Cancer—Capricorn (♋—♑)
The Sun’s passage by precession through the sphere of Cancer with its opposite sign Capricorn, designates the early third of the Atlantean period, which was intensely watery, as the whole earth was surrounded by a dense drenching fog, and the Nicbelung, or “Children of the Mist,” lived then in the basins of the Earth, Cancer was not then represented by the same symbol as today; in ancient times, it was pictorially figured as a beetle or scarab. This was the signature of the soul, for then mankind was much less body than soul.
The sign Cancer is watery in its nature, and the fish part of Capricorn in the opposite also helps to symbolize this state of life under water when the Sun went through the watery sign Cancer by precession, The Moon, the planet of fecundation, points mystically to this period of germination, when mankind first commenced to exercise the Creative function at the dictates of desire inculcated by the Lucifer Spirits. Thus they opened the Gate of physical Life through Cancer, and strayed into the terrestrial sphere, but opposite stood Saturn, the ruler of Capricorn, ready to slay them with his scythe, and usher them through the Gate of Death back into the spiritual realms where they are at home.
Capricorn was the opposite of Cancer and embodied the ideal that as the goat climbs the mountains so man must leave the basin of Atlantis and come up from the mist.
