Festival of Cancer
Keynote for Festival of Cancer
- as spoken by the soul :
"I build a lighted house and therein dwell."
Recommended Reading
Online Articles
From the Lucis Trust
From Festival of Cancer talk from the Lucis Trust:-
"In Cancer, God breathed into man's nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul. In those words you have established the relation which exists in the mind of God between spirit (the breath of life), the soul (consciousness) and the human being (the form). " Learn more .
From the World Service Group
The World Service Group worldservicegroup.com publishes articles as food for thought for each full moon. (If their home page does not display an article on the sign you are interested in, check their archives.
Books:
The Labours of Hercules
Labour IV: The Capture of the Doe or Hind
In two chapters of her book The Labours of Hercules [pp.77-94], Alice Bailey shares her deep insights into the astrological and spiritual significance of the story of Hercules' fourth labour. In the sign of Cancer, Hercules is sent to "labour in a field wherein he must decide which voice, of all the many voices, will arouse the obedience of his heart."[page 77]
Alice Bailey tells us:-
"The sign which we are studying is predominantly the sign of instinct; but the sublimation of instinct is the intuition", says Alice Bailey. She continues "... when it [instinct] has been transcended and transmuted, it manifests as intuition (symbolised by the doe)."
Cancer the Crab
Qualities of Cancer
Alice Bailey interprets for us the symbolism of the crab [p.86] :-
"The crab lives half on the earth and half in the water. It is the sign, therefore, of the soul dwelling in the physical body, but predominantly living in the water, which is the symbol of the emotional, feeling nature.
"Exoterically Cancer is ruled by the moon, which is always the mother of form, controlling the waters and the tides. Therefore, in this sign the form is dominant, and constitutes a handicap. The crab builds its house or shell and carries it upon its back, and people born in this sign are always conscious of that which they have built; they are usually over-sensitive, over-emotional, ever seeking to hide away. The Cancer native is so sensitive that he is difficult to handle and so elusive and sometimes so indefinite, that it is hard to understand him or to pin him down."
Lessons Learned
The spiritual intuition opens up a new world of being
Alice Bailey tells us that it is not the doe as instinct which Hercules looks for. Nor is it the doe as representing intellect. She tells us [p.94-95]:-
"It was something else, and for this he spent a life cycle hunting. Finally, we read, he captured it and carried it into the temple, where it was claimed by the sun god who in the doe recognised the spiritual intuition, that extension of consciousness, that highly developed sense of awareness, which gives to the disciple a vision of new fields of contact and opens up for him a new world of being."
Is the house you are building yet lit?
Esoteric Psychology
In Esoteric Psychology [p.343] by Alice A.Bailey, we are asked:
"Is the house you are building yet lit? Is it a lighted house? or is it a dark prison? If it is a lighted house, you will attract to its light and warmth all who are around you and the magnetic pull of your soul, whose nature is light and love, will save many."