Children of the Summer of the Zodiac Sign: Cancer, Leo, Virgo

The children of the summer of the Zodiac sign are Cancer, Leo, and Virgo. Why is a birth chart calculated from a child’s date of birth and not from the date of conception? It is a question that frequently crops up and is not without grounds since, to the astrologer, each second corresponds to an exact, single, astral configuration. From this, you might think that it is a question here of bias. It is nothing of the sort.

Leu ts stress, right away, that for obvious reasons it is much more difficult and risky to define the exact moment of a child’s conception than to note down the minute and even, nowadays, the exact second of his birth. The moment of conception occurs in the inner life of the womb, and even though some women can sometimes have an idea of the day when it happened, we can never be sure more precisely than this. But this is not the most important criterion which has led astrologers to take into account the moment and details of birth in order to work out and establish a birth chart. The main reason is the fact that it is at the moment of delivery that the child has his first experience of an independent existence when he takes his first complete breath. So, for an astrologer, a child is born when he breathes in and breathes out a puff of air for the first time.

We should remember that, according to ancient beliefs, the air was linked symbolically to the soul. We know today that it circulates and oxygenates the blood. The Ancients had realized this, by going on other criteria than ours. They thought that the soul went round the blood and that it revealed itself at the moment of birth. These days research and work by scientists have proved that the memory reflex, in intra-uterine life, begins to show itself from the third month of pregnancy. So it is from this moment that the personality of the future child begins to form itself. Therefore, when we draw the birth chart of a newborn child, we are already dealing with a structured personality, even though it has not yet made itself known or become fully rounded.

The Cancer Child

The first of the children of summer according to the sign of the zodiac is Cancer. This child, full of gentleness and tenderness, finds it difficult to free himself from the bodily, emotional fusi0n with his mother. He loves to be carried, cradled, looked after, and attended to in a thousand and one little ways, so much so, that he often takes longer than other children to start walking. He is kind, affectionate, shy, and sociable and needs, more than anything, to feel popular, loved, cherished, encouraged, and reassured. Being rather more vulnerable than other children, at the slightest rebuff, failure to understand, or disappointment he turns in on himself and can sometimes become unsociable or extremely sensitive.

Since the unknown and the future are subjects of drear for him, he responds to routine and the usual family traditions and does not care very much for change. On the other hand, the more he grows up, the more likely it is that the past, his roots, and, occasionally, even history are likely to interest him. He needs to dream. Even though it is a good thing to snap him out of it sometimes, he should still be allowed to live on his dreams. His mind is more thoughtful than active. He is not spurred on by the thought of success, combat, or victory. Only a certain taste for power thirst for popularity can motivate him.

The Leo Child

This is a child whom nature and life have spoilt. Right from the start, Leo child turns out to be a stimulating person, brimming over with energy, and sees herself as being in control of her surroundings, which she makes into her territory. She smiles very early on, to catch everyone’s attention and to feel the approval and admiration of those around her. For the same reasons, she is by no means the last to do what is expected of her. She has a frank, loyal, generous nature. Instinctively, she knows full well when everything she wants is within her reach. Therefore, she is never guilty of laziness. If she feels she has been caught out, she looks upon it as a challenge and faces up to it.

She always manages to take advantage of a situation or be in control of it, in her own way, of course. So much so, that it is not always easy to catch her out or manage to exert one’s authority over her, because, very early on she herself is the embodiment of the authority and power which fascinate her. It’s as well to trust her, think of her as an equal and not as a child to encourage her to cultivate her natural generosity. It is true to say that she is fortunate in having a healthy frame of mind. She has to be helped only to temper her self-esteem or her pride.

The Virgo Child

The last one from the children of the summer of the zodiac sign is Virgo. If something does not agree with him, his digestive problems will tell you at once. So you must always be very attentive when you are looking after him, because, for him, details are important and every detail counts. This is a child who is thoughtful, introverted, unassuming, not very outgoing but very obliging, and much more affectionate than you would imagine. Though you wouldn’t think it to look at him, he examines everything going on around him with a magnifying glass. None of those trivial little things, which so often reveal the true nature of people, escapes him. So, the child born under the sign of Virgo learns very quickly to assess, evaluate, measure, calculate and count.

This inner gift makes him incur the risk of becoming accountable for his feelings and emotions, which he often has misgivings about giving in to. In fact, he resents having to preserve his ego and his identity. That is why he becomes either very untidy or excessively organized and finicky. Order or disorder protects him. If he is helped to make himself useful, he will overcome his reserve naturally and express his feelings more freely.