Cancer

My brother Cancer,

Construct the forms that will carry life across the water

As the memory of all the forms that have preserved life is stored in this sign, Cancer is associated with preservation and perpetuation. Whilst Taurus nurtures new life, Cancer protects that which has to withstand the challenges of time in order to safeguard the continuity upon which man’s sense of identity depends.

Those of your sign are connected to the hierarchy of beings which form the solar plexus of the Solar Logos, the energy of which is mass life.

Your qualities are those of psychic sensitivity and recall and respect for the legacy of the past, from which we have all come. For you, life is inseparable from the form through which it manifests and you are enthusiastic about incarnating, which is the taking of form, because this represents an opportunity to restore, that which has been kept alive in memory.

The hierarchical ruler of your sign is Neptune.

The rightful symbol for Cancer, at this time and for the future, is not the crab, but the ark, the vessel that carries form life over the waters.

In the coming years, your contribution is to create and protect the forms that will preserve what you wish to take with you in your journey through time and through the evolutionary process. Create the organisations that will assist survival. They too are forms. Your sign holds memory from mankind’s history. There have been other inundations. How did the people of those times organise themselves? Draw on that memory and restore it to life. To you, my brother, falls the task of safeguarding the physical vehicle whilst Aries protects the spirit, and Gemini the soul of man. 

Think out what you will need on this journey. Think what the dangers will be. Think for the most vulnerable, the old and the young, because they are connected: the old have the memories that may protect the young, who will inherit the memories and, in time, restore them. This is the secret of continuity and it is expressed in the glyph of the sign Cancer, which will not change. 

Your colour is silver and you are inspired by the sight of light reflecting on dark water.