Changeability, emotionality, quite acute sensitivity. A connection with the feelings, an instinctive reaction to people based on slight inferences and events registered unconsciously. You are more capable of adapting than you yourself suppose. You may think you have landed in a hopeless position, but others see that you find your way among problems as water finds its way among obstacles. You are highly receptive to the moods of others. If someone throws a stone into your quiet pool, it may go on rippling for days. You give in easily to changes of mood. If someone is in trouble, you feel for them. You have a wonderful feel for people, events and places. People even think you abnormal or supernatural. You cannot explain why, but your presentiments as a rule come true. Cancer is water vapour, irrepressible and full of energy. Water signs should choose their partners from water or earth as well - water needs earth as its vessel. Water is not compatible with fire, but can live with air, if it does not fear clouds and mist.Your strengths: sensitivity, attractiveness, sociability, goodwill, calm, idealism, a creative artistic nature, the ability to enter into the thoughts of others, great patience.Frequent drawbacks: changeable moods, irritability, evasiveness, a stormy melodramatic character, pessimism, laziness, impracticality, weakness of character.Home conditions: you should live by water - the sea, a lake, a pool in the garden or an aquarium. You need a calm, peaceful place to work. Avoid irritable people and noisy relatives, and love good views (ideally of water).Your protector is the undine, the water nymph, who loves open waters but can settle in an aquarium too.