CANCER

"Hello. I am not your mother. But excuse me if I act like your mother for a while." This gorgeous, dreamy, soulful person is in every way an archetypal mum's child. Women and nurturing types will love to protect them from their hurts, and swoon as they reveal life's hurts to them.

They do not mean to emotionally engage everyone - they just have this emotionally wounded side that they don’t mind showing to women - or to emotional men. Then, once that's done, they all fall ever so slightly in love with them. They want to protect them; they like to ensure that THEY will not be the ones to wound them again. While they are very honourable in many respects, and have some weird old-fashioned rules about how to treat women and "ladies". They also don’t mind having a kind of emotional harem around them.

I'm using the word emotional over and over again, because that's their main theme. It's all about feelings, you see. Not about what people think they know. They’ll ask people how they're feeling, and while some people will HATE that and feel like they’re trying to extract something out of them, and others will think they’re trying to find out their weak points, they truly are fascinated by our inner secrets and what truly makes us tick. Because they’re wondering what makes them tick. While they’re clever (and they’ll let us know they are) they’re also the type of person who enjoys connecting deeply with people. And for some folks that's confusing. What do they want with all this?

Sitting about and emoting? What do they mean by staring into someone's eyes?

How come they always know the right thing to say when someone's upset? Why do they stroke backs and hold hands? Are they emotionally, ahem, promiscuous? Or are they really sweet, and showing us that people like them do have deep feelings? For everyone. All the time?

Be looking out for convos about families, mothers and what kind of parent they’ll be. I'll be looking for tears and comfort eating when they’re sad.

I'll be interested to see whether other people start taking care of them. I'll be interested to see just how many folks fall for their softy, sentimental charms.

I can see they have a keepsake on them - a kind of lucky charm. Mess with it at your peril, Housemates!

Why they’re there: To be the big sooky la la person.

Why they'll stay: If they’re masculine enough in other ways, we'll adore their soft heart.

Why they'll go: Because people will think they’re bunging it on. (They’re not.)

Lucy Cavendish wrote these amazing astrological profiles using just the Housemate’s date, time and place of birth. She had no idea who the Housemate was or even what gender he/she was.

Lucy Cavendish is the author of The Oracle Tarot and Magical Spell Cards, published by Hay House. She wrote this profile knowing only the Housemate's time, place and date of birth. For readings and heaps of info, check out her website at www.lucycavendish.com