Cancer Season + The Cosmic Mother
Soft girl season but make it spiritually intelligent. A lunar-led archetypal dive into ancestral feminine wisdom and deeply delicious self-devotion.
Happy Solstice lover girls! Today we are moving into Cancer Season: where we’ll live by the moon, nourish our roots and feel all our feelings.
If you missed it, there is a Solstice ritual you can do today in yesterday’s Venus Day note. I’ll be writing my letters today in the sunshine, I love these little markers in time so much.
So like Aries, Cancer is a cardinal sign. And our cardinal signs are the initiators, they appear at the Solstices and the Equinoxes to take us into the next season: Aries is cardinal fire, Cancer, cardinal water, Libra is cardinal air and Capricorn, cardinal earth.
We call the moon (Cancer) the matriarch, Saturn the patriarch (Capricorn), Venus the goddess of love (Libra) and Mars the god of war (Aries). The Mother/Father, The Lover/Fighter - the four of the strongest archetypes coded into all stories, all over the world, that appear as the Sun changes its rhythm.
Kinda magic when you think about it!
And so Cancer season is your cue to embody the Mother archetype in really beautiful, deeply nourished and emotionally sovereign kinda way. We’ll remember how to take care of ourselves in a way that feels lush and healing.
We’ve just spun our way through Gemini: clever, mischievous, curious. And now we descend from the mind to the heart and to the womb. The progression is as so:
Aries: I am
Taurus: I have
Gemini: I think
Cancer: I feel
Cancer is the embodiment of lunar energy, which basically means we’re allowed to be moody and melancholic if we so please. It’s a season of saying ‘not today, thank you’ and instead, take ourselves off to go stare at the stormy ocean like a little sea witch instead.
So if you’ve been feeling a little sensitive and a little nostalgic, you’re right on cosmic time. This solar season is here to help restore what’s been stretched a little too thin. It’s an invitation to explore:
What makes you feel emotionally safe?
What makes your nervous system soften?
What have you been feeling that you’ve been pretending not to feel?
Let’s begin!