Living with the Crab of Cancer

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 refreshingly new ways.

We step into the living field of myth, exploring the Greco-Roman story of the giant crab Karkinos that is associated with the constellation of Cancer

We explore the Crab’s aquatic ancestry and journey of crabbification, while remembering and empowering the hidden capacities of our Cancer place and planets.

We learn about the segmented body of the Crab and explore creatively perceiving and stewarding this pattern of segmentation (differentiated but linked!) in our Cancer place.

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.

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.

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 take an imaginative, experimental and creaturely approach into the traditional doctrine of essential dignities.

Through a personal storytelling about the Crab ‘La Cangreja’ and a molting season of Life, we also meet a couple of other creatures connected to the mythic landscape of Cancer — and return to the marriage of Zeus & Hera as essential context for the Crab.

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, and capacity for empathy and discernment with our Cancer place and planets — bringing presence to the kinds of relationships they might find themselves in, bear witness to, grow or molt through.

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.