Living with the Animals of the Zodiac:
The Crab of Cancer
Self-Study | Online | Experiential
ASTROLOGY COURSE
Includes: Videos, Guided Experientials, Imagery, Creative Prompts, Reflection Questions
Video, Audio & PDF Transcripts available
Attend to the particular details of the Crab’s story as a way to deepen in presence and lucid dreaming of Cancer.
ABOUT THE COURSE
This course is not just a study of astrology or a study of biology; it is a foundational practice in creative remembrance, divination and transformational relationship. Rather than consuming static knowledge in the discrete package of an “astrology course”, this educational journey is an ever-refreshing, ever-renewing collaboration with the Zodiac that invites your active participation and an empowering experience of creative responsibility.
The Crab’s story is told through myth and biology as an invocation of Cancerian energy, and experiential processes are designed to help you drop in, dis-cover, draw-forth and dance-with the holographic symbol of Cancer (as well as our Crab kin here on Earth) in a way that both meets and makes the moment.
Movement, art-making, visualization, mythic contemplation and other experiential processes give a relational field for the science of the Crab to land — and to live. True to the nature of Cancer, this journey with the Crab is one that you can spiral through, again and again and again. And along the way, you may find that science and spirituality are not as at odds with each other as they have come to seem.
“It matters what matters we use to think other matters with; it matters what stories we tell to tell other stories with; it matters what knots knot knots, what thoughts think thoughts, what descriptions describe descriptions, what ties tie ties. It matters what stories make worlds, what worlds make stories.”
-Donna Haraway, Staying with the Trouble, Making Kin in the Cthulucene
WHAT IF WE USED CRAB-MATTERS TO THINK THE MATTERS OF CANCER WITH?
Praise for Living with the Animals of the Zodiac:
THE CRAB OF CANCER
Living Astrology with the Crab of Cancer
Meet the archetype of Cancer through a multi-dimensional journey with the Crab.
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Welcome
Learn about the core motivations, intentions and organization of this unique experiential astrology course, where we get to meet both our animal kin and ourselves in ways that refresh our perception.
Learn about the core motivations, intentions and organization of this unique experiential astrology course, where we get to meet both our animal kin and ourselves in ways that refresh our perception.
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Karkinos
What was the relational field that constellated the mythic Crab of Cancer? Listen to a rich telling of Karkinos and how his story is woven into the stories of Hercules, the Great Mother Goddess Hera, the head of Mt. Olympus, Zeus and the Hydra, a multi-headed monster. Begin tending the connective tissue between this mythic field and your own personal wellspring of memory and meaning.
What was the relational field that constellated the mythic Crab of Cancer? Listen to a rich telling of Karkinos and how his story is woven into the stories of Hercules, the Great Mother Goddess Hera, the head of Mt. Olympus, Zeus and the Hydra, a multi-headed monster. Begin tending the connective tissue between this mythic field and your own personal wellspring of memory and meaning.
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Hidden Tails
We remember the hidden tale (and tail) of the Crab’s aquatic ancestry. This segment includes an attunement to the living field of the Crab, through its morphological shape and ancestry; guided experiential process; and set of reflection prompts to begin making imaginal links that tend the connective tissue between this Animal and our own Cancerian experience via natal planets as well as progressed or transiting planets to this Sign — and just the place of Cancer itself, as an animate field.
We remember the hidden tale (and tail) of the Crab’s aquatic ancestry. This segment includes an attunement to the living field of the Crab, through its morphological shape and ancestry; guided experiential process; and set of reflection prompts to begin making imaginal links that tend the connective tissue between this Animal and our own Cancerian experience via natal planets as well as progressed or transiting planets to this Sign — and just the place of Cancer itself, as an animate field.
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Differentiated but Linked
We learn about the segmented body of the Crab and explore how to creatively steward this pattern of segmentation with respect to our own Cancer place and planets.
We learn about the segmented body of the Crab and explore how to creatively steward this pattern of segmentation with respect to our own Cancer place and planets.
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The Shell
Reflections on Home, Shell & Shelter. Here, we explore one of the most distinguishing features of the Crab, discovering its hidden healing properties and embeddedness in wider cycles essential to the health of our planet. We also gently reflect on what shapes our own Shells — past, present and future.
Reflections on Home, Shell & Shelter. Here, we explore one of the most distinguishing features of the Crab, discovering its hidden healing properties and embeddedness in wider cycles essential to the health of our planet. We also gently reflect on what shapes our own Shells — past, present and future.
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The Molt
By diving into the details and actually experiencing our own version of the Crab’s molting process, we open up space for an embodied familiarity and imaginal scaffolding that helps us recognize and give more permission to our own molting cycles.
By diving into the details and actually experiencing our own version of the Crab’s molting process, we open up space for an embodied familiarity and imaginal scaffolding that helps us recognize and give more permission to our own molting cycles.
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Intelligent Limbs
We explore the diversity and sensitivities of crab legs.
What kinds do your Cancer planets have? And what legs are planets transiting your Cancerian place prompted to grow in order to traverse its particular relational terrain?
Let’s find out!
We explore the diversity and sensitivities of crab legs.
What kinds do your Cancer planets have? And what legs are planets transiting your Cancerian place prompted to grow in order to traverse its particular relational terrain?
Let’s find out!
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La Cangreja
A personal story of molting. How I shed an old perceptual shell that isolated and controlled, and stepped into a new perceptual shell that allowed and co-existed.
A personal story of molting. How I shed an old perceptual shell that isolated and controlled, and stepped into a new perceptual shell that allowed and co-existed.
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Crabs in Relationship
We learn about a few different kinds of relationships that crabs form with other-than-crab species, as well as with their fellow crab kin. These stories can help feed our imagination, sense of curiosity, and non-judgment towards our Cancer place and planets, and the kinds of relationships they might find themselves inside, bearing witness to, growing or molting through.
We learn about a few different kinds of relationships that crabs form with other-than-crab species, as well as with their fellow crab kin. These stories can help feed our imagination, sense of curiosity, and non-judgment towards our Cancer place and planets, and the kinds of relationships they might find themselves inside, bearing witness to, growing or molting through.
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Back to Karkinos
We wrap up our journey with the Crab (in this format, at least!) by returning to the myth and inviting Karkinos to speak, as we practice our more refined listening skills and attunement to the Crab wisdom.
We wrap up our journey with the Crab (in this format, at least!) by returning to the myth and inviting Karkinos to speak, as we practice our more refined listening skills and attunement to the Crab wisdom.
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Who is this work for?
This is for you if …
You’re a budding astrologer and looking for astrology courses that are earthly, wild, weird, memorable, spacious / space-making for all the nuanced iterations and expressions of astrology that textbook astrology does not or cannot cover.
You’re a seasoned astrologer and want to re-enliven your practice with fresh perspective, by story-telling / listening to voices from the Animal kingdom.
You don’t have astrology experience, but you love stories, stars and animals. In this case, please email Nicole to schedule a 30-min consult specifically for this offering. Cost for this is $75.