Cancer Sun
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In Aries the urge was TO Be. In Taurus the urge was TO HAVE. In Gemini the urge was TO COMMUNICATE. Next we have the archetype to feel safe and secure, to have a home, to care for others and have others care for us. Cancer which follows Gemini is our universal desire for comfort, familiarity, safety and protection.
Our Moon sign is associated with Cancer and reveals our subjective reality and our emotional needs. We all want and need a place to nest and rest so we all instinctively create a personal space where we can retreat to and call our own. Therefore, Cancer represents our inner space as well which is our internal sense of safety and security. Cancer teaches that each one of us must withdraw from the external world and build an inner reality within ourselves in our own personal way.
Our society is dominated by rational scientific thinking so we are often not aware of our feeling nature. It remains hidden in our subconscious because it is considered 'bad' or 'negative'. We repress our feelings and build a wall of denial between our conscious and unconscious minds. However, denial does not get rid of our desire/feeling nature; instead it increases in power when it is repressed. Then we become frustrated, vulnerable, isolated and act in ways that we ourselves do not understand. Repressed emotions can create burdens that can wreak havoc with our health, sap our power, drain our vitality, and cripple our relationships. Blocked emotional energy can create illness that has no rational cause such as the all too common stress and disease.
Emotional programming we received as youngsters is buried deeply in our psyche. Regardless of how positive or wonderful our upbringing was we all had experiences that we saw as threatening, rejective or unsupporting. Whether the reasons for this were intentional, accidental, or perhaps maybe non-existent does not matter; the bottom line is that the psyche is impacted. Until such time that the reason is understood then issues of abandonment, isolation, and lack of love remain and dictate our approach to life, our thoughts and our actions. This mindset leads to a mistrust of emotional intimacy, unreasonable craving for security and permanency and emotional immaturity.
Cancer demands that we understand how we block our emotional energy through fear, anger, sadness, or a victim mentality. In Cancer we learn to feel and honor our emotions in the body whether they are comfortable or not. We need to find that inner retreat where we can nourish ourselves and develop an inner structure that is solid and that cannot be shaken by outside influences.
Cancer's path is about finding the security within oneself which must be developed on our own. The journey is inward and private. We learn that we are responsible to create our own sense of inner security. Missing love and support must be supplied by ourselves.
The less conscious Cancer has no sense of boundaries or individuality and tends to over-identify with family that determines their behavior. They are forever concerned with getting their survival needs and compulsively accumulate and hoard possessions just in case they might need them. Problem is they never feel satisfied no matter how much they accumulate. Imprisoned in a shell of fear like the crab they bob through life and circumstances like a helpless victim. The wakeup call usually comes from burnout, isolation, loneliness and exhaustion from oppressive mental games and emotional dramas.
Those that nurture themselves tend to break out of dependency patterns and family dynamics that are suffocating. They have an inner sense of security. Their emotional boundaries break through nostalgia and sentimentality. They feel at home no matter where they are because they take their home with them wherever they go. Home has now become their own inner self. They have found the light within and made their home in their own heart. Their emotional responses are messages from the heart.
Cancer in our birth chart shows where we experience an undefined hunger, an emotional neediness and physical craving. This is where we indirectly approach rather than head on; are attached to what we want, will claw to get what we desire and will cling to what we believe.
This is where we find our internal path challenging in an externally oriented world while learning that the more individualized we become, the more universal we become.
The Sun shines through the Cancer sky from June 21st to July 22nd.
The New Moon in Cancer falls on June 21st which is also a North Nodal Solar Eclipse.
References:
Soul-Centered Astrology, Alan Oken,
The Crossing Press, Freedom, CA, 1990, pp. 181.
Saturn: A New Look at an Old Devil,
Liz Green, Samuel Weiser, Inc, York Beach, Maine, 1976, pp.16-20.
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