The Face of Harmony

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Between June 21 and July 1, Venus takes charge of Cancer's most tender heart. This decan produces beings of an exquisite sensitivity to human relationships: they carry the love of Cancer but with a Venusite grace that lowers the defenses, opens the arms before the fear of suffering closes them again. Where other Cancers build their shell first, these ones offer themselves straightaway with a disarming trust.

Venusiel animates here a deep need for relational beauty: harmony in the home, tenderness in exchange, gentleness as a first language. These natives know how to create around them atmospheres of safety and beauty, and they suffer physically in environments of discord. The shadow is an emotional dependence that can make them captive to relationships they know no longer nourish them.

The Two of Cups — two figures exchanging cups in a gesture of alliance — is the very image of this decan: the encounter as sacrament, love as the mutual recognition of two souls who truly see each other. Venusiel in Cancer says that love is not merely a need but an art, and that those of this decan are its most intuitive practitioners.

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