Sign of Cancer

The sign of Cancer is ruled by the Moon, the star that permeates all poetry - from the melancholy of the dawn to the most wondrous love delusions -, moves the tides, and with this - moves us.

Thinking about the Moon and all its imagery is perhaps the most immediate way to understand this sign. It rules, firstly, our emotions - and the white image of a full moon silvering the sky is what this ultimately irrefutes. Also, our imagination - and St. George with his Dragon and so many other allegories set the tone. Finally, memory and everything that refers to the past, to our own house, to the roots of our emotions: enough it is to say that, in the dark night, from any window - whether we are in the other side of the planet or treading the threshold of a hindmost continent - it will be observed in the sky the same Moon, the same as of early childhood, the same as of the primeval love.

Do not fidge with the Moon of others; - though - and everyone is a little of Moon - so as to not be inundated with punishment of consternation. This, cause the Moon moves us - and only very naively we believe we can move it- so that the most unforeseen, uncalculated, and almost uncontrollable flow of water comes from it - the subject of repentance. The most subtle manifestation of the Moon is the tear.

Thus, it is not necessary to say that the Cancerians live in this and for this: emotions. With infinite memory and dexterity to relive every moment that was once loved - and the doubt remains whether the emotion was greater in the really lived or in the now remembered.

Impulsive sign of water, its most common metaphor are the rivers - and the antithesis of this sign may be found in the terms Parakatu and Parahyba. Those are the terms that have always been used on the South American coast to warn the navigators about which waters they entered: Para (river) Katu (good) is the calm river, in which the canoe is navigated quietly to spy the sky and the vegetation of the banks . Para (river) ahyba (bad), however, is the agitated river, often with intense and varied stones and currents that can make the inexperienced canoeist to sink - waters, however, of great learning.