What you should know about Cancer Season
Cancer season is like swimming in a warm bathtub as your mother gently cleanses your hair and body. It’s nostalgic, sensual, comfort-craving, and a little prickly. We can’t forget that Cancer is ruled by the crab. Maybe the prickly part of the bath scenario is when it’s over and your bare skin has to touch the cool air around you. Crabs don’t function the same outside of their shell and if you come near their soft inner flesh without invitation, those claws will come out.
Cancer is the fourth sign of the zodiac, the final of the elements before they begin a new rotation, water. Ruled by the Moon, the light body that shines at night and moves to a new mood (zodiac sign) every 2.5 days, the Moon is the fastest moving of all the planets. You might say that Cancer is the moodiest of signs.
But what does “moody” mean? This isn’t isolated to feeling happy one moment and sad the next, although that can be true. Mood defines a temporary human state of mind or feeling.
Mood is constant but never consistent. We are always exposed to new stimuli that can alter our current mood in favor of another, but we always experience a mood of some kind. This is the Moon.
As someone born with a Cancer Moon, I've always felt things so much deeper than the average person. Up until recently, this was all curse, no gift. In the last year, I've allowed the capacity for deep feeling to come through me, as painful as it might be, to create art, connect with others and my environment in beautiful ways, and share the human experience through the sense of feeling.
Whether it’s through the touch of an antique, soft fabric, hearing the vibrato of an Italian opera singer, or the smell of a wood-fired oven in a beloved pizza spot, our relationship with the external world as it opens us up, shifts our mood, and we feel is a gift from the sign of Cancer.
Some of the world’s greatest storytellers, actors and writers are Cancer because they have the ability to convey mood and meaning, and the rawness of the human experience better than most. Anthony Bourdain, Keanu Reeves, Meryl Streep, Willie Nelson, Penelope Cruz, Heath Ledger, Kurt Cobain… there’s something a bit raw and sensitive about each of these people.
In the spirit of maximizing the ability to perceive, feel, and celebrate over-connected senses, I would like to introduce to you a new monthly series where I will be your guide on a journey to experience the astrological season through the senses. We will listen, taste, wear, and express each season so that we can connect with the patterns of nature whether you’re living in a van in the desert or in the middle of Manhattan.
and coming soon…Wear the Season with Amanda Busby, Founder of The Lifestyle Expert
