DivinationA divination practice

♋Cancer

21 June – 22 July · Water · Cardinal · ruled by Moon

Reading for the current moment…

Every day

One reading per planetary day.

SundaySun: The Sun asks you outward on a day you would rather stay in. Go, briefly, and on your own terms. You are better in company than you remember by the time Sunday arrives.
MondayMoon: Your own day. Whatever you feel today is unusually accurate — including the thing you have been talking yourself out of since Thursday. Trust the first reading, act on it slowly.
TuesdayMars: Mars asks you to want something plainly, without the protective wrapping. Say what you want in a single sentence with no explanation attached. The explanation is where you usually lose it.
WednesdayMercury: Mercury wants the conversation you have been rehearsing. It will go better than the rehearsal, because the version in your head has been written for a harsher person than the one you are talking to.
ThursdayJupiter: Jupiter widens the circle. Someone is being offered to you as a friend rather than a project. Let them stay a friend — you do not have to be useful to be wanted.
FridayVenus: Venus and the Moon get along. Feed someone. The care you are best at is entirely practical, and today the practical version says more than any conversation would.
SaturdaySaturn: Saturn asks where the shell has become the house. Some of what you built for protection is now just walls. Open one thing you closed for a reason that has since expired.

Every week

One reading per quarter of the moon.

New moonthe dark of the moon, the start of a cycle: The dark moon is your own cycle at its quietest. Begin nothing outward. Decide, privately, what you want the next month to feel like — you are one of the few who can start from a feeling and build backwards.
Waxing moonfirst quarter, the moon filling: The moon filling is you filling. Energy returns unevenly this quarter, more in the evenings than the mornings. Arrange what matters accordingly instead of fighting it.
Full moonthe moon at its brightest: The full moon is loud for you. Everything is felt at volume, including things that are not yours. Ask of each one: whose is this? Half will dissolve on being asked.
Waning moonlast quarter, the moon emptying: Put down the grievance you have been keeping warm. You are not required to stop caring in order to stop carrying. The moon emptying is the easiest week of the month to tell those apart.

Every month

One reading per solar month.

January: Capricorn season sits opposite and asks for structure where you keep feeling. Build one small system that protects you from your own moods — not to override them, to stop them costing you.
February: Aquarius season is cool and social and slightly foreign to you. Attend anyway. Distance from your own feelings is genuinely restful once a year, and this is the month it comes free.
March: Pisces season is your natural element at its gentlest. Good month for art, water, sleep and forgiveness. Something you have been unable to forgive becomes possible around the middle of it.
April: Aries season pushes you into the open and it stings. You will have to claim something publicly. Do it once, plainly, then retreat with a clear conscience.
May: Taurus season is soft ground and steady food. The friendship you have been too busy for is the whole assignment. One long unhurried evening does more than a season of good intentions.
June: Gemini season is noisy just before your own. Let the noise pass through without answering it. What you are half-hearing now becomes clear in July.
July: Your season. Ask for what you need directly rather than arranging circumstances so that someone offers it. The direct route is available all month and almost never afterwards.
August: Leo season wants warmth and display, and you can meet it halfway. Be generous in public with someone who deserves it. Your endorsement carries further than you think.
September: Virgo season turns care into competence. Sort the practical thing that has been quietly worrying you — the paperwork, the appointment, the conversation. The relief is the month's whole gift.
October: Libra season asks for balance in a relationship where you have been carrying the heavier end. Say so. The imbalance is usually invisible to the other person and easily corrected once named.
November: Scorpio season is deep water and you swim well in it. Something buried comes up. It is smaller than it was when you buried it, which is the only reward for waiting.
December: Sagittarius season scatters your household to other people's plans. Hold one tradition of your own, however small. It is the thread you will follow back in January.

Written for this collection in the idiom of a modern astrological column. The other signs.