It can be smothering in its attentions. Self-pitying in the extreme. Indecisive, changeable, reclusive, touchy, and paranoid. None of the signs has Shadow energy that's easy to deal with, but it can be especially hard to pull Cancer back onto the positive side of the scale once it gets on a roll with its lamentations. And there you have the classic dichotomy between home and family and career and public pursuits.
Cancer is soft, pliant, gentle, and deeply invested in family connections.
Capricorn is stern, exacting, disciplined, and deeply invested in prestige and social reputation. They are the parent figures of the Zodiac. Cancer the archetype of the doting, sentimental mother, Capricorn the authoritarian paterfamilias. Together they usher the successive generations into the world, each offering succor and support in its fashion. Click on the link below and send the message that comes up.