Living with the Crab of Cancer
About the Journey
In this unique time of Saturn and Neptune in Aries, we have an opportunity to deepen into relationship with our animal ancestors and kin, as well as our own multi-faceted creaturely wisdom.
This shape-shifting adventure through the Zodiac weaves together biology, astrology and myth to foster a richly experiential education with the creatures of the constellations themselves. These animals’ stories are offered in their cosmic context so we can see them with fresh eyes and more subtle listening ears, while also opening up more space to make discoveries about our own essential nature and the places in us through which our Circle of Animals — the Zodiac — comes to life.
With self-reflection prompts and experiential processes, you’ll be guided into a participatory engagement with the astrological symbolism and meaning-making from your own direct, lived experience. Here on Earth. In and through your own animal body.
This course is for those who want to really feel their embeddedness within a web of myriad human and other-than-human relations, while also developing a stronger sense of self-reliance and self-confidence through accessing their instinctual core, inner truth and a personal doorway to astrological understanding.
If this work speaks to you, I hope you do respond to this call to dance with our humble and majestic Circle of Animals.
As does the Thema Mundi, birth chart of the world — this journey dawns with Cancer and the Crab
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Includes two hour-long video recordings on Cancer and the Crab, plus full transcripts. You will also receive written self-reflection prompts to engage with the material more deeply at your own pace.
Myth, astrology, and biology are woven together to provide a unique doorway into understanding your Cancer place and planets.
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If you watch the recordings on the Crab and later decide to join our live experientials, you may sign up for these classes separately up until March 13th.
They include two live 90-minute sessions involving guided visualization, experiential processes and group discussion.
Class size limited to 14 participants.
Prerequisite: To have watched the two video recordings (see above) before our gathering.
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Includes:
Two hour-long videos on Cancer & the Crab. Written transcripts included.
Journaling prompts for you to engage with the material at your own pace.
Two live 90-minute sessions involving guided visualization, experiential processes and group discussion. Class size limited to 14 participants.
Sign ups open until March 13th
Engage your astrological education in a more full-self way, fostering deeper levels of comprehension through a vibrantly felt-connection of how your individual life is woven by and into, receiving, reflecting and improvising upon, timeless patterns of the universe.
The potential and possibility inherent in each Zodiac Sign is vaster than we can imagine — step into a more participatory role in the building of astrological knowledge.
Re-dream the stories that shape your inner life and our lives together, from the nexus of deep listening, recognition, humility and creative empowerment.
Discover an authentic sense of belonging with humanity across time and space, that’s made possible and enhanced by our remembrance and tending of relationality with the other-than-human world.
Explore artful and relational ways of expressing what’s alive and moving through your internal Circle of Animals, marrying cosmic vision with the body’s genius.
“This is the time to abandon humanity-as-separation, and to aid forth the emergence of entirely different stories to live by.”
Cancer & the Crab
A creative reimagining of the stories connected to Cancer, through tending conversation with the humble yet might crustacean of our Zodiac.
“Why does everyone keep turning into Crabs?”
It’s a strange sounding question but one we’ve recently gotten into asking, with jokes circulating the internet that everything eventually will turn into … a crab.
These memes originate from the observation that carcinization or “crabbification” — the evolution of a crab-like body plan (i.e. flat shell, tucked tail, round body) — has occurred in separate crustacean lineages, independently of each other. In other words, the crab animal has crawled out of the void on multiple occasions.
So it seems that, if you are a marine animal with a segmented body, exoskeleton and jointed appendages, there is a good chance that you’ll “turn into a crab”.
Is it the ideal form? Probably not. Is it an intelligent response to a particular set of environmental conditions? Yes, it seems likely. What might we learn about our Cancer place and planets, if we apprentice ourselves to the Crab and the context in which this animal appears? What prompts animals to keep becoming crabs?
What led Hera, the Queen of Heaven herself, to place the Crab up in the stars, giving this lowly creature immortal stature as one of our twelve animals of the Zodiac?
Live sessions of experiential work and group reflection
Journaling and creative prompts for self-reflection
Tiered options for engagement at the level that’s right for you
Unlimited access to video lectures and course material
Registration will open February 25th
Recording Bundle
Live Classes
Full Experience
Course Schedule
TWO LIVE CALLS
Saturdays March 14th, March 28th
9 am Pacific | 12 pm EST
90 min
Each live session will include a grounding visualization, guided experiential processes with the Crab and the Cancer myth (writing, movement, embodied storytelling) plus time for group sharing & reflection. Due to the nature of experiential work, we will not be recording these live sessions in order to create a more safe and welcome container for embodied participation.
Frequently Asked Questions
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A Foundation of Self-Care
These sessions are meant to be joy and play based sources of Self-discovery, renewal, growth and connection. They are not psychotherapy nor a substitute for psychotherapy. However, since we may be connecting to the felt-sense and the body, and the body is a beautiful storehouse of memory, emotion, impulse, instinct, sensation — we know that it sometimes can bring us unexpected places. Participants are required to come with a current self-care practice and familiarity with their nervous system. While our connection with each other and with the astrological field can be richly resourcing, participants are ultimately expected to be responsible for their own wellbeing and what they need to do to take care of themselves.
And a willingness to play!
I know that play doesn’t always come easily, especially during stressful moments. But also, oftentimes play is exactly what we need to perceive a situation through fresh eyes and to find our way through challenging situations.
Here, play is given a chance to expand beyond the confines of our old notions or definitions of “play”. We can even surprise ourselves, discovering that play is something we’re still “good at” even as serious adults.
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Fundamentals are helpful (signs, planets, houses). If you want an orientation to your birth chart, please email Nicole to schedule a 30-min reading specifically for this offering. Cost for this is $75.
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Nope! You only need to come with a genuine sense of curiosity for this animal.
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Yes. If you initially only purchase the video recordings, and then decide you would like to join live, you can still join the experiential portion of the course up until March 13th.
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The live sessions will all take place on Zoom.
After you sign up, you’ll receive a welcome and confirmation email with the Zoom link and password, dates and times.
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No, due to the nature of experiential work, we will not be recording these live sessions in order to create a more safe and welcome container for embodied participation.
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The video lecture on Cancer & the Crab and corresponding self-reflection prompts will be available to download upon purchase.
Live gatherings on Zoom will be at 9-10:30 am Pacific on Saturdays March 14th & March 28th.
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Live gatherings will be limited to 14 participants.
Have more questions?
Book a free 15-minute discovery call and let’s explore together whether this work feels like a good fit!
Meet the Instructor
Nicole is an astrologer, artist and parent raising two young humans. Each of these journeys draw her ever more deeply into the question of how to tend a benevolent field of consciousness that’s able to receive a child and foster their incarnation —whether this ’child’ is an actual human child or a creative vision within that wants to be lived out. She approaches experiential astrology as a practice of giving permission, resource and relational container to our many creative instincts, so that these creatures might be felt in the depths of their own essential nature while also re-membered into wider life cycles, rhythms and wholes.
Nicole has been a consulting astrologer since 2017 and has formal training in Biology and Internal Family Systems. She is currently in the final months of final months of the Hermes-Hestia Experiential Astrology Practitioner Program.
