Emotional is my middle name. I've always been ruled by my emotions - hey, my moon's in Cancer, alright? It's both my superpower and my weakness.
Whether or not you place any stock in star signs, for me they've helped me understand myself. There's a few aspects to having a Cancer moon that really resonate with me. When The Minimalist community asked what we do to tune in with our emotions and look after our well being I couldn't help but think of this framework of understanding my emotional body.
The thing is, often we're emoting because we haven't dealt with the underlayers of feeling that we often supress, medicate, disguise, and ignore. I have a huge reservoir of emotion that's always threatening to bubble over, so if I don't sit with what's coming up as it comes up, I am, in a nutshell, totally screwed.
If I'm feeling overwhelmed and emotional, I know to go into my yoga room, shut the door, and breath - or walk it out and figure out why I'm feeling like I'm feeling, and what I can do to figure it out.
As the moon waxes and wanes, so do our emotions. Knowing this helps me not lock in particularly emotional states. I embrace fully the idea that 'this will pass'. It is better to come from a place of non-resistance and non-reaction, recognising 'this sensation is frustration' as it bubbles in my chest, rather than 'I am frustrated'.
How can one identify with that that is ever changing?
I read people's emotions with my body, so if a loved ones suffering, so am I, and will do what I can to alleviate that. Yet this drains my energy so badly that I have to hide - it's why I tend to label myself an introvert, though it's not exactly that. I'm hypersensitive. It's like being on high alert, all the time. I know why I'm like this (I've analysed my emotions like you wouldn't believe - see point 1) and I know that the only way I can recharge is to be in my own blissful space - and that includes sans husbands.
I don't like being told what to do - and understanding my luna Cancer side made me totally get that's because I like to ride my own ebb and flow, and I get upset when people disrupt that. It's why I don't want to work, and why my phone is on silent. Let me ebb and flow to my own schedule, please.
Analysing myself via astrology is just a framework, rather than an absolute. It's a good tool that helps me with those 'a-ha' revelations - oh, maybe I'm like this because. I totally get it when people outright dismiss it as pseudoscience - I'm cynical by nature. Even my husband rolls his eyes if I psycho analyse his Gemini-ness.
But there are big lessons in it for me about how to navigate my emotional ocean - lessons that keep me on a level, at least a little bit.
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