Astrologer Genevieve Vierling's site Blue Light Lady is elegantly written and has a clean, artful aesthetic. On Relating to Cancer, she writes, "Getting to know a Cancer intimately is being willing to live with someone who responds to the primal waters we, as humans, have all emerged from, only they continue to live their lives with a sensitive attunement to the instinctual, non-rational, yet often magical realm that all feeling types connect with."
Quoted in the Mountain Astrologer, she noted that Cancer season, with Summer Solstice, began with demanding Pluto in opposition. She writes, "Pluto feels oppressive to the tenderness of a New Moon in Cancer trying to get a hold on security and safe places to nurture and be nurtured......This certainly looks to be a rough three-month period ahead."
I know we've had some oppressive energies on that score, and it's nearly overwhelming. I'm sensing a lot rising, though -- emotional wounds compressed in the body -- and the relief in knowing it's being integrated. There can be a lot of raw purging of emotion, and that need to trust and let the healing happen. This might intensify with the coming New Moon in Cancer (at 27 degrees) next Thursday, July 19th.
I was reading about rip currents, and how many drown from being exhausted, trying to fight the water. The tip, if you're caught in one, and being carried out to sea, is to relax and float, and be carried with the current, until there's a wave crossing it, able to push you back to the shore. Like a rip current, the emotions rising can feel like more than we can handle. But I see something there, in the advice to stay calm and conserve energy, let it happen and when you spot one, ride a wave back to shore.
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“Relax and float, and be carried with the current, until there’s a wave crossing it, able to push you back to the shore.” Great advice for any number of circumstances! It takes recognizing the crossing wave to be able to advantage it.
I’ve been experiencing terrible water retention in my body and face these last days. Something that’s totally new to me. Could it be Cancerian too?
Interesting post and thanks for sharing. Some things in here I have not thought about before.
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being an Aries..w/ a lot of emotion in my chart,Im grateful for these type of reminders you post Molly.The growing and maturing comes in riding it not fighting it =0)
Sach, not sure about water retention and the Sun Cancer, but the body has mysterious ways of being in synch. I’ve experienced the classic close to tears of Cancer Sun, that’s actually not unpleasant if I don’t judge it.
It feels so full, and water retention, on a body level, seems a similar experience.
Kimberly, so wise there, and with each rise of intensity, I’m amazed at re-learning this surrender again and again. The very nature of it is unpredictable, and that’s the cardinal aspect of Cancer, riding that wave – taking the risk, seeing where you end up, what’s reshaped in your character.
Spent time in the garden today – my other preoccupation. Have been thinking deeply on Uranus-Mercury Retro and will post on that tomorrow.