Pluto in the 4th House/ Cancer (6)

Pluto in the 4th House/ Cancer

Returning to our image of the Zodiacal cycle mirroring the phases of childhood development, we arrive at the 4th archetype: Cancer/4th house. In the 3rd house/Gemini phase of development we see the desire to learn about the environment and with it the capacity for intellectual classification and language. We may conceptualize this process as the initializing of the physical-etheric body (Aries), the instinctive and emotional body (Taurus) and the mental body (Gemini), all of which coalesce in the formation of the ego, understood here to mean the conscious emotional body, symbolized by Cancer and the 4th house. It is with the development of the ego in Cancer that the personality becomes conscious of its surroundings in a more integrative fashion: my family, my society and my formative experiences. This is the central lens from which the individual then focuses on the world.