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Sun in Cancer

You walk the path of the sensitive healer as the urge to shine and harness creative vision is expressed through the archetype of the protector, nurturer, and hearth guardian.  The shape of your loving charisma and healing influence is defined by your ability to activate the soul, initiate sensitivity, create impressions, express emotion, and illuminate the imagination.  It is through the archetype of the classical matriarch that you realize your creative potential and core identity, soothing others through compassionate care taking.  The element of water is your spiritual fuel, motivating you through deep soul yearnings and empathic connections with those you have dubbed family. 

You can recharge your life force through expressing and following intuition to nurture others and quiet inward reflection over warm cups of tea.  Your potent gift is your psychic sensitivity.  When you walk into a room you literally soak up the emotional contours that exist.  You are like the feeling-oriented mother of life who all people owe allegiance to for she is the vessel we are all carried by before we come into life.  The ancients didn’t call Cancer the Crab, but the Turtle, whose shell patterns showed the Chinese culture the mystery of change.  According to legend, the I-ching was developed from studying the markings on turtle shells.  Before the Turtle image, this archetype was simply the great watery goddess.  As a Cancer, your warm, sentimental smiles, tasty stews, and soul-stirring hearths occupy the center of our home and family lives.  We find nourishment and heartfelt welcome in the deep well of being that you provide.  After the frenetic mischief and playful interaction of Gemini, Cancer returns us to emotional security and heart-centered love without conditions.  We come inside from the cold and get warm by the hearth. 

            Wholeness emerges in your life when you are able to integrate the opposite sign of Capricorn into your domestic nature.  The intuitive caretaker who feeds life I challenged to become a master of structure, authority, and organization in order to truly craft a communal clan.  The mom who integrates discipline into her daily routine we all know is unstoppable.  You don’t have to be a woman to express this kind of sentimentality and sensitivity.  Sensitive, tenacious guys are possible too, and in fact, make some of the best interior decorators and fashion designers. 

            The spiritual principle of Cancer is compassion, derived from the roots “com” (meaning with) and “passion” (meaning to suffer).  True compassion involves putting yourself into the shoes and life of another to feel their joy and pain, to literally “suffer with” them.  In so doing, you realize that another’s pain is your pain and you strive to love unconditionally.  Cancerian personalities are the most caring people.  If you resist life and allow yourself to hate, then you become resistance and hate.  If you love and accept life, you become a source of love, acceptance, and forgiveness.  This doesn’t mean letting destructive people walk all over you though.  Your defense of harm is your compassion lived.  Still, we can always forgive.  Forgiveness is the essence of the Cancerian nature. 

            The Moon takes on more significance in your chart as it reflects the sentimental, tea-sipping archetype of Cancer and disposits (governs) any planets in this sign.  Therefore the chart position of the Moon is vital to your creativity, spiritual recharge, and self-realization.  It will also add qualities to the field of your charisma depending on its sign, house and aspects.  Your highest purpose involves becoming a source of compassion, nurturing, and healing.  You are called to establish a hearth in life, a center from which you can bestow humanity with motherly love and nourishment, feeding their bodies and their souls.  To do this you must cultivate faith in the images that reside in your heart.

            When you become aware of your shadow you can transmute it into light.  The shadow of Cancer includes worrying, acting clannish, being co-dependent, emotionally manipulative, and attached to the past.  The clinging side of this archetype can turn you into the smother mother if you’re not careful.  All that worry can lead to ulcers and the cancer disease!  With the soulful Moon as you guide you are able to navigate the daily tides of emotion, spending quality time nurturing your imagination and creating emotional fields of protectiveness in the world.       
 

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