Tapestry of the Gods
Volume III
by Michael D. Robbins

Astro-Rayology
in progress

Interpretations of Famous People by Ray, Sign and Life Emphasis
With Explanations of All Astrological and Rayological Elements

Vulcan in Cancer

I decided to take a ‘non-systematic’ approach to speculating on some possible meanings of Vulcan in the remaining eleven signs of the zodiac. I hope before long to give these positions the kind of attention I focused upon Vulcan in Aries, but I find that the time to do so lacks at the moment.

So I will simply share in a rather sketchy manner some possible esoteric interpretations. The list of questions below is still of value, but I will not refer to this list point by point. The points shared are more a smattering related thoughts rather than a sequential development of the subject. They can be used as seed thoughts for a more systematic development of the subject. Surely, it will also be obvious that there is nothing sacrosanct or even necessarily true about these speculations; they are meant to be indicative only.

• What is the nature of the “divine design” being inwardly forged in the life?
• To what extent (and, if so, how) is the “Jewel in the Lotus” active in the life?
• Is there the capacity to hold an adamantine point of tension?
• To what extent are the seven head centers [which I infer to be ruled by Vulcan] a prominent factor in the disciple’s energy system?
• To what extent do they dominate the normal, ‘lesser’ centers?
• What is the manner in which the soul (Solar Angel) grips the personality, and bends the personality to its will and enforces that will?
• From a soul perspective, in what manner and with what quality does the soul’s will impact the personality?
• In what ways does the personality experience the pressure of the spiritual will?
• Has the life been one in which circumstances and things have been periodically shattered?
• To what extent and in what fields is the life of the individual impactful?
• Is the dynamic of the “hammer” noticeable in any of the energy fields or in relation to the environment?
• When the individual uses the energy of destruction in the life, how does the individual exercise this energy and upon what or whom?
• How is will (whether personal will or spiritual will) generally evidenced in the life?
• What qualities of will are demonstrated?
• To what extent is the individual capable of steadfastness and endurance?
• What, if anything, does the individual seek to fashion and how does he or she go about this fashioning?
• To what extent and in what manner is the light value of matter manifested in the individual’s energy system, especially through what we normally call the “matter aspect”?
• To what extent and how is the individual engaged in the process of the “uplift of matter”?
• How does the individual go about dominating or controlling the astral body, the body of desire?
• What is the nature of the interplay between sacral center and throat center, and is the will brought into this interplay in any potent or noticeable manner?
• In what manner and to what extent does the physical form prove obdurate, resistant and even obtuse to the will of the soul?
• To what extent is the individual given to self-will and stubbornness?
• How are ‘crystallizations developed within the personality. What role does ‘hardness’ play in the life?
• What are the nature and quality of the individual’s initiative?
• To what extent and how, does the individual “get things going”?
• To what extent is the individual concerned with the strength of the physical body?
• To what extent and how is the individual related to the mineral kingdom?
• In what ways, if any, does the individual will to construct?
• To what extent is such constructive activity utilitarian or artistic?
• To what extent is the individual deeply concerned with matters concerning the structure of form?
• How does the factor of isolation manifest in the life?
• For what reason is isolation pursued, if it is pursued?
• To what extent is the “Will-to-Love” active in the life, and in what manner is it active. (This question is in relation to Vulcan’s connection to the “Heart of the Sun”.)
• How will Vulcan (when it is in a particular sign) operate with respect to the various initiations in which it is said to play a part?

Vulcan In Cancer

The power to forge the “Lighted House”; the power to make the ‘House of the Personality’ shine with light. The illuminator of the opaque vessel; blinding light forced into the ‘body of night’. The builder of vessels; or ‘fortress consciousness’ The power to put the instinctual nature under compression.

The tyranny of the Lunar Lords, and especially of the fourth Lunar Lord, the personality (See, Rays and the Initiation, p. 9) The ‘grip’ of the lunar nature rather than the grip of the soul. The obduracy of the instinctual nature and the mass consciousness. Strictly ‘personal’ will fueled by desire. Similarly, the resistance and inertia of the third Aspect of Divinity (the product of the first Solar System); the “ancient rhythm”.

The power that shatters the personality life in preparation for reorientation towards the soul. The blow that crushed the Crab. The ‘driver’ of the sluggish form. Maternal ‘enforcement’ Unusual persistence and tenacity. (Both of these factors are known for their ability to endure.. Cancer is not a distributor of R1, nor are any of its ruling planets. Cancer in relation to humanity generally indicates a stage before the discovery of Spiritual Will.

Individuals with Vulcan Necessarily in Cancer
(Sun will be from 9° Cancer to 21° Cancer)

14th Dalai Lama
Julius Caesar
Princess Diana
Stephen Foster
R. Buckminster Fuller
Giuseppe Maria Garibaldi
Henry VIII
Herman Hesse
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
Gottfried von Leibniz
Amadeo Modigliani
John D. Rockerfeller
George Sand
Nikola Tesla
Henry David Thoreau