hard to beat you when there’s a deal on the table. Just don’t get too attached to it (or have no attachment at all) so much so that it sends you to make bad decisions. Live on the edge once in a while but keep the natural suspicion you have and this way you will put together layers and layers of money until you have a wall stronger than your shell.

Health

Your soul is a workable and beautiful one too Cancer! Your feelings wax and wane like the moon which could be either a blessing or smooth sailing. You are at the peak of happiness, and in the sweep of a second, you are oozing yourself into your shell like a head of a hermit crab who has consumed coffee. But the point is – you are too emotional. That’s your strength. It’s not what you will do to suppress your emotions and feelings – it’s how to ride them out.

Health tip: Prepare an emotional first-aid kit as well. Collect items that give you comfort: put on the softest blanket, brew your favorite tea, listen to happy tunes. It is like a blanket wrapped around you and made in a box and in case you feel the need for it, it is available. Alternately, keep a moon diary. Record your sensations associated with every phase of the moon. Maybe, it’ll turn out that you are more cosmic than you thought. This is out, like, a personal emotion-based weather report. New moon? Set those goals. For a full moon? Get it all out, lady!

Tummy Troubles: Your Second Brain Stresses

Your tummy is your second emotional center since it is the water sign that is controlled by the moon. This is the main reason why, in times of stress, the first to surrender is the abdomen – that is our most effective weapon, the digestive upset system. No more antacids, there are more pleasant alternatives that soothes the tummy. Fermented foods are your friends – think kombucha, kefir or kimchi. This is equivalent to sending a peace brigade to your internal organs. Get into the practice of aromatherapy. Putting peppermint oil to your wrist will work on an upset stomach better than any medication. Apply some around your wrists or add a few drops to the bathing water. There’s spaget for the body, now this is spage for the insides.

Physical Focus: Fluid Movements for Your Fluid Nature

You have a watery nature and so you desire more fluidity in your movements. Water makes you feel more at home as swimming is just like going back in time to the womb but with the better lighting or visual. However, see the other side of the coin and step out of the pool. You can also practice tai-chi or qigong. These gentle movements are pretty well for calming both when you are active and passive since it is movement-based meditation.

Since every now and then we all need to retreat back into our shells, how about doing some cardio at home? Make a soft and fluffy spot in the room, turn off the main lights and surround yourself with lots of pillows. It is similar to setting up your own little sanctuary where you want to do yoga and where you can’t help it but stretch and breathe and simply be.

Nutrition: The Food We Crave Most Finally Cares for Us

You care for others and for yourself when it comes to food, yet there are times when that mac n cheese comfort eating is unwarranted. Or better still, try easy versions of your favorite comfort food dishes. Who would not want to have some cauliflower mac and cheese? It is like comforting your inner self while your exterior self gives a warm welcome to your healthy choices. Then there is the matter of emotional eating. Rather than pushing it off, redirect it. When combing the house in search of a snack, opt for mood enhancing food. Dark chocolate, bananas and fatty fish are all believed to elevate mood. It is sort of like turning your food cravings into some form of self-care activity.

Pro tip: Make cooking a family affair. Invite your loved ones and cook together. It will take your need for togetherness and ensure you are well fed. Just try not to mother-hen for everybody too much, okay?

Fitness: Finding Your Flow

Workouts that you would consider nurturing rather than punishing are required. Have you checked aqua aerobics? It’s basically like a dance party in the pool. It’s easy on the joints yet a workout. Besides, for a Cancer, being in water is quite refreshing. There’s also dancing. No matter whether it’s ballet, contemporary or even pole dancing (hello core strength!), it all gives numerous opportunities to let you unleash your emotions through movements. It’s sort of like therapy only better because the music is great and you wear cool clothes.

Bonus: How about joining a recreational sports team? It provides a sense of belonging and takes care of your competitive side. Let’s not pretend it’s not there. Just be aware that this is about enjoyment and not about winning at all costs.

Mental Wellness: Embracing Your Emotional Intelligence

Cancer, your emotional sensitivity is a gift. Use your sensitivity in a more constructive manner, rather than seeing it as an handicap. Keep an emotion wheel handy. What do you do when you’re feeling as though the whole world is closing in on you? It is simply being a detective, of your heart that is.

Alternative idea: Add a gratitude daily log to your evening routine. Each evening, record three things you are thankful for in a gratitude journal. When your days are particularly rough, go through those notes. It’s sort of like making an emotional bank account for low days.

Introduce a ‘worry time’. For 15 minutes a day put all your anxieties to rest. After the time runs out, pretend that you have shut the door to all these worries. It’s like giving the worry-prone part of yourself a fun-limited outing.

Self-Care is Healthcare: The Cancer Health Mantra

Taking care of your health means caring for oneself, just as one cares for others. It’s as if one held the dual roles of parent and child in their health regimen.

We are in charge of our health but paying attention to how we nurture ourselves is inclusion. Yeah, you can nurture, but don’t forget to nurture yourself too.

Also, use touch. Being a water sign, you are most likely very comforted by physical warmth. Trying to hug me will probably reduce your cortisol levels, which can be quite beneficial for your immunity. What if I can not offer you a hug? A self-hug or hugging a weighted blanket where feeling safe embraces you even through a blanket.

Friendship

Part gourmet chef, part bag of emotions, part security blanket who happens to have blood running in his veins, such is a Cancer friend. They have cut out a significant slice of their commitment to nurture relationships and embrace emotions. These zodiac nurturers, like the gentle dew on grass, also add, quite consistently, a burst of warmth to any friendship. You would want retreat to their warm and secure hugs when it feels like the world is crumbling around you. They are the ones who understand when you are low and need someone to make you hot comfort food, a shoulder to cry on, or make a fort in the living room for movie night. For Cancer, you are wrapped with warm and nurturing concoction filled with food and love.

Cancers and the laughable stupidity of friendship:

Think of a friendship that doubles as a counseling session, involves feeding each other five course meals, and drifting through surprises from quite a while back. That is the Cancer’s story summarised in one single sentence. These crabs who come in the friend zone do so with all the delicacy of a summer shower, that neither equally different nor the same becomes a critical requirement for any development. They would be the ones calling your mom to wish her happy birthday, making collages out of the holiday pictures together or coming over sick and bringing you soup and crackers and a movie. The Cancers’ friendships are comparable to your teddy bears that bring back cohesiveness, assurance, and security when needed.

Why Cancer is Your Ride-or-Die:

Friends like these are your source of and reliable interpreters for feelings (they know your feels before you do)

Need a home away from home? Cancer’s real home can be yours second place

Did you have a long and bad day? Not on their watch! It would take you no time to be restrained by the outer warmth of the observant and caring person.

How to Tame a Cancer Friend:

Seeking to win the attention of a Cancer? Piece of cake (Carton holder will bake for you). Just take these steps:

Direct them to old family photos or any of their memento kept for sentimental purposes

Prepare to talk and talk about deeper emotions instead of casual talks

Use their mothering instincts (since they exist for the purpose of caring for other people) Make them feel free to unleash feelings of weakness within them (because they are clips for the emotional ones)

Maintaining Your Cancer BFF:

Now that you have caught a Cancer’s friend. Leaving the friendship is like removing a koala from a tree – they are that difficult. Luckily, they are a little clingy but in a good way, yes, that way. Here’s the secret sauce:

Make them feel emotional intimacy with you (how comfortable are you with inviting large groups of people to a shindig? Nobody, right. Why, because they prefer small groups)

Be emotionally available enough (thank you for understanding, but these individuals are a bit too lonely)

Even small gestures are appreciated (not that they don’t, but if you do, they will be impressed)

Be their sustenance (that is their greatest weakness)

The Most Ma Match:

Who has a good grasp of emotions? Usually it is stiff necked Taurus or wilful Pisces.

But let’s be real, Cancer can be friends with anybody who isn’t afraid to shed a tear and envelop them with a good hug. They connect deeply with a Scorpio whom only a chosen few can come close. It is easier for Cancer to befriend Virgos as they are able to provide protection to this emotional person.

And here you go – the Cancer friendship instruction is ready. Snuggle in, because when you know that this person is a Cancer, it is like wearing a ‘care climate’ hand knitted shawl. It is soothing, it is satisfying on the emotional level and it is the least reported friendship that one will have. But carry wipes – for the happy as well as the sad crying. As for Cancer friend, life becomes clips of experiences full of memories and emotions with the ability to forget every bad thing. They are the ones who will teach you how to be vulnerable, if you ever dare. How to cry from relief and how good it can feel. And how’s a true strong neck- without any conditions!