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.
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