Astrology In Louisville

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.