...............Hard-Shelled Sympathetic Cancer.
.......Who changes like a changeful season:
.......Holds fast and lets go without reason?
.......Who is there can give adhesion
............To Cancer?
Symbolic interpretation: The claws of the celestial crab; two spermatozoa intertwined, signifying the male and
female seed, implying retirement and nurturing; the crab or scarab.
Cancer expresses the living organism, its capacity to grow.
............Soon as the evening shades prevail
............The Moon takes up the wondrous tale,
............And nightly to the listening Earth
............Proclaims the story of her birth.
....................................- Addison.
First Decan: Moods, strong emotions, poetic and dramatic expression.
Second Decan: Revelation, resourcefulness, energy; powerful emotions; the struggle with sex.
Third Decan: Research, curiosity, discontent, restlessness; love of Nature; a stormy life.
Sign: Leo. The Lion. The fifth sign of the zodiac. Its symbol is possibly an emblem representing the phallus, as
used in ancient Dionysian mysteries. It is also an emblem of the Sun's fire, heat or creative energy. The Sun is
in Leo annually from July 23 to August 22. Astrologically and astronomically it is the second thirty-degree arc
after the Summer Solstice, marked by the Sun's passing of the Tropic of Cancer and occupying a position along
the ecliptic from 120° to 150°. It is the Fixed quality of the Fire element, conferring an internal will motivated
by an impulse of the heart. It is positive, hot, dry, choleric, eastern, diurnal, commanding, brutish, sterile,
broken, changeable, fortunate, strong, hoarse, bitter, and violent. Ruler: Sun. Detriment: Saturn. Fall: Mercury.
...........................Loving Leo
..............Who praises all his kindred do;
..............Expects his friends to praise them too
..............And cannot see their senseless view?
...................Ah, Leo.