Just at the moment, the Sun is in the zodiac sign of Cancer. Cancer’s emblem is the crab; forever moving sideways and trying to avoid any assault from more assertive creatures.
The tropical zodiac signs are not the same as the constellation zodiac. The two zodiacs are two separate wheels, one rotating within the other. The zodiac of the constellations came first and was observed by the ancients. Then some bright spark decided to divide up the ecliptic belt into 12 matching signs. Trouble is, due to the astronomical phenomena of ‘Precession’, the two wheels no longer coincide as they once did. The result is that the Tropical zodiac sign of Cancer now appears against the background of the Constellation Gemini.
Cancerians on a good day are warm and fuzzy and mothering or fathering towards the world. On a bad day they are ‘crabby’, snappy and difficult to be with. This may have something to do with the rhythms of the moon, who has a special association with this sign. The moon of course is moody as it waxes and wanes and fluctuates in force.
The esoteric ruler of Cancer, according to Alice Bailey, ,Esoteric Astrology: A Treatise on the Seven Rays, Vol. 3
is Neptune, the big blue gaseous planet who is about to move from Aquarius into the Tropical zodiac sign of Pisces. That’s the Neptune king of the sea returning home after about a 165 year journey around the solar system. Neptune in astrology represents the creative and imaginative faculties of humans and which is a shared experience over each 13 year period of spiritual destiny.
is Neptune, the big blue gaseous planet who is about to move from Aquarius into the Tropical zodiac sign of Pisces. That’s the Neptune king of the sea returning home after about a 165 year journey around the solar system. Neptune in astrology represents the creative and imaginative faculties of humans and which is a shared experience over each 13 year period of spiritual destiny.
Mermaid and Merman [1866] Anonymous Russian folk artist
On the 4th of July the Sun was with the bright star Sirius; isn’t that the day of American Independence – yes! it is, and it is also the start of the Ancient Egyptian Siriac calendar and of the Nile flooding.
Alice Bailey’s, ‘Esoteric Astrology’ can be pretty hard reading. As an introduction to the complications, another book of Bailey's, ‘The Labours of Hercules: An Astrological Interpretation’, is a good starting place; The Labours of Hercules: An Astrological Interpretation
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