The zodiac sign Cancer is characterized by its emotional, psychic, and subjective qualities, symbolized by a crab with ten feet representing the sense organs. Ruled by the moon, it embodies both the latent potential for spiritual development and the material cravings of existence, facilitating a journey through reincarnation towards perfection. Cancerian individuals are generally shy, sensitive, and impressionable, often focusing on hidden potentials and future possibilities in their relationships and endeavors.

1. The Zodiacal Sign CANCER ã
By
Sandip Kumar Ladi

2. CANCER ã
▶ The sign cancer is palered in color.
▶ It resorts to forests and represents Bramhins.
▶ It is strong in nights.
▶ It has many feets and has a bulky body.
▶ It is a Satwik sign and it is a watery sign. It rises with its back.
▶ Cancer, the fourth sign of the zodiac, is represented by two
small circles joined by two curved lines ã.
▶ Under its impulse, the soul scans the extreme heights of
heaven leading to perfection, and looks down as well at the
deep depths of the inferno that contains all human passion
and material desire.
▶ During the course of this impulse, the spirit develops superb
intuitive faculties or the most depraved behaviour.
▶ The impulse operates over the seven higher as well as the
seven lower worlds.

3. CANCER ã
▶ The four levels of consciousness (Jagriti(wakefulness),
Swapna(state of dreaming), Sushupti(deep or profound sleep)
and Samadhi(profound, abstract meditation or Turya)), the
four directions of space, or the four heads of Bramha all relate
to the sign of Cancer.
▶ They cover the entire subjective and objective manifestation
stretching from the eternal past to the eternal future.
▶ The two circles express that the two different aspects of
existence which all creation has to manifest remain united
under this impulse, though maintaining their separate identity.
▶ Cancer is ruled by the Moon. The Moon relates to the human
psyche, to the mind, intelligence and the flight of imagination.
▶ The radiation from moon sustains life on earth. This
sustenance is provided to physical, psychic and higher level of
existence.
▶ The moon has the power to induce the development of
spiritual faculties as well to give powers to perform black
magic.

4. CANCER ã
▶ The curved lines in the cancer symbol represent the quality of
this basic urge.
▶ The upward bulging line expresses the possibility of developing
the finer feelings emanating from the depth of one’s inner
being.
▶ While the downward bulging line shows the material cravings
which involves the individual in the search for power.
▶ Cancer is symbolised by a crab. It has ten feets.
▶ A C serab dwells in water as well as on land but is neither
found in deep waters not far from the shore.
▶ It sheds it’s hard crust when it grows too large for it. It is shy
by nature.
▶ The ten legs stand for the ten sense organs; the five sense
organs operating on the subjective plane and five motor
organs functioning on the objective.
▶ The continuity of the individual soul through various
incarnations is symbolised by the crab shedding it’s shell.

5. CANCER ã
▶ The watery condition of the crabs life corresponds to the
emotional, the psychic or the subjective aspects.
▶ Continuity in evolution through reincarnation is provided
under this impulse of cosmic manifestation.
▶ The purpose of all physical and psychic experience through
the mechanism of reincarnation is to carry the individual to
his perfection.
▶ It is this inborn quality of perfection that assures the success
of the gradual unfoldment of one’s potentials through the
course of cosmic evolution.
▶ Cancer born persons are generally shy. The Crab is sensitive
to to the slightest noise or movement in its vicinity.
▶ Cancerians are nervous, sensitive and impressionable.
▶ Human beings under this sign are gentle in temperament.
They will even sacrifice their lives for their cause.
▶ The shining eyes of the crab remind us the gracious nature of
the Cancer born personality.

6. CANCER ã
▶ Inspite of the Crab residing also on land, the predominance of
its aquatic nature suggests that evolution here has not yet
reached the stage where it can function effectively on a fully
differentiated physical level.
▶ Cancer stands for all latent potentials as well as the ultimate
goal of every form of creation.
▶ It induces the gradual unfoldment of all the different states of
consciousness and dimension of existence.
▶ The Shining eyes of the Crab gazing at distant objects points
to the connection between the latent depths and ultimate
goal.
▶ One generally observes that Cancerians have a vision. They
give more attention to what could be rather than to what is.
This is true with regard to their approach to human
relationships as well as practical situations.
▶ The circle on the left of the Cancer symbol represents the
latent potential of the individual while the one on the right
stands for its ultimate flowering.

7. CANCER ã
▶ The circles symbolize perfection, rhythmic movement and
wholeness.
▶ The fourth zodiacal impulse is associated with wholeness and
the rhythmical movement of the cosmic manifestation in a
special manner.
▶ The two circles of the symbol show that Cancer represents a
mini world of creative energies.
▶ At this level of manifestation there exists concretized duality
as spirit and matter, form and consciousness, latency and full
blossom potency.
▶ Cancer has the unique quality of extending it’s realm of
operation from the lowest depth of human experience to the
highest blish attainable.
▶ It is the stage where intelligence has polarized, duality has
become manifest and the outward evolutionary journey into
the realm of time and space has begun.
▶ In actual life , one finds that the Cancer born person has a
wide range in which he can function.

8. Cancer ã
▶ No attainment is too high or no degradation too low.
▶ Cancerians can feel at ease in the realm of matter, physical
action and social relationship.
▶ At the same time they can operate in psychic world, the plane
of thought and emotions, and on spiritual plane as well.