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The theme of Cancer season is CARE, as a verb. Fittingly, a synonym of “nurture” is “discipline”. In a way, it takes a committed stance to cultivate anything into full bloom. What are you taking care of this month ahead?

The Sun enters Cancer on June 20th, initiating us into the summer solstice. On the same day, Jupiter in Pisces stations retrograde, as it usually does when it starts to trine the Sun. This can help us review some of the good tidings and blessings we’ve been gifted this last little while. We are no longer in eclipse season, so the Full Moon in Capricorn on June 24th and the New Moon in Cancer on July 9th help us reflect on our own security issues. Mercury stations direct on June 22nd to enable and move forward any stalled situations. Mars in Leo will likely energize any tension that’s steadily rising between Saturn and Uranus. Read your horoscopes on how best to take care of the following month ahead. 

It's highly recommended that you primarily read the horoscopes for your Rising sign. If you don't know your Rising Sign, then you can read for your Sun sign. To figure out these placements, enter your birth date, location and precise birth time into an astrology app like Time Nomad or online at astro.com. For more information on how all of these play together, visit charmastrology.com.

Aries: This month’s homework is to cultivate care towards your home, family of origin/chosen family, and the past that has held you together. You may find new words to describe how you’re feeling. Let them flow through you as they breed a new kind of understanding. In addition, some pressure with how you tend to your creative reservoir versus other’s expectations of you may erupt or cause a standstill. Make sure to focus on generative processes.

Taurus: Take the time to forge and shape the correct language to describe your feelings, tell your story, prove your point, and make things real. Words carry weight. Give them the importance they deserve. A sobering reality check about your childhood upbringing flares up this month. It’ll give you uncomfortable clarity about why you desire the things you do. Just remember that the unkind-to-yourself habits you’re attempting to break is the work. Keep going.

Gemini: Taking care of your money does not have to be an emotionally charged experience. In fact, you can make it fun. Think of it as a financial literacy game. Take the time to improve and increase your knowledge regarding how money works and how to make it work for you. Or hire or engage with people who have a light and casual attitude about finances to help you. More knowledge can ease the daily stress you’ve been under lately.

Cancer: Brush off your fine self as you enter a new and refreshing chapter of your month/year/life. Whatever you like. Always at this time of the year, you tend to want to redefine who you are. Go ahead and get busy. Change is often a good thing. It means you’re allowing what’s stagnant to move along. Mainly, your relationship with your material and social resources needs some troubleshooting. Fix what is broken.

Leo: How much of yourself do you tend to hide behind shame, fear of failure, and/or being unloved? How much of these things were inherited, taught and projected onto you? This month ahead, make it a point to interrogate how much of your own self-sabotaging tendencies were a result of other people being awful. However, instead of playing the blame game, focus instead on ways to nurture this hurt part of yourself. You deserve love and care.

Virgo: You are who you’re with. It’s true. This month ahead, take the time to nurture the company you keep. Or alternatively, go through your social media following lists. Unsubscribe to some emails. Tend to your people who mutually care for you. However you do it, make it a priority to surround yourself with alliances that you can be proud of. This process will hopefully assist in illuminating some inner turmoil you’ve been going through. 

Libra: Take care of what you look forward to. Sounds simple, but maybe it’s not always easy. This month ahead, take note of how you relate to the future. Is it anxiety-filled? Do you plan around your fears? Do you dream in ways that give you butterfly-in-your-stomach feels? The point is, perhaps it’s time to refresh the ways you envision. Nourish this process the same way you would a blossoming rose, and watch how this renewed relationship to divining/planning-your-future brings you different results. 

Scorpio: The brilliant astrologer Diana Rose Harper says, “What you believe influences how you practice.” This is your homework this month ahead, dear Scorpio. We may be talking astrology here, but this gem of a phrase can be applied to any life situation. Tend to your belief systems so they can take care of you. This process may help relieve some of the tension you’ve been feeling about the future in general.

Sagittarius: Who you share your pain with matters. Who gets to witness and hold your innermost vulnerabilities matters. So, are you sharing with people who have deep reverence and empathy for your hurts, your grief? Or are they brushing it off, diminishing the bigness of your feelings because they’re either unequipped to support you, or they’re more interested in their comfort over your care? Choose wisely who you show your broken heart to.

Capricorn: Are you suffering from neglect in your relationships? Do you feel unappreciated for some of the maybe invisible labour you put in your partnerships? This month, let it be known that you need explicit appreciation, affection, and validation. Even if this may feel awkward to ask for, make others know that part of how you sustain and maintain love in your connections is an ongoing rapport and respect for each other. Ask for what you need.

Aquarius: Seriously, take care this month. That’s it. Un/fortunately, you’ve got this one mortal body that carries a lot of life experiences. A fragile and resilient body that feeds and translates your thoughts and emotions. Prioritize your well-being this summer solstice. If rest is hard, make it even more of a project to dedicate your time towards— practice resting, dear Aquarius. Work can wait. 

Pisces: When was the last time you enjoyed and lost yourself in a hobby that had no particular goal except to have fun and create? Do that this month dear Pisces. Stop with the impulse to monetize your hobbies or the compulsion to snap and share on social media. Just get your hands dirty in paint or whatever else, and get creative. There’s a sort of healing energy you can tap into when you allow yourself to be mindfully present in activities that support the flow of the happy hormones in your brain. Be present when joy happens, even when it’s fleeting. This is the point.