Cancer, the Nurturing Imaginative Waters
cosmic crabs, water cardinals, lunatic and ecocentric parents
Summer Zodiac begins with the summer solstice, the day northern hemisphere of the Earth lives the longest time with their star’s light.
The moon is rocking the cradle of the oceans to imagine a creative life like no other. The waters are birthing, nursing, tickling all kinds of critters. The rivers are flowing like veins carrying blood and creating civilisations. The visible and invisible umbilical cords are bonding all to the planet and the universe.
Imagine you are a planet orbiting around a star and this very star is lighting and warming you1, your rocky body to the fullest. It is midsummer. You are well lit, warmed and nourished by your star. Your nights are not biting anymore. Your seas are luring in all kinds of beings for a splash, for a stroke, for a fluke. You have all you need to make your beings come fully alive, play and dream. You are their dream planet. You are a planetary dream come true.
Cancer and their cosmic crabs welcome us at the threshold of summer. With all sorts of fruits, vegetables, milks, juices, nectars, vitamins, minerals, stars, connections, parents, siblings, grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins… generation upon generations of people that are connected through familial bonds and friends, foes, allies, neighbours, animals, plants, planets, rocks, rivers, wells, stories, gardens, recipes, land… With the cosmic crab, we are welcome (sometimes also unwelcome), we are on our planet, we are home, we are fed, we are held, we are cared for. With them, we have a planet and a home, we have our stories, we have our people (human and other-than-human), we have our shared past, we have our shared now, we belong.
Cancer is the nurturer, the caregiver, the nest builder, the homemaker, the mother, the parent, the feeder, the cleaner, the purifier, the sustainer, the chef, the bond generator, the memory keeper, the collector, the rememberer, the imagineer, the lunatic, the water-starter, the flood-maker, the river of the zodiac.
Let us forget not, the summer solstice initiates us into summer, into Cancer season with the longest day as well as with the day that rebirths the darkness. Mammalian, human-centric; patriarchal and matriarchal realities and the bonds they have created are complex and complicated. Summer is not the only season. Every zodiac sign has many distorted and unskillful manifestations, you can find that part at the end of each article.
Life is messy. Life is enchanted.
“Everything in the universe is genetically cousin to everything else. There is literally one family, one bonding in the universe, because everything is descended from the same source.” Thomas Berry
