Kain's Domain

Got about five and a half hours of sleep last night. Arrived to work at about 8:20 to find Erin was already there at her desk, she got in around 7:30 or so. O_O! Couldn't sleep due to nightmares. She has some really weird dreams. There was one where her ex-boyfriend was the leader of a cannibal cult, and they were all going to eat her. It was freaky, but very interesting. Anyways, she was reading a local entertainment newspaper, and noticed an ad for a concert, and got really excited. She ran to her boyfriend, bouncing the whole time, asking him if they would go. They're on, so that'll be nice for her, she really seems to be looking forward to it. Then we headed back to her desk and read the horoscopes, and talked a bit about a few other things before I was sent to the mailroom.

After the mailroom, I stopped by Erin's desk, since all the supervisors were in a meeting and I had no work to do. We chit-chatted a little bit, and I make a joke which brought us onto a topic which she's apparently sensitive about, and I'm afraid I may have accidently offended her.

Afterwards, her and another co-worker (the one who got married the day before) took break together about 25 minutes later, and I have to say it is certainly an...interesting...experience to hear the type of things a couple of girls will talk about when they're off alone together. Heh.

At the end of the day, I stopped by her desk to say goodnight, but she was already gone. O_O! I stopped at K-Mart on the way home and ended up getting the original Sly Cooper new for a mere $7.99. Sweeeet.

And now, speaking of Horoscopes earlier; stolen from Kelli Fox, my Karma Profile:

Cancer Karma Profile:

Cancer is an emotionally intuitive, caring and nurturing energy. A real homebody, Cancer prefers staying in to going out, since staying in provides all the comforts of home: good cooking, a comfy couch, family and friends. Family is one of Cancer's great interests and concerns in life, whether the connection is positive or troubled. One of Cancer's most famous traits is being sensitive and moody. All that deep emotionalism can easily translate itself into over-sensitivity to the emotional states of others. If a Cancer is around someone who is irritable or tense, suddenly Cancer is irritable and tense as well. It is most important for a Cancer to learn to build better personal boundaries to protect against this sensitive nature. If Cancers can learn to emotionally self-regulate a bit better, no one will ever have cause to call them moody again!

Just because they're emotional doesn't mean they're pushovers. In fact, Cancers can be quite tenacious and they love getting their way. If kindness doesn't work, they just may resort to emotional manipulations to try to get things going. If they end up not getting what they were after, they can become vindictive. Cancers are excellent at holding a grudge, but must try to stop and ask themselves, "What do I gain from maintaining a grudge against someone?" The answer is, nothing. Keeping anger alive and thriving inside oneself is a hugely taxing endeavor, a real drain on energy and has no real payoff. Cancer would do well to remember that the next time things don't go as planned.

Cancer's deeply emotional nature comes from its ruling Element, Water, and Planet, the Moon. Water refers to the depths of our unconscious minds, and under the Moon's cool light, everything is shadowed, subjective. Cancer is very in touch with its emotions, but may tend to give more time to negative ones and has a tendency to brood. Again, why always look on the dark side of things? Like the Chinese symbols of yin and yang, life is a balance of light and dark, positive and negative, active and passive. To lean too far to one extreme is to upset the natural balance. One of Cancer's strengths is lending others a nurturing, sympathetic ear; perhaps when brooding sets in, it would help for Cancer to turn that energy outward, away from the self and toward someone else. Feeling sorry for oneself doesn't do any good; like nursing a grudge, it merely amounts to time and energy wasted.

Cancer places a high value on security of all kinds; whether it's financial or romantic, Cancer wants to know it can count on the important things in life. This love of security and the attendant fear of the unknown can result in quite a possessive streak. Possessiveness is just one more thing that is a waste of one's personal energy. Material possessions don't make us more or less worthy; a lover's fidelity can't be assured by clinging to them possessively. Cancer must learn to accept a certain level of unpredictability in life, as the one thing that never changes is change itself.

Aries possesses an abundance of the light, energetic joie de vivre that Cancer may lack, and can teach Cancer to experience emotions in an immediate way and then let them go. Libra can teach Cancer about balancing those turbulent emotions, and Capricorn can show Cancer the benefits of abandoning emotions in favor of determined hard work.