Thatch-work warmth...
One interesting motif within Cancer 6 and all 6th degrees symbols has to do with a construction theme, usually one involving structural geometric shapes such as triangles or arches, or cruxes or buttressed cantilever arches.
A game bird builds a nest of twigs, grasses and so on. The shape is always concave facing skyward. the actual nest is thatched with twigs and other materials in a criss-cross patterns creating roughshod triangular shapes.
If you watch birds building a nest, you will notice an amazing earnest intensity to make it warm, secure and sturdy enough for the clutch of eggs that soon will lay there.
It is this purpose that comes through the Sabian symbol for Cancer 6: a secure and sturdy home, comfortable and safe.
The challenge, if there is one, would be to venture into the unknown. See the opposing Capricorn degree, "A dark archway and ten logs at the bottom".
Perhaps it isn't so much a challenge as an ambivalence: the comforts of home or the adventure into the unknown.
Building a nest egg may seem the safe way to go about life, but then again, they are 'game' birds.
Blain Bovee
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