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Cancer I begins on 1 July 2025 at 10:14 am EDT: the Walled Garden, where the myths of Hercules swirl. andrewbwatt.com/2025/06/30/cancer-ii-sun-the-walled-garden
Cancer II -- the Walled Garden
Jun. 30th, 2024 10:27 am 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 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.
Tomorrow, the Sun enters "The Secret Garden" of Hercules, Cancer Decan II, at 1 July 2023 at 10:37 pm EDT. What if the thing that you think is shameful is also the the thing that will bring you to health and well-being?
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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?
