posted December 20, 2010 12:30 AM            

Riddle me this. Is it just me, or did Linda really not have a great amount of positive stuff to say about Cancer?

Do you also get a sense of bias towards the signs of Leo, Scorpio and Aries? I do understand she over-generalized a lot.

However almost every one of her chapters made Cancerians sound somewhat pathetic. Emotional, annoying, weak (she used these words a lot, albeit not in the same sentence). The only positives were usually about Cancers that 'recognized' and 'owned' their seemingly 'weak' nature.

Made reading it difficult and un-applicable in terms of compatibility with the sign, as I have a lot of strong, positive Cancerians in my life (most with several major planets in Cancer also).

Thoughts? Just musing.

MOJ xx

posted December 20, 2010 12:37 AM            

oh and welcome to LL

posted December 20, 2010 01:11 AM            

I take sunsign astrology books with a grain of salt. I don't own one. I have to take the whole chart into account.

However, I believe that there is truth in what astrologers write about in the sunsign books.

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No..I am not a Virgo.

posted December 20, 2010 05:26 AM            

Cancers can be a lot of things, so they are hard to pin down and describe to any one trait. Seriously. But one thing we (yep I'm a cancer) all have in common is that we're sensitive and we worry a lot. As most people do....but, we FOCUS on that because it's our role to fill others up with emotion. That's just how we are.

Now if Linda ever said that the other signs have to "tolerate" us, I take offense to that (kidding). Because we cancers don't make friends with people unless we know they can tolerate these kinds of things. It's what a true friend does ...and we make sure to choose loyal friends .

If you want to ask me whether I'm a pessimistic person, whether I'm a worrier, whether I'm weak and pathetic, all I can answer is that, Like everyone else, I try not to be. And that's all that matters

posted December 20, 2010 07:08 AM            

I got me the problem of having a rebellious streak for widely accepted concepts. To be honest, I was bored after a while in Love Signs, reading through the Cancerian archetype. Don't get me wrong - Cancerian complexity is legendary, for sure. As is Linda's insight. Just all seemed a bit 'emotionally unstable 50s housewife', how many Cancerians today are really like that? I am keen to read about the other side of Cancer. Just as surely as every Pisces isn't some pushover, or Scorpio isn't some manipulative dangerous recluse.

I don't have huge astrological experience yet, but do have three major Cancer placements, which is hear is a sh*tload. I think it can be beautiful and blessed influence on one's chart, especially if it's positively placed.

My point is, I thought Linda painted a somewhat one-dimensional picture of some of the signs, and was wondering if anyone found the same thing. It could just be me, though, and that's fair enough. Can't wait to soak up the wisdom of these forums.

Greetings to all from Australia. xx

posted December 20, 2010 07:23 PM            

Diablo - Tell me more.

MOCHAI - I completely agree, and yet do you find these people to be the stingy, emotional wrecks described in the books? I'm thinking not. My former man also had Mercury in Cancer (as a double Gemini, this was obviously a major placement for him), and his mission in his communication was to 'save people' from their delusions.

The money thing, too - most Cancers I know spend like no tomorrow, and the stingiest person I ever knew in my life was a triple Aquarius (my dad).

By the way, what are all your signs?

MOJ xx

posted December 20, 2010 07:45 PM            

thats surprising, your leo friend doesnt want to change? even with all of that scorpio? wow

posted December 20, 2010 07:50 PM            

also interesting to note that I got that answer from my sister without asking...

posted December 20, 2010 08:02 PM            

And yes, you'd think that that much Scorpio in someone would signal transformation, wouldn't you? But the Leo possibly stands in the way. Over-dramatizing, hostile, me against the world attitude, extremely needy, run around in circles for years and years type of person. I CAN understand it, however I don't believe it's all as doomed. Insanely attractive and magnetic to the opposity sex, but ultimately 'persona non grata' for most who bother to invest and get to know. People just smell the bad energy and walk away. The general consensus, of course, is 'everyone's jealous of me'. And granted, a lot of people are. Yet, that is clung onto as a sense of pride and individuality, with no attempt at eliminating what it is that's keeping her stuck in the same dry, pointless emotional patterns 'poor me, I'm a the victim here'. A lot of talent and potential that never goes anywhere. Lives off male attention.

posted December 20, 2010 08:04 PM            

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Originally posted by NickiG:
you sure attract a lot of people with cancer placements

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When I focus on the higher mind, sex, death, and transformation.

Interesting.

and when I focus on creativity i attract aries

ist his the way it works...or is it more when just by default...since most my plantes are on the other side of the chart where I have cancer..