The sword and the shield in astrology and archetypes of biological morphology. It’s odd that cancer, the disease, is a form of bioogy destroying itself from its own malformed growth—as though the internal logic of cells themselves have forgotten how to live. I’ve wondered for a long time why we might call it “cancer,” and I’m sure that’s not it, but the crab—in any case—is an exceptionally logical animal in biology.
The horse’s hoof might be defensive, and the human hand or bear claw both grasp sustainance—into sensitive palms—and also become the first barriers to attack. But only the crab wears armor on its fists. We might all feel like awkward experimental tendrils of the tree of life compared to this logical use of shield and appendage. Nature got something right, for better or worse. (I’m being funny, for the record.)
It might be remarkable itself for being unremarkable as a psychopomp.
In reference to the binary, we have here the closest counterpart in the yin-yang pictoglyph of Cancer: 69. Not duality but compliment.
