The Cheshire Cat
Gemini Sun and Cancer Moon
The Cancer Moon paired with a Gemini Sun is waxing into a new, gently sloping crescent. There’s a childishness and a love of the earth. This intimacy of having the Moon in its own element, Cancer, sign of still waters. Even with a Gemini Sun, perhaps especially with a Gemini Sun, do these qualities become pronounced. Both signs are childish but Gemini is just so—mischievous, impatient. There’s a need to be in the fervor. Cancer is such a still element, capable of exerting itself in patient tasks, expanding loving intimacies, training one’s hand. But the woman I know of this combination, an old, important friend, is not only urbane, at ease with herself, and effortlessly social but the most talented in the garden, the most thorough and gentle. Of course, she has many interests. Not a small amount of her energy is for creation and disciplines as well as thought and conversation. Division becomes her wholeness. The Gemini-Cancer adores their friendships, and their intimate relationships are more defining than the typical Gemini. Anyone with a Cancer Moon cannot love lightly; no one who is the possessor of a watery Moon can. The Airy Sun in Gemini creates an aura that is hard to see through, which can be defined however the person would like, but the core of this person is assured, dependable, ever present. They tend to have a strong style which cloaks and protects them, this sweetness that might make this person feel too vulnerable. They do not like seeming at the mercy of anything; in fact there is something of an armor about them, which some might even take as indifference or lack of caring. But really, it is that this person loves synthesizing information and relaying it back to the secret self, a process which cannot be protected enough. Life is very soulful. They love being part of melodies, the strange thought waves that unite a whole generation, to them, like music, and in something or other they become known, noticed, some kind of expert. To groups they always bring something refreshing, an honest perspective originating from the nourishing solitude to which this person retreats. This is one of our most well-rounded Geminis, for the Water Moon, the sign immediately following Gemini, very much broadens the scope of the Gemini ethos—a talent for speaking, absorbing, spinning uniquely, and grounds it in ritual and habit. Besides this penchant for working with their hands, the Gemini-Cancer has strong impulses which lead them straight into scenes of importance. Once having gone the depths with someone or a whole group of people, they never forget, but nourish their nostalgias in private and stay true to their old friendships. In love they can get complicated. They don’t love lightly, no, but neither are they duped by the idea that a single person is all in one. The many attractions and repulsions and draws in life fascinate them. They sometimes find it hard to make excuses for themselves, but the fact remains that despite being stable they are lured by chaos. The Gemini ethos must have out, and never get drowned by the sweet, closed, protected heart of the crab—she or her dances over the deep heart of life, and blows wind over that stillness. Negative complexes can form, doubts, depressions—but that’s the sign this person needs to embrace the coming of a new wave, a portal of chaos, the unknown, and all will feel right again. The waxing crescent moon is one of exploration and uncovering, curiosity and laughter. The world feels penetrable to the person. She or he is for intimate conversation, for a kinship between the eyes, out of the vast crowd. These two signs unite summer—we have this person who enjoys life for what it’s worth, and yet experiences a motion of withdrawing and re-entering, which tends to be cyclical, even seasonal, and is very natural. In the summer months this person transforms by the tumult of what exists just beyond them. And in the slow down of winter, this person thrives in quiet recharge. The Gemini-Cancer possesses the bright eye of solitude in the crowd. The heart is very expanded.