Tips ~ July / Cancer
Coaching Corner
Some Cancerian Ideas for Nurturing Yourself
- Find ways to make your home more appealing to you.
- Spend more quality time with family members.
- Give support to family members when they need help.
- Take a warm bubble bath.
- Start a dream journal, or spend more time analyzing and understanding your dreams.
- Give in to your (healthy) hidden/denied urges.
Cancerian Ponder Questions
- Where are you safe?
- What do you nurture/help grow?
- What does family mean to you?
- How do you want to improve your home?
- When are you overly emotional?
Cancerian Mottos/Phrases
- Home is where the heart is
- Home sweet home
Personality Perspectives
Enneagram type 2 is the personality type connected with the Moon and deals with issues surrounding helping others. Twos want to be seen as helpful and indispensable. Through their connection to the Moon, self-aware 2s are warm, nurturing, and sensitive to others' feelings.
The challenges of 2s are low self-esteem, feeling drained by overdoing for others, being co-dependent on others, suppressing feelings, and assertiveness.
The gifts of 2s are empathy, compassion, warmth, generosity, encouragement, sensitivity, and perceptiveness.
How do you care/show your concern for others?
When do you do too much for others?
How assertive are you at expressing your needs?
Astrology Area
In July, the spotlight is on Cancer and the Moon. Cancer relates to the home and nurturing, security, safety, family, and emotions. The Moon rules the sign of Cancer and influences the thought style and patterns of Cancer, making this sign moody, changeable, and connected to emotions and water. The area of life (zodiac house) ruled by Cancer (4th) deals with the home environment, your grounding/anchor/foundation, and your mother.
What do you do to feel grounded?
How do you nurture yourself?
Where do you feel safe?
How is your relationship with your mother?
Tarot Topic
The Moon is the tarot card associated with Cancer and the Moon. Here we see a dog and a wolf howling at the moon, symbolizing our animal instincts. The water and scorpion symbolize the connection to emotions and the unconscious, hidden dimension of ourselves. The sun behind the moon, as well as the two pillars, suggests the balance between conscious and unconscious states. See what else you see!
What are you hiding from?
How accurate are your "hunches" about people?
What hidden urges/desires do you need to bring out to light?