The highly evolved Cancerian is the master of many moods. The past and future are as real as the present. Cancerian memory is retentive and the history of their own nation, family or class is immensely important in their eyes. The Cancerian is the teacher par excellence, and cares little for smoothness of outline or grace of form so long as they can drive their lesson home. Public speakers of all kinds are found under the influence of this sign, as also editors and literary men and women who have a strong personal hold over their readers and actors and dramatists in whom imagination is a predominant feature.
Affections are strong and the maternal element particularly marked.
No lapse of time or separation by distance ever seems materially to lessen love or friendship or weaken family ties. The children are as near to the heart and as present to the mind of the Cancerian parents as they were in infancy, so that the sense of separation hardly exists and long voyages are permitted or undertaken by this type with a composure and pleasure which many less deeply devoted to home cannot begin to understand. Early memories of childhood and old ties of friendship are a treasure for Cancerians, who will correspond for years with people to whom they were attracted in their teens, have never met since, and are not likely to meet again. The striking success of this type in the field of teaching is partly due to this tenacity of recollection and to the vivid pictures of childhood and youth. Memories frequently carry Cancers back to babyhood, faithfully recording striking experiences of the third and fourth years.