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It has taken me a while to get my thoughts together on Cancer. It is one of the deepest and most mysterious signs of the Cardinal Cross. The Summer Solstice is the longest day of the year and occurs at the beginning of the sign, so for the next month the sun’s rays are at such an angle the Earth is deeply penetrated. The obvious phallic implication reinforces the fertility concept picked up by all primal civilizations. This is the time to welcome "New Souls" onto the planet. This is the  time when the solar pathway is the clearest, strongest and most powerful. Yet, Cancer is ruled by the reflected light of the Moon! Another paradox with an occult meaning to keep the uninitiated on the surface of things. This is the seat of the soul in one sense and the emotional body in another. Cancer is the pool, the lake, the well! Any still body of water which reflects the sky is the sign of the Crab and it’s main attribute is containment. It is the sign of clairvoyance, seer-ship,knowing without going outside of its door as the Chinese Taoist is want to say. Cancerians, like the symbolic Crab, carry their home on their backs where ever they roam. They are some of the greatest and most enduring travelers of the Zodiac. They are built to make a home where ever they find themselves.  Cancer represents the nurturing environment, the home, the subconscious and the life giving principle of form. In the body Cancer represents the stomach, the breasts and the emotional body. In the life process Cancer represents the urge to manifest and the process of incarnation is a result. In relationship to the spirit, Cancer is a symbolic place of imprisonment the soul, a record of all impact on this plane of existence.  It represents the Light within the form awaiting the light of spirit. Cancer in a manner of speaking is the First gate into incarnation. The lighted temple. Keep a light in the window to guide us home is a truism of the deepest magnitude. Cancer is feeling too and clairsentience is also one of it’s manifestations and maybe even deeper than clairvoyance. The key word is stillness but in the Esoteric Astrology of Alice Bailey one  can read this sign is concerned primarily with the world of causes.  Mysterious essence in the Biblical phrase, divinity in motion. From Genesis,  The spirit of God moved across the face of the waters. The depth of the void is unfathomable in the black of darkness. God, the spirit, the soul and the body all come into intimate relationship in the sign of Cancer. It is in the reflected light of the Moon where we can grasp the truth of our being and purpose. And the relationship between the Sun and the Moon as consorts in the birthing of man begets our Karma as well. Cancer is a deep well and the reflection of the light of Spirit is a sign felt in the heavens.

Cancerian personalities are yin even the men are more laid back and the women are more silent than their Gemini or Leo neighbors. They are representative of the nurturing qualities of feeding, protecting and sheltering. Fierce in defence and voracious in hunting their prey, Cancerians are formitable adversaries and valiant friends. Their greatest enemy is the unknown and if truth be told the unknown within themselves rather than the unknown of the outer world. Home loving Cancerians can provide and make a home anywhere they roam. I always loved the analogy of the hermit crab who finds a home in an abandoned seashell and appropriates it to cover its body as it travels the ocean bottom. Its sideways motion describes the Cancerian attack stratigedy. The flank attack is better than the frontal assault to the Crab. Encircling its prey the Crab will attack when and where it is least expected. Sensitive, soft and yielding within a rough tough exterior, that is Cancer.

The sign of Gemini is given some of it’s deep meaning in Alice Bailey’s Esoteric Astrology first published by Lucis Press in 1951. In it she says that Gemini is one of the most important of the 12 signs and its’ influence lies behind every one of them. She claims the reconciliation of all of the opposites is inherent in the airy triplicity and through the sign of Gemini we recognize the duality principle of for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction as well as all the dualities. Gemini is also the constellation through which the Cosmic Love of God principle is channeled to this solar system. Mercury being assigned by the Ancients to the sign as its’ ruler further indicates the brain/mind in the human organism and esoteric ideas from the Tibetan who channeled to Bailey further illuminates our mental constructs. Bailey also says that Gemini represents the Heart of the sun. Ever notice how solar flares on the sun’s surface disrupt communications on the Earth’s surface. Well, it goes deeper than that as the connection between the sun and the electromagnetic field of the earth ( and all of the other planets for that matter ) is filtered ( if you will ) through the orbit of Mercury, the ruler and mediator of Gemini. The pillars of Hercules, Jachin and Boaz the initiates,are represented in the Glyph for Gemini and the spirit of the Watcher on the Threshold is a Geminian essence. Relatedness as in this is related to that is Geminian. All of these concepts are primal and therefore foundational and thus Gemini is called the First or Primitive or primal sign. It is also referred to as the sign of the divine messenger which is another Mercurial association. Through the sign of Gemini many of the world prophets appear. The Messenger of the Gods, if you will, have the attributes of accuracy, clarity, succinctness, memory and speed. There is no emotion at this level just the stillness associated with the presence of the Word. In conclusion, for I could go on and on, Gemini is not shallow and as a counterpoint to the galactic center found in Sagittarius, the sign is one of the pillars of the galactic consciousness within which humanity has and is developing.

Time to take a look at Gemini! Then look again at Gemini from a different angle! Twins! Get IT! LOL!

This is the primal air sign and within it’s symbolics lies a deep understanding of the human neural chemical network, or as we moderns like to call it the hard wiring. The air element implies a connecting , buffering layer between the fire and earth elements or if you will a mediator between the two externally. Internally it is the precise balance of tiny amounts of atmosphere ( watch out for that word) which separate and regulate the two. This balance is a form of communication which enables the two elements to exist in proximity without consuming or stifling one or the other. This form of regulation exists in all mass. For instance, it is the ” Glue ” which maintains the integrity within the organic forms of life and gives shape to those forms, to all forms. Communication on one hand and ritual on the other. Same thing two views! Gemini! What is it which differentiates a stomach cell from a heart cell in a living organism? How does a stomach cell “know” it is a stomach cell and not a heart cell? Communication and ritual! The regulating principles are symbolized by the dual principle. Duality! Order on one hand Chaos on the other. Modern physics is now discovering the order in Chaos and the chaos in the order. Sounds like the Chinese principles of Yin and Yang. Doesn’t it! However don’t oversimplify this construct. Don’t be shallow! This is foundational,primal knowledge. Nothing superficial here. The Gemini personality is often considered shallow or superficial skimming the surface and lacking real depth. Well, maybe, not really.  Fact finding always has a hidden agenda a deeper cause than what it would seem to an outside observer. There is ALWAYS another side to consider. Maybe it should be said that Gemini can easily reflect the superficial thus concealing the deeper meaning. Ask a researcher how many false leads she has followed to a dead end before the path way through was discovered. The Gemini personality is very clever at mind games, puzzles and surface mechanics, at psyching out the way things are put together. Part two is coming up!