"Cancer"

She holds the crab not as a symbol, but as a secret kept close to her heart.

In this large A2 Art Nouveau watercolour, Cancer emerges as a moon-woman with flowing purple hair tangled with shells, like treasures the tide left for her alone. In her hands she cradles a luminous disc, and within it, her Crab — soft, sacred, protected.

Behind her, a halo of stars glows, and behind that, discs and distant suns drift like memories of outer space, because Cancer, though Water, is ruled by the Moon. Washed in deep midnight blues, mother-of-pearl silvers and that tender, twilight purple, the painting feels like a lullaby.

Her Art Nouveau border cradles her in kind — another small crab tucked into the design, abstract ripples of water that flow like feelings, and stars shining in the top corners like night-lights for a child of the cosmos.

Those born under Cancer (June 21 - July 22) are the healers, the protectors, the deep feelers of the zodiac — intuitive, nurturing, loyal beyond words. They carry home inside them, and they make a home inside you.

To have a print of her is to invite that gentle, moonlit protection into your own home. A reminder that softness is a shell and a strength, that it is holy to feel deeply, and that you are allowed to hold what you love close, like a luminous disc against your heart.