The Symbolism of Cancer, the Crab and the Scarab

Cancer is the fourth astrological sign in the zodiac. It is the most inconspicuous figure in the zodiac, yet few heavenly signs have been the subject of more attention, for, according to Chaldaean and Platonist philosophy, it was the ‘the Golden Gate’ through which souls descended from heaven into human bodies. Cancer thus stands symbolically at the gateway between heaven and earth. The crab’s pincers are supposed to remind us that birth is ‘cruel’ as is incarnation. Cancer contains M44 - Praesepe - which is Latin for "manger" or "crib". Near to the ‘manger’ are two stars called ‘the Asses’. Alvin Boyd Kuhn - an American Theosophist, believed that early Christianity was a blending of existing beliefs and fact into a new system . And that is why we have nativity pictures of the birth of Christ, with a donkey always behind the manger. But the Scarab - the Dung Beetle - was also a symbol for Cancer. And here the symbolism has the immortal soul, - that part of us that is the most beautiful and innocent, - born symbolically via the ‘Golden Gate’. Once on Earth it finds the symbolic dung of power and greed and spends all its life trying to clear it up. But within the ball of dung a new beetle grows – an egg – from which a luminescent and very beautiful beetle emerges – a god. And thus from this symbolism we have the resurrection.
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CREDITS

Sidney Hall - Urania's Mirror – Cancer
Photo of the Beehive cluster – NASA
Sandro Botticelli (1445–1510), Mystic Nativity (1500), oil on canvas, 108.6 × 74.9 cm, The National Gallery, London
The Return of Persephone, by Frederic Lord Leighton (1891)
South Dakota State University – Identification Guide to common Dung Beetles
W B Yeats – A Vision: The Phases of the Moon
The School of Athens –Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino

VIDEO EFFECTS AND FOOTAGE

Crab free stock footage - stock footage - stock video - royalty free background video hd
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=zxYcVTg16vw

Free Stock Videos - Lobster and Fishes (No Copyright Videos)
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=QqUdHBaudh4

Dung Beetle at work - Royalty Free
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=R-82pXP7uDQ

Cancer Constellation / Zodiac - Free motion graphics
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=mJvGD4MJATk

Cancer constellation map
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=5dImNVKtrFQ

Crab Free Background Video, Free Stock Footage And Motion Graphics, No Copyright Animations
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=yGC_fMgLtVM

Can You Spot the Beehive Cluster?
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=2GPCQSyqGd0

Orphniinae - Scarab beetle taking off in slow motion
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=PqQqsdVWsgc

free copyright all video dung beetle aphid | no copyright video scarab arises try peters
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=gU3o2O2RxKA

Sheila likes to dig out crabs and play with them
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=FagrPCnXns0

MUSIC

00:00 The Plan's Working - Cooper Cannell
01:30 Flecks of Light - The Tower of Light
03:29 Sprightly Pursuit - Cooper Cannell
05:13 Metamorphosis - Quincas Moreira
07:56 Ninja Tortoise - Verified Picasso
09:04 Flickering - VYEN
10:59 The Plan's Working - Cooper Cannell