That there is a stereotype, at all, about Cancers boggles me. Cancer Sun is a Moon ruled Sun and the expression of the Sun changes completely from context to context.
Cancer season is for sleeping. Jupiter, that object of wonder, returns backwards and bends itself towards Saturn. Right when the Sun enters its hottest, Venus tucks itself shyly into Virgo.
Earth grand trines are keepers of things. They move by accepting things and keeping them until those things have changed just by being with them.
I’ve never had the heart to describe a Jupiter return to clients as some kind of free vacation. I’ve seen a lot of anxiety about Jupiter returns—that a person can somehow do them “wrong,” and suffer the consequences.
Scorpio north node Taurus south node people inherit a feeling of loss—of having lost something sacred and important.
Fire grand trines are punks. We are poor stewards of things. We find it hard to build something hardy without feeling that we are somehow betraying our inner ethos.
Libra North Node Aries South Node people expect to be misfits. They expect alienation because they’ve learned how to depend on themselves as a survival skill.
It’s retrograde season and eclipse season yet again. It’s slow moving midsummer xiazhi days and purification time yet again.
Most people know Geminis to be talkers but few recognize that Geminis listen twice as much as they talk. Most people know Geminis to be charismatic but few recognize that charisma is often protection against cruelty.
If Saturn is daddy, then there is a built in silliness, grossness, and sexiness to Saturn. If Saturn is daddy, then Saturn is a mockery of patriarchal authority.
There’s something very nostalgic about Saturn in detriment but this isn’t a nostalgia for childhood—it’s a nostalgia for what was lost before it could be experienced.
What Virgo north node is scared of is really very simple—it’s afraid of disappointing other people, of not fulfilling idealized expectations, and of making mistakes in real time.
You see, Jungkook is a Virgo Sun with a Virgo Mercury. He doesn’t make silly decisions. He makes well informed ones even when he doesn’t explain to anyone why it is that he made a decision.
It’s not so hard to say things that seem polished but it’s far harder to say things that are sincere.
Being flexible is a state of survival. Being flexible is about going the extra distance, of putting yourself in someone else’s shoes, and of doing the extra work.
Jupiter in detriment isn’t interested in answers—it’s only interested in making questions do the work of producing more questions.
Aquarius south node Leo north node people have a watcher on the wall complex in which they like sit back on the sidelines and see something happen before they decide whether or not they want to get involved or not.
Treat the things that you do on the day of your solar return symbolically. Remember—this is a day during which you celebrate the want over the should.
If an astrologer is talking about something that you feel not to be relevant to what you want to process, assert yourself. Your astrologer wants you to do this.
April is about quiet attention and focus. April is about love that is neither performative nor secret.
This is a Mars placement that recognizes that conflicts are never resolved. Conflicts are not fights for detriment Mars. Conflict is the state, an occupation, and a social agreement.
