Cancer Season

We are now in CANCER SEASON (June 21-July 22, 2022), with the SUN moving through the sign of Cancer, one degree per day, and tonight MERCURY also enters this deeply sensitive, primal, feeling, water sign. Mercury represents the Mind (thinking) and Cancer is ruled by the Moon, which represents the Heart (feeling), in Evolutionary Astrology.

For the next couple of weeks (July 4-19), as Mercury embodies this deeply lunar energy, we are supported in consciously merging our thinking minds and our feeling hearts.

Mercury also governs language and communication. During this period while Mercury is in Cancer, which occurs once every year, the door is open to deepen our capacity and skill to articulate what we are feeling in a more nuanced way.

Recently, I was given the book, Atlas of the Heart, by a dear friend, which explores 87 different emotions. Wow – it’s so broadening. And, I have been spending with the emotions/feelings wheel (pictured above).  Being a Cancerian Sun myself, with my natal Mercury in Cancer too, it is a life-giving stream to have access to a more expansive and nuanced vocabulary for feelings and emotions.

“Language is our portal to meaning-making, connection, healing, learning and self-awareness. Having access to the right words can open up entire universes. When we don’t have the language to talk about what we’re experiencing, our ability to make sense of what’s happening and share it with others is severely limited… Language shows us that naming an experience doesn’t give the experience more power, it gives US the power of understanding and meaning.”
 –Brené Brown, Atlas of the Heart