It’s a new moon in cancer, inviting you to mother yourself in the ways you need most, asking you to cast a spell of protection, calling you to step through the portal of your vulnerability into the tides, the phases, and the prismatic nature of your being. Into complexity. Into creativity. 

Cancer swims in the currents of our oceanic depth, and offers guidance as we move into the peak of Summer’s brightness and bounty. During Cancer season, the days stretch long. Sunlight saturates the land. Those of us who love the darkness lean into the knowing that from now until the Winter Solstice, the nights will only grow. Cancer’s motherly love comes with a home. If you need a refuge from all this light out in the world, she’s got you. Enter her shell, and make a sanctuary for the complexity of your emotional realms. 

She is here to nurture you, to nourish you, to protect you. Her season is filled with abundance, with food, with warmth and the safety that comes with it. She is also the depth of the ocean, and she knows how to navigate the most difficult territories within the human heart. She is the waters of connectivity, able to flow into the hidden crevices of the soul; the ones that need tending and care. She is the cyclicality of water, and the wisdom that comes with knowing a non-linear way through life. She is the phases of the moon and the ability to rise and fall with the tides. 

The season of Cancer is an invitation to mother ourselves. Mothering is a wide net of care and support. It is the liquidity of love that shapes itself according to what’s most needed. It’s a deep vulnerability, and the ability to protect the tenderness. It’s the soft interior that needs a hard shell. It requires boundaries and strength and discernment. Mothering is a resourcefulness. It’s a presence that offers guidance and ground, showing up as fluidity or ferocity, feeding your needs, encouraging your growth, and teaching you to be a home for yourself. 

How will you mother yourself?

Who are you becoming deep within the shell, within the home, within the womb?

Explore the archetype further in this New Moon in Cancer video:

So much love,

Hagar