ing others, safeguarding children or fostering growth in a company. You
may express strong sentimentality due to your attachment to the past,
and can be especially tenacious with situations, people and your goals.
Emotional sensitivity is simply a part of your essence, although your
protective shell can fool people.
Even when you’re expressing your assertiveness and will, your emotional
sensitivity acts as a filter. You innately know that expressing your mascu-
line side has nothing do with acting like a man, but that, instead, you
can assert yourself and enjoy the edge that being a woman confers. Your
projection of the masculine has a feminine quality—Cancer is a femi-
nine water sign! Before you can readily assert yourself, you must “get a
feeling” for the person or situation; it’s almost as though you turn inward
before you turn outward. It may be difficult for you to stand up to boister-
ous, power-hungry individuals, and your shields are likely to go up when
you’re confronted with circumstances that seem to assault your vulnera-
bility. However, once you’re more at home with a situation, your sensi-
tivity will help you navigate through it more gracefully than some of
those rowdy types of individuals. You appreciate sensitive men, although
you may attract men who need to be mothered. As you’ve discovered,
there are many ways to nurture.... However, you may also think you
need a man to protect you. When you step back and look at it, who is
protecting whom? Your drive to accomplish recognition may be stimulat-
ed by your need to create the security you need for yourself and your fam-
ily, and once you have children, they may take first priority.
Regardless of your priorities, you will feel successful only when you’ve
created a real sense of security with your Sun in Cancer. Defining this
security is a very personal thing, and you must be happy with your own
definition. Your work, your roles within your family, and your creativity
all depend upon your sensitivity in this regard, since when you’re inse-
cure, you hang on tenaciously to everybody and everything. But when
you’re feeling stabilized, you don’t even over-water the plants! (From
“Woman to Woman,” by Gloria Star. Courtesy of Matrix Software
[http://thenewage.com] and Gloria Star [[email protected]].)
Responding to the revival of interest in pre-twentieth-century astrology, J. Lee
Lehman developed a report program embodying the interpretive approach of tradi-
tional astrology. The following is excerpted from her book Classical Astrology for Mod-
ern Livingand her computer program “Classical Report”:
You are inconstant, easily changing your purpose, and sensitive to
changes of Moon phase. You are innocent, cheerful, libidinous, and a
lover of recreations like music, dancing, sports and games. If stressed,
you suffer from poor digestion, and you have a tendency to edema, or
water retention.
You are a Water Sign, which means that you are “cold” and “wet.” The
“wet” component means, among other things, that you blur distinc-THEASTROLOGYBOOK [119]
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