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Mercury Cancer
Mercury in Cancer
by Richard Pellard
English translation by Julien Rouger

The interpretation examples that we are suggesting are very far from being exhaustive: they only show and outline a general frame describing the issues of the combination between a zodiac Sign and a planetary family. They should therefore not be taken literally. Each being brings indeed its own responses, more or less original, to the questions raised by the different combinations zodiac Signs and planetary families. There is no magic formula. Through using the R.E.T. and of the Theory of Ages, and combining logic, observation and imagination, you will be able to develop a thousand other possible meanings, a thousand other variations on the same theme. To find out which Planets and which Signs are dominant in your birth chart, do not hesitate to visit our website and build your free mini-astrological portrait thanks to our software Astrosoft.

Disclaimer

A detailed interpretation of the meanings of a dominant Mercury in Cancer will soon be available on our website. In the meantime, we offer you the interpretation sections below. The first one begins by summarizing the meanings of a dominant Mercury (without Sign): the characteristics of the Planet in itself prevail indeed over the characteristics of the Planet in Sign.

The two subsequent sections give an overview of the combinations between Planets and Signs by associating Cancer on the one hand with the R.E.T. characteristics of Mercury on the other hand : Extensive representation (‘R’) and intensive transcendence (‘t’). Keep in mind that these texts are only valid when the relevant R.E.T. families are dominant as a whole : Sun-Venus-Mercury for the ‘R’ family and Mercury-Saturn-Pluto for the ‘t’ family. To deduce the characteristics associated with Mercury alone, you will have to disregard the characteristics associated with the Sun and Venus for the ‘R’ family, as well as the characteristics associated with Saturn and Pluto for the ‘t’ family.

The mercurian profile

Mercure ‘tR’ : ‘R’ sociabilité spontanée ► ‘t’ esprit critique Famille ‘R’ — Soleil-Vénus-Mercure : sociabilité spontanée — Représentation extensiveExtensive representation : You are an all-around sociable person, eager for varied encounters, for multiple contacts, always ready to engage in dialogue with others for the simple pleasure of communication. People interest you straightaway by their diversity, and your human curiosity is aroused by detecting the slightest sign that facilitates getting in touch. Playful, relaxed, receptive, your mind always on the move, sometimes uncatchable through your zigzags and your twirls, you are keen to remain free to start and leave the conversation whenever you please, to feel that you aren’t tied to anything or anybody. Basically, if you like chatting and communicating, you do it for fun, just to see, without ever really getting involved in your words or taking yourself seriously. Fundamentally open-minded to the others, having nothing to prove or to demonstrate, you infinitely multiply the facets of your own character and you make it your duty to be always changeable, ready to make new connections and to welcome new points of view with pleasure, curiosity and interest.

Famille ‘t’ — Mercure-Saturne-Pluton : esprit critique — transcendance intensiveIntensive transcendence : You are spontaneously open to the unknown and the unforeseeable. Distrustful towards definitive certainties, accepted theories, thought habits, and so-called sacrosanct principles, you know that the truth is multiple and that it should always be sought beyond appearances, by tracking down the slightest clues that can point towards it. For you any explanation that is meant to be unique is necessarily unsatisfying, and you never refrain yourself from criticizing or ridiculing those who claim having understood everything. Your immense and unquenchable inquisitiveness incites you to multiply your centers of interest and your fields of discovery, so that your thought doesn’t idle in a too well-known or a too dwelled-upon routine. You can occasionally be ironic, acerbic, mocking : it’s for you a way to keep away from excessive seriousness. You know how to take a wide step back from all your involvements and how to preserve your freedom to change your mind, to alter your way of thinking at any time.

Cancer ‘R’ family — Sun-Venus-Mercury: spontaneous sociability — extensive Representation

Sociable-communicative Cancer

▶ Your strengths : you never express your taste for encounters, varied exchanges as well as when you feel secure, protected. When you have an audience acquired in advance, attentive to your way of expressing yourself full of charm, interest and fantasy, then you give the full measure of your talents as a communicator or seducer. While being very open to others, you have your modesty, your shyness, as if you fear disturbing, going beyond the role assigned to you. You know how to delimit the territory of your curiosities so as not to disperse yourself. Tenacious and patient in your human relationships, you like to be the center of a universe closed in on yourself but rich in many different attractions.

▶ Your weaknesses : nourishing secret self-esteem problems, you have an excessive tendency to withdraw into yourself when you do not feel immediately understood, accepted, recognized. At the slightest signal of incomprehension or hostility from others, you panic, you retract and you then take refuge in the circle of your familiars, on known ground where you do not have to prove yourself. Isolated in your capricious subjectivity, you too often take your wishes for realities, do not go to the end of your curiosities for fear of finding yourself overwhelmed. Your main problem is probably never to precisely locate the boundaries between yourself and others, between your naïve expectations and the possible.

Cancer ‘t’ family — Mercury-Saturn-Pluto: critical mind — intensive transcendence

Critical-aloof Cancer

▶ Your strengths : you are characterized by a cautious and thoughtful skepticism which encourages you to distrust evidence, appearances and accepted speeches. Doubt protects you against illusions. Armored against too commonly accepted truths, you tenaciously and relentlessly pursue your research to understand the why of things. The unknown, the multiple, the complex, the uncertain are your domain of choice, territories that you strive to master. Refractory and independent-minded, you are not afraid of the isolation that your banter or your disturbing questions can bring you : on the contrary, these are so many cactus thorns that protect you from others.

▶ Your weaknesses : worried, anxious and perpetually dissatisfied, you tend to withdraw into your shell where you are assailed by a thousand thoughts and problems that confuse you and prevent you from opening up to the world. Inquisitive, always on the defensive, you often get lost in your inner labyrinths where you self-analyze to excess. Deeply allergic to others whom you always suspect of wanting to invade you, you are only too good at frustrating any attempt at cooperation with acerbic remarks and paradoxical reasoning that confuse your interlocutors as much as they lead you astray.




This article was brought to you by Richard Pellard
English translation by Julien Rouger

See also:

▶ The mercurian function ‘tR’ (transcendence of Representation)
▶ Mercurian stage (from 1 to 3 months old) : the age of communication
▶ The Mercurian on video

▶ Sun-Mercury-Venus : extensive Representation
▶ Mercury-Saturn-Pluto : intensive transcendence
▶ Dès deux mois, le réseau du langage est en marche
▶ L’Esprit Mercure de C.G. Jung : une leçon de symbolisme
▶ Cancer
▶ Cancer in natural astrology
▶ Le Cancer mythologique
▶ Le Cancer dans “La Condition solaire”
▶ “Summer” Signs

▶ Signe solaire et Signe Ascendant
▶ Astrologie, adaptation & inadaptation
▶ Change-t-on de caractère en changeant de Signe solaire ?

▶ The astronomical reality of the zodiac
▶ The zodiac and the precession of the equinoxes
▶ Zodiaque et sphère locale
▶ The human reflexology zodiac

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