Cancer

So this summer has actually been quite an interesting one.

Jupiter, the planet of wisdom, happiness, expansion, has been in the zodiac constellation of Cancer.

And remember, I'm using the Vedic astrology positions of planets, which are related to what is actually observable in the sky, observable positions.

So rather than signs, we call them actually constellations.

So Jupiter has been in Cancer, and this is a, a state where Jupiter is very, very happy.

It's called exalted in Cancer.

Exalted means it has lots and lots of energy.

And so, you know, there may have been some good luck, good fortune this summer, especially if you happen to be a Cancer rising, Cancer moon, or even a sun sign of Cancer, you'll notice some good things.

Whatsoever feels not the warm gale and gentle ventilation of this spirit, though I feel his pulse, I dare not say he lives, for truly without this to me, there is no heat under the tropic, nor any light, though I dwelt in the body of the sun.

As when the laboring sun hath wrought its track up to the top of lofty Cancer's back, the icy ocean cracks, the frozen pole thaws with the heat of the celestial coal.

So when thy absent beams begin to impart again a solstice on my frozen heart, my winters awe, my drooping spirits sing, and every part revives into a spring.

But if thy quickening beams a while decline, and with their light bless not this orb of mine, a chilly frost surpriseth every member, and in the midst of June I feel December.

Whether the planting of yew in churchyards hold not its original from ancient funeral rites or as an emblem of resurrection from its perpetual verdure may also admit conjecture.

They made use of music to excite or quiet the affections of their friends according to different harmonies.

But the secret and symbolical hint was the harmonical nature of the soul, which, delivered from the body, went again to enjoy the primitive harmony of heaven from whence it first descended, which, according to its progress traced by antiquity, came down by Cancer and ascended by Capricornus.

They burnt not children before their teeth appeared, as apprehending their bodies too tender a morsel for fire, and that their gristly bones would scarce leave separable relics after the pyral combustion.

It is noon.

This corresponds to Cancer.

The analogy is perfect.

It is the solar influx ninety degrees removed from his point of equilibrium toward the north and the highest point in the arc of his apparent journey and of cosmic life.

Therefore not until with clean hands and pure heart he restores intuition to her throne united with reason can he hope to comprehend the reality of this arcane mystery of the twin souls Gemini.

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Cancer And next the twins with an unsteady pace, bright Cancer rolls.

In this beautiful constellation we witness the reaction of Gemini, the closing scene in Act 2.

As if my madness could find healing thus, or that God soften at a mortal’s grief! Now neither Hamadryads, no, nor songs, delight me more.

You woods, away with you! No pangs of ours can change him; not though we in the mid frost should drink of Hebrus’ stream, and in wet winters face Cithaeronian snows; or, when the bark of the tall elm-tree bole of drought is dying, should, under Cancer’s sign, in Ethiopian deserts drive our flocks.

Love conquers all things; yield we too to love.

These songs, Pierian maids, shall it suffice your poet to have sung, the while he sat, and of slim mallow wove a basket fine? To Gallus ye will magnify their worth; Gallus, for whom my love grows hour by hour, as the green alder shoots in early spring.