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 https://andrewbwatt.com/2024/06/30/sun-in-cancer-ii-1-10-july-2024/ —

The Sun enters Cancer II on 1 July 2024 at 4:31 am EDT. Called "The Walled Garden" it was a time associated with the divine Hercules and with the planet Mercury.  We tend to think of  Hercules as the muscle-bound warrior, but this is instead the cross-dressing grizzled veteran shaving his beard and living as a woman in order to atone, and heal from, the PTSD of his battlefield experiences at the behest of the Oracle of Delphi.  If even the greatest heroes can suffer mental breakdown — if even the most famous achievements of legend can wound the heroes who did them — maybe we owe it to ourselves to heal the wounded, and give the anguished the tools and techniques for their own well-being.  

 The Sun enters Cancer III *the Overflowing Cup* at 10:23 am EDT on July 12, 2023 — where is your life abundant but you don't acknowledge that with gratitude? Where do you need to change your heart and mind to acknowledge your success?

https://andrewbwatt.com/2023/07/12/sun-in-cancer-iii-hekate-2/

The Sun enters Cancer I at the moment of Solstice, at 10:58 am EDT today. What victories do you show gratitude for? How do you celebrate what you create in the world?

https://andrewbwatt.com/2023/06/21/sun-in-cancer-i-nike-2/

 Main column at: https://andrewbwatt.com/2022/06/30/sun-in-cancer-ii-herakles/

 

Herakles, in a lesser-known deed, enters a paradise & takes up the drop spindle tomorrow, July 1 at 4:48 pm EDT: Cancer I, the Walled Garden, where trauma's wounds are shown, and given  time to heal. 

 

The story goes that after the Twelve Labors, Herakles lost his mind again, killed people again that he loved, and needed to atone. This time, he was sent to the Queen of the Amazons, and there made to dress as a woman and learn womanly arts as a weaver, spinner, and embroider. Only then was he cured of the "madness of Hera" and made whole. Where do you go in secret to heal? In what ways do you cross the bounds of propriety and 'the norms' to be healed of your hurt? Who do you tell? How do you know it works?