Spiritual Nutrition for Cancer Season
Spiritual Nutrition for Cancer Season
Myth: The crab that protected Hercules from the Hydra monster
Element: Water
Modality: Cardinal
Qualities: Nurturing, protective, shy, relishing in home life, home and family.
Ruler: The moon (or in esoteric astrology, Neptune)
Cancer season is all about the peak summer light, the nurturing mother archetype energy, and seeing where we might be hiding some of our emotions, as well as relishing in home and family life as we take a break over the European summer and spend more time together.
In medical astrology cancer governs the breasts, chest, stomach, diaphragm and womb. As a water sign it’s also thought to represent lymph, but lymph is also ruled by Pisces.
Being a water sign Cancer is very much related to emotions. Some say the hard outer shell and soft interior of a crab can represent Cancerians way of sometimes not wearing their heart on their sleeve - but once you are able to be ‘let in’ by their protective side, you see how emotionally sensitive they really are.
This is a time to really nature ourselves as well as others, specially about re-parenting. What ‘little’ parts of you might need some extra care and encourage as you face bold new directions in your adult life?
A season for:
Being with emotions.
Having a look at our defences.
Re-parenting ourselves
Enjoying home and family life.
Working with our diaphragm to breath deeply (Cancer rules the diagphram)
If you’re interested in doing some inner parenting work, check out my Mentoring page.
If you’d like to meditate using Cancer season as a theme to spiritually nourish yourself, come and enjoy a 7 day free trial in my Spiritual Nutrition Community.