Some Famous Cancerians:
Henry VIII (June 28, 1491)
Princess Diana (July 1, 1961)
Prince William
Camilla Parker Bowles(July 17, 1947)
Mike Tyson
Julius Ceasar
Nelson Mandela (July 18)
Barbara Stanwyk
Pamela Anderson
Kevin Bacon
John Cusack
Tobey Maguire
Forest Whitaker
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Cancerians have a retentive
memory, particularly for emotionally laden events which they can recall in detail for years afterwards. they are strongly governed by childhood memories and since they live intensely in the past in memory and in the future in imagination, a chance meeting with someone for whom they had an unrequited love, even if they thought they had conquered the feeling, will
easily rouse the emotion all over again.
Their abilities fit the Cancerian for a wide range of occupations. As they
are interested in what people are thinking and able to judge what they can
safely be told, they can be good journalists, writers or politicians,
though in this last capacity they are more likely to remain in the
background rather than attain prominent positions of power. They may,
indeed, change their party affiliations. They can serve in other
departments of public affairs, especially those which involve looking
after others, for example in any kind of service from welfare and nursing
to catering - their own love of comfort and good living makes the
Cancerian an excellent chef or housekeeper. They sometimes have a penchant
for trade or business and are often successful as a captain of industry.
This is because they are excellent organizers with a good sense of value
and economy which they may combine with a flair for inventiveness and
originality. The romantic side of their natures make them enjoy grubbing
about in places where exciting discoveries may be made (old stamp
collections in attics, etc.), and if they can do this professionally as a
secondhand dealer or specialist in antiques, they will be happy. More
common occupations which suit some subjects of Cancer are real estate
broker, gardener and sailor.
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| General Traditional Cancer
Traits:
Emotional and loving
Intuitive and imaginative
Shrewd and cautious
Protective and sympathetic
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An astrological analysis of
my personality in all areas of life
Romantic vision and the gift of imagination
You are one of the world's true romantics, for your intensely active
imagination must always inject into ordinary circumstances an aura of
meaning, potential and purpose without which you find daily life
inconsequential and sometimes suffocating. The great strength of your
nature lies in your well-developed relationship to the creative power of
the unconscious, which allows you to look into the future and envisage
potentials which are not immediately apparent in the present. Because of
this, you tend to see opportunities which others miss. You have a habit of
living mostly in the future, always looking toward the next project and
the next stage of the journey. Yours is a temperament which will never
stagnate, because whatever you have accomplished, it is experienced not as
a final achievement but as a temporary stage on the way to something
bigger, better, more enriching and more meaningful.
Another strength in your character is your ability to appreciate the
connections between apparently disparate facts and circumstances, and to
see a story or a hidden pattern which others might ignore. You often have
an instantaneous grasp of all the important factors in a situation, and
can leap with a kind of hunch or "sixth sense" to a conclusion
which is usually extremely accurate yet which you may not always be able
to explain logically. You may or may not literally gamble with money, but
you are probably willing to back your stronger hunches with effort, and
therefore often obtain rewarding experiences or material gains through
means which others would not dare to try. There is a quality of liveliness
and colour about your interpretations of life which makes all your
experiences seem like worthwhile lessons. Bad times cannot keep you down
for long, for the next opportunity is always just around the corner. Mere
security with no future creative possibilities is a kind of death to you,
and you will often abandon your efforts just when they are about to bear
fruit because it is the challenge and the journey, rather than the goal,
which excite you most (which my constant moves across the Atlantic are
living proof of!)
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The romantic vision
rejects life's limitations
However, because of your emphasis on the imaginative and intuitive side of
life, you run the risk of forgetting worldly limits. You tend to be on
rather poor terms with day-to-day reality and its responsibilities and
demands, because these thwart the vision that means so much to you. You
may resent the boredom of a routine job, feeling secretly that you are
entitled to something more special and glamourous; or you may dislike
having to bind yourself to domestic obligations because these stop the
flow of the imagination. You may also resist having to select one thing to
which you must apply yourself, preferring to feel that you have many
potentials open in the future; and this could result in you becoming a
"jack of all trades" who dabbles in everything and produces
nothing lasting. This is the "one day when I grow up..."
syndrome, which may be appropriate in youth but which begins to feel
rather uncomfortable with the passing of the years.You tend to neglect
your body, or drive it too hard. You may forget at times to rest and eat
sensibly; and the world of mechanical objects may seem personally inimical
to you because things constantly break down and need attention and fixing.
Having your time filled by tasks like servicing the car and doing the
monthly accounts can make you extremely irritable. But the more you ignore
this side of life the worse it tends to get, and there will not always be
someone else there to clean up the mess which you leave behind. Your lack
of attention to your body may result in problems with your health, not
because you are intrinsically unhealthy - in fact, you are probably
blessed with a strong and energetic constitution - but because any living
thing, (yes I am!) including the flesh of which you are made, resents
neglect and may retaliate with a message of its own. You are inclined to
be ill at ease with your body because you have not befriended it,
and thus
tend toward hypochondria, or an obsession with "mastering" the
body through strenuous diets and exercises which might be more punishing
than helpful because they are excessive. You will sooner or later need to
make better friends with the physical world. This effort can be rewarding
and exciting because your sensual nature, although often repressed or
neglected, is powerful and capable of great intensity and pleasure, and
your uncannily accurate intuition can also be applied to practical matters
to ensure your success. Any achievement of a material kind can be
enormously rewarding to you, and you possess a rare capacity to respond to
nature and to the beauty of the physical world - if you will only stop
running away from what you call "lower" or "unimportant".
In very personal matters such as sexual expression your unease with the
body can also make you shy and awkward, and here too there might be a
promise of much greater fulfilment if you can allow yourself to experience
the powerful demands of the instincts which you sometimes fear. Your
perception of physical reality may be too negative, and it is possible
that family attitudes in your early life have contributed to your
undervaluing of yourself in this realm of life. If you can learn the art
of being an ordinary mortal in a sometimes unromantic world, then your
unusual and powerful imaginative gifts will always bring you new
adventures as well as earning you concrete rewards.
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Sensitivity to others
combines with a creative imagination
Your imaginative abilities are supported by a deep instinctive insight
into human behaviour and motives. You have a profound response to the
world of symbols, myths and images, and may excel in one of the arts, such
as music, painting, dance or theatre, where your ability to intuit
character and mimic it in plastic forms may give you exceptional talents.
Or you may combine your imagination and your sensitivity to the handling
of others' problems, offering much sympathy and vision to loved ones or to
those whom you might choose to counsel or help. Your grasp of the
potentials of a situation combines with sensitivity and compassion for the
needs and problems of others, and this lends a human touch to the strange
and often uncanny abilities of your intuition. Your great gift lies in the
sensing of human potential and the deeper and more meaningful lessons to
be found in life's dilemmas; and you blend this with gentleness and a
sense of timing that can allow you to midwife this potential in yourself
and in others. Your imagination never divorces itself from the world of
human feelings because your perceptiveness and concern will always keep
you related to other people, so that all your creative hunches and
inspirations ultimately work to enhance and enrich interpersonal
relationships.
Your deepest challenge in life, however, still remains the problem of
earthing your vision and sense of human potential within the confines of
material reality; and here your dependency upon human contact may make it
even more difficult for you to cope with the restrictions and
responsibilities that the world imposes upon you. Life sometimes requires
a tough survival instinct and a capacity to cope alone if necessary. Your
need to express your creative imagination through relationships with
others may cause you to fear the cold self-sufficiency that situations
sometimes demand of you. Occasionally too empathetic and idealistic for
your own good, you have difficulty in drawing boundaries around yourself,
and perpetually take on the burden of others' problems - not only because
you are compassionate, but also because you do not know how to be firm
about your own limits. And because your natural romanticism tends to
express itself through faith in the potential of a relationship, you find
it hard to face the imperfect reality of another person, preferring to
live in a fantasy-image of what he or she could become rather than
accepting the person who confronts you in actuality. You need to learn
greater detachment and a more objective vision of life, and also could
benefit from more overt stating of your ideas and needs to others - rather
than hoping to be instantaneously and telepathically understood. Not
everyone is as intuitive as you, and being able to be clear and direct
about who you are and what you want can help you to a much greater sense
of confidence in inhabiting that concrete world which you both fear and
yet ultimately must embrace in order to feel real and secure in life.
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III. CHARACTER AND
SHADOW
One of the most important insights gained by depth psychology has been the
revelation that people are dual in nature, and contain a basic polarity of
a conscious and an unconscious self. There is the individual you are
familiar with - the "I" that thinks, feels and acts in
accustomed ways which you identify as yourself. And there is another,
hidden individual - the shadow-side - which contains the less acceptable
and less developed aspects of your personality, and which fights for a
valued place in your life at the same time that it disrupts the
complacency of your self-image. The interplay between the conscious and
unconscious sides of you is a constantly shifting dance, changing at
different stages of your life and altering according to the pressures and
challenges which you encounter. The tension between the primary characters
in your inner drama, described in the following paragraphs, is the source
of energy which provides your life with movement, purpose, conflict and
growth. There are other characters inside you too - supporting players who
blend and conflict with the main ones to make you the unique individual
you are. Where these are strongly marked in your horoscope, we have
included a description of them as well. The story thus portrayed, with its
complicated interaction oflight and shadow, represents what is really
meant by individual destiny.
A romantic vision of life colours all your experiences "...And they
lived happily ever after" is the way you would end all the chapters
of your life, given the chance. Your romantic spirit believes in true love,
goodness rewarded, evil punished, the essential fairness of life, and the
ultimate achievement of all your rosy and glorious dreams. You tend to
dwell up in the air a lot, but that is not because you are naive or
stupid. It is just that what other people call real life does not agree
with your picture of things. In a crisis or emergency you can be practical
enough, and somehow your survival instincts inevitably attract to you
precisely the right people and situations to help you cope - although you
would disclaim any responsibility for this, preferring to believe that it
is just another example of the benign workings of the cosmos. You
determinedly turn your back on anything ugly, sordid, brutal or unfair as
though by ignoring it, it will cease to exist; and often, if you wait long
enough, that is exactly what happens, because somebody else deals with the
problem. You exude a quality of childlike brightness and charm which
disarms even the most manipulative of souls, and without having to say
much, you tend to restore even a more disillusioned person's belief in the
Never-never-land.
A firm belief in the good, the true and the beautiful Beauty and
harmony are essential to you, and you are capable of working very hard and
devoting most of your energies to the task of acquiring them. You not only
believe that life ought to be fair, pleasant, luxurious and peaceful; you
have a firm conviction that you are entitled to happiness, and that if you
do not possess it as a permanent fixture then something has gone seriously
wrong. It might surprise you to discover how many people do not
automatically assume, as you do, that such happiness is their right; but
although you might feel sorry for such people because of their negative
attitudes and low aims, you are not deterred from your determination to
manifest your radiant inner picture of the world in your actual concrete
life. Physical beauty also means a great deal to you, and you are neither
the world's best budgeter of finances nor are you temperamentally equipped
to live for very long around cheap, ugly surroundings. It is not money in
itself that matters to you - very likely it has a way of sliding through
your fingers as soon as you get it - but style, pleasure, luxury and that
indefinable something which is called "good taste".
You are
also convinced on some profound unconscious level that the universe is
fair, and if something unpleasant happens in the world then somebody must
have at some time done something to deserve it, or the cosmos has some
ulterior motive in mind; and at the end of it all, the good will triumph.
You have a highly idealised picture of what you call love, and the
romantic trappings of courtship are a necessary part of relationship to
you - flowers, music, candlelight and romantic words and gestures. Without
constant demonstrations of affection, you shrivel like a plant without
water. Never mind if you are sometimes a little mannered, stylised and not
always true to your real and immediate feelings in how you express love;
it matters to you that courtesy, charm and kindness are always present. If
they are not, you are quite capable of moving elsewhere, not because you
are disloyal - at least, you are loyal to your ideal if not in actual
practise - but because you cannot bear your romantic dream of love being
tarnished by boorish behaviour, cruelty or neglect, no matter how much
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The dilemma of feeling like
an eternal child on christmas eve
Some part of you has refused to "grow up" and "face reality",
and nothing in the world can convince you that this is a bad thing. As far
as you are concerned, growing up means becoming dead inside, and facing
reality means selling it out; and you value your innate capacity for joy,
spontaneity and childlike wonder too much to sacrifice it for the
emptiness, boredom and defeat which others label maturity. You believe in
your own unique destiny and in your right to people the world with
handsome princes, beautiful princesses, dragons to be fought and treasures
to be won; and if the actual people in your life fail to live up to your
mythologised image of them, then it is the people who have failed, not
your vision. You have certain innate assumptions about your own
specialness and your god-given right to love, happiness and the freedom to
pursue your pleasures, and although this can sometimes cross over the
border from childlike spontaneity to outright narcissism and egocentricity,
you offer your romantic vision of life with such charm and wholehearted
conviction that others forgive you anyway, even if you have inadvertently
been grossly insensitive to their feelings and their own individual
natures. (That is me if I am honest)...
You are truly a child at heart, and probably relate well to actual
children because of your delightful capacity to inhabit their
fantasy-world with them. (Yes I do)..Birthdays should have big parties
with beautiful cakes, and Christmas should have a marvellously decorated
tree and delicious surprises in the morning; and woe to anyone who tries
to force a utilitarian and dreary approach to life on you. You would be
happiest working in a creative field where your love of colour, drama and
excessive emotion can be expressed without constriction - particularly the
world of the theatre, of fiction or of poetry. Never mind that half the
world has unfinished novels in their desk drawers; you possess enough
imagination and believe enough in your own unique destiny to complete one.
(Any acting role for me out there??)
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A sentimental heart
adds charm and warmth
There is a quality of softness and gentleness in you which sometimes
borders on the sentimental, but which gives your personality enormous
delicacy and charm. You are the sort of person who could wear old-
fashioned styles with panache, and surround yourself with precious antique
furnishings to create a private, enchanted world within the drearier
actual one. You have considerable sensitivity to the feelings of others,
and your tact and diplomacy are useful gifts in any personal or
professional relationship. You are also acutely sensitive yourself,
reacting to coldness or criticism by scuttling back into your enchanted
private world where no one ever says an unkind word and where lovers are
always true to each other. You are moody and melancholy, with a kind of
"olde-worlde" touch of sadness like a character from a fin-de-siècle
novel;
but you are neither naive nor stupid about people, and know very
well how to protect your feelings and your security should the occasion
warrant. Thus you contain a strange paradox within you - a kind of hard
shrewdness and canniness combined with a determination to create around
yourself a gentle, slightly out of focus lifestyle which appears extremely
vulnerable and easily shattered. But you do not shatter easily. You bruise,
but your allegiance to your inner values is firm and unshakeable, and
eventually you come out of hiding to try again.
You tend to look back
at the past a lot, both your own (which you have a tendency to romanticise
and view through delicately tinted lenses) and the longer past, in the
form of history. Anything from the mists of medieval romance draws you,
for the world is full of knights alone and palely loitering and also full
of sleeping princesses waiting for the kiss of a lover to awaken. History
is also a place where you can inject your own interpretations without
threat of someone rising from the dead to contradict you. With all this
gossamer dream-spinning, however, you survive better than most, for you
mistrust people on principle until you get to know them, and stay as far
away from their potential hurtfulness as possible.
Excessive idealism in love can lead to disappointment You do not believe
in loneliness, separateness or conflict. That may sound absurd, for these
things are part of life; but nevertheless, you do not believe in them, and
when you are confronted with them you generally react by first becoming
disillusioned with the person or situation who has made you feel bad, and
then looking elsewhere for that perfect ideal which continues unstained in
your fantasies. You long for a state of oneness - a kind of mystical
soul-union with another person, or a spiritual revelation - which will
end, once and for all and forever, the awful experience of being lonely
and separate, which you are determined to transcend. Plato's fable about
the original unity of the sexes which was sundered somewhere in the
distant past and which has resulted in all men and women seeking their
true other half, is very real to you, for this is your view of love and
also your view of life; and life is not worth living without such a love.
You are more prone than most people to being disappointed, because your
expectations are so high. You have a quality of poignant melancholy which
responds readily to certain kinds of music as well as to alcohol, and
which makes you seem a little too precious and fragile at times.
Closing thoughts (exact)
Although
in reality you are stronger than you seem, for your determination to avoid
the bleak, cold world that others call reality is immovable, and nothing
can quench your dreams. If they are irrevocably thwarted in the outer
world, then you retreat into the inner, and can sometimes seem to be
abstracted, aloof and inaccessible. What you sometimes inject into your
personal relationships is really a kind of mystical longing - a desire to
give up control and responsibility, and merge with a greater, more
transcendent whole. If you can pursue this longing through a spiritual or
creative rather than a human channel, you may find that people disappoint
you less; for they can never provide you with the sense of all-embracing
unconditional love that you seek - and believe you are prepared to give,
if only you could find a suitable object. Very likely the only really
suitable object is God, for if you offer so much of your own self to
another person it can become a burden rather than a gift. Your compassion
for others is very strong, particularly for the sad, lost part of people
which seeks its redemption above and beyond worldly confines; for your
perception of a higher and more loving dimension of life is not a false
one. But perhaps you need to refrain from expecting it all the time, or
demanding it from others quite so often.
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