CANCER
Wow – another male water sign – but this guy is very...well, there's something tribal and primitive and medicine man-ish about this man. He really is about collecting and preserving knowledge and some kind of “old ways” and telling stories to others. (It's like I can see him dancing round a campfire – shapeshifting into Eagle and Bear! Woah – he's a mystic man!) So he'll be mother and father and brother and law-enforcer to many, and to some of the younger people in the house he'll be a true mentor.

He is deeply scarred this man – flawed and hurt in so many ways, but kind and clever too. But his cleverness is not really of the practical, money-making kind. It's more that he can see something that will make his imagination sing, and the words flow... he is creative and wild, and very stern in some respects. Life's been a tough teacher to him, and he wants to spare others the rough ride – making him just as tough a teacher himself. He's the kind of guy who could scare a juvenile delinquent back on the straight road, and yet he's cried a river - and more - in this lifetime. He's had friends die, and he's buried brothers, just as sure as any soldier who's ever been to war. Being "insitutionalised" actually kind of apeals to him - he feels like we all have Big Brother controlling us anyway!

I feel he'll be writing poetry, mixing it with different people, an searching for a long-lost family inside the house. He'll care deeply about philosophical raves, and people's integrity is going to be his big thing. He wears something of a mask – a shell or armour behind which his softer side can take shelter and not reveal those darker, sadder moments. He's struggled deeply with life – and death's big questions, and he's going to end up at some stage doing a lot of charitable work – particularly with kids who are sick.

He's got super-strict, crazy-strong ethics and morals, wild though he may seem, he's utterly conservative and rigid in some respects. He will take on people who don't “use their heads” and he will want to have real conversations and connections. If things get stupid and shallow, it'll be frustrating and make him angry. He does angry very impressively. But that doesn't mean he wants people to not be themselves...he worships sweetness and innocence and beauty, too, and he can be susceptible to deep attachments, and he's yet to let go of his tendency to suffer. But just when you think he's the epitome of existential angst, you'll be knocked sideways by a burst of hilarity courtesy of his kooky-bird sense of humour – he has a kind of lunacy that will only get madder the longer he's in the house. And twisted it could be too!

Why he's there: He's tough love, in human form.

Why he'll stay: He could be worshipped.

Why he'll go: He could depress some folks... especially people who have shadowy places they're not ready to go yet.

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