Leaving a legacy of healing; Welcome Cancer season

BY GARCIA AKUA

Happy Summer Solstice Family!

It is officially summer, are you ready for the heat?  Gemini season has been hot!  Gemini season brought us Saturn Retrograde, two potent eclipses and lots of revelations. We have had a lot to process over the past month. Welcome loving Cancer to the chat!  Cancer season is officially here with the onset of summer. Cancer is nurturing, motherly and highly intuitive. It’s symbol is the crab. It always has it’s home on it’s back so it can always feel comfortable at home anywhere. As small as some of them may be, they all have claws to protect themselves and their homes. We have lots to learn from our nurturing crab friends.

Cancer is the first water sign of the zodiac. The water element represents our emotions, instincts and intuition. It is at home in the 4^th house of astrology, the house of our home. It speaks to our upbringing and how we now in turn manage our homes and emotions. Cancer is ruled by the Moon, which is the influencer of our emotions and intuition. Although crabs can swim and are likened to a water animal, crabs also spend a lot of time on the ground. We can use this nurturing, protective energy to face our emotions and ground ourselves.

The eclipses came to reveal to us what has been hidden. Some things have been hidden from us and other things we have hidden from ourselves. Some of these revelations may have been hurtful as they might have involved your family, friends and who you call your community. We may have also learned that we need to adjust our communication style.  Are you speaking your truth?  Are your boundaries being respected?  Do you value your own voice and thoughts?  Do you get any of these behaviours from your own upbringing?

On Thursday June 24^th, 2021 we will have our Full Moon in Capricorn. Full Moon phases are excellent times for gratitude and release. We can tap into this energy to give thanks for the revelations and also release whatever is keeping us from speaking your truth. Capricorn is the last earth sign of the zodiac. It represents our long-term goals, responsibility, hard work and determination. Ruled by Saturn, it is the planet of time, boundaries and karma. This Full Moon will illuminate our responsibilities as they pertain to our healing, upbringing and nurturing ourselves.

Mercury will finally be direct on June 22^nd, 2021.  We will start to get more clarity of our thoughts and can better articulate our feelings. We can use these transits to be clear on what we need to do to support our long term goals by way of healing our wounds from our upbringing and how to nurture ourselves through it.

We may not have afflicted ourselves throughout our own personal journeys, however it is our responsibility to heal. Healing is hard work sometimes, but when it gets hard, we can always reparent ourselves by nurturing the parts of ourselves that have been hidden for far too long.  When we begin the brave journey of doing the inner work of healing, we not only heal ourselves, but we heal generations before and after us.

With what we have learned from this pandemic, family, mental health and self-care are of top priority. We have the opportunity to set new long-term goals to heal ourselves and in turn our children don’t have to heal as much from their childhood.

As we enter the light this summer, let’s shine light on our healing and flow in the nurturing waters of this season.