Cancer season begins on the Summer solstice and marks the point in time when wildflowers are blooming, bees are buzzing, and the sun is nice and toasty (in the northern hemisphere). This sign rules the kitchen, so get your cauldrons ready. Geek out on vintage attire and adornments. Explore deep cottagecore fantasies. Cook all the time. Take pleasure in caring for your tribe. Go through old photos. Be sentimental. Feel your feelings, but take no shit.
Symbol: the crab
In Greek mythology: Zeus’ wife, Hera, was said to be very jealous, but who wouldn’t be pissed to constantly find their partner in the sack with all manner of nymph, human, and beast? On this particular occasion, Hera’s anger over her husband’s infidelity and siring of yet another half-breed bastard inspired her to send a giant crab to bring down Zeus’s son, the demi-god Hercules. At this moment, he was in the midst of completing the twelve labors assigned to him in order to atone for a murder that he had committed. In the end, Hercules slew the hydra he was battling and squashed the giant crab with his mighty demi-god foot. Hera was not pleased, but she felt great sympathy for the crab and pinned it with stars up into the night sky.
Ruled by: the Moon, signifier of fate and fortune, women, mothers, and children, family, home, tribe, ancestry, the past, the earth/body, the immanent, psychology, feelings/emotions, sensation, foresight/divination, mysticism/mysteries, pregnancy, watery places, earth’s biomatrix, travel/transportation
Yin/Yang: Yin (passive, receptive, dark, cool, damp)
Modality: tropical/cardinal/initiating
Element: water (emotive, intuitive, fluid)
Season: summer solstice
Characteristics/Personality Traits: bestial, amphibious, fertile, mute, single, servile, rough-skinned, broken, digging, fond of repute, popular, changeable, theatrical, cheerful, fond of pleasure/entertaining, inconstant in knowledge, wandering/sojourning abroad, mothering, nurturing, sentimental, nostalgic, sensitive, guarded, dangerous if provoked
Body parts: chest/breasts, sides, stomach, gallbladder, pancreas, liver
Famous people with sun in Cancer: Diana: Princess of Wales, Tensyn Gyatso: 14th Dalai Lama, Robin Williams, Nikola Tesla, Nelson Mandela, Courtney Love, Frida Kahlo
Cancer season listening: Faith by George Michael (sun in Cancer)
Reference:
Ancient Astrology in Theory and Practice by Demetra George
The Astrology of Fate by Liz Greene
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