People born with an emphasis of Cancer's energy in their astrology charts are deeply intuitive and keenly perceptive about emotions and what lies beneath the surface, over time gaining wisdom that can be used to heal and teach others about these matters.
But at this time of year, with the lunar cycle beginning in Cancer, we all become honorary Cancerians regardless of where our birth-chart placements lie. This is just a fancy way of saying that Cancer's energy is more accessible now.
Honoring our intuitive perceptions is not always easy in a culture that values analysis over feeling, even though we need both to function in a balanced, healthy way. The Cancer lunar cycle is a good opportunity to rebalance if you tend to be very left-brain driven.
There are many ways to encourage the voices of our intuition to speak to us. Generally anything you do to quiet outside noise, provide yourself with down-time and quiet, and stimulate your right-brain will help. So these would include meditation, alone-time while driving, paying attention to dreams, taking solitary walks, listening to soothing music, even doodling.
That is because quiet is necessary to hear the voices of instinct and deep emotion that lie below the surface.
Perhaps the most important encouragement you can give your intuitive process is to refrain from judging too quickly. Intuition and emotion both contain truths that are akin to poetry as opposed to scientific research. But intuition's language comes across as impressions, symbols, fragments, and feeling which must be first be translated into words and then interpreted. It is easier just to disregard them.
As a water sign, it is also useful to know that Cancer's movement is not linear. Its symbol, the crab, moves in a sideways direction. A straight line is not always the shortest path to your objective.
By honoring Cancer's energy, by spending some quiet time listening to your intuitive perceptions, you rejuvenate your inner self and plant seeds for creative expression that germinate when the next lunar cycle begins in Leo.
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