Cancer man

Cancer man profile - personality traits & characteristics

Loving, gentle, intimate and understanding the Cancer man is kind but not soft, and will often know exactly what you're feeling and how best to support you emotionally. Highly intuitive, emotional and sympathetic, he's a well of support and strength, often knowing exactly how to make you feel good, cared for and protected.

The Cancer man is typically a romantic and devoted family man. He enjoys the home and everything associated with it, including a strong appreciation of food and cooking. He loves to help others and feel needed. Fiercely loyal and protective, he will do anything to ensure the happiness and security of his loved ones.

Cancer responds to life through emotions rather than through their minds. They tend to be highly sensitive to the needs and moods of others. Caring, intuitive, sympathetic, industrious, sociable and protective. Because they live in their feelings, they subconsciously seek sympathy and attention from others and have a strong need to feel secure. They are conservative, born worriers, who tend to keep problems to themselves, and can even be somewhat paranoid.

Emotionally, they can be up one minute and down the next. Depending on how you look at it, these mood swings are sometimes difficult for others to understand and deal with, and equally they make for a particularly dynamic lover who is rarely stale or boring.

Cancer man as a lover

An interesting and unique sign in this area, Cancer is ruled by the moon, and as such is the most feminine sign. Whilst ‘feminine’ in this respect covers a huge number of positive, relationship enhancing traits, it also covers a large number of potentially negative ones. Whether you get the positive set or the negative depends on how well you can read and care for him.

If you're able to pick up on and empathize with other peoples emotions this is a wonderful, caring and warm sign, and everything you've read about them being so nurturing and supportive is true. If you aren't sensitive enough to pick up on others emotions however, then your perfect Cancer lover may become increasingly distant, as your tally of 'neglect' grows. In this respect, in the long term this is an all or nothing guy, with relationships getting either progressively better, or progressively worse.

Cancer man sexuality

In line with the above comments on shifting moods, sex can also be highly variable and dynamic. If you’re in-tune with him this can make for a fantastic range of lovemaking styles, though always with an underlying romantic current and flavor. Again though, if you have trouble reading and empathizing with his moods you may start to feel like nothing you do can please him.

In short, cancer is an unpredictable sign, with a little of everything at different times. This can make them far more exciting and unpredictable lovers than the standard nurturing image would portray. While being perfect for almost anyone, this can equally make it very hard for a less emotional partner to give them exactly what they need at any given time.

The common advice is to tell a Cancer partner that you love them 20 times a day. While this certainly works, it misses the point, that they want to be understood. Because they’re so good at understanding and empathizing with others they feel let down when this isnt reciprocated, regardless of whether through neglect or a lack of the needed emotional skills to do so.

Using astrology to really understand a Cancer man

It’s important to note that we’re only considering a persons sun sign in this article. There are many other planets which can have an equal or greater effect on their personality. Makes sense, as ultimately everyone is of course unique.

Your own personality is also a significant factor. How you see someone, and how they see you is a matter of personal perspective. It’s why you may think someone is wonderful, while your friend can’t see it.

To fully understand someone or how compatible you are with them (the two are ultimately the same thing) we need to calculate those other planet placements from their date of birth, and compare them to your own, and then interpret the results.

This unlocks the real power of astrology, and gives much more useful and specific information – everything from how they view you, how to turn them on, how to avoid arguments etc. If you would like to explore this further please see the astrology compatibility reports page.

Cancer man - other articles and guides

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