Top Myths About Cancer
I may be guilty of spreading a few Cancer myths myself. That they’re in love with their mothers, maybe. But these people are so quiet, I’ll never hear from them, right? Right?
Wrong.
Myth: Cancers either have Oedipal or Electra complexes
Reality: Cancers are very home-centered, that’s true, sometimes to the point of a fetish. However, this energy can manifest in a lot of different ways. They can be obsessed with their own parents (the stereotype), or they can despise their parents, or they can be obsessed with creating a home for themselves that has nothing to do with their parents. The important thing for Cancers is finding a productive, forward-thinking way of dealing with this energy and not, say, allowing it to keep you living in Mommy’s basement until you’re thirty-six.
Myth: Cancers are shy, sweet creatures
Reality: Have you ever met a Cancer and been totally baffled? I thought these people were supposed to be NICE and this one’s ignored me all evening. Don’t misunderstand – that’s the shyness coming out. Likewise if they’re assholes – Cancers are so sensitive to the outside world that they’ve come up with many ways of protecting themselves, some of which go against these “typical” traits.
Myth: Cancers like to martyr themselves
Reality: Cancers don’t LIKE to martyr themselves; but they will if they feel close to you and you need them to do it. So please don’t ever need them to do it. You will live to RUE THE DAY.
Myth: Cancers are nurturing
Reality: It really depends. A Cancer who’s been badly burned in the past might be very cold and dissociated for the entire length of a relationship; a Cancer with a bad relationship to his or her own parents might bolt the second a child enters the picture. Don’t generalize, here.