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.

I'm Quick & Willing To Uncover Buried Emotions

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.

I Am A Cyclical Being

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 Am an Empathy Queen - But I Need People to Fuck Off

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 Keep My Own Schedules

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.

With Love,

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