These symbols in Cancer have been talking to me big time! I figured the logical reason was because I am a Cancer! But this morning I had an inkling to look at my natal chart and zowie……I’ve got Mars, Mercury and Uranus all sitting in Cancer! No wonder Mercury Rx. Is driving me crazy, (cat and mouse) it's on the cusp between Cancer and Leo at 1.10 degrees! Am I an emotional person….nah, not me!
Oh imagine being a tiny mouse and peering out into an immense world that in a human perspective is a tiny room. Mice rarely come out during the day, so I’m looking at this as night time and the Moon’s light pinballing off the shadows…….making this scene a little more dramatic!
We can look at this symbol through the eyes of the cat or the mouse. For a moment I’m going to be that mouse with a strong curiosity about life! How I would want to know what this place I’ve made home is about. Without thinking I impulsively dart out into the open, totally unprepared for what may cross or come my way.
Or perhaps this tiny mouse needs food for its family. Upset, angry, hurt or extremely optimistic, he makes a mad rush for the kitchen. Did he look before he leaped? Did he prepare himself for the unexpected, or tell others where he was going? Did he prepare a plan or a backup plan incase anything goes wrong? I guess we’ll find out soon enough….for here comes one of its most feared predators, a cat.
I absolutely love my cats, but if a mouse or a bird were to appear suddenly in front of them, their natural instincts would take over…..they’d pounce without a thought.
Now what would you do if you were a mouse and a cats gaping mouth was flying toward you and your back rammed against a wall. How does a mouse that speaks mouse language, speak to a cat and vice-versa? How would these total opposites tune into the frequency of the other?
Is this mouse as much as a competent fighter as the cat! Does this mouse know what he’s all about? Is he paying attention to the cat’s every movement or is he so fixed and rigid, so afraid he’s already become the cat’s supper. The worst thing this mouse could do right now is assume there’s nothing he can do!
How well does the mouse know this cat? Enough I would say to stand up and argue with it. And if this is true, which one will drive the other mad? Which one will be forced to feel suffering?
This symbol rings bells for me! My mother (cat) and I (mouse) have played this cat and mouse theme since I was very little. For the cat to verbally attack the mouse or vice-versa, either attacker had to know something about the other, perhaps their appearance, their physical limitations, or even more so, something from their past! Also, the attacker could be something in us wanting to stop us from what we are doing! Sometimes the arguments within us are valid….sometimes they are our fears, old programming that alerts us to past hurts and pain.
I have learned and am still learning this lesson: ‘attacker’s know our vulnerabilities and weaknesses……it’s their job to know! When we least expect it, their claws and jaws are descending upon us, creating a flurry of emotions and uneasy sensations within us! What do we do? Scramble for higher or safer ground? No! We have down first and then out. What they said may have been trivial, or serious or totally in their imagination. But whatever it was, their fiery words churned the very waters in us! And..if they’ve set us up for a fight and we took the bait, lookout! We’re heading for a collision……look at the next Sabian Symbol!
One of the lessons I know I’m here to learn is to love and honor myself. When I do this, the arguing stops! This was and is the challenge my mother is constantly teaching me.
But…and here is what I’ve come to understand. No matter how outrageous or cruel our thoughts or another person can be, first thing, we don’t attack back! Instead, we ‘listen’ and look at the words they’ve just flung at us, because 'sometimes' what was said has a hidden and deeper meaning. (Sometimes it's not our stuff!) Sometimes we have to tell our past and our old pain, we have matured and grown. That we are stronger now, more capable now to move in a different direction. Our egos or pride is so afraid of being hurt and defeated....again!
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