The Tough Guy
On the surface, you try hard to maintain a tough, cool, and detached image, but despite that nonchalant air, you are actually a very sensitive and emotionally vulnerable individual. Insecurity is your main stumbling block. In order to contend with those deep-seated feelings of inadequacy and uncertainty, you can either resign yourself to despair and cynicism or build a tough shell to protect yourself from hurt and anguish. Janis Joplin was a Capricorn-Cancer, and her tough, hard-drinking, one-of-the-guys image was widely, if belatedly, recognized as a cover-up for her genuine depth and sensitivity.
The Sun and Moon in this combination are in opposite signs, which make it likely that your early environment was strife-torn or at least unsympathetic. This fostered in you a strong sense of self-reliance and independence (and perhaps as cynical outlook). Many of your insecurities are traceable to your childhood. Your challenge is to begin to recognize your sensitivity as a strength rather than a weakness and to allow your true self to blossom. You are a capable individual. Value yourself and your talents. Self-acceptance and self-love are the two critical things for a Capricorn-Cancer to learn.
You are warmhearted and compassionate—and in many ways ingenious. Your ability to see beyond surface impressions and your adaptability to change enable you to create new modes of understanding. Your only enemy on the road to success will be yourself; once you overcome self-doubt, there is little you cannot do. The revolutionary physicist and mystic Isaac Newton was a Capricorn-Cancer.
You have a remarkable memory and a sharp wit. You see details that elude the most acute observer, and you are blunt and outspoken in pointing them out. Your combination endows you with excellent leadership potential and much charisma, yet you seldom take advantage of this strength. Set apart from the crowd as you are, you choose neither to lead nor to be led. Essentially, you are an independent type, preferring the comfort of going it alone. Such self-imposed exile can develop into profound loneliness and isolation when added to that melancholy outlook of yours. It is essential for you to stay somewhat active socially, even if you are your own boss.
You have an overpowering need to be loved, but emotional difficulties may stand in the way of a successful and equal love relationship. That sensitive, aloof facade of yours turn a lot of people off. People will respond to whatever vibrations you put out, so try to show more warmth and affection—if you want to receive it.
Your ambition finds its best outlet in intellectual, creative, or scientific work. The spirit of investigation is on you, and whether you’re probing the mysteries of nature or of your neighbor’s private life, your curiosity demands satisfaction. Glibness is likely to run away with your abilities, for you are so facile in expression that you don’t have to develop your powers to the highest pitch. You can get by on a quarter of your capabilities, while less fortunate souls struggle to keep up with you with all of theirs. What you do may not bear the stamp of genius, but in some way or another it gets the attention you want. Your friends are likely to tell you that you could do better, more important work if you tried, and they are probably right. But so long as you are getting some degree of acclaim you are not likely to bother.
You are not a perfectionist and may not go to the trouble to probe your own depths even throughout a long lifetime. Emotionally, you are contradictory, being fundamentally conservative and steadfast but with a sort of impish satisfaction in doing the unexpected, the unusual. Your powers of invention are enormous, and you can think up more ways to skin a cat, tell a story, or pull off a business deal, than anyone else. Your cleverness escapes the criticism of being shallow because you are a fundamentally serious person, and people are more likely to attach serious intent to what is not serious than they are to condemn you for flippancy. You run the risk of getting hypnotized by the sound of your own voice and of conceiving yourself in too heroic proportions: thus you run the risk of pomposity. You don’t like to be laughed at, and while relishing a joke, prefer to have someone else the butt of it.
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