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The fourth house, associated with Cancer, takes us to the subjective
domain of emotional roots, home, the deep inner self, and our sense
of family and clan. This is where we go to get fed emotionally, to
be nurtured, and to form with others close alliances that foster emotional
sharing. What nurtures and nourishes us may vary from the food we
eat, to our home environment, to our needs for family closeness, to
our sense of connectedness with our "roots". The fourth house is the
repository for the emotional underpinnings of our personality and
the lessons we learned about family, home, and emotional bonding.
Some astrologers connect this house with our experience of our mother;
others attribute it to the connection with our father. Most likely,
it has a lot to do with the parent who was most active in impacting
us emotionally.
Poor navigation here could show up as a retreat from the world, or a
shyness and reluctance to leave the "womb" of our subjective reality.
We could get caught up in too much of the mother role at the expense of
attending to our own emotional needs. Successful mastery of this
territory results in genuine emotional sharing and connectedness with
others. This sense of roots and family bondings shape a sense of
emotional well-being.
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Signs of Intelligence - Astrological Roadmaps for Life - The
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