Cancer/Moon~ To Thrive

by Corey Gilbert

Cancer is the archetypal Mother/Nurturer that nourishes and protects life and all its creations: home/hearth/garden/animals, children, family, and ancestral inheritances. This feminine water sign is intuitive, sensitive, instinctively devoted, and patiently responsive to the emotional and physical needs of all that one nurtures and cherishes.

The Moon, Cancer’s ruler, is the planetary influence closes to Earth which affects our daily dance with tides, plant growth, and moods.  Within all its phases of waxing and waning, giving light then receding into darkness, the Moon is symbolic of the inner emotional and instinctual life of our unconscious adaptations.

Like the tides, the Moon influences us in subtle ways: we move and respond but are not aware of the fluid organic patterns that run our inner reality. This constant ebb and flow represents a call and response to life in a body: our basic imprint at birth, the natural impulse to survive, and our biological, familial, and tribal inheritances fused with memories, emotions, and primal urges to assimilate and flourish.

The Cancerian grail provides maternal nourishment for the deep need to have a solid sense of security in which to grow. A true labor of love, this guiding hand of ancestral offerings gives over loyal tending that fosters and safeguards life to cultivate creations pregnant with beauty and possibility. This sweet and tender birthright morphs into a self-nurturing Care-Giver within. This natural maturity promotes the emotional strength to fortify the vulnerability to meet life head-on with feet planted in a secure foundation to thrive.

Written by Corey Gilbert, Astrological Counselor/Mentor