June 19, 2025 • 21 mins
Cancer season invites us to work with emotions, intuition, and nurturing creativity as we shift from the active Gemini energy into a more heart-centered space. The archetype of Cancer offers tools for self-discovery, mental health, and spiritual connection by encouraging us to feel our feelings while maintaining balance between openness and self-protection.
Cancer, symbolized by the protective crab, beckons us to explore our emotions, intuition, and subconscious with tender awareness. This water sign carries the energy of the cosmic mother – nurturing, creative, and deeply intuitive. Through a beautiful balance of vulnerability and protection, Cancer teaches us to create sanctuary both in our external environments and within our own hearts.
Every archetype carries both gifts and shadows. Cancer's light side offers emotional intelligence, creative nurturing, and intuitive wisdom. Its shadow can manifest as emotional baggage, fear-based protection, or unhealthy attachment to past wounds. The journey isn't about eliminating these shadows but finding harmony between them. We learn to practice discernment rather than fear, allowing our hearts to remain both protected and open.
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Intro/Outro Music (00:13):
Aloha and welcome to your Heart Magic, an
illuminating space wherepsychology, spirituality and
heart wisdom meet.
Here's your host, dr Beth AnnKapansky-Wright.
Author, psychologist andspiritual educator.
Dr. BethAnne Kapansky Wri (00:33):
Aloha everybody, welcome to your
Heart Magic.
This is Dr Beth AnnKapansky-Wright, and today we
are talking about the archetypeof cancer and ideas on working
with this archetype to help withour own path of self-discovery,
to give us a few tools for ourmental health toolbox and to
(00:56):
help support our energy and ourspiritual connection.
So the sun will officially bemoving into cancer on June 21st
and it is shifting out of Geminiseason, which has been
activity-filled and full ofideas and movement.
Gemini is the social butterflyof the zodiac and encourages us
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to hold space for both shadowand light.
And then we move into Cancerand anchor all of that into our
heart and into the home of whowe are.
Cancer is the crab and cancerrepresents emotions, intuition,
our feelings, our subconsciousand our psyche.
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Cancer is a water sign and itis linked to understanding our
inner world and our emotionalbodies.
Cancer also is represented bythe crab in the zodiac and the
crab has this lovely littleshell that it travels around in
and there's the symbolism ofhome and turning our attention
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to home and our heart and whatrepresents security and
stability to us.
I love working with the moon andI always feel like, since the
moon is the planet connected tocancer.
That it's just encouragement tocontinue to work with the moons
and work with the ideas behindthe different phases of the moon
, and also to work with themoons and work with the ideas
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behind the different phases ofthe moon, and also to work with
our intuition and work with ouremotions and work with our
psyche and our subconscious anddive into the world of feelings.
So I love the sign of cancerand I want to share a teeny
little poem.
It truly is a teeny little poem.
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Want to share a teeny littlepoem.
It truly is a teeny little poem.
It's just a few lines that Iwrote years ago where I was
inspired by Cancer Season andit's just called Cancer Season
Vibes Be kind to your soul,mother your whole, nourish your
full, and your soul will be kindto the full of you.
And ultimately, cancer is avery mothering, nurturing energy
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.
It's a feminine energy.
I often think of cancer seasonas connected to the cosmic
mother and it invites us tothink about what we might
nurture in ourselves, how wemight mother ourselves, how we
might mother others, if, for anyreason, that word is not the
easiest word for you or you areactively working on healing
(03:31):
issues related to the motherwound, then you can always swap
out mother and think of the wordnurture instead nurture,
nurturer.
You could also think ofcreativity and the creatrix and
how you might create withinyourselves, how you might be a
creatrix in your outer world aswell.
So there's lots of ways tounderstand cancer and I wrote a
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few words down for the brightside of cancer, the light side
of cancer, the gifts that it has, and then also the shadow side
of cancer and what happens whenit's out of balance, and then
just looking at a few ideas forhow we can tap into this
archetype during cancer season.
So, first of all, we talkedabout this and the archetype of
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the tarot series.
But any archetype that we workwith has both a light side and a
shadow side, and when we areworking with archetypes, we are
trying to understand ourselfthrough the lens of that
archetype, tap into the giftsthat we might have, that they
might inspire within us, andalso realize that nothing is all
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good or all bad.
It's both.
And we find our pathway throughby finding harmony and by
balancing those energies.
So cancer, when we look at thepositive qualities of it, the
ones that some might associateas positive and they're more of
the lighter and brighter sidesof cancer are that it encourages
us to work with our emotions,our intuition, that it
encourages us to work with ouremotions, our intuition,
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nurturing creativity, motheringheart and home.
The shadow side of cancer canoften look like carrying around
emotional baggage, when we can'tlet go of something and we hold
onto our emotions so tightlythat we identify with them, and
so we are carrying pains orwound.
We're stuck in the wound, stuckin the pain, carrying around
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the weight of grief, and we feelhaunted by the past and like we
can't let it go.
Cancer also is represented bythe crab, as I mentioned, and
has that shell, and so cancer issometimes associated with being
overly protective, overlyfearful.
Sometimes associated with beingoverly protective, overly
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fearful, wanting to stay closeto home out of fear of what is
outside, what happens if I letoutsiders or outside energy in?
And it can be very fear-basedwhen we get like that and hang
on to this overly barricadeddefense system of closing off
the heart in order to protectthe heart.
The negative qualities ofcancer can also be associated
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with moodiness andoversensitivity and an
over-attachment to the past, andwe are from time to time
perhaps prone to all of thosethings.
So anytime we notice that we aredipping into the more
challenging qualities of anarchetype and the more
challenging psychologicalaspects of ourself, it's not a
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reason to beat ourselves up orfeel like we're doing it wrong.
It's simply an invitation tolook at how we might bring more
balance into that area in ourlife.
And ultimately, when we talkabout cancer being a water sign
and a heart-based sign and aboutfeelings in the heart, we want
to find that place of balancewhen we are working with our
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heart, where our heart is bothopen and open to life and open
to experiences, but also rootedin something that helps us be
secure, that helps us practicegood nurture, that helps us pour
love into ourselves and thathelps us develop discernment.
So, instead of feeling fearfuland overly protective where we
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keep everything out just becauseit's different, we become
discerning and allow what feelsgood to our hearts to feed our
heart.
We allow that to enter ourheart space or at least get
close enough to discern is thissomething good for me?
Before making a snap decision,and we become discerning enough
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to realize when something isn'tgood for us and isn't feeding
our heart.
It's an informed decision thathelps us to decide when do we be
more protective and guard ourhearts and have good boundaries
and keep our boundaries up, andwhen do we allow ourselves to
lay those down and open up tosomething new and that is very
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fluid.
That is not something that Ithink needs to be rigid, but
something that we can look at.
There's times that we open thedoor and we allow more energy to
come in and there's times thatwe shut a door and we have a
reason behind that.
So, just like water is veryfluid and water flows and water
moves, I think boundaries issomething that there is some
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fluidity to them and I thinkabout finding that balance
between being self-protectiveand guarding our hearts and
being discerning and also beingopen and loving and giving and
generous.
I see it as a flowing energythat we can do some assessment
on and do a little bit of coursecorrection if we realize we're
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dipping too far into one ofthose qualities and we need to
pull back or we've pulled backtoo much and now it's time to
open up and give more.
So a few ideas on working withthe cancer archetype.
The first one is that cancer isan invitation to feel our
feelings, to look at what ouremotions are and to work with
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our emotions and when we arefeeling our feelings.
It's important to remember thatfeelings are information.
They all have something toteach us, they all have a wisdom
of their own, but they are alsofluid.
No feeling lasts forever.
Sometimes, when feelings arereally challenging, we think
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we're always going to feel thatway or we start to overly
identify with the feeling, thechallenge in the feeling or
perhaps the pain in the feeling.
And I love the idea ofremembering that feelings are
fluid.
If we're feeling one thing oneday, we might feel something
else the next, and for somepeople that can be very logic
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based.
That might make feelings notfeel as trustworthy.
But I think that feelingsactually have a lot of wisdom to
offer us and that the trick toworking with them is to not
overly attach to any one feelingand to stay open and curious
about what a feeling, what anemotion, has to teach us.
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Sometimes, if we're feelingsomething and we have a felt
sense, an emotional sense ofanger or sadness, or jealousy,
or high stress or fatigue orsomething that feels really
challenging and we can't quitename it maybe grief or something
that feels in the realm ofgrief, anger, sadness, rage,
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something in the harder aspectsof feelings that isn't always
clear.
There is good wisdom there,that this has something to teach
us.
It's here for a reason, butwhat we initially think it might
mean might not always be thefull wisdom of a feeling.
So, for example, if we arefeeling really sad about
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something, sometimes in themoment, the superficial sadness
might be what is happening inthe moment and that's the
surface layer of things.
But if we really sit with thefeeling and ask, well, what is
the sadness really about, wemight find that feeling sad in
the moment that we'll saysomething ended.
I often will feel really sadwhen a TV show that I've watched
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, something that was a series,is over, and I'll always have
that sense of identifying withthe characters and feeling like,
well, what next?
What will I watch now?
Nothing will ever be as good asthis show.
I sometimes will get this withthe beloved book as well, and
there's this sadness over anending and on the surface level,
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of course, what I'm feeling isa reflection of I'm really sad
that this ended, I'm going tomiss it, and there's a lot of
more like linear stuff in there,cause and effect, that I can
see that this ended and I feelsad about that.
But if I take it deeper andreally sit with that for myself,
I have this greater well ofjust sadness and sorrow over
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change in our lives and howeverything just keeps changing.
And last week on the podcast Iwas talking about finding
perspective to work with life'stransience and that idea of mano
awari and working with thisjust gentle sadness that life
changes and that this is part ofthe pathos of things.
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The sensitivity to things iswhat that phrase means in
Japanese and just beingsensitive to the transient
nature of life.
And part of that sensitivityfor me and for many others is
acknowledging some of thebittersweetness and the
poignancy and the grief that'sthere.
Sad isn't bad, it's just areflection of my awareness that
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things change and they can'tstay the same way forever.
If they stayed the same then itwould just be stagnant and we'd
feel so stuck and there's nolife in that, there's no growth
in that.
That's not what it's about.
So oftentimes for me, feelingswill hold a dual or a multifold
meaning, and so when we'refeeling our feelings, we work
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with staying curious if we don'tunderstand them right away, or
don't understand what somethingis coming from or we don't
understand what an attachment'sabout, and we might journal them
, we might keep processing them,we might stay open to them.
I often think too, even if wedon't always understand our
feelings, just acknowledgingthem and trying to name them and
claim them is so much betterthan resisting them and
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repressing them, and it oftenwill help us move through them.
And sometimes, if we are notfeeling particularly insight
driven, it is enough toacknowledge a feeling and then
go do something, go be in nature, go do something artistically,
go do a piece of writing, go dosomething in order to offer
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yourself catharsis or to helpthe feeling move through.
So cancer is an opportunity tofeel our feelings and to work
with our emotional world throughjournaling and art and nature
and contemplation and whateverelse you might do that helps you
stay connected to your heartand to your feelings.
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Something else that cancer isan invitation to do is to focus
on the heart and focus on thehome.
Cancer invites us to come backto our home space and it's such
fun energy or such anchoringenergy, I should say when it
comes on the heels of Geminiseason, which is often about
being out and about, and that'sabout movement, and then we
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change into cancer and cancersays now can you ground that
into your heart and into yourhome?
And so that could be workedwith in a very linear way where
you might feel drawn to makeyour nest cozy or do something
in your home.
That represents focusing onyour home or focusing on your
family, focusing on nurturingyour loved ones.
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But we can also take that in amore metaphorical way and in a
self-love way where we thinkabout what represents home to me
.
How do I nurture my heart?
What things make my heart feellike home?
What things help me to feelanchored into myself?
What do I need to feel more athome with my heart right now so
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you can play around with it alittle bit.
We can turn that idea inwardsand really look at our inner
home and our heart as our home.
And what do we need to be goodhousekeepers of that particular
home?
A good example of that was justyesterday for me.
I had a really busy week.
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I think I shared on here thatI'm doing the choreography for a
summer show, something Rotten,and it's been really fun.
We just started this week.
But I had a really busy week,so busy that I was going from
thing to thing to thing andcatching up on sleep in between
and turning my attention to whatdo I need to do now.
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But I hadn't had a lot of timeto journal, which is unusual for
me, and I'm the kind of personthat finds since I am very
emotion based I find that if Idon't have time to get in touch
with what's going on inside ofme, that I will feel really
dysregulated and out of touchpretty quickly, and that's
something I've learned aboutbeing an empath and a highly
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sensitive person and anintuitive introvert who can also
look like an extrovert.
I've learned these things aboutmyself over time, and so
yesterday I had this big, longlist of things to do, but it was
a Saturday and I thought tomyself, before I do any of those
things, I need to sit down withmy journal and do one of my
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spiritual practices, one of mymeditation practices, which is
working with Oracle cards andusing those as journaling
prompts and working with somequestions that I will often ask
the cards.
So for me, I might askquestions like what progress did
I make on the path this week?
What are the gifts in thisparticular life season?
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What perspective does spirithave for me today.
What's my guidance right now,in this moment?
How do I best direct my focus?
Those are the kinds ofquestions that I might ask for
those of you who have a cardpractice and are looking to keep
using it in ways that nourishyour full and nourish your heart
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.
Those are the kinds ofquestions that I ask that allow
me to catch up with myself, andthey're really good
contemplation tools and theyhelp me synthesize my
experiences and filter throughthe extraneous and really bring
it back to the heart of thematter, and so for me, that's
one of the ways that I willinvest in my heart and help
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myself feel more at home withinmy heart and like I'm organizing
my heart and keeping my heart awell-organized space so I know
what's in it, and cancer is aninvitation for all of us to do
that in whatever ways calls tous.
The last thing that I want tomention about cancer is that
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cancer is associated with thisidea of the cosmic mother, and
that means cancer is associatedwith the ideas of creativity and
birth and origining something.
Cancer is also a cardinal sign,and cardinal signs in the
zodiac are signs that representa beginning and an initiative,
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and again, the origin issomething.
So cancer season is a powerfultime to give birth to something
new, to plant the seeds forsomething new that we want to
create.
I will often use cancer seasonthat for me, since I'm in the
Southern Hemisphere, fallsaround solstice cancer usually
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comes on the solstice or the dayafter.
I will usually use it as areflection point to look back at
what have I birthed in thispast year and what am I trying
to create in my life right now.
And sometimes I might do a bigmanifestation ceremony around
this or something deeplysymbolic to represent what I
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might want to manifest and whatdreams and ideas and
creativities I might want togive birth to.
And sometimes I will just usethat as a contemplation tool or
a reflection to look at what Iam creating and to see what this
past year has brought in termsof creativity and initiating
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things in my life and how Imight want to shift that focus
or change that focus for theupcoming year.
So I will sometimes look atthis as a really powerful time
of creation, manifestation,giving birth to something,
setting our compass and ourcourse and saying this is the
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direction I want to move andreally harnessing that energy to
hone our intention and ourcreativity.
So I love cancer for thatreason as well.
Any sign that I can findcreativity in and that helps me
feel connected to my ability toco-create my life and to dream
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my life into form and to feelinspired to take action on my
own behalf.
With that, I'm always here forit.
So, with that, happy cancerseason to everyone.
I hope it inspires you to feeland create and focus on whatever
it is that represents heart andhome to you.
Thank you so much for joiningme on the podcast today.
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I will be back next week with anew episode of your Heart Magic
.
Have a beautiful week and, asalways, be well, be love.
Be you and be magic.
Love, be you.
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your light.
Aloha and welcome to your Heart Magic, an
illuminating space wherepsychology, spirituality and
heart wisdom meet.
Here's your host, dr Beth AnnKapansky-Wright.
Author, psychologist andspiritual educator.
Dr. BethAnne Kapansky Wri (00:33):
Aloha everybody, welcome to your
Heart Magic.
This is Dr Beth AnnKapansky-Wright, and today we
are talking about the archetypeof cancer and ideas on working
with this archetype to help withour own path of self-discovery,
to give us a few tools for ourmental health toolbox and to
(00:56):
help support our energy and ourspiritual connection.
So the sun will officially bemoving into cancer on June 21st
and it is shifting out of Geminiseason, which has been
activity-filled and full ofideas and movement.
Gemini is the social butterflyof the zodiac and encourages us
(01:19):
to hold space for both shadowand light.
And then we move into Cancerand anchor all of that into our
heart and into the home of whowe are.
Cancer is the crab and cancerrepresents emotions, intuition,
our feelings, our subconsciousand our psyche.
(01:40):
Cancer is a water sign and itis linked to understanding our
inner world and our emotionalbodies.
Cancer also is represented bythe crab in the zodiac and the
crab has this lovely littleshell that it travels around in
and there's the symbolism ofhome and turning our attention
(02:03):
to home and our heart and whatrepresents security and
stability to us.
I love working with the moon andI always feel like, since the
moon is the planet connected tocancer.
That it's just encouragement tocontinue to work with the moons
and work with the ideas behindthe different phases of the moon
, and also to work with themoons and work with the ideas
(02:23):
behind the different phases ofthe moon, and also to work with
our intuition and work with ouremotions and work with our
psyche and our subconscious anddive into the world of feelings.
So I love the sign of cancerand I want to share a teeny
little poem.
It truly is a teeny little poem.
(02:44):
Want to share a teeny littlepoem.
It truly is a teeny little poem.
It's just a few lines that Iwrote years ago where I was
inspired by Cancer Season andit's just called Cancer Season
Vibes Be kind to your soul,mother your whole, nourish your
full, and your soul will be kindto the full of you.
And ultimately, cancer is avery mothering, nurturing energy
(03:08):
.
It's a feminine energy.
I often think of cancer seasonas connected to the cosmic
mother and it invites us tothink about what we might
nurture in ourselves, how wemight mother ourselves, how we
might mother others, if, for anyreason, that word is not the
easiest word for you or you areactively working on healing
(03:31):
issues related to the motherwound, then you can always swap
out mother and think of the wordnurture instead nurture,
nurturer.
You could also think ofcreativity and the creatrix and
how you might create withinyourselves, how you might be a
creatrix in your outer world aswell.
So there's lots of ways tounderstand cancer and I wrote a
(03:56):
few words down for the brightside of cancer, the light side
of cancer, the gifts that it has, and then also the shadow side
of cancer and what happens whenit's out of balance, and then
just looking at a few ideas forhow we can tap into this
archetype during cancer season.
So, first of all, we talkedabout this and the archetype of
(04:18):
the tarot series.
But any archetype that we workwith has both a light side and a
shadow side, and when we areworking with archetypes, we are
trying to understand ourselfthrough the lens of that
archetype, tap into the giftsthat we might have, that they
might inspire within us, andalso realize that nothing is all
(04:41):
good or all bad.
It's both.
And we find our pathway throughby finding harmony and by
balancing those energies.
So cancer, when we look at thepositive qualities of it, the
ones that some might associateas positive and they're more of
the lighter and brighter sidesof cancer are that it encourages
us to work with our emotions,our intuition, that it
encourages us to work with ouremotions, our intuition,
(05:04):
nurturing creativity, motheringheart and home.
The shadow side of cancer canoften look like carrying around
emotional baggage, when we can'tlet go of something and we hold
onto our emotions so tightlythat we identify with them, and
so we are carrying pains orwound.
We're stuck in the wound, stuckin the pain, carrying around
(05:28):
the weight of grief, and we feelhaunted by the past and like we
can't let it go.
Cancer also is represented bythe crab, as I mentioned, and
has that shell, and so cancer issometimes associated with being
overly protective, overlyfearful.
Sometimes associated with beingoverly protective, overly
(05:48):
fearful, wanting to stay closeto home out of fear of what is
outside, what happens if I letoutsiders or outside energy in?
And it can be very fear-basedwhen we get like that and hang
on to this overly barricadeddefense system of closing off
the heart in order to protectthe heart.
The negative qualities ofcancer can also be associated
(06:10):
with moodiness andoversensitivity and an
over-attachment to the past, andwe are from time to time
perhaps prone to all of thosethings.
So anytime we notice that we aredipping into the more
challenging qualities of anarchetype and the more
challenging psychologicalaspects of ourself, it's not a
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reason to beat ourselves up orfeel like we're doing it wrong.
It's simply an invitation tolook at how we might bring more
balance into that area in ourlife.
And ultimately, when we talkabout cancer being a water sign
and a heart-based sign and aboutfeelings in the heart, we want
to find that place of balancewhen we are working with our
(06:55):
heart, where our heart is bothopen and open to life and open
to experiences, but also rootedin something that helps us be
secure, that helps us practicegood nurture, that helps us pour
love into ourselves and thathelps us develop discernment.
So, instead of feeling fearfuland overly protective where we
(07:16):
keep everything out just becauseit's different, we become
discerning and allow what feelsgood to our hearts to feed our
heart.
We allow that to enter ourheart space or at least get
close enough to discern is thissomething good for me?
Before making a snap decision,and we become discerning enough
(07:37):
to realize when something isn'tgood for us and isn't feeding
our heart.
It's an informed decision thathelps us to decide when do we be
more protective and guard ourhearts and have good boundaries
and keep our boundaries up, andwhen do we allow ourselves to
lay those down and open up tosomething new and that is very
(08:00):
fluid.
That is not something that Ithink needs to be rigid, but
something that we can look at.
There's times that we open thedoor and we allow more energy to
come in and there's times thatwe shut a door and we have a
reason behind that.
So, just like water is veryfluid and water flows and water
moves, I think boundaries issomething that there is some
(08:23):
fluidity to them and I thinkabout finding that balance
between being self-protectiveand guarding our hearts and
being discerning and also beingopen and loving and giving and
generous.
I see it as a flowing energythat we can do some assessment
on and do a little bit of coursecorrection if we realize we're
(08:44):
dipping too far into one ofthose qualities and we need to
pull back or we've pulled backtoo much and now it's time to
open up and give more.
So a few ideas on working withthe cancer archetype.
The first one is that cancer isan invitation to feel our
feelings, to look at what ouremotions are and to work with
(09:07):
our emotions and when we arefeeling our feelings.
It's important to remember thatfeelings are information.
They all have something toteach us, they all have a wisdom
of their own, but they are alsofluid.
No feeling lasts forever.
Sometimes, when feelings arereally challenging, we think
(09:28):
we're always going to feel thatway or we start to overly
identify with the feeling, thechallenge in the feeling or
perhaps the pain in the feeling.
And I love the idea ofremembering that feelings are
fluid.
If we're feeling one thing oneday, we might feel something
else the next, and for somepeople that can be very logic
(09:50):
based.
That might make feelings notfeel as trustworthy.
But I think that feelingsactually have a lot of wisdom to
offer us and that the trick toworking with them is to not
overly attach to any one feelingand to stay open and curious
about what a feeling, what anemotion, has to teach us.
(10:11):
Sometimes, if we're feelingsomething and we have a felt
sense, an emotional sense ofanger or sadness, or jealousy,
or high stress or fatigue orsomething that feels really
challenging and we can't quitename it maybe grief or something
that feels in the realm ofgrief, anger, sadness, rage,
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something in the harder aspectsof feelings that isn't always
clear.
There is good wisdom there,that this has something to teach
us.
It's here for a reason, butwhat we initially think it might
mean might not always be thefull wisdom of a feeling.
So, for example, if we arefeeling really sad about
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something, sometimes in themoment, the superficial sadness
might be what is happening inthe moment and that's the
surface layer of things.
But if we really sit with thefeeling and ask, well, what is
the sadness really about, wemight find that feeling sad in
the moment that we'll saysomething ended.
I often will feel really sadwhen a TV show that I've watched
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, something that was a series,is over, and I'll always have
that sense of identifying withthe characters and feeling like,
well, what next?
What will I watch now?
Nothing will ever be as good asthis show.
I sometimes will get this withthe beloved book as well, and
there's this sadness over anending and on the surface level,
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of course, what I'm feeling isa reflection of I'm really sad
that this ended, I'm going tomiss it, and there's a lot of
more like linear stuff in there,cause and effect, that I can
see that this ended and I feelsad about that.
But if I take it deeper andreally sit with that for myself,
I have this greater well ofjust sadness and sorrow over
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change in our lives and howeverything just keeps changing.
And last week on the podcast Iwas talking about finding
perspective to work with life'stransience and that idea of mano
awari and working with thisjust gentle sadness that life
changes and that this is part ofthe pathos of things.
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The sensitivity to things iswhat that phrase means in
Japanese and just beingsensitive to the transient
nature of life.
And part of that sensitivityfor me and for many others is
acknowledging some of thebittersweetness and the
poignancy and the grief that'sthere.
Sad isn't bad, it's just areflection of my awareness that
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things change and they can'tstay the same way forever.
If they stayed the same then itwould just be stagnant and we'd
feel so stuck and there's nolife in that, there's no growth
in that.
That's not what it's about.
So oftentimes for me, feelingswill hold a dual or a multifold
meaning, and so when we'refeeling our feelings, we work
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with staying curious if we don'tunderstand them right away, or
don't understand what somethingis coming from or we don't
understand what an attachment'sabout, and we might journal them
, we might keep processing them,we might stay open to them.
I often think too, even if wedon't always understand our
feelings, just acknowledgingthem and trying to name them and
claim them is so much betterthan resisting them and
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repressing them, and it oftenwill help us move through them.
And sometimes, if we are notfeeling particularly insight
driven, it is enough toacknowledge a feeling and then
go do something, go be in nature, go do something artistically,
go do a piece of writing, go dosomething in order to offer
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yourself catharsis or to helpthe feeling move through.
So cancer is an opportunity tofeel our feelings and to work
with our emotional world throughjournaling and art and nature
and contemplation and whateverelse you might do that helps you
stay connected to your heartand to your feelings.
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Something else that cancer isan invitation to do is to focus
on the heart and focus on thehome.
Cancer invites us to come backto our home space and it's such
fun energy or such anchoringenergy, I should say when it
comes on the heels of Geminiseason, which is often about
being out and about, and that'sabout movement, and then we
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change into cancer and cancersays now can you ground that
into your heart and into yourhome?
And so that could be workedwith in a very linear way where
you might feel drawn to makeyour nest cozy or do something
in your home.
That represents focusing onyour home or focusing on your
family, focusing on nurturingyour loved ones.
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But we can also take that in amore metaphorical way and in a
self-love way where we thinkabout what represents home to me
.
How do I nurture my heart?
What things make my heart feellike home?
What things help me to feelanchored into myself?
What do I need to feel more athome with my heart right now so
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you can play around with it alittle bit.
We can turn that idea inwardsand really look at our inner
home and our heart as our home.
And what do we need to be goodhousekeepers of that particular
home?
A good example of that was justyesterday for me.
I had a really busy week.
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I think I shared on here thatI'm doing the choreography for a
summer show, something Rotten,and it's been really fun.
We just started this week.
But I had a really busy week,so busy that I was going from
thing to thing to thing andcatching up on sleep in between
and turning my attention to whatdo I need to do now.
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But I hadn't had a lot of timeto journal, which is unusual for
me, and I'm the kind of personthat finds since I am very
emotion based I find that if Idon't have time to get in touch
with what's going on inside ofme, that I will feel really
dysregulated and out of touchpretty quickly, and that's
something I've learned aboutbeing an empath and a highly
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sensitive person and anintuitive introvert who can also
look like an extrovert.
I've learned these things aboutmyself over time, and so
yesterday I had this big, longlist of things to do, but it was
a Saturday and I thought tomyself, before I do any of those
things, I need to sit down withmy journal and do one of my
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spiritual practices, one of mymeditation practices, which is
working with Oracle cards andusing those as journaling
prompts and working with somequestions that I will often ask
the cards.
So for me, I might askquestions like what progress did
I make on the path this week?
What are the gifts in thisparticular life season?
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What perspective does spirithave for me today.
What's my guidance right now,in this moment?
How do I best direct my focus?
Those are the kinds ofquestions that I might ask for
those of you who have a cardpractice and are looking to keep
using it in ways that nourishyour full and nourish your heart
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.
Those are the kinds ofquestions that I ask that allow
me to catch up with myself, andthey're really good
contemplation tools and theyhelp me synthesize my
experiences and filter throughthe extraneous and really bring
it back to the heart of thematter, and so for me, that's
one of the ways that I willinvest in my heart and help
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myself feel more at home withinmy heart and like I'm organizing
my heart and keeping my heart awell-organized space so I know
what's in it, and cancer is aninvitation for all of us to do
that in whatever ways calls tous.
The last thing that I want tomention about cancer is that
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cancer is associated with thisidea of the cosmic mother, and
that means cancer is associatedwith the ideas of creativity and
birth and origining something.
Cancer is also a cardinal sign,and cardinal signs in the
zodiac are signs that representa beginning and an initiative,
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and again, the origin issomething.
So cancer season is a powerfultime to give birth to something
new, to plant the seeds forsomething new that we want to
create.
I will often use cancer seasonthat for me, since I'm in the
Southern Hemisphere, fallsaround solstice cancer usually
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comes on the solstice or the dayafter.
I will usually use it as areflection point to look back at
what have I birthed in thispast year and what am I trying
to create in my life right now.
And sometimes I might do a bigmanifestation ceremony around
this or something deeplysymbolic to represent what I
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might want to manifest and whatdreams and ideas and
creativities I might want togive birth to.
And sometimes I will just usethat as a contemplation tool or
a reflection to look at what Iam creating and to see what this
past year has brought in termsof creativity and initiating
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things in my life and how Imight want to shift that focus
or change that focus for theupcoming year.
So I will sometimes look atthis as a really powerful time
of creation, manifestation,giving birth to something,
setting our compass and ourcourse and saying this is the
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direction I want to move andreally harnessing that energy to
hone our intention and ourcreativity.
So I love cancer for thatreason as well.
Any sign that I can findcreativity in and that helps me
feel connected to my ability toco-create my life and to dream
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my life into form and to feelinspired to take action on my
own behalf.
With that, I'm always here forit.
So, with that, happy cancerseason to everyone.
I hope it inspires you to feeland create and focus on whatever
it is that represents heart andhome to you.
Thank you so much for joiningme on the podcast today.
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I will be back next week with anew episode of your Heart Magic
.
Have a beautiful week and, asalways, be well, be love.
Be you and be magic.
Love, be you.
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And be magic.
You've been listening to yourHeart Magic with Dr Bethann
Kapansky-Wright.
Tune in next week for a newepisode to support and empower
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your light.
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