♋ Cancer — chest and stomach

Fourth sign / thoracic and gastric region

Cancer occupies the upper trunk and is associated with the chest, breasts, and stomach in the Zodiac Man tradition. The point sits between chest and upper abdomen as a compact front-view marker for that overlapping region.

♈ Aries — head and face♉ Taurus — neck and throat♊ Gemini — shoulders and arms♋ Cancer — chest and stomach♋ Cancer — chest and stomach♌ Leo — heart and upper back♍ Virgo — abdomen and digestion♎ Libra — kidneys and loins♏ Scorpio — genitals and pelvic organs♐ Sagittarius — hips and thighs♑ Capricorn — knees♒ Aquarius — calves and ankles♓ Pisces — feet

Point 4 of 12 in Zodiac Man — Melothesia (Homo signorum)

Cross-tradition overlaps

No overlapping points are registered for this point.

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Sources

Zodiac man (homo signorum) diagram, Wellcome Collection M0017629 (primary_canonical)

Fifteenth-century Zodiac Man diagram assigning zodiac signs to descending bodily regions from head toward feet.

Nicholas Culpeper, Semeiotica Uranica, or, An Astronomicall Judgment of Diseases (secondary_translation)

Later English medical-astrology tradition translating celestial significations into bodily and disease correspondences.

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