Gemini & Cancer

"...Gemini is an Air Sign and Cancer is a Water Sign. If these two Signs can work together they can be a great team; after all, the best decisions are made by incorporating the emotions and the intellect. The trouble for these two lies in learning to cooperate. They come from such opposite points of view that at times it can seem as if they simply have nothing in common. Deep, emotional Cancer can also sometimes dampen Gemini's airy enthusiasm, and light, fast-paced Gemini can leave Cancer feeling ruffled, even tattered. Balance can be achieved if they learn to talk openly with one another.
Gemini is a Mutable Sign and Cancer is a Cardinal Signs. Gemini is flexible, willing to go with the flow and follow another's lead; Cancer is an initiator and likes to provide that lead. Gemini may try to lead by being brave, even confrontational; for it to run smoothly between these two, they both need to learn when to back down and let the other lead the way..."

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I said earlier about how the stars and planets tell us more than you think. Well, there you have it.

Raise an eyebrow if you wish, but I just bought some research material on the subject. I also bought "The Artists Way". Time for a little more expanding.
My dad is a "I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul", sort of guy. He got me thinking that way, too. But in his youth, when deciding what he wanted to do with his life, he first chose to be a Methodist Minister. Then he changed his direction to become a surgeon. And so he did.
I always found that an interesting career change. They really are fairly different paths: from one of pure faith, to one of science.
Not to say that in Medicine there isn't a place for faith. I think there is. But so much of saving lives in Medicine is based on new technologies and the workings of science.
And so my upbringing was one of conflicting information. We went to church on occasion, obviously to introduce me to a belief in God. I admit, I was one of the kids that had trouble staying awake. I've always been kind of a night person, starting at around the age of ten or so. 9 AM in church isn't a kids first choice for a Sunday morning.
But science was a big thing in my life. I don't recall knowing many people that believed in Creationism, it was all about Evolution. That was what I was raised thinking about.
My mom has always been of the mind that we're worm food. Nothing more. Over the years, though I never became a very religious person, I always felt there was something else out there. I didn't know how to define it, and maybe it was just me wanting to believe there is something more. Aren't there enough things in the world that we can't explain with science, or at least only partially so?
Astrology is partially science, isn't it? The movement and position of stars and planets affect the forces and energy between them and earth, and that energy affects us, as living things on this planet. That makes sense to me. I guess I'm saying that I keep my mind open to possibilites. In many ways, "I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul", but there must be factors beyond our mortal reach. Or do I want to have my cake and eat it, too?
I'm looking into looking up. Every time I've checked, the planets have been pretty damn insightful. Certainly more than me. :)
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"It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul"

~William Ernest Henley


"My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger."

~Aldous Huxley