As Cancer season ended, Leo season began on July 22 2026 at 12:13 pm pst and ended on August 22 2026 at 7:18 pm pst.

And as promised at the end of last month’s post, this reflection would hold both seasons. Leo illuminated what Cancer stirred loose…

Cancer season showed me that we are on an infinite cycle. The infinite journey of life, death and rebirth. And sometimes that is a hard thing to come face to face with. The knowing that nothing is ever really finished, only passed through and returned to again.

A few years ago I learned something about Cancer energy I didn’t know before. That it is this energy of healing. With our Cancer placements, there is a specific kind of healing that the soul is asking us to undergo. This season brought on a new felt experience of healing for me and what it really takes to heal. What works, what’s needed, how differently that can look from person to person, and yet how there is still a kind of formula underneath it all. It’s body (moon) and mind (sun) integrating with one another.

Cancer season taught me the importance of healing and that it is a lifelong ebb and flow, just like how the tides and moon always come and go.

We heal so that we can live more freely, more openly and freedom always asks us to release our grip first.

The surrender to the tide is the lesson. Letting go is hard for Cancer because the archetype is built to clutch. It has claws for a reason. Its instinct is to hold onto family, memory, safety, history. But the shell is not the source of safety, it is only a tool. When we over identify with protection, we go stagnant. The ocean, Cancer’s true home, only stays life giving because it never stops moving. Our emotions have to move and that is why they are represented as the tide. The work is to realize that true security isn’t found in our comforts, but in the moon-like capacity to wax and wane, to let the tide go out and trust that it will return, without needing to hoard the water. Misbalanced Cancer is often caught in a loop of nostalgia, feeding on the past because the present feels too exposed. It forgets that the shell is meant to be outgrown. This has been a big reminder for me.

Allowing a return requires a terrifying kind of faith: the belief that you are resilient enough to survive the interval of being empty. It is the wisdom of the Moon, which proves every month that disappearing is not the same as dying. To let go is to trust that your internal vitality is not something you have to manufacture or defend with walls, but something that belongs to the rhythm of life itself. We must not be the administrator of the water but the one who swims in it.

So why is the hardest thing always the letting go yet staying in your centre? It’s an answer I’ve been searching for these past two astrological seasons and probably most of my life so far. I search for it because I don’t know how to do it. With my own personal Mars in Cancer, I’m terrified of it.

I kept coming back to the body this season too. Our emotional body is so wired into our physical one. And having this play out in my own life, unprocessed emotions, buried emotions are what wreak havoc on us until we actually, honestly feel them. If we never feel them, do we just spiral with them indefinitely? Some days I’m too emotional to play it cool, and as hard as that is for me, I’m learning how to be ok with that.

Looking back on both these seasons now, I can see that Cancer was our emotional incubator and Leo was the fiery manifestation of everything that incubation stirred up. All that emotionalism has to go somewhere. Leo wants us to transmute our emotional experiences of life into creative self-expression, but that means we must then be seen and recognized in it.

I’ve been sitting with Leo energy a lot this season. I was in my head about all that it symbolizes, represents and evokes energetically within us. I had lots of thoughts around my own creative self-expression. I kept circling the question of why we need, want, and sometimes strive to receive attention? Why do we as humans need to be seen? Validation feeds us in some way right? It is a real and healthy part of being human. I just know I struggle with accepting that side of myself.

I think this is exactly how Pluto in Aquarius opposing the Sun for the majority of this season has revealed itself. It had me questioning what we share, what we consume, and the ethos underneath all of it that I don’t fully align with. The vanity, the validation-chasing, the shadows of Leo laid bare.

Leo season brought up, in a very real way, the shadows within myself that still have control over my own vitality. A process I’m still inside of. It’s even shaping what I feel comfortable sharing here. Back in Cancer season, I started to feel like some of what I wanted to write was too personal to put out into the open, so I waited to let things incubate in the season of self-expression. I thought about releasing some of these essays as paid posts, to have a little more privacy. I let that thought drift for now, though I’m not entirely sure why. I’ve had the same instinct with my social media. I made my profile private for the first time in years, and I haven’t posted most of the photos I’ve taken in months! I went dark in the season when the light is at its fullest. Because expression is also exposure. I know we all love being seen and validated. Even in my struggles with it, I know a part of me likes it. So there’s this tension within me that Leo illuminated, a fear of being seen because being seen feels vulnerable.

In being honest with these essays, I’ve actually been losing momentum with this project of seasonal reflections I committed myself to writing each month. I let Cancer season slide by waiting to fully feel my way through Leo season before I could write about either. Cancer season was all about feeling for me. Trying to navigate and actually understand my own emotions is always a process. And I think because Cancer season felt so raw, Leo season became more about reassessing our Leo shadows and wounds. Pluto opposing the Sun can do that.

Throughout these two seasons, I’ve relearn that you cannot think your way out of a feeling. You have to feel it, and then find some healthy way to let it out. Maybe creative self-expression is the best remedy there is? So I’m still showing up here not to be seen but for my own promise to myself to give life to this creative muscle and form of expression. To practice sharing even in times I feel delicate.

It flows almost too perfectly sometimes, how one season’s ruffle can be remedied by the one that comes next. Cancer is followed by Leo, meaning deep emotional contraction is followed by the authentic creative expression of it.

I can’t fully know if anyone else moved through these same themes because I’ve been so far inside my own experience these past two seasons. The retrograde in Cancer season pulled me fully into my feelings. Pluto in Aquarius opposing the Sun in Leo season pulled me into a tension with my own ego. We even had a Solar Eclipse in Leo that I barely mentioned that definitely evoked energy related to our purpose and vitality that we had to release in order to create fresh space.

So maybe that’s the real handoff between these two seasons. Not resolution, but just sharing honestly. Cancer asked me to feel it all the way through. Leo asked me why it’s so hard to be seen and that question will ultimately lead me to deeper alignment within myself. And for now I’m still in the process of it all, exploring those parts that are still sticky, still needing integration between my own heart and ego.

And now, in the season of the Sun, light is starting to shine on it all…

Cancer season began on June 21 2026 at 1:24 am pst and ended on July 22 2026 at 12:13 pm pst.

Cancer is the season of the Moon. The wisdom of the Moon is the wisdom of the undercurrent. It does not create growth through light like the Sun. It’s rhythm is what allows a tugging at our depths. It governs the parts of us that are fluid, our moods, our emotions.

Cancer season tugged at us softly and slowly throughout its time. Stirring up more and more feelings as the season progressed. And even though the season of our dear beautiful Moon has come to its end, its energy is always with us. The Moon is our monthly rhythm and the Sun is our daily one. Both the Moon and the Sun are such large influences on our systems. They are the two pillars that matter the most in our personal astrologies.

Last night, with women I love, we sat out with the Moon almost in its fullness. Basking in its light I was reminded how we wouldn’t have the Moon’s light without the reflection of the Sun’s. These two go hand in hand. They are the feminine and the masculine, the yin and yang, the water and the fire.

To live under both is to acknowledge that we are moved by two different kinds of power. One fuels the strength of the hand to do, while the other governs the weight of the heart to feel. The Sun teaches us how to arrive and the Moon teaches us how to return.

So it feels strange to fully go into the container that was Cancer season while the Sun’s season, Leo, is still playing out.

Now Leo is shining its light on what Cancer stirred up for us. And that stirring has yet to settle. It needs to bake in the Sun’s heat for the rhythm of the undercurrent to become fully clear. So with that being said, this month’s reflection is only an introduction. I feel like to fully write about Cancer season, I first have to let Leo season have its glow.

And since our Moon can’t glow without our Sun anyways, I think it’s important to speak about them together. So next’s month reflection will hold both seasons. For now we can enjoy tonight’s Full Moon! Go out, stand in its light and feel what kind of magical knowledge will start to reach you.

Gemini season began on May 20th 2026 at 5:37 pm pst and ended on Summer Solstice, June 21 2026 at 1:24 am pst.

A season that was just a day more than the previous one, yet felt much longer than that. A feeling I attribute to the overstimulating, overactive, over-consuming energy of this season. An energy heavily activated through the Sun’s dance with Uranus, an influential planet moving right by its side all the way up through the first week of June. This transit persisted for more than half the season, and was not an easy one to experience. Looking back on it now, I see how it was this pressure cooker used to test both our individual and collective structural integrities. Gemini and Uranus together represent an electric energy in how information moves. It is a period of high mental noise and unexpected shifts.

That duo wasn’t the only major transit happening during this season. We also had Pluto and the Nodes of the Moon directly communicating with the Sun. And its important to look at their conversation too to fully integrate this season.

Pluto is a planet of power and wounding, a planet I like to look at for deeper understanding around collective generational trauma. In astrological terminology, Pluto was trining the Sun Uranus conjunction, which I translate as Pluto adding a beat to the Sun and Uranus’ dance.

Right now Pluto is in the sign of Aquarius, an energy that is forcing us to look at ourselves socially. At it’s core, Aquarian energy is humanitarian energy. That Pluto beat this season acted as a spark to lead us into a place of permanent change in our social architectures.

Then we had the Nodes of the Moon squaring the conjunction (Sun+Uranus dance) which translates as adding friction to the entire scene. The South & North Nodes represent the tension between where we have been (South Node as the familiar) and where we are being pulled to go (the North Node as our remedy for healthy change). A mix of new and old ways of existing being confronted and reviewed before we were even ready to do so.

The result of all this is a collective atmosphere of unrest, systematic confrontation, and power plays. Now more than ever, we are experiencing power wielded through mental warfare. We experienced it this Gemini season; the weaponizing of information, intelligence and distraction.

I noticed people overwhelmed by days of bombardment. Minds lacked the space to be clear. Physical and emotional theft felt pervasive—I personally witnessed and experienced three separate incidents of theft in a single week. Conversations shifted toward government corruption and control. Even without interest, I felt pulled into these conversations. People contemplating and discussing what could happen next to our lives collectively because of the powers at be.

Gemini season was also so hard on our nervous systems, a system Gemini naturally governs. The endless pace of our minds put immense stress on our bodies. I felt the weight of it in my own fatigue. The season moved like a wave: starting with panic, chaos, and paranoia, then shifting into overstimulation, and finally toward new understandings and sorting of the mind.

Even though I’ve expressed how difficult of the season it was, this difficulty is important and needed for our evolution. The Nodes of the moon weren’t just this confrontation but a catalyst for our movement and momentum towards something else.

Amongst all the chaos, mind games and unexpected, I think this season was trying to get us to ask ourselves: what does our own voice sound like outside of influence? It’s this realization that when the mind spins, it is often looping around something. And when the loop becomes overwhelming, the mind turns to distraction for comfort. And distraction in today’s world is the easiest thing to achieve! Our devices connect us but also completely distract and traps us. Our devices are tools, but we shouldn’t be using them more than our own minds. Our mind is a tool and it also play tricks on us. Gemini represents all of this. The tools but also the games and tricks.

The Gemini in all of us doesn’t want to be bored, so there is this form of distraction and over consumption that we can fall into trying to prevent boredom. And what is distraction doing for us? Because I don’t think it’s this terrible thing. Its a coping strategy at its core. Distraction has this ability to redirect the mind and lead it to new perspectives. We need Gemini season on our journey through the seasons less as a reminder for things already within our psyches and more so as a temporary shift to look in the other direction. With all the these elements at play this season from Uranus, Pluto and even the Nodes, the shift was meant to shake us. It shook our foundations so that we could build discernment. Adding new strength, skills and resources to our sense of self, identity and life perspective.

On the last day of Gemini season and first day of Summer, the realization came to me of what this season of overstimulation taught us. A lesson to come back to presence. Where our attention goes, our bodies will follow. Gemini has taught me that information can shape our physical existence if we aren’t discerning and present with it.

What we give our attention to is what we empower. What we think, speak, consume is sewn into the fabrics we weave within our lives. As we move into Cancer season, we can no longer outrun our minds. We may want to figure everything out, but a clear mind is often more blissful than having all the answers. It takes great strength to choose connection over consumption.

So to close out the madness in our minds Gemini played around with, and welcome in the nurturing season of Cancer, I want to bring it together in a question that came to me while having lunch on my back deck with zero distraction. At this moment in your life whether it is something you currently embody or still driving towards, what is your life philosophy?

I’m still figuring mine out but it may be something like..

• Never rush

• Presence is vitality

• Connection is the greatest gift

• Simplicity is bliss

How do I translate something that was felt into words? It was such a visceral and personal season for me. Soft and subtle in its teachings. To write about it feels self-indulgent. Retelling the moments I experienced isn’t quite transferable. So all I can do is lean into this season’s reflection being less about what Taurus season was like on a collective level, and more on how I feel freshly grounded thanks to a season like this. A glimpse into my living process with astrology.

Taurus season started Sunday April 19th 2026 at 6:39 pm pst and ended Wednesday May 20th 2026 at 5:36 pm pst.

This season I spent a lot of time in nature out of service. I like to see it as being held and embedded by the rivers and trees. The first orientations that showed up started with understanding the importance of proving myself to myself. But what does that even mean?

It’s an ideology that comes from the second house in astrology. The house of self-worth and value. It represents a symbolic place where we must prove ourselves to none other than ourself. It is the house Taurus belongs to, a house of tools and resources, where our foundation of self is built. Taurus teaches us how to trust our instincts, leaning into what our bodies know before our minds can comprehend.

In Aries season I was hit with the realization of neglecting part of my own authenticity and action, so naturally Taurus got to work in revealing to me how not to do that anymore. What I started to touch upon is the notion that building self-trust is an architectural process. Trusting your instincts is hard and it only gets stronger when you work on creating a sense of safety in yourself first. As cliche as it is, keeping your promises to yourself is how we build that trust muscle.

Completing the things we said we were going to start means we are living up to our own expectations. Taurus is that part of us that needs a sense of security and safety to feel alive. At its highest expression Taurus wants us to move away from external validation or manufactured needs and toward a grounded sense of self-trust and reliance. Because if we don’t, we start to become stuck. That is the shadow of Taurus, unable to move forward, becoming too sedentary in our life. Too stuck in our ways or attached to materialism because we’ve lost value and security within ourself.

At the beginning of the season, I started to create this foundation where I was holding myself accountable. I was checking big to-do’s and small to-do’s off my list. Even just publishing last month’s article was part of my Taurus season growth spurt.

A true illumination of safety embodiment was when a girlfriend and I went on a pilgrimage to the largest tree in Canada. Multiple times on this journey I felt nervous I wouldn’t be able to manage if something were to go wrong. If we got stuck, we had no way of calling for help since we were way out of service. If we saw a cougar, we couldn’t defend ourselves. This trip had me deep in an internal confrontation with my own vulnerability as a woman, as a human. In the end, we made it to the tree and the confronting journey was so worth it! We made it even when our fears tried to stop us. This helped me add more of an understanding to my foundation of self. I realized different circumstances require an array of self assurance in regard to a true felt sense of safety. Assurance I still need to build up within. That trip showed me that when I feel out of my depths, I need to either redirect myself or lean into trust, and at times both are necessary.

And so little by little, I’m starting to feel a sense of appreciation for what I can accomplish. Something solid is forming. This structure in myself that I’ve always struggled with can be nurtured. Instead of completing things for the sake of productivity, I am establishing myself as someone I can rely on. I’m becoming aware of stories that I’ve built up in my head that never really mattered or weren’t even true to begin with.

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After this dive into a pool of self-trust and self-assurance was the soft opening in the realm of grief. I discovered that keeping mundane promises to myself created an internal stability necessary to endure deep emotional release.

In the last few days of the season, my boyfriend and I were on a camping trip scout mission for new secret spots. During our exploration, we drove up a hill to this opening in the trees where we could see the lake we were just at below. Everything felt whole. The music was just right, the scenery looked as if it had never been touched. I started crying without even knowing what hit me, gratitude and grief occupying the same moment. Later, on our way out, we past the view of the lake again, the same unknowing tears showed up on my face. My boyfriend, not one for mystical language, simply said to me “it’s a portal babe.” The word was so right, it was a portal and it opened up one in me too.

This moment showed me that the grief stuck in my body for years is starting to release with more flow, not because I found a place to put it or by forcing it out, but because I have a new foundation of trusting myself enough to let it go. I’ve been taught that Taurus as an archetype, strives to attain inner peace. And now I can I honestly say it is something we cannot find but need to build within. This season I built mine out of self-accountability, a new sense of self-trust and through the resources I’ve been quietly collecting for some time now. It is something that will continue to be crafted within me, this new state of being. I’m curious to see how it flows through the rest of the seasons, as we are still just at the beginning.

The growth I experienced during this season was brought to me through my time spent in nature. Something so fitting for Taurus season! The residue of Taurus has settled in my body and hopefully a residue of it has settled within you too. This time I don’t want to end this reflection with question. I find it unnecessary being that we are currently in such a mentally overwhelming season. So instead I leave you with a prescription to go outside without any distraction, to just sit or lay for a moment watching the trees, sky or a body of water. To breath in fresh air. To feel the sun on your skin. To let nature sow its seeds within you too.

Now, about 17 months later, I feel it’s time to deliver, for it to grow into itself.

I wouldn’t say Aries season necessarily reflected this to me but it did spark something! Aries teaches us that the first step doesn’t need to be something we overthink and dwell on, it just needs to be an ignition into something solid (aka Aries is the start and after that comes Taurus, the something solid).

I intend this space to be is a mix of theories, interpretations, and opinions all based around my foundation and relationship with evolutionary astrology. It is a language I share to bring about new ideas and perspectives within our lives. So here is where my theories of reflection finally begin. A post Aries season reflection…

Starting with the facts: Aries season begun on Friday March 20th 2026 at 7:47 am pst. Aries season ended on Sunday April 19th 2026 at 6:39 pm pst.

This wasn’t just a very solar Aries season but one that involved a collection of different energies from a multitude of planets. As the sun moved into Aries it was met along side Neptune, Saturn, Venus, the Moon and Chiron. As the sun transitioned out of Aries, it ended its run with Chiron, Mars, Saturn, Mercury, and Neptune.

This Aries season had a tumultuous quality to it. That Mars energy was strong! Life felt charged and chaotic even if it wasn’t manifesting that way in the physical sense, it was still emotionally stimulating. Not much gestation was happening that’s for sure! From my personal experience, this season became one of challenge with little to no preparation. There was no more room in what could be contained. In both loud and subtle ways, time acted out. It moved as if there was no duration, no pauses between action and impulse.

I know for many, life felt like a series of harsh hits making it extremely demanding to keep up. Demanding on our physical bodies, emotional bodies, spiritual bodies, etc.

For fun let’s pause for second and peak into how we can interpret each of the planets that were in Aries alongside the sun this season. I find it so helpful to use astrology in this way to breakdown and reflect on what parts of us (collectively) were really affected by this energy.

The impact this season had on our…

• Sun: identities and ego.

• Moon: the shifts within our emotional bodies and our needs.

• Mars: reactions, assertion, and our instinctual bodies.

• Mercury: intellectual and mental bodies.

• Saturn: our time and the structure of our physical bodies.

• Neptune: creative and spiritual bodies.

• Chiron: wounded bodies.

• Venus: values and relational bodies.

I do want to note that if you’re reading this and do not resonate with what I’m saying, that is totally valid! We all experience these energies differently. I see it as what was reflected in the collective atmosphere and not something every single person felt on a deeply personal level. It’s like the weather and the four earthly seasons we go through. I believe there’s also twelve energetic seasons we feel and experience. These are the cyclical archetypes of the astrological zodiac. They all bleed into each other, balancing out the energy all around us, just as spring, summer, fall, and winter balance out the earth.

So, Aries season was quite simply the demand that we act first and find the meaning of those acts only once we’ve had time to settle.

I personally find it difficult to see the full picture of something when I’m in it. When we’re living through a season it’s harder to understand the energy we’re actually in and confronted by. When a season moves from one to the next, that’s when reflection can happen. More can start to be observed and absorbed from our experience.

We are now in Taurus season. Many of the Aries energies have moved on, and I’m curious what it left us with. I want to theorize on it’s lessons and gifts. Asking, what was it’s evolutionary intention this time around?

Aries season was a season where I personally noticed that I’ve been neglecting two very important parts within my self and my life. Action and authenticity… and where these two things within myself meet. So I took away the lesson in assessing how I’m using/neglecting my energy.

Aries is a fire sign, yes, but it isn’t the fire so to speak. It’s a spark, an ignition. Aries is cardinal and what that means is it initiates. I think this particular Aries season came in and was the start of a new initiation process for many of us. And starting something new always takes courage and work. It can be hard, painful, and scary. A total confrontation, that is what this season triggered, and that confrontation is the gift.

From the perspective of pattern, a season like this arrives to strip away the pretence of control. If you know a little about astrology already this is part of the square aspect between Aries and Capricorn. It teaches through exhaustion and friction rather than discipline and construction. When the gestation phase is skipped, we are forced to see our own raw impulses without the softening filter of intention. We see what we do when we are exhausted and pushed to our limits, and have no time to check in with ourselves. It reveals the engine of the self when it is running on pure, unadulterated heat.

In my own life, what took over my bodies this Aries season was a commercial shoot where everything just felt overwhelming; too much, too fast, too soon. The function of Aries energy is not to ask for permission, it is to erupt. Things were chaotic, rushed, amateur, and a total battle. It was like being pushed up against a comfort zone without choice or any real realization how I ended up there in the first place. This had an affect on my physical body and my emotional body the most, but definitely bled into my ego, how I react and assert myself, as well as took up a lot of my mental space.

This situation demonstrated that when the environment is saturated with this specific Mars-heavy heat, the most basic tasks lose their simplicity and become a labor of expulsion. A high pressure, involuntary transit that forces you out of an old comfort and into a raw, unshielded reality.

So why this energy? To bypass the ego’s consent? Sometimes we experience Aries energy as an expulsion only when we are resisting the internal demand to finally initiate. Usually, we prepare ourselves to be challenged, but challenges can’t always be prepared. Aries used chaos as the mechanism to break old habits of safety. Now as we can reflect on this season, we have time to choose how we want to rebuild and move forward. We were pushed to our edges to push toward actionable growth. This is what I understand the evolutionary intention to be.

Aries acts as our first cry out of the womb. It is the ignition of a wildfire that clears the way for new growth. My wildfire was understanding that my weaknesses lie within the realm of assertion, boundary, and action. I was jolted out of paralysation and forced to see where I’m not honouring my yes’s or no’s.

So with all that being said…Along with finding your own understandings of what this season taught you, provoked in you, and gifted to you, I want to end with a question for your own reflections. Did this Aries season change your relationship to yourself in any way? To your bodies? I’m curious how we start to see our own vitality when the chaos of the world tries to pull us down into it, because our vitality is sacred and is what guides Aries energy to a version of it’s expansion.