Protective like Max Gazzè; resentful as Courtney Love; wistful like Cat Stevens; passionate like George Michael: the sign of Cancer is one of the most complex and multifaceted of the zodiac. He throws the stone, takes his hand away; he seems naive and harmless, but he tangos with your emotions and, if he wants, he can get you to do anything. A large part of his accomplishment lies in his ability to build places in which to feel safe, and he takes a genuine and authentic pleasure in looking after the people and things he loves: home, hearth, people and family are everything for what, paradoxically, is at the same time one of the most independent signs of the zodiac.
Domestic harmony and her dedication to others counterbalance her determination and her need to find her own path and to stay the course at any cost. Extremely tenacious, at times competitive, where there is a goal or a goal to be achieved, cancer wears helmet and armor and is willing to do anything, even to perform actions that he himself would judge morally questionable, and believes that the end justifies the means . On the other hand, there is a veneer of altruism in everything he does: the end that justifies the means is none other than his own well-being as a necessary condition for the well-being of the people he loves and would like to care for. But, it was said, the sign is governed by the Moon: to break this balance a certain idealism intervenes which makes Cancer subjects hypercritical towards themselves, above all from a moral point of view, forcing them to a life of repentance, regrets and reproaches towards themselves themselves.
To make matters worse, there is also an iron memory: a Cancer never forgets anything, and is extraordinarily touchy. His fingers are full of threads: he ties everything up, and forgives only in fits and starts. Old grudges could resurface at any time and ruin any party. But they are the first to suffer from it, and also for this reason they often struggle to reveal their feelings, thus resulting in one of the most introverted signs of the zodiac. The Sign is also particularly prone to passion: the love of a Cancer is often total and immoderate. If reciprocated, then a relationship made of dizzying emotional peaks will be achieved and will bring so much joy and fullness of life; if misplaced or not adequately paid, it will generate heaps of resentment that will hardly ever be disposed of. Like any moody sign, he seeks happiness but is only able to experience it at moments when every planet is aligned. Particularly melodramatic, Cancer then tends to romanticize everything that happens, as if it were a sort of toll to be paid to life: those born in the Sign are in fact particularly contemplative and melancholy. In other and more synthetic words: a Cancer cries. Strong. Always.
Afterhours
Homecoming
A strange and enormous calm
A strange calm, an enormous calm: it is the sensation of home, of the protection of a mother, of familiarity with objects and furnishings. It’s a calm that maybe you only know when it’s gone, and you find yourself dreaming of it. This touching spoken word by the Afterhours has in it all the profound sense that Cancers address to the domestic dimension, but also the irreversible tendency to melancholy. And, at the end of the piece, there is also a small glimpse of the approach to goals: Manuel Agnelli says, at the end of the dream, that the house he lived in as a child will be the first thing he will buy when he is rich. Because the sense of fatigue and daily actions is earning the possibility of recreating that enormous calm for yourself and for your loved ones.
Coldplay
Fix You
I will try to fix you
Two reasons: first of all because it seems designed to universalize and mechanically induce melancholy and sadness, with its phrases which, although they seem copy-pasted from a Tumblr profile from the late 2000s, somehow manage to move us even reluctantly. In short, there is all the melodramatic side of Cancer, also because – and this is the second reason – the passage speaks of a type of relationship particularly dear to those born in the Sign: the one in which someone takes care of someone else.
Hole
Dolls Parts
Without hard feelings
Written by the loved and hated Courtney Love, Dolls Parts it is cancer for two reasons. First of all because wanting to be the “girl with the best cake” is very typical of the sign, which in some of its manifestations stands out for its competitiveness; but above all for the obsessively repeated mantra in the last part of the piece: «One day you too will suffer like me». For a wounded cancer, as in this passage, it is more omen than warning, more threat than warning.
Lana Del Rey
Happiness is a butterfly
Heard one thing, now another
Another illustrious Cancerian. Lana del Rey is one of those singers who have become synonymous with a mood: it’s not melancholy, she is Lana del Rey; it’s not sadness, it’s Lana del Rey; it’s not pain, it’s Lana del Rey. And so on. In this case the happiness – butterfly, which manifests itself and escapes in an eternal cycle of mood swings is not happiness, but it is Lana del Rey. And it’s also Cancer.
Porcupine Tree
Anesthetize
Please stop whining
Song that speaks more of clinical schizophrenia than of mood swings and moody characters, but which contains in itself one of the phrases that we all wanted to say at least once to our Cancer friends: stop whining please (stop whining). Really, please.
