Are you a Cancer? Heres everything you need to know about your zodiac sign
High tides and wild mood swings, let’s talk Cancer.Ruling the skies from roughly June 21 – July 22, and the bulk of the summer months in the Northern Hemisphere, Cancer energy is intuitive, creative, emotionally heightened, and decidedly defensive.Cancer folk are symbolized by the crab, a creature with two physical states: the hard-shelled and the molted, utterly vulnerable.Cancer natives similarly oscillate between the extremes of emotional withholding and all-out martyrdom.When harmed, living things develop strategies to guard against further injury, and Cancers recognize early on the need to defend their soft, assailable underbellies from the world at large.A wise Scorpio I know described the nature of Cancer as “emotionally sunburned.” Here for the ‘hurt so good,’ they hold on to pain like a cherished family heirloom, believing survival to be its own kind of success. As a cardinal sign, Cancer is associated with the changing of seasons and the initiation of action.
Cardinal energy is expressed in Cancer folk through the curation of an emotional environment.Cancereans move through the world within their own kind of weather, easily able to cast shadows, sunshine, heavy fog, and sudden downpours on others. Keen emotional intelligence, coupled with a borderline psychic ability, translates to an almost supernatural sensitivity and ability to meet the needs and treat the ails of others.Cancer is ruled by the moon, the fastest-moving and deepest-feeling celestial body.
The moon is moody, and so too are its children, as Cancers are governed and oftentimes outgunned by their instinctual emotional responses.Just as the moon has the capacity to control the tides, so do Cancer folk have the responsibility to control their feelings.When Cancers succeed in this, they are receptive, compassionate, and unwaveringly nourishing to those around them.
A Cancer in control is able to intuit the needs of others and meet them in clear ways.When they wile out, however...