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Cancer: Divinatory Meaning

0 degrees of Cancer is considered the beginning of the Summer season, the Summer Solstice. All Cardinal points are the seasonal changes of the solstices and equinoxes.

Cancer is the mothering, nurturing sign. It rules the womb, the house & home, the interior of all things for it is the protecting and covering principle. Cancer is the most subconscious of all signs. They are like the sidestepping crab, and nothing is direct or forthright with them. There is no reasoning with them when they are emotionally charged, as usual with Water sign natives; and when they feel threatened, they retreat into their shell. They are very intuitive, absorbing their surroundings like a sponge, to the point of being psychic. It is hard for them to separate what they feel from what they think.

Cancerians are homebodies and strongly connected to mother, home, and family. They are basically conservative and home-loving, needing the security of the nest. Men will retreat to it in times of stress, and women enjoy the maternal atmosphere to care for loved ones.

They seem to need more love than other sign. The moon’s waning causes them to feel that there is always something missing, and this leads to depression. The cure for these low moments is caring, sharing, loving, and giving to others. All emotional slights are deeply felt and retained in the emotional memory and those feelings can be resurrected any time. They tend to retreat into their shells when threatened. Cancerians must learn to let go of the past and see beyond ill feelings and wounds. This is the only way for them to find truly happiness and love. 

They love history and archaeology – the past. They often have a collection of some sort. They have a sensitive stomach, as this is the body part they hold in the tension and unsolved emotional difficulties. Outwardly they can appear unemotional, uncompromising, obstinate, but their friends may see a kindly sensitivity to other people, especially those they love. They can be over-imaginative and prone to fantasy, sometimes trying to shape their lives to fit some romantic ideal, and demand to always be first with those they love. They seek sympathy and rarely see how selfish they can be.

Cancer men have a hard time letting go of mother and their childhood. All Cancerians love to roam, but need that home to come back to, even if they don’t stay there very long. Cancer rules the public and mass consciousness. home. America is a Cancer nation and it is always trying to help others, but as all Cancerians, needs to learn reason and discrimination.

 KEYWORDS for CANCER

Medically Speaking

Cancer governs the breast, stomach, upper lobes of the liver, and solar plexus. They have a sluggish energy flow which may appear as laziness. They hate exercise and may suffer from poor circulation in later years. Cancerians are said to be liable to breast cancer and to suffer from pleurisy, dropsy, piles and varicose veins. The excitability mentioned above can lead to weak digestion, gastritis and other stomach ills, and there is a tendency to coughs and weakness of vision.

Kabbalistic Connection

The moon is unlike any other celestial body, as it changes its position each day, but remains visible nonetheless. It begins each lunar month as a thin scythe and reaches its fullest brightness on the fifteenth. From the moment that the fifteenth day is over, the light of the moon begins to wane, and this cycle repeats itself each month.

According to “The Book of Formation” by Avraham Avinu, the month of Cancer was created by the Hebrew letters Chet (which created Tammuz) and Taf (which created the Moon). The moon is unlike any other celestial body, as it changes its position each day, but remains visible nonetheless. It begins each lunar month as a thin scythe and reaches its fullest brightness on the fifteenth. From the moment that the fifteenth day is over, the light of the moon begins to wane, and this cycle repeats itself each month.

But with the Egyptians the beginning of the year is not Aquarius, as among the Romans, but Cancer. For the star Sothis (Sirius) borders on Cancer, which star the Greeks denominate (Greek word) or the Dog. When this star rises they celebrate the calends of the month, which begins their year; because this is the place of the heavens where generation commences, by which the world subsists.
—Porphyry the Neoplatonist (233-305 A.D.)

 

John of Berry’s Petites Heures
France, Paris 14th Century.

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