posted April 23, 2016 01:39 PM            

I also think that pisces people is much faster to move on, than cancer, because cancer people think a lot about the past, whereas Pisces doesn't really think, or they just dream lol...

And cancer people always got a really soft heart inside, while maybe maintaining a harder shell, but Pisces is seen a bit more emotional from the outside, than they really are inside... I do think pisces is emotional, but in a completely different way?

What do you think?

posted April 23, 2016 06:03 PM            

Pisces's sensitivity has to do more with the universe, with everyone. Cancer's sensitivity is more personal and has to do with themselves and family.

I'm a Pisces with Cancer moon ( I don't identify with this moon ) and I've always been different from my Cancer friends and family. It's way too easy offend a Cancer person. It's like you need to be extremely careful. With Pisces it's almost the same but is more easy to forget, I mean with Pisces.
My mum is Cancer Sun/Ascendant, Aries moon and she is sooo emotional and offended, lol. It's the same with my closest friend, she is Cancer Sun/Ascendant, Libra moon and I need to be careful with my words because is so easy to get her hurt and offense.

posted April 23, 2016 06:53 PM            

But I do think Cancer has a soft heart inside its shell. But that doesn't mean loyalty to their tribe won't trump justice, Cancer gone bad will happily oppress those they consider different so that the ones they're loyal to lord it over everyone else, whereas Pisces wouldn't be inclined to do this (unless everyone else around them was as they tend to absorb and reflect whatever psychic waters they're swimming in, drop a Pisces fish in a Game of Thrones scenario and Pisces will become a scary shark very fast, though pull them out of that and place them on the Enterprise or some hippie commune and they'll adapt while Cancer would not, and likewise a Pisces would handle those who changed loyalty with more trust and forgiveness than a Cancer would).

Though I did know a Cancer who changed gears. He was once loyal to his racist and conservative family, but after his white friends left him to die in a plant accident, and one of the black guys he secretly mocked saved his life, he became determined to stamp out prejudice in all its forms (and listening to him describe it, I get the feeling he wants a bit of revenge against his former white friends who abandoned him). He defied his family in doing so (whereas a Pisces is much more mutable), though the guy still shows Cancer biases to the military (which he used to be a member of and Cancer tribalism is strong here), but he does try to be enlightened about it--but the problems and dirty laundry are to be taken care of "behind the scenes" for him rather than calling them out because any attack on their honor is, he feels in his Cancerian way, an attack on HIS honor, and thus takes it personally.

posted April 23, 2016 10:31 PM            

My Uranus aspects makes me not a whole lotta "Cancer" and my Cancer friend with Saturn everywhere is not very "Cancer" either.

I think we also need to take into account the upbringing. I grew up around men and people doing sports so I can be rough and hard. I don't have a mommy-syndrome and I don't particularly associate myself with "female" stuff like many other Cancer women I've met that had an entirely different upbringing than I.

posted April 24, 2016 11:53 AM            

I agree with what the others are saying.

Cancer, yang, concentrated warmth
Pisces, yin, expanded coolness

In Vedic astrology most Cancer moons become Gemini moons, which matches their expressiveness. Pisces moons become Aquarius moons, matching our detachment. Just another way of explaining the qualities.

And here's something else...

I feel that once a Cancer likes you, they put everything on the table all at once. They EXUDE heat, I mean literally you can almost feel it. Watching my triple Cancer sister (sun-moon-Mercury) socialize at family events has left me in awe. Regardless of her history and problems, she could charm anyone. I even got happy seeing how happy she was making people.

She definitely has always outshined me (Pisces moon), because I grew up shy and then turned somewhat aloof. However, over the long haul, many of our same relatives became increasingly aware of my sensitivity, the way I tried to do good for others without recognition. Once, my aunt found a letter I had written to my dying father, photocopied it and sent it around to my extended family...maybe to prove I actually have a heart? LOL

Anyway, when Cancer does love, I think they hope to receive the same energy in return. It basically validates their power, ie...I can love so strongly that it causes the other person's heart to awaken and then they will love me back. Problem is, even if the other person does reciprocate, they often are not equipped to demonstrate it the way a Cancer can. So Cancer often ends up feeling cheated a bit. They didn't get a return on their investment!

I think this is why Cancers often marry Cancers. They speak the same love language.

Meanwhile Pisces doesn't usually have expectations. As the "oldest sign" it has been around the block enough to know how people are...to know that people all express their love in different ways. Pisces tries to recognize and accept affection in whatever form it comes. And Pisces will also continue loving long after the other person has stopped. Maybe not romantically loving, but loving as in, maintaining respect and possibly still saying, "I'm here if you need me."

Whereas Cancer is more inclined to cut people off and preserve their energy for those they deem worthy of it.

posted April 24, 2016 01:19 PM            

When it comes to sensitivity she's tough as nails and I'm hard as stone.

posted April 24, 2016 01:39 PM            

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Originally posted by Faith:
Problem is, even if the other person does reciprocate, they often are not equipped to demonstrate it the way a Cancer can. So Cancer often ends up feeling cheated a bit. They didn't get a return on their investment!

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(I hope you don't mind me quoting.)

I am Cancer Ascendant. And this is the story of my life. I feel, as a Cancer Asc, that I get into all situations emotions first, very personally feeling (as was explained here previously), taking in. I do that, even though I've tried my whole life more or less to swallow / not express my emotions. (I also have Moon-Mars-Pluto hard aspects. They've never helped here!)

The Cancerian way the emotions are expressed in my behaviour is very personal and, hmm how to express it, ca manifest in in all rainbow colours of emotions. All varieties. I feel like with expressing the emotional spectrum in different situations I can, for instance, relate to other people and become relatable.

I'm a Pisces Sun. The way I am emphatic and feel for other people and animals is the Piscean side of the emotions, and also the way I am very, very easily affected by other people's emotions, not so much by a single person, but more by the collective, the atmosphere of situations. That makes me lose myself.

posted April 24, 2016 02:17 PM            

Thanks for your comment.

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The Cancerian way the emotions are expressed in my behaviour is very personal and, hmm how to express it, ca manifest in in all rainbow colours of emotions. All varieties. I feel like with expressing the emotional spectrum in different situations I can, for instance, relate to other people and become relatable.

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I agree!

My husband has a Cancer ASC and I see this in him. He can emotionally manipulate people by striking various emotional "notes" so precisely and strongly. He should have been an actor.

posted April 25, 2016 01:47 AM            

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Originally posted by Faith:
Welcome to the site Han Solo!

Thanks for your comment.

I agree!

My husband has a Cancer ASC and I see this in him. He can emotionally manipulate people by striking various emotional "notes" so precisely and strongly. He should have been an actor.

I like that your Pisces Sun helps you use that power wisely.

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Oh well, I wouldn't say wisely, but yes, I guess sometimes "switching the feels" from the personal and expressive to the receptive and collective helps.

posted April 25, 2016 02:54 AM            

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Originally posted by Koniucha:
I agree that Cancer is more towards self and Pisces more towards humanity.

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It's almost as though Pisces is Aquarius with feelings.

posted April 25, 2016 03:11 AM            

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Originally posted by Belage:
It's almost as though Pisces is Aquarius with feelings.

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Yes, sometimes so much! As opposed to the Cancer energy, which I haven't felt airy in any way or in any circumstances.