CANCER: I Feel
- Lily & Sage Yoga | Wren

- Jun 19
- 6 min read
June 20, 2025 - July 22, 2025

Element: Water
Ruling Planet: Moon
Power Chakra: Sacral Chakra (Svadhisthana)
Keyword: I Feel
This Cancer season offering is for my daughter, Brianna—
born under the sign of deep feeling, fierce love, and radiant intuition.
You are my moonlight, my anchor, my greatest teacher.
Happy birthday, baby girl. I love you endlessly.
Welcome to Cancer season—a soft, shimmering invitation to come home to yourself.
This is not a time for hustle or harshness. Cancer calls you to feel more, not do more. To tend to the parts of you that have been whispering for care. To slow down enough to notice—your breath, your body, your heart, your truth.
Ruled by the Moon and aligned with the Sacral Chakra, Cancer energy reminds us that our emotions aren’t distractions—they’re sacred guides. Our sensitivity isn’t weakness—it’s wisdom. When we allow our feelings to flow, we create space for intuition, healing, and reconnection.
If You Have Cancer in Your Chart…
To carry Cancer in your chart is to carry the ocean in your bones.
It’s my rising sign. It’s my daughter’s sun sign. And it’s a feeling I know by heart.
You feel the world before it speaks. You sense the mood shift in a room. You hold space for others—often before realizing how much space you need yourself.
Those with Cancer placements are the quiet healers, the nurturers, the protectors. Your love is expressed in the smallest, softest ways: a meal, a handwritten note, a hand on someone’s back. You lead with care, and you remember the details that matter.
But when your boundaries are crossed or your needs are dismissed, you retreat. Like the crab, you curl inward. Not out of coldness—but out of self-preservation. You need solitude to feel safe. Stillness to hear yourself again.
Cancer placements speak to:
A fierce devotion to what (and who) you love
A deep need for emotional safety, sanctuary, and home
A powerful, intuitive knowing that lives in your body
A cyclical rhythm that moves with the moon
The ability to hold space—for others, and for yourself
You may be soft on the outside, but your spirit is resilient. Luminous. Anchored in the tides of truth.
Whether Cancer is in your chart or you’re simply moving through its seasonal tide, its presence asks you to honor emotion as intelligence and rest as a sacred ritual. It reminds you that your softness is your superpower, and that your presence—when rooted in care for self and others—is a balm in this too-fast world.
What We Can Learn from Cancers
Cancers don’t always lead with their voice—but they lead with their heart.
They show us how to love without needing applause. How to care deeply, even when it’s quiet. How to create safety—not just for others, but within ourselves.
Here’s what we learn from those born under this moon-ruled sign:
♋️ Feel Fully, Without Apology
Cancers remind us that emotions are not something to hide or “fix.” They are sacred, intelligent, and human. Feeling deeply is not a flaw—it’s a form of wisdom.
♋️ Love Is in the Details
From remembering how you take your tea to checking in after a hard day, Cancer energy teaches us that care doesn’t always need to be loud. It lives in the little things.
♋️ Boundaries Are Self-Nurture
Just as a crab retreats into its shell when it needs protection, Cancers show us that it’s okay to step back. Boundaries aren’t walls—they’re sacred containers for energy and wellbeing.
♋️ Home is Something You Build Within
Whether it’s a cozy space, a daily ritual, or the feeling of belonging in your own skin, Cancers remind us that home is not always a place—it’s a feeling we can cultivate.
♋️ Softness Is a Superpower
There’s a quiet strength in tenderness. Cancers show us how to hold space, how to stay sensitive in a world that often rewards hardness, and how to protect without shutting down.
Cancer Season in Motion
Cancer energy is quiet but deep—like moonlight on water. It reminds us that vulnerability is strength and that nurturing ourselves isn’t selfish, but essential.
This is also the realm of the Sacral Chakra (Svadhisthana)—the energetic center connected to emotional flow, sensuality, creativity, and connection. When it’s in balance, we feel open and grounded in our emotional experience. We can move with softness, express without shame, and tap into a natural rhythm of pleasure and presence.
But when we’re out of alignment here, we may feel disconnected from joy, creatively blocked, overly sensitive, or completely shut down. The body may tighten. The breath may shorten. The inner waters feel dammed up.
This season is an invitation to return to flow.
Let your hips move. Let your breath deepen. Let your feelings soften instead of harden. You don’t need to force anything—just make space for what wants to rise.
The following yoga poses are gentle, grounding, and deeply restorative—each one helping you reconnect with your emotional body and the healing waters within.
Child’s Pose
(Balasana)

This posture is the ultimate shape of surrender. It calms the nervous system, soothes anxiety, and offers the sense of returning to the womb—safe, held, and whole.
How to Practice:
Begin on hands and knees, bringing your big toes to touch and knees touching or wide.
Sink your hips back toward your heels and rest your forehead on the mat or a block.
Stretch your arms forward or place them alongside your body.
Breathe deeply into your low belly and sacral space.
Stay for 5–10 breaths (or longer), softening with every exhale.
Optional: Place a bolster under your chest or a folded blanket beneath your hips for extra comfort.
Happy Baby
(Ananda Balasana)

This pose opens the hips and low back while gently massaging the sacrum. It invites inner child connection, laughter, and the release of stored emotion through movement.
How to Practice:
Lie on your back and draw your knees toward your chest.
Grab the outsides of your feet (or behind knees, ankles, or use a strap).
Gently open your knees wider than your torso and bring the soles of your feet to face the ceiling.
Rock gently side to side or stay still.
Keep the spine grounded and soften your jaw.
Breathe into the hips and low belly for 5–8 breaths.
Lizard Pose
(Utthan Pristhasana)

Lizard opens the hips and thighs—areas that often hold unspoken emotions. It creates space for energy to move while inviting vulnerability and trust.
How to Practice:
From Downward Dog, step your left foot outside your left hand.
Lower your back knee to the mat and untuck your toes.
Keep your hands on the mat or lower onto forearms or blocks.
Breathe into the inner thighs and low belly.
Stay for 5–10 breaths, then gently switch sides.
Let this pose be intuitive. Shift slightly, rock the hips, or stay still. Let your body lead.
Cancer Season Wisdom
Coming home to yourself is a sacred act.
This season, let your body be your sanctuary. Let your breath be your guide. Let your feelings be your teachers.
You don’t have to carry it all.
You don’t have to be everything for everyone.
You are allowed to rest. To feel. To be held—by yourself, by the breath, by the moment.
You are water. You are rhythm. You are enough.
Wishing you softness, slowness, and soulful nourishment this Cancer season. May you trust the tide within—and return to yourself again and again.
For more tools to deepen your practice or explore your birth chart, revisit my past zodiac posts or grab your free chart at AstrologyZone.com.
*Please note, that while astrology and chakra healing can offer guidance and support, they should not replace professional medical or psychological advice. These practices are complimentary and can be used alongside conventional treatments to enhance your overall wellbeing. Before practicing yoga, please consult with your physician and always practice postures in a safe manner.
Closing Thoughts
This post marks the final piece in my astrology and chakra series—and what a journey it’s been.
It’s been such a pleasure weaving together these seasonal offerings, each one a little love letter to the energies that shape us, move us, and live within us. My hope has always been that these reflections offer you insight, softness, and a deeper connection to yourself.
Whether you read one post or all twelve, thank you for meeting these moments with curiosity and care.
May you continue to honor your rhythms.
May you trust your inner tides.
And may you always feel safe to return home to yourself.
✌️🤍
Wren



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