CANCER

Cancer
June 22-July 23
Ruler: Moon / Element: Water / Mode: Cardinal Pole: Negative / Third: Primordial / Half: Subjective
Nurturing, support, belonging, emotional bonds; your roots, source, ground of your being; the unconscious, feelings, emotion; the Great Mother, Universal Womb; spirit's first emotional attachments to the world.
Mothering, emotional and physical nurturance; experiences and imprinting during infancy and childhood; family, ancestors, heritage, relationships to the past; belonging, feeling "at home"; maternal love, caring; feeling supported by the world, that your needs are provided for; insecurities and fears if your needs haven't been fulfilled; possessiveness, "twisted love", inability to nurture others are negative expressions.
Moon-ruled LOL 6 9 who'd of thought *blushing here*
The Crab, - Homebody celestial- The Quality (in charge) is Cardinal Crab-shellfish are of Water's Element, With dreamy and romantic temperament. As children of the silvery planet Moon When love-sick frogs in tribute croak and croon Intensity and deep emotions swell And they retreat at once into their shell Protective of the rib-cage and the heart Crabs shut the shell to ward off hurt and smart And shield emotions’ tender fragile seat And make in prudence for a quick retreat. Their outside cover, is an armor,- yet Protect small toddlers and they will not let Come harm and hurt to them, but tenderly Shield them from mishaps and adversity.

A Crab that put her mark on history The beauteous and gracious Princess Dee. The People’s Princess to us all so dear Who shines now bright in a celestial sphere. Intuitive, - like colors multi-pearled, Live more in dreams than in the real world, Have for nice social gathering a fling, Yet still prefer the home and nurturing Are sweetly clinging, hating to let go,- Compassionate are crabs to overflow. Besides their star stone, Pearl, they love jade, And crabs die nearly when by friends betrayed. Lo! Julius Caesar, Emperor commander, Was too a crab, as was Great Alexander, To whom the crabs lent speed upon his trek, and brought down fortresses like bric-a-brac.


Now Alexander’s spirit roams the brink Of cave tops with the turtles restlessly, Take flight~! take flight! before Osama's stink,- The Great one now his resting place must flee. The saddened eyes of the great conqueror, Bespeak the bottom of sheer misery, His resting place, that he had heretofore, He lost it- lost it, Oh indignity!.

His spirit roams alike a homeless man, Around the wastelands of Afghanistan, And his brave fighting turtles also ran, Flee in despair,- direction Kurdistan.

But Gaius Julius Caesar, the Divine, Sent first the turtles to the river Rhine, And later bade them swim in strong array, To fight the war again his foe Pompey. And Rembrandt. mixing oils, oft made a mess When overcome by moody crabbiness, His butler and some colleagues in the lab Had keen awareness, Rembrandt was a crab. Crabs'sEnergy is feminine - the YIN, Their Flower, - Water lily or Jasmine The pearl both the Gem and pedigree Their Color: lunar gray and silvery. Intuitive are Crabs - compassionate, But moody they can be and obfuscate And in affection's thrill may nearly swoon Their legendary source of moods, - the Moon. Called Turtles once, in ancient Babylon They ran the yearly Turtle Marathon, And after running round the city's towers, Were feasted in king Hammurabi's bowers..


The king picked out the turtle-crab Elite- And checked capacities for skill and speed, This Marathon was feasted every year And its performance filled the town with cheer. The turtles ran their Marathon until King Hammurabi reached out for his quill, And wrote the famous Hammurabi Code That he in honor of the turtles wrote.

But this was long ago, crabs run no more They have no Marathon on our shore,- I do believe this state of things is sad- But then the competition here is great I tell the gentle crabs I wish them well,- I am a friend, and they can drop their shell Then I continue on the beach my way And say good-bye!, I have no more to say!.

Best Wishes to all Cancerians!