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June 22 to July 22
CANCER
(THE CRAB) The highly evolved Cancerian is the master of many moods. The whole gamut of emotion lies open to him; he can feel, and makes others feel, joy, sorrow, compassion, horror, and despair as no other type can, seizing the imagination and holding it by the power of his imagery and the intensity of his own feelings. The past and future are as real to him as the present. His memory is retentive, and the history of his own nation, family, or class is immensely important in his eyes. He is the teacher par excellence, and cares little for smoothness or outline or grace of form so long as he can drive his lesson home. His style is picturesque, vivid, often dramatic; and he continues to deliver and redeliver his message, changing and adapting its form while preserving its essence, until he succeeds in arousing the attention of his audience and kindling his enthusiasm. Public speakers of all kinds are found under the influence of this sign, as also editors and literary men who have a strong personal hold over their readers, and actors and dramatists in whom imagination is a predominant feature. These people love to come into touch with the public, to claim its interest and stimulate its imagination; and if large audiences are unattainable and a public career impossible, the natural bent will find scope and outlet in the schoolroom or among friends and relatives. Affections are strong and the maternal element particularly marked. No lapse of time or separation by distance ever seems materially to lessen love or friendship or weaken family ties. The son is as near to the heart and as present to the mind of the Cancerian parents as he was in his infancy, so that the sense of separation hardly exists, and long voyages are permitted or undertaken by this type with a composure and pleasure which many less deeply devoted to home cannot begin to understand. Early memories of childhood and old ties of friendship are a treasure for Cancerians, who will correspond for years with people to whom they were attracted in their teens, have never met since, and are not likely to meet again. The striking success of this type in the field of teaching is partly due to this tenacity of recollection, and to the vivid pictures of childhood and youth. His memory frequently carries him back to babyhood, faithfully recording striking experiences of the third and fourth years and sometimes even the emotions experienced at eighteen or twenty months in connection with certain clearly recorded scenes. This fact, together with the sensational tendency of the sign, makes early training and education extremely important.
Injudicious or unsympathetic discipline may cause him
suffering quite out of proportion to his faults and
shortcomings. Injustice rankles long, and even when the
victim is sufficiently large-minded to understand and
forgive it, his retentive memory makes it impossible for
him to forget. It is not always easy to hit on the right
discipline for this type. Severity is useless, coercion
almost impossible; force may ensure outward obedience
for a time, but it always engenders fierce resentment,
and sooner or later the inborn tenacity reasserts
itself, and the Cancerian goes on his own way at the
first opportunity. Nevertheless, the nature is loving,
loyal, and sympathetic. Tales of chivalry and heroism
are excellent for the active and ever-growing
imagination, which craves constant nourishment, and
which, if starved, is apt to become morbid, leading to
untruthfulness, both willful and unconscious.
This type is very romantic
and imaginative where the affections are concerned,
though often too shy or proud to betray the fact; for
ridicule is torture to the Cancerian. In consequence,
the story of his love affairs is frequently a tragic
sequence of misunderstandings and heartaches. The
patience and tenacity of the sign show in this as in all
other matters, and a misplaced affection, even if
apparently conquered for a time, will recur and reassert
itself in spite of everything that reason and common
sense and worldly wisdom may say against it. When such a
love as this - strong and lasting - is based on real
sympathy and understanding, and is triumphant in the
end, the happiness attained is as intense as the
previous suffering was severe; for where feeling is
concerned this type knows no half-measures, and its
love, which has much of the maternal element in it, is
characterized by a yearning to give, while asking for
little in return. Primitive Cancerians are the slaves, instead of the masters, of their moods. They are prey to sentimentalism, sensationalism, and exaggerated emotion of every kind - mere aggravating bundles of contradictions and inconsistencies. At the early stages this is often a very unhappy sign. A sense of latent power, as yet unexpressed and inexpressible, gives the undeveloped and absurd idea of their own importance and of the deference and consideration due to them from others. Moods of exalted self-sufficiency are followed by others of exaggerated shyness and humility. Fierce pride and independence alternate with helplessness and loneliness. There is as wide a difference between the two conditions as there is between the crab in his normal state, i.e., encased in his natural armor of plated bone, all knobs and joints and elbows and claws - ever ready for defense, if not for aggression - and the same creature at its period of growth, when it slips off its old shell and becomes scarcely recognizable - a thin-skinned, helpless, semi-transparent object, lying hidden in the crevices of the rock and trembling at the approach of every foe. In like manner, Cancerians will sometimes shun their fellow creatures for weeks, giving way to morbid feelings of self-consciousness, shyness and depression; after which they will emerge again and make some desperate effort to challenge the attention of their fellow men and regain their own self-respect.
We find a tendency to dramatic methods, a craving for
emotional experience which leads them at times to
heights of folly. A schoolgirl of this type found a
morbid pleasure in giving her classmates the impression
that she had gone mad; and a bright boy of sixteen
presented himself at school with his head elaborately
bandaged, and posed for a whole blissful day as the hero
of a dangerous accident, reveling in the sympathy and
interest of teachers and boys, recounting and
elaborating with gusto the exact circumstances connected
with his wholly imaginary injury. Of the same breed was
Tom Sawyer, and it is not surprising to find that the
horoscope of Tom Sawyer's biographer, Mark Twain, shows
us Jupiter, the planet representing the mental activity,
in this imaginative sign of Cancer.
The bony structure is
generally the most striking feature of the Cancerian.
The limbs, and especially the arms, are long in
proportion to the body; the shoulders are broad, the
hands and feet large, the skull of a generous size with
an overhanging brow, high cheekbones, and a pronounced
lower jaw, sometimes with irregular or rather prominent
teeth. The nose in the plainer specimens is often
insignificant, even in the handsome varieties it has an
inclination to turn up. The mouth is wide and
expressive, with a generous smile and great
possibilities for both of sweetness and of grimness. The
eyes are often short-sighted, deep-set, and wide apart.
The eyebrows are distinctly marked, sometimes almost
meeting with a decided downward curve, just over the
bridge of the nose.
The religious tendency
inspired by this sign is best understood by studying the
writings of the prophets of all times and nations. One
of the most striking examples is to be found in
Jeremiah, whose lamentations and other writings, full of
wonderful imagery and of deep feeling, show strongly and
unmistakably the influence of Cancer. The Cancerian
clings to his convictions and assumes and defensive at a
moment's notice if the faintest breath of criticism is
breathed upon his beliefs, customs, country, or family.
His outlook is apt to be pessimistic and he is too often
tempted to a force a change of mood by taking refuge in
alcohol. But all this moodiness, crustiness, and
angularity is only on the outside, and beneath the hard
shell beats a heart full of warmth, tender whenever it
has to deal with sickness or suffering, with the
impotence of infancy or the helplessness of old age. His
religion is simplicity itself as far as rites and
ceremonies are concerned. The emotional nature is generally too strong for the physical, and when they have been upset by bad news, or are anxious about some loved one, there is a strong tendency to exaggerate the symptoms and to become a prey to serious apprehensions of a complete breakdown. These terrors are increased if such a collapse would mean financial difficulties for the family; and as worry is one of the most fruitful causes of illness, grave symptoms may actually develop, brought about entirely by ill-controlled feelings and morbid imagination. Touchiness, bitterness, resentment, and hurt pride are serious factors to be dealt with in trying to keep the body healthy. Gloomy forebodings begin to hold sway, and the efforts of much-tried relatives to cheer the sufferer are often treated as heartlessness and want of sympathy. In fact, the Cancerian enjoys a good old revel in awful possibilities.
Among recreations for Cancerians, gardening should be
given a large place. The characteristics tenderness of
the sign comes out strongly in the care lavished on
seedlings and in the delight taken in their growth; and
those born with the Sun in this sign are sometimes
extremely successful in their horticultural efforts.
This is not reputed a long-lived type. Of those who do
survive to old age, many are hampered by recurrent
attacks of various commonplace and unromantic
afflictions - generally preventable - which interfere
with their usefulness and their serenity, especially if
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