It is often useful to choose little challenges, to list those and overcome those, to discover an easy way to surmount what seemed like huge mountains. Achieving certain goals that seem a long way away demands only that first step. The payoff? The joy that comes with doing so.
Remedying problems only repositions them. The solution? Rise above them
Many Cancers are easygoing by nature, but most, deep within, have standards that come from their childhood. These shape what they want to do or become in life. There is a part of your Cancerian nature that is just plain driven. And in certain areas, you have very clear ideas about how things should work.
However, being ruled by the Moon, you’re also sensitive. Your mood changes. It changes depending on what you are doing, what you have experienced, and is even altered by the people you’re around. In some cases, certain individuals undermine your feelings, and you have to be cautious of them. It’s the same with joy—certain individuals lift your spirits.
The trick, of course, is to create your own mental and emotional climate. Ideally, you will do that, not based on who you are hanging out with, but on how you actually manage both your mood and your time. There is a challenge here—to break a habit a day, to find something that you do simply because you do it well and wisely and just stop it as an exercise.
But even more than that, the other trick is to find a joy a day. That may be more difficult, simply because it is easier to find things that you are unhappy about, and that is the whole point. In finding that joy a day, you will lift your spirits permanently.
You don’t really think of it when you’re with certain people, especially if you know them well, but there are rules about what you do, what you enjoy, and what you don’t do. In some cases, that’s fun. It’s the joy of being with somebody you know. But it can also be restrictive. Consider breaking away from those with too many rules and you will not only find you’re able to relax, you’re able to have fun in ways you’d forgotten were possible.
Many people think of the regimen that comes with being well as a strict one, that if you stray, then you are in some way doing yourself a disservice. But actually this is all about what’s in your best interest, doing something wild and crazy and relaxing and enjoying life and, in doing so, choosing activities and ways of eating that are in your best interest. Think of that. It will be a lot easier and a lot more fun.
It is often useful to choose little challenges, to list those and overcome those, to discover an easy way to surmount what seemed like huge mountains. Achieving certain goals that seem a long way away demands only that first step. The payoff? The joy that comes with doing so.
After weeks of battling seemingly insurmountable obstacles, you’ve discovered a fundamental misunderstanding over what you were dealing with. As aggravating as going back to the beginning seems, what you learn will explain what went wrong, and in the process, eliminate that confusion.
Cancer: JUNE 20 – JULY 21
Ruler: The Moon
Symbol: The Crab
Element: Water
Flower: Lily
The only sign ruled by the Moon, Cancer accents cycles —both nature’s rhythms, especially the oceans and tides, and those in our lives. The symbol, the crab, is linked to water, as are your sign’s flowers: the lily and the lotus. Your herbs are aromatic, tarragon and verbena, and your tree is the maple. Your jewel, the pearl, not only comes from the sea, it mirrors the Moon’s form.
