(4)The Twelve Signs: Cancer
June 22-July 22
Cancer-nurturing, patriotic, a loyal member of the tribe. According to Esoteric Astrology: Cancer also rules mass consciousness, the “sense of the common man”. Was there a real sense of populism before the founding of the United States, with it’s Cancer Sun? Perhaps a somewhat chaotic one, but the idea that the non-titled man had rights, at least human ones?
Cancer is seen as a receptive sign, a sign that reacts more than takes the initiative. Cancer is moved more by emotions and sensitivities than by ideas-no matter how lofty.
Looking at the signs that square a sign gives the moral/and intellectual challenges needed to expand and grow. Cancer must learn to embrace more of the individual (Aries), Aries is the ability to become an individual if growth requires it, without giving up the nurturing side. Libra is the partnership-the ability to consciously make alliances, and not simply make the tribe’s opinion a substitute for justice. Capricorn makes Cancer come out of the house and deal with the rest of the world.
Cancer Presidents: John Quincy Adams , the first of several U.S Presidents who had family ties to another one. Son of John Adams, second President of the United States. Second (and so far last) President elected by Congressional vote. Mostly successful in internal improvements-“roads and bridges and canals”. A few modest successes in trade, but his non-partisan approach to politics made him many enemies, and he was unable to im plement his ambitious agenda like a national observatory or a Naval Academy
Calvin Coolidge: Silent Cal supposedly channeled the longings of the average man. First Presidential Speech on the radio. Called for lynching to be a Federal Crime. Kellogg-Briand Pact Denouncing War. Normalized relations with Central America
Gerald Ford Accidental President never got a term of his own, neither elected President or Vice President. Appointed to the Warren Commission, eventually awarded in 2001 the Profile in Courage Award. He also established a Federal mandate for Special Education..
George Walker Bush: Another President who was the son of another President, who basically ran to “avenge” his father’s defeat. Mostly reponsible for the Second Gulf War-which ended in a stalemate at best, and the Great Recession of 2008.
Cancer is Cardinal Water. Cardinal takes the initiative, and water is considered feelings. The creative metaphor is “running water”, water that acts on the world around it.
1825-1829
09 Aug 1974-1977
03 Aug 1923-1929
2001-2009
| Idaho July 3, 1890 | Wyoming July 10, 1890 |
| Virginia June 25, 1788 |
| Liechtenstein 12 July 1806 | Argentina 9 July 1816 |
| Colombia 20 July 1810 | Venezuela 5 July 1811 |
| Canada 1 July 1867 | Serbia 13 July 1878-1914 |
| Montenegro 13 July 1878 | Mongolia July 11, 1921 |
| Philippines July 4, 1946 | Laos July 19, 1949 |
| Madagascar June 26, 1960 | Somalia June 26, 1960 |
| Democratic Republic of the Congo June 30, 1960 | Somalia July 1, 1960 |
| Burundi July 1, 1962 | Rwanda July 1, 1962 |
| Algeria July 5, 1962 | Malawi July 6, 1964 |
| The Bahamas July 10, 1973 | Mozambique June 25, 1975 |
| Cape Verde July 5, 1975 | São Tomé and Principe July 12, 1975 |
| Solomon Islands July 7, 1978 | Seychelles June 29, 1976 |
| Djibouti June 27, 1977 | Kiribati July 12, 1979 |
| Croatia June 25, 1991 | United States 4 July 1776 |