Basic facts about sun sign Cancer

Sun sign - Cancer
( June 21 – July 22)

DUALITY Feminine

TRIPLICITY (ELEMENT) Water

QUADRUPLICITY (QUALITY) Cardinal

Cancer is receptive, sensitive, and imaginative, sympathetic, kind, and emotional, and possesses an active, shrewd, and intuitive mind.

RULING PLANET The Moon: Earth’s one satellite, which waxes and wanes and exerts a powerful magnetic influence. In astrology, the Moon governs emotions and intuitive behavior.

SYMBOL The Crab: Possessing an impenetrable exterior covering soft flesh underneath. At the first sign of danger, it withdraws into its shell and scuttles back to the sea, where it feels safe.

GLYPH (WRITTEN SYMBOL) The pictograph represents the claws of the Crab. It is also a picture of the human breasts (a part of the anatomy that Cancer rules). In symbolic terms, the glyph is two circles of the Sun connected to two crescent moons. The moons represent Cancer’s desire to store memories and possessions; the circles tied to the moons represent force and energy expressed through emotions and imagination.

DOMINANT KEYWORD I FEEL.

POLARITY Capricorn:
Cancer is the sign of home and family life. Cancerians seek close personal relationships and are happiest surrounded by the familiar and those whom they love. Capricorn, Cancer’s opposite sign, is the sign of reputation and public standing. Natives of Capricorn are concerned with the image they project, and they search for power and fulfillment in the outside world.

PART OF THE BODY RULED BY CANCER The breasts and stomach: Cancerians love to eat and have to fight weight gain in later years. They are also subject to digestive ailments caused by tension and emotional stress.

LUCKY DAY Monday LUCKY NUMBERS 3 and 7

MAGICAL BIRTHSTONE Pearl: Changes bad fortune into good and discord into harmony. It also brings support from influential people.

SPECIAL COLORS Sea green and silver: The shimmering colors of the water and the moon.

CITIES Venice, Amsterdam, New York, Algiers COUNTRIES Scotland, Holland, New Zealand

FLOWERS Larkspur and Acanthus TREES Trees rich in sap

METAL Silver

ANIMALS RULED BY CANCER Those with shell coverings

DANGER Cancer people are susceptible to accidents in the home. They are also prone to becoming victims of theft.