To know something about the life lesson of Cancerians, it is needful to consider the properties of water, not as it flows from a household tap but its elemental nature.
How beautiful it seems as it fertilises, refreshes and penetrates everything with which it comes into contact. In its negative (bad) aspect, it drowns, sours and destroys the very world it is intended to renew. This is what the person born under the sign of Cancer needs to know because it is, quite often, the first time the soul has tried to master this element as symbolised in the character. It is necessary to know and to be emotionally reminded that gentle movement is essential to harmonious living. Peace without movement is stagnation. These souls, more than people born under any other sign, appear to develop a desire to retreat into quiet corners where they can be alone and do only that which is absolutely essential. If it is possible, quite often they like to do nothing at all.

Because of their love of solitude, these people are usually happiest in an environment where they can calmly and capably do whatever lies within their capacities. They seldom attempt anything beyond their own powers of fulfilment. Men and women alike make excellent housekeepers and nurses. Frustrations arise when they are surrounded by people who cannot understand their desire for peace. The restlessness of people governed by the influence of air or fire often causes them to develop a peevishness which makes them seethe with unexpressed rage, like water thrashed by a wind.

People governed by the fire element will warm and cheer them, though as water and fire do not combine happily so there will be times when Cancerians will seem to hiss helplessly when involved in arguments. Quarrels will invariably be followed 'by periods in which their emotions continue to boil within them, or by times when they will quietly harbour grudges that may seem very petty to people of other temperaments, especially if those other' people fail to understand the way in which the element of water can be symbolised in the personality. It is important for these people to make real efforts to relinquish the remembrance of their quarrels and injured emotions, for such negative feelings can become deeply imbedded in the consciousness. As decayed, submerged vegetation can poison a pool of water, so secret grudges can poison the whole life of these Cancer subjects.

Battling with the frustrations of inharmonious living can make these people reflect their reactions in the emotional bodily centres of the chest and stomach, with the result that the body may require an amount of the agent associated with the flexibility of these essential organs, which are continually subjected to expansion and contraction in breathing and digestion. When tension creates interference with this essential movement, there can follow a lack of correct absorption of ourishment as well as difficulty in extracting needful oxygen in the act of breathing.

The corrective remedy is Calcium Fluoride: a healthy body is supposed to contain four ounces of this substance, which contributes towards the elasticity of the tissues as well as the coating of bones and teeth. If this tissue salt is taken by the Cancerians When the tissues begin to betray flabbiness by conditions such as varicose veins, or sagging inward parts of the body, it may help to guard against the development of further and more difficult illness conditions requiring surgery or medication.

In their good aspects, these people are tranquil home-makers who create environments of peace and healing for their weary, restless friends. Their sensitiveness gives them an intuitive understanding of the torments and struggles endured by others. Gentle lovingness is the keynote of their lives.