Cancer Season 🦀 Summer Solstice 2022

artist: Alexandra Hartford

June 21 (Summer Solstice) – July 22, 2022

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Every year Cancer season begins on the summer solstice. Can you feel it? The Gemini wind fading to sweet rain in the streets you know and love? Mercurial Gemini sets, the ocean rises.

Cancer is ruled by the moon. Every day the moon rises at a different time and place with a different shape and color. In similar fashion, the crab shifts from day to day. She is tender, nostalgic, forever yearning for the sweetness of home and childhood. Cancer absorbs everything around her, including other people’s thoughts, moods, and vibrations. For those who are already sensitive, make a point to fortify your bubble every morning during this solar cycle.

Cancer nurtures all forms of life. She surrenders to the tides of her heart with total abandon. These tides are not always calm, and this season is awash with many moods. Take a walk down memory lane. Revisit your roots. Cancer needs her family, or friends who feel like family. Home, roots, and family clarify like a compass.

The crab is a slow-moving creature. In Ayurveda, Cancer is best represented by the kapha dosha. Kapha individuals need more sleep than the average person. They are soft, gentle, dreamy, romantic, introverted, creative, intuitive, empathic, and sentimental. There are lots of free, legitimate tests you can take online to determine your dosha. Search for “dosha test” or “prakriti test.” I highly recommend finding out what your dosha is – this can be a HUGE help in deciding which foods are best for you to eat.

Speaking of food, Cancer rules the stomach, digestive system, pancreas, womb, breasts, sternum, and lower ribs. Cancer Yoga is meant not only to open the heart and awaken your feminine power, but also alleviate indigestion.

June 28: 1st day of Neptune Retrograde in Pisces + New Moon in Cancer + Sun square Jupiter in Aries – this last aspect is restless; we feel we don’t know what to do with ourselves, just making our way aimlessly through the day.

July 13: Full Moon in Capricorn 🐐

July 16: Sun conjunct Mercury in Cancer, gold star day ⭐

July 17: Sun trine Neptune Rx in Pisces. Super water day with creative and spiritual vibes. Can feel very lost or scattered. Prepare for vivid dreams, dynamic lady time, and revisiting the past in conversation. Great for music and dancing.

July 19: Sun opposite Pluto Retrograde in Capricorn. Heavy influence. Great opportunity for spiritual/emotional/psychological growth and change. Watch for stress & arguments.