Zodiac Sign · Certain
Cancer
Cancer in the twelve-sign tropical zodiac.
Profile research status
This stable record is still in evidence review. Its current identity, cultural scope, image, and direct source records are available here; a complete history, myth, worship, iconography, relationship, and reception profile is not yet claimed.
Direct connections and evidence
Explicit Source
plant under Cancer
1 attestation · high confidence
- Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, Three Books of Occult Philosophy, Book OneBook One, English edition based on the 1651 J. F. translation · Library of Congress · Renaissance Europe, c. 1533 · Renaissance Europe · Book Book One · Chapter XXXII · Section What things are under the signs, the fixed stars, and their images · Page 107-109 · Table The twelve signs and their plants
Explicit Source
placed under Cancer
1 attestation · high confidence
- Nicholas Culpeper, The Complete HerbalNew edition with additions by Thomas Kelly · Project Gutenberg · Seventeenth-century England · England · Entry Adder's Tongue or Serpent's Tongue · Section Government and virtues · Page 3
Explicit Source
placed under Cancer
1 attestation · high confidence
- Nicholas Culpeper, The Complete HerbalNew edition with additions by Thomas Kelly · Project Gutenberg · Seventeenth-century England · England · Entry Agrimony · Section Government and virtues · Page 4
Explicit Source
traditional ruler of Cancer
Classical domicile rulership recorded directly from Ptolemy; later and modern co-rulership layers remain separate.
1 attestation · high confidence
- Claudius Ptolemy; J. M. Ashmand, translator, Tetrabiblos; or, QuadripartiteW. Foulsham 1900 printing of Ashmand’s 1822 English version · Project Gutenberg · Second century CE · Roman Egypt · Book Book I · Chapter Chapter XX — The Houses of the Planets · Section The Houses of the Planets · Page 28–29
Reviewed sources
- Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, Three Books of Occult Philosophy, Book One (1898)Book One, English edition based on the 1651 J. F. translation · Library of Congress
- Nicholas Culpeper, The Complete Herbal (1850)New edition with additions by Thomas Kelly · Project Gutenberg
- Claudius Ptolemy; J. M. Ashmand, translator, Tetrabiblos; or, Quadripartite (1900)W. Foulsham 1900 printing of Ashmand’s 1822 English version · Project Gutenberg