The Mercury in Cancer Man: Get to Know Him Better

He may seem shy and reluctant in expressing his emotions but he’s in fact very astute and controlled.

Mercury in Cancer man

The Mercury in Cancer man is sensitive, emotional, not a little bit rational, and instinctual. Everything he does, he does it because he feels like it because it would satisfy a certain desire, bring about a sense of inner accomplishment.

This man seeks security, stability, happiness in life, through personal and subjective appreciations. He may tend to be very reticent and reluctant in speaking to other people or engaging in too many social activities.

The Mercury in Cancer man in a nutshell:

  • Positives: Intuitive and knowledgeable;
  • Negatives: Vain and overly-sensitive;
  • Soulmate: Someone who is sociable and decisive;
  • Life lesson: Getting organized in a routine does him good.

Some escapist tendencies

He is romantic, very affectionate, prone to extreme bouts of emotional explosions, depression, periods of great sadness, and so on.

He is shy, reluctant to reveal his emotions, fixed on false expectations and hesitant on demanding what’s his.

However, all this emotional and intuitive energy passing through his veins has a lot of advantages as well. It makes him more knowledgeable, observant, endowing him with a keenness for details, vigilance, and faster reflexes.

He quickly figures out the critical parts of a problem and takes a firm decision as a follow-up. He knows what to do in order to make you feel secure, loved, but say something wrong and he’ll take a defensive posture.

He must learn to keep himself emotionally balanced, so he must face his fears, take on challenges when they appear, and learn to take care of himself more.

Romantic and sensitive, the man born with Mercury in Cancer will take his sweet time in analyzing the options he has, making plans, taking into account the possible consequences, and, of course, overthinking.

He feels the need to free himself from any outside distraction when immersed in this activity because he may be intuitive and a fast learner, but outside influences will only slow him down.

He’s honest and realistic about his own potential and possibility of self-development. Moreover, he loves culture, traditions, the relics and valuable elements of the past.

The Mercury in Cancer man needs to know there is a certain outline of his lifestyle, that he has everything structured, put in a certain order, that nothing chaotic will happen.

In other words, a routine is exactly what he needs in order to feel good. On the one hand, he is very kind and generous with other people, helping anyone anytime, but at the same time, he’s very rough and harsh with himself, often ending up in a state of depression.

Whenever someone disagrees with him, he views it as a direct attack on his ego, an insult that must be punished.

He does love to talk and to take part in social events, but when someone steps on his toes, the pretenses are dropped and all hell breaks loose.


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Written by Denise

Denise is an experienced practitioner of astrology, interested to discover and share with everyone how astrology can inspire and change lives. She is the Editor in Chief at The Horoscope.