Venus in Cancer ♀ 2024
June 17 – July 11, 2024
With Venus in Gemini since the last full moon, our primary lesson is detachment. It’s not fucking easy. And the thing is, we all need connection and detachment, not just detachment. Balancing these needs brings peace. Still, Gemini’s heart vacillates unpredictably between insatiable nearness and foggy distance. Gemini’s presence is fickle; sometimes he just disappears. To master Gemini’s dance, something unseen must be brought out into the light and named. A cosmic duality must be reconciled, or at least accepted. Gemini is the sign of duality and extremity, not equilibrium. In Gemini’s social/romantic life, he must identify whatever it is that perpetuates the cycle of abandoning his soul to another, then feverishly reclaiming it again and again.
Venus in Cancer is the raw power of feminine energy, rising like a mighty ocean. She is a water sign, like 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
With Venus in Cancer, the heart rolls in and out with the tide. The water comes forcefully, starseeds. The waves will knock you back. Though the waves are strong and our hearts feel weak, we are not weak, even on our own. When you feel the waves rising high, threatening to send you back into the deep past, let them come. Don’t fight it.
Spend time with yourself, trying to understand your own nature. This is an incubation period. Why incubate? To shield the heart, ever sensitive and vulnerable. To stabilize the heart. To cultivate our intuition, our listening powers. Curl up in your shell, hold yourself tight.
Venus in Gemini vacillates between nearness and distance; Venus in Cancer just wants nearness. Like Gemini, she can be anxious or agitated, but a large part of this simply stems from her need for nearness.
What to take from Gemini’s world to help us swim across Cancer’s ocean? Let’s take healthy distance and remember the way this distance refreshes the heart, like a cool breeze on a hot day, lifting away codepencency and doubt. Let’s take deep bonds of friendship.
The crab is undeniably sensitive, yes. Sometimes irritable. Venus in Cancer is an exposed nerve, an underbelly, more tender than tender. She is affectionate, deeply devoted, but irrational, easily triggered, always taking everything personally. Find solace beneath the waves. Try to tune everything out for awhile, mis amores. Curl up inside your egg, your cocoon, your private sea.
June 17 (first day of Venus in Cancer): Mercury also enters Cancer. In the early morning these planets form a conjunction. Things are moving and shifting quickly. We don’t know what comes next, but it is social in nature. Connecting with others lifts the heart. Healing & bonding. Gold star day.
June 20: Summer Solstice 🌻
July 2: Venus trine Saturn Retrograde in Pisces + 1st day of Neptune Retrograde + Mercury enters Leo. Love & stability; stability in love; love of stability. Saturn’s influence is grounding and supportive.
July 11 (last day of transit): Venus trine Neptune Rx, at home in Pisces. Life/death/life cycle. Mega water energy. Intuitive & emotional. Practicing support & being supported. Exhaustion and/or frustration may creep in, take excellent care of yourself <3
If you were born with Venus in Cancer, this is your Venus Return. To find your personal Venus sign, click here.
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