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Cancer

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Cancer

Cancer is an astrological sign, which is associated with the constellation Cancer. Under the tropical zodiac, Cancer is occupied by the Sun from June 22 to July 22, and under the sidereal zodiac, it is currently from July 21 to August 9. The sign opposite to Cancer is Capricorn.

Cancer is the fourth sign of the Zodiac and associated with family and domesticity. Individuals born under this sign are thought to have a kind, emotional, romantic, imaginative, sympathetic, nurturing and intuitive character but one which is also prone to changeability, moodiness, hypersensitivity, depression and clinginess. In terms of anatomy, cancer is said to rule the breasts, epigastric region, elbows, stomach, digestive organs, upper lobe of the liver, thoracic duct, pancreas, blood serum and the womb.

Cancer is associated with the Greek myth of the Lernaean Hydra, one of The Twelve Labours of Herakles.

Notable persons born under the Sign of Cancer include: Tom Cruise, Sylvester Stallone, George W. Bush, Roald Amundsen, George Orwell, Helen Keller, Henry VIII, Princess Diana, Shawn Michaels, Bret "The Hitman" Hart, The RZA, Guru of Gang Starr, Kool G. Rap, Franz Kafka, Jean Cocteau, Giorgio Armani, Nelson Mandela, Henry David Thoreau, Mike Tyson, Emmeline Pankhurst and Ernest Hemingway.




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