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The Sun Sign Formerly Known As Cancer

March 31, 2009 in Astro-Weird by Mystic Medusa | 14 comments

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I have a few e-mails re why i altered the Sun Sign name for Cancer to Kataka in the Nightly Scopes. The e-mails are amazingly non-narky. Okay, Cancer is Latin for Crab and the Crab is ONE of the symbols for the constellation that the Sun travels through from late June to late July. ie; if you born then, you are deemed “a Cancer.” Moon-Ruled, a mood-swinger, a sexy empath, nostalgic, home-loving & a fiend in biz. But the name has come to be more linked to oncological disorders.

I got a really emo yet lovely  letter from a Cancerian girl writing from her boarding school & I was about to send her back this long-winded explanation. But then i just thought screw it & changed the name of it. For her. She said that whenever she googles her sign, it comes up with a disease and that it made her feel sad, sick and ugly etc etc.

Sooo another symbol for this sign is the Ancient Egyptian sacred scarab – symbol of immortality. In fact, i think – this is arguable – that the Scarab WAS the symbol for the sign until a myth involving Hercules & a Crab. Anyway, in the Nightly Scopes, Cancer is renamed Kataka – Sanskrit for Crab, Native American for “fort” and the name of Buddha’s horse.  It all fits and there is a boarding school dormitory in the country where it’s already official.

Cancerian Mood Swings Vs Gemini Mood Blats

January 19, 2009 in Astro-Baby, Astro-Cliches, Moons, Planets by Mystic Medusa | No comments

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As I have a Cancerian son & a Gemini daughter, I can confirm both signs are as moody as their reputation. But they’re different. Cancerians moods really do swing…one mood fades out and another fades in. It’s almost graceful – when their good mood swings around, it’s like the sun shining through clouds and there is (almost) a logical rythym to it…Like the tides. Or the Moon herself.

Gemini moods blat in and out with no discernable logic whatsoever. There is no segue nor even a cue. My Gemini blats from mild spite to being suffused with loving bliss in the bling of a millisecond. Like a lightening flash. That’s the difference between Moon & Mercury, I guess.  Cancerians are ruled by the Moon and Geminis by Mercury.

Like that beautiful old word,
“caprice.”

“Eymology: French, from Italian capriccio caprice, shudder, perhaps from capo head (from Latin caput) + riccio hedgehog, from Latin ericius more at head, urchin
Date:
1667
1 a: a sudden, impulsive, and seemingly unmotivated notion or action b: a sudden usually unpredictable condition, change, or series of changes 2: a disposition to do things impulsively…”
From Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary