Venus in Cancer ♀ 2023

May 7 – June 5, 2023

With Venus in Gemini for the last 2 weeks, we have been focusing on family and close friend relationships. In Gemini there is always something to be unearthed, something which must be brought out into the air. A cosmic duality must be reconciled, or at least accepted. What we are entering now is much softer and more feminine. It will help us locate ourselves in an even more gentle, forgiving context.

Venus in Cancer is the raw power of feminine energy. Cancer is a mighty ocean, providing unparalleled counsel and support. She is a water sign, like her sisters Scorpio and Pisces. All water signs are emotional and creative in nature. I was born with Venus in Cancer, so for the next few weeks you get to see what it’s like to have my soft-shell crab heart <3

Venus in Gemini vacillates between nearness and distance; Venus in Cancer just wants nearness. Gemini is anxious, preoccupied, distracted, aloof; Cancer attends to every detail with loving eyes. Gemini sees and creates complication whenever possible; Cancer craves simplicity and understanding. Gemini is restless, divided, agitated; Cancer is calm, motherly, forgiving.

What can we take from Gemini to help us swim strongly in Cancer’s ocean? We can take the lesson of healthy distance and the way this distance refreshes the heart, like a cool breeze on a hot day, lifting away co-depencency and doubt. We can take with us the camaraderie and lightness, the easy laughter, the buoyant creative cloud. All of this will help when we feel the waves rising higher in the heart, emotions coursing deeply to the past and back again.

This is a time to incubate, to learn the intricate folds of your heart and intuition. Later, when Venus enters Leo, we will step into more expressive, extroverted roles. First we save and stabilize (Cancer), then we can spend freely and lounge in leisure (Leo).

Some Cancers have not tapped their creative/spiritual potential and instead channel this archetype in fits of irritability. The crab is undeniably sensitive. Venus in Cancer is an exposed nerve, an underbelly, tender and vulnerable. She is affectionate, deeply devoted, but irrational, easily triggered, taking everything personally. When crabs feel threatened, they retreat into their shells. This is how we will respond now to stress, with great frequency, and hopefully without guilt or shame. Find solace beneath the waves. Curl up inside your egg, your cocoon, your private sea.

***Mercury will be retrograde for the first week of this transit (until May 14)***

May 13: Venus trine Saturn in Pisces. Focused and productive. Things moving along on schedule. Saturn’s influence is grounding and supportive.

May 16: Jupiter enters Taurus! 🐮

May 21: Gemini Season begins 🌈

June 2: Venus trine Neptune at home in Pisces. Dreamy, high vibes, eazy breezy. Mega water energy, some exhaustion and frustration may creep in <3

June 3: Full Moon in Sagittarius 🦄

If you were born with Venus in Cancer, this is your Venus Return. To find your personal Venus sign, click here.