Pisces Sun, Cancer Moon

Other people are out there clawing their way to the top. You’ve wandered off, you’ve got several talents you’re not using, and you’ve brought snacks.

Compassion and a long memory

Pisces is intuitive and imaginative and at home with abstract thought. Cancer nurtures, remembers everything and places a high value on security, both emotional and financial. Together they make you warm, versatile and instinctively good at understanding what’s going on in somebody else’s heart and mind. You can adapt to almost any setting and still somehow stay yourself.

What you may not have is much drive to fight. It’s hard to rage against the machine when you’re this peaceful. You could do well in many fields, but climbing over people to get there holds no appeal. The ones who love you might wish you’d push harder for yourself, and sometimes they’re right.

Very close, very quickly

You love by taking care of people. You remember what upset them, you know what to make when they’ve had a bad day, and you can tell they’re upset by how they closed a cupboard. In a good relationship this is a very deep comfort. Your home is likely to be the warmest place your friends know.

With two water signs, though, you can soak up a partner’s mood until you can’t tell whose it is. You might also keep hurts to yourself and hope you’ll be understood without saying anything, then feel let down when you’re not. You tend to retreat instead of fighting, which leaves someone outside the shell wondering what they did.

Your own mood, and speaking up

Spend some time on your own regularly, enough to work out which feelings belong to you. Say what you’d like, out loud, even when you think they ought to know. And keep a line around how much care you hand out. Kindness doesn’t require you to stay somewhere you’re treated badly, and a sensitive person is often the last to admit that’s what’s happening.

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