Cancer Character

You have an emotional warm and giving nature with which you bring sincerity and loyalty into all of your relationships. Your natural gift for nurturing others also makes you an excellent parent as well as a dependable friend and confidant. You learn as you go through life that those who give you a sense of security are to be valued and held close to you at all cost, for they in time come to make up your extended family.

Family

Your domestic life is very important to you. Being especially sensitive to family members your concern for their welfare makes you a bastion of emotional support. Under the rulership of the moon, you will find that your own emotions need a great deal of attention for they are the very essence of what will bring you self-understanding.

Security

Memories play an important role in your life as you tend to keep overlaying each new experience on a past one as if by comparing it you can somehow feel more secure, for it is security that you really want. nAlthough it is easy for you to initiate starts in others, you are not as sure of yourself on emotional levels and often need a lot of encouragment from those who love you.

Approval

More than other signs, one of your parents will play a very influential role in your life, setting the tone for what you expect to expereince and achieve during your adult years. It is past-generation approval that you really seek, and you will go out of your way to buld on traditions that were instilled in you during your formative years.

Love Life

You experience criticism in your love life for being attracted to those many years older than yourself. Yet, it is in these age differences that you seek to find secureness and the mature outlook you need in order to overcome your emotionally-reactive stance to life. Yet, you also find yourself being attracted to people who need you to balance their inability to emotionally feel life in all its warmth and sincerity that you know it to be.

Compatibility

You are compatible with Scorpio (whose probing and intensity gives you depth and courage to break free of draining and senseless attachments) and Pisces (who brings out your natural sense of compassion and gives you strength in your beliefs).

Karma

Your karma is to nurture loyalty and continuity in others and whether male or female there is a mothering quality to you that helps bring emotional growth and fullness to those in your life. The more you concentrate on your family the better you achieve this fullness that makes you feel secure.

Depth and Further Study

Since there is much more to Cancer than it's Sun Sign, you can get a deeper more thorough understanding of this sign by reading about the Cancer North Node, the Cancer Ascendant and the Cancer Part of Fortune.