The Stars Are Out
| The Stars Are Out Being With Cancer |  |
by Glo Daley
After a month of being with the highly active energy of Gemini, we are ready to go home. We’ve been out and about, satisfying our curiosity, being social, and thinking, thinking, thinking about every single thing. With the advent of Summer Solstice, along comes Cancer the Crab to take us inward to the watery realm of our feeling nature. We look inside to find out what is our essence. Who are we, really?
It is seductive to conclude that we are what we have. Possessions, though gratifying in an immediate sort of way, are not who we are. Like the Crab, we may actually benefit from molting, simplifying, letting go of the external baggage from time to time. In many Native American cultures there is the tradition of the giveaway. This is a practice that can help us to shed what is not our essential self. Practicing generosity in any form moves us away from possessiveness toward a more open way of being. We then discover that we may actually feel enriched when we let go of a bit of our material world and simplify our lives in the process.
Being drawn to looking within may manifest in being called to look back in time toward those who came before us. Our ancestors worked and lived and gave, and now we find ourselves, their descendant, at this moment in time, the here and now.
Looking back, we may be able to appreciate what had to happen, what led to this self – the resourcefulness, the creativity and the stories of those who make up the lineage leading to this present moment. We may now be able to acknowledge the efforts of our parents, grandparents and feel their presence within us. This may well result in our becoming less fearful, more courageous as we sense that we are not alone. We are part of a family. We have roots.
Life goes on, and with the ancestral continuum in mind, our thoughts may now naturally go to... “What am I Parenting? What do I nurture and how do I nurture?”
Our sensitivity is heightened. As it is with our Crab friend, our antennae are tuned in to the energy around us. This intuitive sense is a powerful Cancerian gift. If we are attentive to the information we receive through our feeling nature, we will be able to know when we are in a safe space – and when we feel safe we are better able to nurture.
Nurturing our friends, families, goals, dreams, values, talents brings us out of our shells and into a place of greater joy. As terrifying as it may be to let go of our protective shells, we may now be willing to open and to allow ourselves to be nurtured, trusting, in spite of our fears, that we can accept the sweetness and abundance that the world now offers us.
Glo Daley is an astrologer living on women's land in Huntington.