It’s a fixed, consolidating sign it is darkly self-aware of being self-contained. SCORPIO lives deep underwater in the throes of tides we can’t see, swarming with colorful schools of fish and petrifying predators. They make us nostalgic for our own emotional authenticity. We worship and resent these stars for echoing our own emotions - directly accessing feelings that society demands we stuff down - without shame or artificiality. This oscillation between safe coddling and vicious overbearing is exemplified in Cancer’s constellation, the crab - tender inside its shell but always ready to pinch with its massive claws.Ĭelebrity Cancer suns include Princess Diana, Helen Keller, Ariana Grande, Robin Williams, Courtney Love, Frida Kahlo, Lana Del Rey, and Alex Trebek. Cancers can be nurturing and protective friends and lovers but also the kind of helicopter parents who want to know where you are and what you’re doing whenever you’re out of sight. This sign is ruled by the moon and thus tends toward maternal instincts. They may be whiners or murderers, but they won’t lie about it. Reacting to feeling with immediacy can be a blessing or a curse depending on the situation, but Cancers are (usually) completely sincere in their motivations for oversharing their outpourings of angst. This immediate, often infantile access to emotions merits Cancer a crybaby reputation, but it’s also a popular placement on the charts of mixed martial artists and serial killers. It’s aquatic action we can see without expensive goggles and scuba tanks.Ĭancer is a cardinal sign, which means that it wears its baby, oblivious, and enkindling heart on its sleeve. Shallow water doesn’t mean there’s an absence of activity - far from it. I am imagining squads of dolphins breaking the waves, the wails of whales, the marches of penguins, and bitter nymphs dragging down unfaithful sailors. It may not go deep, but it brims with life and touches the coastline, where so many other living creatures are. It starts on the surface shore, gets lost in the infinite dramas of our vast oceans, and ends with ancient bones and supernatural sea creatures buried along the shadowy ocean floor.ĬANCER is surface-level, superficial water. Have you watched the gorgeous David Attenborough documentary Blue Planet? Maybe you barely paid attention it’s lovely background noise for soft drugs and making out, bathing your flesh in flickering 4K azures. If the fire signs embody a solar or Martian energy, if the air signs are amorphous and mercurial, and if the earth signs are fertile and Venusian, the water signs are deep and lunar. Even our tides are linked to the full moon and the new moon, reaching maximum intensity when the moon is the most waxed or waned. On the basest level, both speak to emotion, intuition, and memory, and this connection persists in almost every elemental spiritual system across cultures and customs, from medieval “Christian” astrology to the Hindu element apas and moon god, Chandra. In astrology, the moon and water are inextricably linked. In 20th-century esotericism, the element of water is represented by the cup: a container that can both hold viscous passions and runneth over. In ancient Greek hermeticism, water ruled phlegm and the season of winter. Wuxing governs the moon, the bladder, the kidneys, and the color blue. It’s the most yin of the five elements - the most feminine, the most passive, the most receptive, the most hidden. In Chinese tradition, water is called wuxing. The water signs - Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces - tend to be emotional and intuitive. The 12 zodiac signs are divided into four elements: earth, air, fire, and water. Welcome to water, an element that teems with wet emotion and flowing feelings. Photo-Illustration: by Preeti Kinha Photos: Getty ImagesĬonsider fluid: the slide of tears, the rush of rivers, the murmur of tides, the seismic shift of tsunami waves.
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