Cancer
Tarot: Temperance
Who Changes like a Changeful Season?Holds Fast and Lets Go Without Reason?Who is There can Give Adhesion?To Cancer
The Sign Of The Protector
Symbol: The Crab ...........................Perfume: Onycha
Element: Water .......................... Quality: Cardinal
Planetary Ruler: Moon .............. Colours: Silver, pale blue
Gems: moonstone, pearl ............... Metal: Silver
Keywords: Defensively, tenaciously, sensitively
Rules
The Fourth House (home and domestic life, the supportive parent, hidden motivations, old age).
Mythology
The constellation of Cancer immortalizes the Crab sent by the goddess Hera to combat her old enemy, Hercules. As the hero embarked on the second of his Twelve Labours... the destrution of the nine-headed serpent, Hydra... the Crab nipped at his ankles but was crushed underfoot. Hera raised it to the heavens as a reward.
Positive Traits
Kind, sensitive, sympathetic, imaginative, maternal, or paternal, solicitous, protective, cautious, patriotic, tenacious, shrewd, thrifty, resourceful, good homemaker.
Negative Traits
Over-emotional, hypersensitive, moody, devious, changeable, self-pitying, unforgiving, unstable, gullible, untidy.
The Cancerian Body
Parts of the Body Ruled
Ailmentary canal, lower ribs, breasts, breast bone, womb, digestive tract, upper digestive organs, pancreas.
Acupuncture Meridian
Stomach meridian
Cancerian Ailments
Gastric disorders, heartburn, indigestion, obesity, ulcers.
Beneficial Foods
Watercress, milk.
Cancerian Associations
Herbs and Plants
Cabbage, cardamine, chick weed, flax, lettuce, maple, mushroom, olive, pumpkin, saxifrage, turnip, water violet, white rose.
Objects
Boats, cooking utensils, gardening tools, home appliances, photographs, potted plants, souvenirs, swimming pools.
Professions and Trades
Antique dealer, businessman/woman, caterer, fisherman, food scientist, historian, hotelier, housewife, kindergarten teacher, museum curator, nurse, publican, sailor.
Sports and Hobbies
Cooking, memory quizzes, sailing, sewing, water-skiing.
Cancer And The World
Cancer represents the common people, mass ideologies, national sentiment, and opposition to government. It also has ties with a country`s agriculture and all produce of the land.
Countries ruled by Cancer
Holland, New Zealand, Scotland.
Cities ruled by Cancer
Amsterdam, Manchester, Milan, New York, and Venice.
The Archetypal Cancerian
Snow White, the innocent whose trust was betrayed but who found comfort and shelter in the bosom of her tiny family