TRUE Cancer is born between July 16—Aug. 15*
Cancer Must Grow
Nature is Beautiful
Yet Cruel
Cancers represents the natural order of things, the phases of the Moon, the flow of seasons, the cycle of destruction and creation. It represents the flow of emotions, from fear and loneliness, to joy and togetherness. Yet the inexorable grind of natural events can only be explained as soulless, in complete disregard of all human hopes and ideas. Human hopes are nothing before the Bell curve of natural return; nature itself is two wildly divergent extremes trying to rectify. It’s on Cancer to assimilate, and experience the opposite poles. They can cultivate an understanding of the boundless sea of emotions and the infinite coldness of the ocean. Cancer is ruled by the sea, its tides, its turmoil, and the Moon, which rules over all of them with a mournful autocracy. The Moon can be beautiful and compelling, or lifeless and full of dread.
There’s always danger and drama in the life of the Cancer, and sometimes intuition, camouflage and their hardened defenses can’t prevent attacks from potential enemies. Cancers observe that nature loves diversity and hates stasis, and is fluid like Shiva, creating and destroying with the same busy hands. Yet, almost instinctively, Cancers will try to suppress change out of sheer terror, so fearful are they that it will bring something worse. The fear of disorder, the fear of attack, the fear of altercation and disaster always haunt the Cancer sensibilities. Nature herself has taught Cancer to fear the unknown.
Make Us Believe
That paradigm prefaces every Cancerean mood: how to navigate the dialectical forces of nature without losing traction. Cancers can make us visualize the person that they want to be, they suggest it; we affirm it. This helps them solidify their hold on reality, which they see as relative and subjective. How well they succeed reflects the quality of their acting abilities and persuasion. Surely, there are more Sidereal Cancer film and stage actors by far then any other sign, except perhaps Pisces. Cancer wants fame bad, but sometimes has to settle for notoriety. Cancers Michael Richards, Barry Bonds, PeeWee Herman and Carl Jung all suffered near-fatal falls from grace; yet they have all been since reabsorbed into the cultural maw; they’re all too much loved to be thrown away. With Cancer, love itself becomes the enemy of rational thought. Growth becomes an instrument of invasion.
Cancer Lessons
Cancer is the message that unconstrained growth can be evil; we can be killed by life itself. Unfettered growth is insane growth; the desperation of life to exist can overwhelm its actual purpose. Life, which is beautiful and had limitless possibilities, becomes a parasite, a predator, and an evil force that chokes out the host itself. Cancer is growth, good and bad; the sacred expression of love, the newborn baby, and the sickening results of over-population, presaging starvation and war.
Cancer can grow even in the most hostile environment, for no other purpose than to dominate, the way a vine dominates the side of a building. Like its medical cousin, Cancer wants to rule through critical mass, wants to invade every cell; Cancer is imperialism of the heart. This behavior in human Cancers is only brought on by fear, the basic insecurity of their desires.
The Many Hats of Barack Obama Obama's Cancer nature makes him a mirror to all our hopes and hates. He was elected by those who saw him as the hope of the future. But he is not; Obama's shifty political positioning of himself as savior is exemplified by Jeremiah Wright, his own, erstwhile Black preacher. Wright called Obama a "typical politician" when Obama threw him under the media bus during the 2008 presidential campaign. |
Lunacy
The Moon phases directly affect Cancer. The shrinking moon drains Cancer of vitality. The new moon is a new start, and Cancer’s stature grows in sync with the waxing moon. When the moon is full, Cancer is confident, capable of great action, theatrics and sometimes a great foolish delusion. This also is true for people with a Cancer Moon or other luminary planets in Cancer.
The Moon may be volatile, but it’s very lovable. With a non-penis-fetishist female sexuality, Cancer has fulsome appetites, the sign of the Queen who takes a young lover; possibly her son, possibly a god. It’s part of the Cancer charisma that all these secrets are classified and held close to the heart. Cancer men are the few words-and more action oriented guys. They practice what they preach. Cancer Rembrandt didn’t just love the human body, he designed our graphic concept of it as well.
Bad Cancer
Cancer does have a fully functioning heart, and so people like them better. People liked Sidereal Gemini Tom Cruise, but he had a series of public meltdowns. This won’t happen to Sidereal Cancers—they are too well protected by their body armor. Even Cancer Machine Gun Kelly had his bevy of admirers. However, events can snap back painfully on Cancers when they do let their guard down.
Cancers can be bad, very bad. If they’re not getting into trouble, they’re helping us get into trouble. They’re shifty. They can be very mean and passive aggressive while they protect themselves. They rely on the suspension of disbelief in many of the sales pitches they have and will give over the course of their lives. They are full of intrigue and need cohorts. They are often paid to misrepresent things, and willingly do so, very well on stage and in the boardrooms, too. This evil, “bad Mom” is typified by double-Cancer Benito Mussolini, a ruthless manipulator and serial liar. His private life, replete with multiple wives, children and mistresses, is quite the Cancer cult-of-personality run amok and rewarded with a gory death.
Real Mom, Media Mom
Cancers are often connected to motherhood and the Moon in prime directive, but actual nurturing is very often lacking in Cancers, who prefer to sublimate their paternalistic urges for the greater good. Cancers want to be loved by all humanity. Many Cancers sacrifice parenthood altogether to offer their services to a larger, but less demanding, audience.
Triple Cancer Sally Struthers was spokesperson for Child Fund International, in so doing, she expanded her range from her own daughter to all children, calling upon everyone to be a good mother. Cancers can take motherhood from the micro to the macro. Some Cancers, male or female, do provide nurturing and maternal love, but others can be absentee or even a cruel mother; Cancers who are involved in career and fame often have no time for their own brood. Cancer Men often exhibit these tendencies; they cannot bear being upstaged by their own offspring, and remain childless, or are purposefully detached from their children.
Some, like double Cancer David Spade, cling to their own childhood, and resist taking responsibility for their own kids. Double Cancer Rose Kennedy had with a reputation as less of a mother and more of a superior officer. She ran a military operation and banished her retarded daughter to an institution. On the other hand, Cancer can be a mother hen, like triple Cancer Carlos Santana, with a Leo Moon, who cultivates and supports a expanded family entourage that includes old friends, recording artists, former wives and assorted kids. Significantly, some Cancer women, like early feminists Annie Oakley and Amelia Earhart, eschewed kids altogether to advance a cause, in this case, equality for women. The mother love here is spread to all humanity.
The People's Sign
What gives Cancer an uncanny knack for the feelings of the group? How is it they can sense its mood swings and even use propaganda and subterfuge to influence the outcome? An open mind and high degree of tolerance makes Cancer the sign of the masses—the spiritual affirmation of humanity. Yet Cancer is the also a true sign of rugged individualism. Cancer understands the mass in its yearning for individuality. These inherent Cancer strengths are mysterious and surprisingly versatile. It’s a respect for the inner child and one’s developing character that makes Cancers so sensitive to the needs of each and every individual. Differences work cohesively with integration as passing phases of the Moon and bring resolution of our fears and desires. Cancer works indirectly, circling a problem obliquely, like the crab’s sideways movement. And like an angry protective crab, Cancer will attack the flanks rather than give ground.
Too Much Water
The big health problem for Cancer is water retention. Sluggishness—in both males and females, is anathema. Excess liquids of all kinds can hurt Cancer. Booze (Purines), tea (tannics), coffee (caffeine), or soda (sugar) are bad, but even too much water, if not processed as sweat or urine quickly, can be excessive for Cancer people. Milk and dairy products, the feel-good foods, lay like swill in the bowels. Cancers are susceptible to a volatile water absorption rate, which rises and falls with the Moon’s phases as well as the amount of sodium in the diet.Ende ma is a hazardous condition; when out of control it can lead to serious health problems. Cancers can too easily adjust to abnormal levels of water retention, feeling as if it were a natural consequence of life cycles, rather than a result of a vitamin deficiency and a mineral imbalance.
Cancer Healing
The balance of intercellular fluids is the way to restore the joy and security of glowing health to Cancer. Salt is the source of life, so you can’t and shouldn’t eliminate it. If your body gets bloated because of moon-cycle-caused water retention, just counter it with a hefty B-complex vitamin, one that supplies at least 100 mgs of vitamin B6. This particular vitamin and extra potassium (50-250 mgs a day) will prevent and help eliminate water retention. All Cancer organs are probably overworked as a result of the retention of fluids and the gunk floating around in it. If you can, give the stomach, liver, and kidneys a vacation with a monthly 24-hour fast. And get off your ass—walk, run, swim. For utter relaxation, after a warm, baking-soda infused bath, take a quick cold shower to restore the skin to a tight, alkaline condition.
Feed the Cancer
Discover the mother of whole grains, millet. A steaming bowl of this venerable, hearty porridge every morning will lift your spirits and serve your cells energy carbohydrates for several hours. Also look for anything containing natural sources of potassium: seaweed, dandelion greens, parsley, cabbage, rice bran, lima beans, endive, watercress, cucumbers, mushrooms. Bananas, avocados, melons.
Cancer metabolism is the key to a clean burn of food. The Cancer must have physical activity. Sweat should be the final ingredient in all recipes, as in vigorous exercise to burn it off.
Capricorn and Cancer
Cancers can learn a lot from Capricorn, (and vice-versa) two opposites in the Zodiac. Both signs have big ambitions and leadership aspirations. Cancers can do everything that Capricorns can do; achieve long term objectives and delay gratification; but they can do it with style. While Capricorns are the bones and virtue of structure, Cancers can make even a desert bloom like an oasis. If Cancers could get their priorities sorted out like Capricorn, they’d be more credible. Cancer can do indirectly, adroitly, what takes Capricorn a direct assault. Cancer can lead the group but must develop the emotional dissonance that comes to Capricorn as second nature. Capricorn represents a painful, masculine, learning system, Cancer wants a maternal, flexible, intimate one. Life with Cancer can be like a circus tent, while Capricorns want to run everything like a hedge fund. Luckily both signs are attuned to their respective job description and their affinities; hey, it’s a job!
Work That Body
Cancer is one of the signs that can readily detach itself emotionally from its own body. The emotions have their own dynamic, not connected to reality. Cancers can convince themselves of anything. They can feel sick without a corresponding disease, or feel well in spite of sickness. So they can also have little faith in the body’s healing abilities, and waste their loyalties on lost-cause or faddist health regimes.
Cancer can readily believe in laughter as the best medicine, or other placebos and emotionally-based methods of curing disease. Of course this just delays the inevitable crash into dismal reality, something that can crush the Cancer spirit. Not only will cancer panic at (or ignore!) signs of illness, they have a tendency to repress stress and anxiety under layers of secret ruminations and deceptions. It’s a desperate need—but failure to achieve—control of the environment that causes this anxiety. Since the only place control can be so complete is in a dreamscape, Cancers become experts in creating one.
However, the body is not subject to fantasy, but rather physical law, and not to listen to it is to desecrate it. The Cancer has a captive audience of its own body, a congregation of all its extreme emotional offshoots, and the act of self-realization and self-love can be a tour de force performance.
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