Cancer

What Cancer tends to be like

Cancer loves to keep its people close. Cancer builds a shell around the ones it loves and calls it home. Cancer notices how a room feels, remembers who was kind, and takes its time to trust. Its moods come and go with the Moon. Cancer does not always explain them, and it does not need to. Cancer cares in a practical way, the kind that brings food, and can be fierce when someone it loves is in trouble. On a good day Cancer is the friend who notices you are not fine and the colleague who holds the team together. On a harder day Cancer retreats without warning, or holds on to a hurt long after the moment has passed. A good day for Cancer is one with a safe place in it and someone to share it with.

In love

Cancer loves by caring. Cancer wants to feel needed, is tender and a little guarded, and takes time to trust. Once close, Cancer gives everything, and a cool reply out of nowhere can leave it unsure for days.

At work

Give Cancer people to look after and a place that feels like its own. Cancer is at its best where loyalty is returned, where the work helps someone, and where the office does not change every quarter.

Creativity

Cancer makes things with memory in them. Cancer works from feeling, keeps everything, and does its best work when the subject is home, family and the past.

With family

At home Cancer is the heart of the household. Cancer feeds, remembers, worries and protects, needs a room of its own with the door shut when the world gets too loud, and forgives in its own time.