THE CANCER CHILD - Maybe on Tuesday I'll feel like cleaning my room......can I help in the kitchen instead? CANCER, the CRAB..... is changing with the ever loving tides of the MOON, it's planetary ruler. CANCER children need oodles of cuddling and smothering just like TAUREANS, BUT what they really need is to be SLOWLY listened to. It's a long road for any typical CANCERIAN to just FREELY express their feelings. Think of residing in the deepest part of a well and each time you attempt to jump out you fall back into the water....oh yes the deep well waters of EMOTION. POETS, HEALERS AND GREAT HUMANITARIANS have shared the sign of CANCER but in their private lives have suffered terribly because of the lack of skill concerning DIRECTNESS with emotion. Infants under the sign of CANCER can be a tad colicky and also very food sensitive.

Dairy products may have to be substituted with alternatives such as soy, rice, almond and tofu. CANCER children love domestic chores like gardening, cooking and nuzzling into their home base. SECURITY is a major key here just like the TAUREANS but they are gentler souls at heart, not made to be pushed too hard. They will simply WITHHOLD their kindness, retreat into their shells and live in the world of RESENTMENT, if challenged too much without care. You haven't lived until you've experienced cancerian resentment. They can be as cold as lunar ice caps and as hard shelled as the crabbiest crustacean. CANCERS respond to gentle counseling since it doesn't take much for them to retreat. The late Princess Diana was a CANCER and her battle with eating disorders and emotional "deservedness" was a great life hurdle. When a CANCER is not emotionally supported, there is a huge tendency to live in the land of "denial." The stoicism covers the soft cancerian sensitivity and the SHELL of the CRAB takes over. MALE CANCERS suffer the most in this macho dominated world and need to learn to hold their ground.

Martial arts and any other self empowering class one can enroll in will assist the process. There is a wonderful book "BEING LUNAR IN A SOLAR WORLD" by Cancerian astrologer DONNA CUNNINGHAM which explains much about the nature of the CANCERIAN. CELTIC and DRUIDIC culture was based upon the MOON until the SOLAR based patriarchal rulers ran with the staff. PRAISE The Sun god RA, but geepers the switch went from the INTERNAL to the EXTERNAL. (Just ask southern Californians and northern Californians what sets them apart for further insight.) CANCERIANS cilia sit on the surface of their very existence. TREAT THEM with kindness, and if they sit, pout and tell you they can't possibly for the life of them access what's wrong, as you writhe, squiggle and burst with anxiety, then give them three days to think about it, and if they don't answer......try therapy.