Gemini → Cancer Season
HEAD 2 HEART, LOVERS
hellllo beauties! Happy Summer Solstice. It’s been a wild and wonderful few weeks in NYC. Between Mayor Mamdani’s election, the Knicks championship, Pride, the World Cup.. it feels like the whole city is OUTSIDE in the best way. And today, we are at peak Sun and Summer energy. From here till the Winter Solstice, things are beginning to slowly, gently wind down. As the the Sun moves from Airy Gemini into Watery Cancer, it’s light transforms from bright pinpoints to dissipated glow.
Cancer is the sign of capital f Feelings, big and small.
It’s a sign of home, of boundaries, of Mothers. Represented by the Crab, Cancers are known for their tough exteriors and soft interiors. Cancer Suns sometimes get a bad rap as being the “crybaby” of the Zodiac, but most Cancer Suns I know will pinch you with their sharp wit before letting you see them crack in public. They might be tenderhearted, but they’re only gonna show their soft underbellies to those who have earned that trust. Honestly, as a Cancer Moon, I am wayyy more of a sap than any of my Cancer Sun pals. And while we’re here, let me just say — normalize crying!! More people should be crying, tbh. It’s a healthy bodily function! No shame in allowing your body to process something difficult with tears.
Normalize Crying collage by yours truly
Don’t mistake Cancer’s protectiveness for stoniness, though. Cancer is a Water sign ruled by the Moon, the planet of intuition. They are deeply empathetic, intuitive, and sensitive. Whether they’re going to reveal their empathy, intuition, and sensitivity to you..? TBD.
One of my favorite things about Cancer is that it’s a Cardinal sign. Cardinal signs are the initiators of the Zodiac, always ushering in a new season.
The cycle goes like this: Cardinal Sign → Fixed Sign → Mutable Sign, repeat.
Cardinal Cancer says, Feel your feels and then DO SOMETHING NEW. Make a change!
Because yes, our feelings are information and they are fuel.
The anger that you’ve been shoving down? That’s actually energy to leave your dead-end relationship. The joy you’re afraid to feel? That’s fuel for your creative projects. The grief you’ve been avoiding? That’s your catalyst for more love.
And look, I know it sounds cheesy. I know it sounds cliche. But as Cancer Moon and self-proclaimed sap, I know what it’s like to be depressed, to hate myself, to think that nothing was ever going to change. I lived many many years with a concrete heart because I was a “too sensitive” kid who didn’t have the teachers I needed growing up.
As a young adult, I distracted distracted distracted myself with friends and parties and making out, and guess what? Those dark feelings never went away until I was forced into a set of circumstances that completely isolated me from my distractions — where I truly had nothing but time by myself. Then I started to peel back the layers and understand what these feelings were trying to show me.
So let me shout it from the rooftops: your feelings are here for a reason. Pay attention. Not every emotion requires deep reflection, but Cancer season is here to remind us, Now is the time to work with your body to process to your feelings.
The message I keep hearing over and over as I marinate on these shifts from Gemini to Cancer is, Head to Heart. Head to Heart. Head to Heart.
For many, this is going be a really uncomfortable transition because the heart is a tender and sensitive place. If you’ve been shoving your feelings down, if you’ve numbed yourself out because it got to be too much… Cancer season is going to bring it all to the surface. Why? So those old emotions can finally be resolved and you can operate from a place of peace.
This month is about allowing the grief, the anger, the heartache to be felt, rather than intellectualized.
Because at the end of the day, that’s really what Cancer season is all about: nurturing, mothering, taking care, feeling safe and at home in your body. It’s really freaking hard to feel safe and at home in your body when you’re living with unprocessed trauma, when your nervous system is stuck in chronic fight-or-flight, when you’re overwhelmed by the horrors both macro and micro.
As a Cancer Moon and #sensitivebabe, I’ve spent years, literally, building my toolbox of practices that help me feel and resolve emotions stuck in the body. Having a working nervous system is the only way my life works.
Resources to support you and your Cancer-season crashouts:
Insight Timer meditations: I like this app because it’s freeeee99 and has a TON of different meditations. If you go to Teachers tab in the bottom right-hand corner → Live events, you can join in soundbath, tarot pulls, Q+As, workshops and so much more live. I love this free way to connect with people when I need a quick injection of grounding support.
INSPIRED RISK 004 w/ELENA KUNKEL: towards the end of our convo, Elena and I go through a short and sweet exercise to process difficult emotions. Listen where ever you like your podcasts or hang out with us on YouTube. For this exercise, I recommend starting the episode around 50:43.
1-1 Astrology or Tarot Reading with yours truly: there’s nothing like deep, personal care from someone who’s intimately familiar with the challenges you’re facing right now. I know what it’s like to feel helpless / lost / drowning in giant emotional waves. My astrology and tarot readings are an opportunity to be PRESENT with whatever difficulties you’re facing so that we can digest the medicine of the moment and then move tf on to the goodness and juiciness of life.
let me know how this lands for you. ilysssssssm. muah!!
