The Cancer Zodiac Sign: Traits, Love, Career and Compatibility

Cancer is a very emotional sign, and their feelings are the most important thing in their relationships. Gentle and caring, they will show their sensitivity to the world without ever thinking they might get hurt. For partners, they always choose a person who is able to understand them through non-verbal, silent contact, and a shared daily routine. Their affection will not last long with superficial, flaky or unreliable partners.

The lack of initiative these individuals suffer from will not make it easy for them to build a sex life they wish for, if they do not find a partner able to make them feel calm, protected, and free to be themselves. Cancer needs safety before it needs anything else, and a partner who provides that reliably unlocks a warmth this sign shows almost nobody.

This is a dedicated sign, ready to make many unhealthy compromises only to keep their image of a family going. They could choose partners who are in a way selfish or abusive, and their loyalty will keep them there long past the point where they should have left. Shared responsibility and a life together with their partner makes them feel secure and ready for the next step in life, but it can also be the thing that keeps them somewhere they have outgrown.

Compassion and understanding that a Cancer shows to send your way should not ever be taken for granted, or they will show you just how bad of a match you are in the long run. This sign does not usually announce that it is hurt. It withdraws, and by the time a Cancer has genuinely withdrawn, the decision has often already been made internally.

Friends - When it comes to friendships, Cancer representatives will gladly connect with new social contacts, but they are extremely sensitive of people not approved by their closest surrounding. Filled with respect for people they communicate to easily, they see all contacts through their emotional prism rather than simple curiosity or status. Most of all they enjoy socializing at home, where intimate atmosphere can be made and deep understanding shared in circumstances under their control.

Intuitive and compassionate, they are sometimes impossible to understand from an extremely rational point of view. A Cancer friend does not always give you the advice that solves the problem. They give you the response that makes you feel less alone with it, which is frequently the thing that was actually needed.

Family - Cancer is the sign of family and these individuals will care about family bonds and their home more than any other sign of the zodiac. Deeply sentimental, they tend to diligently preserve family memories, keeping them intact for years. When their personal lives are fulfilled, they make wonderful, caring parents that seem to know how their children feel even when they are miles apart.

Their difficulty is boundaries. A Cancer will absorb a family's emotional weather as though it were their own, and take responsibility for moods they did not cause and cannot fix. Learning where they end and their family begins is frequently the work of a Cancer's whole adult life.

When a job needs to get done, a Cancer will roll their sleeves up and finish it successfully. If they are left alone to work, they usually perform better than when surrounded by other people, and they excel wherever care and trust matter more than speed. They will have great careers as nurses, housekeepers, gardeners, politicians and decorators.

For Cancer representatives, security and money are of great importance and stand for the real reason they work as much as they do. They earn well and they want to put money aside for a rainy day. It is their goal to save, invest, and watch their investments grow daily. Resourceful and good at managing time and finances, this is a sign that is often in charge of all money in the household, keeping their partner or other family members under control.

The risk in a Cancer career is staying too long out of loyalty. This sign will remain in a role, or with an employer, well past the point of usefulness because leaving feels like abandonment. Recognizing that a job is a job, and not a family, is often the single change that unlocks their earning potential.

A Cancer man is conservative just enough to know that initiative is important, but often fails to show it before he feels safe to do so. His partners need to make the first move, but still doing it subtly to let him still feel like he is leading the way. This is a complex individual, very sensitive, shy and overly protective of his loved ones. When he prefers women, he will subconsciously search for the ideal wife and mother.

A Cancer man is an emotional person, who loves to take care of other people. He wants to feel needed, and protective, receiving a lot of attention from his partner through kind words and subtle comments and compliments to make his day. Although he can be moody, pessimistic and clingy, he is a creative and generous partner to search for someone to share a life with.

The thing that most often derails him is his indirectness. He will not ask for what he needs, and then feels quietly wounded when it does not arrive. A partner who learns to ask him direct questions, and who does not punish him for the honest answer, will find that most of the moodiness this sign is famous for simply dissolves.

Cancer personality can be quite complicated, with deep inside they are home-loving and conservative people. A Cancer woman is vulnerable, emotional, and not likely to quickly fall in love. Once her trust is earned, she will be passionate and loyal. In order to seduce her, one has to be proactive and make the first move, respecting her need to be treated like a lady. She is not the right choice for someone in search for a one-night stand, and needs more from her partner than just casual encounters.

Romantic and ready to love, this woman needs a romantic partner who believes in love, while also in tune with her unspoken feelings. She reads a room faster than she can explain how, and a partner who dismisses that instinct will lose her respect gradually and then completely.

Despite her cautious nature, a Cancer woman is deeply sensual, and once she feels secure enough to show her true personality her emotions come through in an intimacy few partners forget. To build a lasting relationship with her, a partner has to be faithful, respectful and honest, because she does not forget betrayal and becomes rigid and unpredictable once she has been hurt.