Venus in Cancer loves through care, memory, tenderness, and a feeling of kinship. Emotional safety is important for a person: they open where they can be vulnerable, where they are not mocked, rushed, or forced to play someone else's role. They are attracted to soulfulness, warmth, family feeling, the ability to remember important small things. Love here is often connected with home, childhood smells, traditions, shared food, quiet evenings, the desire to shelter a dear person from outside roughness.
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