A reader asks:
“Why are Cancers considered weaker or less intense than Scorpios?”
What do you think?
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A reader asks:
“Why are Cancers considered weaker or less intense than Scorpios?”
What do you think?
Have a question about astrology or life? Ask here! Also, please include your location. It adds a layer of interest!
Maybe because they keep the intensity inside and so well-hidden rather than overtly trying to manipulate events and people like Scorpio?
In my experience, Scorpio can’t hide things for shit, though they TRY. You know what they’re after when they’re doing it. Cancer’s such a master sidestepper, you don’t know what hit you until after it’s too late.
I disagre. In order to see through a scorpio, one has to be either scorpionoc/plutonic him/herself or have lots of experience with that type of people or energy.
In my opinion cancer is the one who thinks he/she is hiding but like an ostridge everything is in the open, that shell is not covering enough and creates a false sense of security. While a scorpio can totally blindside you and stung you either by hiding or being in plain sight.
So true….
See, you are right about the Scorpio part but not right about Cancers. They don’t always put things out in the open because they are too afraid of getting hurt.
But Scorpions don’t care once they are on a rampage. Its all or nothing. Hence the destruction is full blown. Cancers have a much more humane side to them compared to Scorpions and I am saying so being a Scorpion myself.
Oh no. I am a cancer, i don’t care what people thinks about me. I can take care of it during sleep. I am currently having a fight with scorpio and she is secretive yet I am manipulative so I have everything I need to step them down just to satisfy my cravings.
You know may be that’s exactly what the Scorpio wants you to see. Also they don’t try to hide what they are after or what they are doing but it surely will hit you hard.
Most Scorpios do not care about what people think about them. They simply know what they are and what they are capable of. Being Secretive for them does not mean hiding their feelings or what they covet. I think you have got it all wrong.
Lol. Wish i was a manipulator like Scorp. No clue how to do that. But look… a master sidestepper is not bad either.
Good question. I can’t say I definitely know the answer. However, I am a Cancer and my good Scorpio friend just told me she would never want to get on my bad side. I was thrilled, considering the source! But I am really not scary.
I think the main difference in intensity or power between these two signs (I know a lot of both) is how they deal with anger or other intense emotion. Cancers, like me, often direct it inwards and deal with feeling hurt or angry in private, whereas Scorpios don’t mind letting someone know they are angry. And they find ways to release the anger, in ways the outside world can see.
When I’m angry, I usually get very, very quiet, so often people won’t know I’m upset unless they know me well enough. I’ll use my anger to have a good workout or something. Therefore the intensity that I’m feeling – and it’s intense – goes unseen. Perhaps that’s why we seem weaker.
Yes you are bang on! Because Scorpions don’t just get angry they are usually outraged.
Im a cancer ,someone in my home is a scorpio master manipulator .As much as I’ve tried for us to get along somehow that person screws it up with attitude and selfishness horrible .She once told me shes a scorpio and she has venom that kill ! I said and i have a hard shell for defence and 2 big ass clipper to cut your tail off and hang your ass up! Watch it I love Like Most high but am the most Dangerous sign! Case closed.
Well I’ve never had a Cancer after me but have been put into the hospital by Scorpio. That said, I think Indy is on to something. If a Cancer came after you, I expect it would be akin to pissing off a Southerner… who I would bet on against a New Yorker any day.
You can say that about Cancer with no chart in front of you? It’s a generalization about Scorpio too. So, I guess you can generalize about certain things.
You bet don’t piss off a Southerner!! I am a triple Cancer with Saturn in Sc. and a Southerner and what I have learned (it took 50 years or more) is that no one EVER knows what I am thinking unless I want them too. Period. It isn’t deliberate, mean
or calculated,(which is why it took 50 years to figure out) its just that is how we have to protect ourselves, as we often seem to have to do. And I can certainly see why Ben didn’t make it out alive. His parents would have done better to pour boiling oil on him as opposed to what they did.
Living with a Mars in Cancer who is currently angry with me. Is in the bedroom with the door shut and lights off.
Haha Piya, I’ve done that to people I’ve lived with! I can’t imagine dealing with the stuff I pull. It must be so annoying sometimes.
I had a mentally ill Cancer stalker. 🙁
Yeah, Elsa, because a New Yorker will flip you off and follow you to your door and yell or punch or whatever. A Southerner will stay crouched in the woods with the rifle cocked, waiting for you to unwittingly mosey on by.
Elsa, the New Yorker versus Southerner is a good way to put it I think. I’m from NY and people there are direct in the moment, then they move on. Everything just moves so quickly there. I get the feeling from my Southern friends that people there come get you and you wouldn’t have an inkling they were even thinking about it due to a period of silence. And they don’t forget – very Cancerian. Correct me if I’m wrong!
And I’m sorry to hear about your Scorpio hospital episode.
OMG, you don’t know the half of it… my family’s from the South, and there are feuds still raging among families in neighboring counties originating from the Civil War. They intermarry and stuff, but then you go to these family reunions and certain factions won’t talk to others. It’s insane and very Cancerian can’t-let-go.
I once dated an Sicilian-American from Chicago long-term, and his family dynamics were pretty similar, so it can’t just be a Southern thing. I wonder if Sicilian-Italians aren’t similarly Cancer-like as a tribe. There’s certainly the food that everything centers around, like Southerners… I asked him to characterize his family in one phrase, and he answered, “Just can’t let shit go.”
You can’t compare a stinger to a claw. Plus crabs taste good with lots of drawn butter {so speaketh the mighty Scorpio rising}.
Hee Hee Hee.
Interesting about the Sicilian connection – I have a Sicilian great grandfather and he actually moved his house rather than buying a new one, guess he was attached to it.
Crabs wisely run away from size-10 flip-flops. Scorpio will stay and posture and be summarily stomped.
Hmmm, sounds like Indy has something going against Scorpios…
Being a Scorpio myself, and having lived with a Crab for many more years than i probably care to remember…. he could best me in a fight pretty much any time – he would say WHATEVER it took to win the fight. But we all know you can win the fight, but lose the war! Guess who always ended up having to come back and apologize? And of course, we are not together anymore, either…
I’m a Cancer and every Scorpio I’ve dated has still pushed me after I broke it off with them. They always come crawling back, even though I’ve hit them with the wrecking ball.
Cancers wish we were like that
you crabs will always be beneath us Scorpios facts.?♏
Not confrontational, just observational. How very Scorpio to take that personal. 🙂
Oh no Indy, I wasn’t taking that personal – it was just an observation, as you say.
I have only recently got into astrology, so I couldn’t tell you the signs of pretty much anyone I know. People pretty much treat me well, so I can’t say that I have a lot of experience with Cancers or Scorpios, as a general lot. Just myself and my ex. But we’re none of us just our Sun signs, anyway, right?
Good question, Elsa
I’ll give a shot from the perspective of my double Pisces Ascendent.
Lets assume that it’s a bad breakup and see how it might go for the fishy one.
Cancer (a very cardinal energy, always moving, always seemingly moving AT one), coming after Pisces with that smothering look on its face, a dishrag thrown over its shoulder, a pot holder on one claw, a minnow in the other (“eat! you need to eat something!”) but…..
Pisces can swim and slip and slide … Pisces can almost sashay away from the crab. Even when the tries a blind side approach Pisces can glide stealthily under a piece of seaweed or rip rap & slickly swim out the other side unseen…
Any cardinal energy has no shot against a Pisces who doesn’t want to get hooked. Aries is a quick flash cake walk, but with Cancer it’s not easy, it’s not fun, and its now fast. but its Doable.
Alternatively, Scorpio is not so much Annoying as it is Frightening. It doesn’t pursue because it doesn’t have to. It doesn’t chase one, it doesn’t move. Fixed Scorpio can dead on take flip floppy Pisces right out of the game with its claws tied behind its back. Theres no match here.
What Scorpio does is it shocks or stuns, thereby immobalizing the poor fish, turning her into a floater before she has time to swim. Or, like the proverbial frog, Pisces will be easily conned and stupidly agree to swimm the scorpion across the lake by allowing the scorpion to ride on her back…
…naively trusting the scorpion to refrain from killing them both by stinging her to death half way across (I presume that most everyone has heard the story of the scorpion and the frog).
With Scorpio, and inevitably, there is going to be some serious long term damage, quite possibly fatal in nature. There is no escape, therefore, Pisces best swim the other direction to begin with.
One astrologers very personal opinion LOL.
I really liked your analogies! And I totally agree!
So how does a crab get what he wants then? by moving in slowly and grasping with that claw, slowly?
Cancers are the biggest cry babies. No offense to anyone 🙂
And Sicilians are Southern too, so the analogy fits. But I’d actually call them Scorpian rather than Cancerean. Historically they’ve been conquered, risen up, reconquered and transformed into a whole separate people. There’s that whole dark underbelly, omerta’ & vendetta. Operatic and tragic. An interesting side trip to this post.
No one wants to get on my bad side. No one.
Snapdragon, you are the only Scorpio who doesn’t make me run away screaming, and that is probably because we are both Pisces rising.
Ah,, I love me some pisces, hurts me that they run away from me.All I want to do is get close. They are my muse.
Oh, I don’t know about that. Pisces, for all its seeming cluelessness, knows the score. And escapes all slippery-like, leaving everyone else to navel-gaze and figure out what happened and how to fix it. Scorpio sometimes unwittingly stings itself in a misguided effort to sting the other guy. Why does everyone think they’re so indestructible? They’re often the source of their own very ugly and permanent undoing. Don’t yell at me, snapdragon, it’s a fact.
So, I pose this question to you, collectively: If you put all the signs into a jar and shake them up, Thunderdome-like, who’s the last man (or woman, most likely) out? And why?
Oh, yeah man Pixie, Cancer men cry like nobobies business. Just witnessing that kind of crying, in and of itself, is almost as scary as falling victim to a pissed off Scorpio. And I do say almost.
I was responding to #16 but there were other posts in the meantime. Cool interaction going on.
Interesting Indy and, well, yeah, in that hypothetical snow globe situation I’d put my money on Pisces. Too bad life really doesn’t tend to work that way.
Loonsounds, LOL, I am picturing you running away, waving both hands in the air, screaming your head off.. :oP
Well Loons, I guess you could explain it astrologically. Or I could tell you that I was always getting my feelings hurt when I was growing up, so I made up my mind to always try to treat people well.
But yes, I’m sure that Pisces rising affects my first Decanate (?) Scorpio Sun sign in a good way.
I am wrong…Pisces dies first, it cannot exist on air.
I was wondering what your Sun sign is, Indy?
Yes, Snapdragon, there are not very many Pisces rising people, statistically, and we are sensitive (extremely), empathic, and compassionate, all of which can be both a blessing and a curse. From the old school, it is a totally different kind of Jupiter energy, but still Jupiter, and Jupiter is going to be naive and trusting.
Loonsounds, I resemble that remark! 🙂
I am a Sun Scorp Virgo asc Pisces moon and I’ve never had anyone run from me. I don’t think I’m scary. I might even be NICER and more accomodating than the average person, actually.
Down with the Scorp stereotype!!
I am a scorp, pisces keep me at a distance.
I was wondering the same thing!
And mostly I was thinking to myself “Indy has not yet been stung good & hard by a Scorpio”
don’t say you weren’t warned? lol? hopefully…lol, yeah!
Yeah, snapdragon, swimming away frantically with both fins in the air, “I told you I am NOT hungry!…’
Maybe it has something to do with Cancer being associated with the home, the internal and the emotional. These are generally female characteristics as opposed to Scorpios highly sexualized, dominant, powerful. Cancer is associated with more female energy so of course it is considered “weaker”. Dumb, but probably true.
Taken to the extreme, it’s all stereotype, all sign descriptions are stereotypes. Scorpios just don’t like their stereotype. But hey, you didn’t hear that from me
ooooo noooooo
swimming swimming swim…glub glub
…………………………………….glub
LOL Loons
I could not agree more with your post (#25) Loons, and yours as well, Pixie. Man I am so sensitive sometimes, it is really almost unbearable.
But yes, with my Pisces Asc. I am empathic, and I think this is reflected in other areas of my chart as well.
Well, who does like to be stereotyped? Just like I always say, “Don’t peg me!”
Loons, don’t get a cramp, eh? lol
really, i’m not chasing you!
the pressure! the pressue! my gills are caving in
Loons, do you feel like you are more represented by your Sun or your Ascendant? I suppose both at different times…?
To answer your question Snap, mine is the ASC by far. My Taurus (1st dec) essence has never been all that strong. I can explain it; I’ll tell you some other time. As for you, yes, and I’ve never known a Pisc-Scorp-Tau that I know of. You are interesting aren’t ya?
Ah, Loons, know you’re just tryin ta get on my good side, aren’t ya?
Well, I like to think I’m interesting. People certainly seem to think I’m “different”.
:::rolls eyes:::
:::laughing:::
I (maybe because of that Pisces?) can really feel so much of all that makes up me. Almost all of it I can relate to. Some of it, I’m like, “huh?” but then I’ve done a lot of work on myself…
Crabs wisely run away from size-10 flip-flops. Scorpio will stay and posture and be summarily stomped.
Yes, we LOVE shoes. That’s why you find so many of us hiding in them. 🙂
You have to hide in order to attack?
So maybe it’s pretty special that my Aquarian daughter has a Pisces Asc. as well? hmmm, interesting combination, I’m thinking.
Cancer and scorpio — both signs have a need to control
But scorpio controls for power. Cancer controls for love….
The sun sign is of course the essence/identity– but yeah the whole chart is needed for the big picture
I have a 16 degree cancer sun and mercury mars in cancer as well. I dig in. I don’t forget. I’m a cry-baby. I long for home and family…
For me, there’s something eerie about scorpio energy. Maybe it’s the fixed quality.
My sun and moon suck. I often hate to think that my identity/essence is bound to that materialistic, boring sign of Taurus. My essence must be really dull. No wonder I have low self-esteem. What courage could Taurus bring to the self but constant routine and security?
And way to go Moon in Cancer for helping me, as a woman, rise out of the stereotype that all women are emotional. It’s no wonder very few women who make a difference in the world are Moon in Cancer. All the moon in caps and sun in caps are making that difference. I think my sun and moon cursed me, and the houses suck too. My sun is unaspected, and my moon has to many good aspects, ugh, aside from my moon sq saturn that’s probably the root of my issue with such benevolent sexism.
My essence bores me to tears. Anyone want to exchange birthdays? :/
Ugh. I’m currently in the middle of a bunch of pissed off Cancers (one Sun, the rest Moons). I never got along with them or understood where they were coming from–I have a lot of Aries and Libra in my chart. I have no Cancer except for the IC.
The one that’s most pissed is Cancer rising, Cancer Moon and Venus conjunct. Never liked her, but she’s going to be carrying a huge chip on her shoulders…probably forever.
Cancers, to me, are more difficult, not weaker, than Scorpios. All the Scorpios I know aren’t shy about letting you know where you stand with them. Cancers, you don’t know from moment to moment. Everything they’re mad at you about is behind the scenes, then they decide to cause a scene. Very hard for my energy to deal with.
The intensity of Cancerian is MUCH more inner-directed! And they hold a grudge for a LOOONG time! Cancerians will quietly simmer..Scorpios: I had a mean-streak Scorpio mother, when she was in a bad mood eyes flashed, tongue lashed and my Moon child soul was mortally wounded. I lost myself in poetry, art,astrology.. anything to avoid that Scorpio sting. Scorpio did not NOTICE how wounded I was or how INTENSE MY FEELINGS WERE.. only her own drama.
I think there is a huge difference between a Scorpio and a Cancer.. but intensity is not one of the difference, expression is..
Hmmm. I’m with a Cancer who has Scorpio rising. And it seems like all and none of this is true at the same time. The one thing I know is true is that anywhere you have Cancer you will never let go. NEVER LET GO. And Scorpio will amputate, as Elsa says.
Another pisces rising here, I’m not weak by far but I do have a lot of sag and scorp energy. My dad’s a double cancer and has had one of the hardest lives I know of. Aquarius moon though, so he’s not a cry baby. I don’t think people should categorize by sign, all cancers are this, all scorps are that, because, as in any huge generalization, it’s ignorant sounding and doesn’t hold true.
i had a capricorn uncle who had cancer moon. that man was tougher than nails, he also had cap mars conjunct his sun. sag venus. he had one of the hardest lives, and for some reason he likes “fixer upper” type of women, women who had terrible upbringings and were hard to “fix” or “heal” but he can’t love any other type; it was his way and any other would bore the hell out of him. he was a really good man and my pisces/aries grandma told me that when he was a baby he liked to get clocks and watches and tear them apart only to put them back together; so amazing story.
I am a Cancer with a Scorpio Moon. Now what was the question?
huh
Oooooooh, @ Doreen (LOL)
Well, I guess you’re completely screwed then, Doreen. Guess you’re no good for nothing and we’ll have to throw you out!
just joking of course ;oP
That’s what I was wondering, Snapdragon! I must be completely screwed! LOL!
Well, we all have our challenges in this life, don’t we?
Maybe you just more than most? Hahaha, I’m just bugging you… lol
The truth is, every sign has it’s good and bad attributes. We all have overcoming to do. (That’s not even talking house placement or aspects, right?)