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In nature, water has no shape of its own, no taste or colour. It needs other materials to be observed. Pour it into a container (like a bowl or a lake bed) and it takes on a shape. Flavour it with a substance, and it can be tasted. Toss a rock into it or reflect light off it, and it can be seen. ("Me, I like splashing in the puddles!")
Feelings and emotions are like invisible forces made perceptible by external events that cause internal ripples. Our feeling state can be affected by internal psychological dynamics (like water flowing over a rock in its own stream). Our feeling state includes emotions, but also includes the intuitive senses. You can have a "feeling" about something without necessarily having an emotional response to it.
In Water, we have both intuitive and emotional feelings. As children, we are very open. We freely express our emotions, from delight to contentment to primal rage. We learn to consciously identify our feelings by observing how we react to various situations and sensations. Does this taste good? Does that hurt? ("Kid-talk: Goo-goo! Ga-ga!") As we mature, we develop a more complex repertoire of feelings. ("Adult-talk: Going ga-ga! And they say there's intelligent life on Earth....")
Our first experience of being emotionally affected by others is our family-of-origin, initially by the mother or mother-figure. Whether we experienced our childhood as nurturing, supportive and safe, or as painful, erratic and dysfunctional, our internal emotional growth tends to take on the shape of the environment in which it grew (like water).
It is here we first learn how to nurture and be nurtured, to bond and be separate, to be an individual and yet be part of a larger whole (the family)�for better or for worse! Unconscious dynamics which are passed down from generation to generation also have their roots in Cancer and the 4th house.
Hence, Cancer also governs
family, childhood, mother, our ancestry, and the past in general. I
believe Cancer also contains the most basic dynamics of the Inner Child
(shared with Leo; more about that in the Leo article). ("Don't leave me hanging! I want my
Mommy!!!")
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Our childhood family also furnishes our first relationship with "The Other." As infants, we learn to bond with another person (usually the mother first) and later begin to distinguish between where we stop and others begin. ("That's easy�do you know anyone else with feathers AND hair?") Our initial symbiosis with the mother-figure, combined with our subsequent ability to separate ourselves, matures into a capacity for empathy.
Many of us had childhood experiences which blocked the full growth of these skills, resulting in difficulty with boundaries and over- or under-extending ourselves in adult relationships. The roots of our needs and behaviours in adult relationships are found deep in our Cancerian past.
The archetypes of Aries, Taurus and Gemini form the foundation of the Self in its own right. Although Gemini brings us a conceptual experience of others (through information and environment), Cancer involves an experiential, deeply personal encounter with others. In the progression through the signs of Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio and Sagittarius, we will further explore our encounter with "The Other." ("Oh horse-feathers! She's gonna leave us hanging again!")
For now, in Cancer, it is enough to return to our roots and
past to discover the dynamics which enabled us to grow into the
person we are today. If we try to go forward without knowing
where we came from, we risk becoming aimless, reckless and
disconnected.
� 1996, 2004, 2005 Wendy Guy. All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission from Transitions Astrology Newsletter, Gemini-Cancer-Leo 1996 Issue.
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