Understanding more about Myself...

Cancer: June 21 - July 22

Your most likeable trait: LOYALTY

No one has ever said Cancerians are easy to understand. You may appear gentle,
kind, sympathetic, and a patient listener. Then someone asks for advice, and
you turn cranky, snappish, and appear to be completely indifferent to anyone's
problems but your own. You may wallow in self-pity and complain endlessly about
how mistreated you are by the world. Turn another page of the calendar and
suddenly you are back being helpful, solicitous, ready to do anything asked
of you.

What's your secret? Cancer, which is ruled by the Moon and has water as its
element, can be likened to the shifting tides of the oceans. Like the tides,
Cancer is the sign of powerful forces moving under the surface. That surface,
however, is quite difficult to penetrate, for Cancerians tend to build up an
elaborate array of defenses to hide their deep feelings and extremely sensitive.

Complex, fragile, unpredictable, temperamental, the typical Cancerian needs
a constant support and encouragement. You want desperately to be loved and
approved of but resent needing approval so badly. When you get what you need,
you give the best you have in return. Those who make you feel secure command
your undying loyalty. When you really care for someone there is nothing anyone
can say about that person that will make the least bit of difference. You
have a real blind spot when it comes to seeing a failing in those you love.

You tend to be a worrier and a silent brooder. People may pour out their hearts
to you, but the flow never goes in the other direction. You guard your secrets
well.

If offended, you do not strike back directly. Your method of retaliation is
to sulk, and it is often very effective. The technique is somewhat like being
whipped to death by a dozen strands of boiled spaghetti.

Cancer's symbol, the crab, has a hard outer shell that protects soft, vulnerable
flesh underneath. The same is true of Cancerians, who are often crusty, gruff
and grumpy, but possess a proverbial heart of gold. Beneath your tough exterior
you are a sentimental softie who will make any sacrifice for someone in need.
If someone asks for a favor, your first reaction will probably be no, but the
final answer is always yes. You should be judged not by what you say but by
what you do.

You are possessive. Anyone who becomes part of your life will never again
be entirely free. You try to stay in touch with friends, ex-lovers, former
spouses, business associates, persons you knew as children. If you let anyone
go out of your life, it is unwillingly and never completely. This reflects
your preoccupation with the past. An aura of nostalgia dwells about you; the
events and people of bygone years continue to inhabit your memory and usually
grow dearer to you as time goes by. You are devoted to family and home and
continue to believe in the old fashioned idea that marriage is forever—even
if the events in your own life contradict this.

It is hard to deceive you, for you can spot the tiniest nuances of behavior.
In fact, you are almost psychic in your intuitions. A photographic memory added
to intense powers of observation makes you extremely canny about divining other
people's inner motivations.

Cancerians are crab-like in their indirect approach to an intended target.
Observe a crab moving on a beach and you will notice its strange sidewise movement
toward a goal. People born under the sign of the Crab never take the direct
approach. You step to one side, then step to the other side and sometimes go
completely around. But you get where you intend to go.

If channeled in the right direction, your enormous sensitivity can be a greta
source of strength. Once you overcome your shyness and touchiness and master
your turbulent emotions, your intellect and imagination enable you to become
a success in almost anything you undertake. Contrary to the impression you
often give, you can be shrewd and canny in business. Cautious, conservative
in your approach, you possess an antenna that quickly gauges public taste and
opinion and senses new trends in the making. This instinct for business combined
with imagination is visible in such famous fashion designers as Bill Blass,
Oscar de la Renta and Pierre Cardin.

Cancer people hold on to money as tenaciously as they do to everything else
that belongs to them. To you money spells security, yet no matter how much
wealth you accumulate you never feel really secure. That is true of your emotional
security also. A Cancerian never gets enough love and approval, you always
need more. it is very easy to fall in love with this loyal, devoted, affectionate,
and protective Moon-child.