The sing of Cancer（巨蟹座） is ruled by the Moon, and is exceedingly sympathetic to Neptune influences as well. In consequence, the Cancer types (and there are two distinct types) are the most moody, sensitive, impressionable of all the people of the Zodiac. They are whimsical（古怪的） , brooding, fanciful（想象的） personalities, strongly instinctive, but very timid, and unwilling to face realities.

This is especially true of the feminine Cancer type. Perhaps at this point it might be advisable to classify the two varieties of this sign. One type might be called the masculine（男性的） , the other the feminine. The masculine, or active type differs in positive or active ways from the feminine or passive type.

The feminine type finds the harsh struggle for existence too much for its soft make-up. These people cannot find the strength to pit them selves against the world, and they seek the security of something stable upon which to pin their faith as well as their place in the world.

The home with its background of protective mother love is a sacred shrine（圣地，神龛） for the Cancer person of both types. The feminine type feels safety and a haven from the harsh world of reality. The masculine type reveres the meaning of home in all of the traditional suggestions of the word.

Both types have a great reverence（崇敬） for the past, and an exaggerated idea of its virtues. They see only glamorous（迷人的） living conditions in the Golden Age; that is, they recognize only the golden part. To them, the past means the “good old days,” no matter how clear it is to the world of today that they were also “the bad days.”