Positions
Eros in Cancer
With Eros in Cancer, passion flows through emotion: you are aroused by tenderness, safety, and a deep feeling of being cared for, and your desire and your heart are inseparable. The gift is a nurturing, devoted, emotionally rich eros. The shadow is desire that needs constant reassurance, or moods that dampen passion. The growth is feeling safe enough to let passion be bold. At your best your desire is tender, deep, and wholehearted.
Lean in — Build the safety that lets your tender desire also be bold.
Watch for — Let passion stall waiting for perfect emotional reassurance.
- desire
- tenderness
- vitality
Sources
- George, Asteroid Goddesses (1986)Reads Eros as erotic passion and the creative life-force: what awakens desire and vitality.
- Arroyo, Astrology, Psychology, and the Four Elements (1975)Frames desire and passion through the element and temperament of its sign.
- Hand, Horoscope Symbols (1981)Reads Eros as the current of passionate, animating energy.