Your Astrological Energy: Maximize the Power of Your Birth Chart

      

By Carmen Turner Schott

Carmen Turner Schott Cancer Archetype: Mother Symbol: The crab Sun Sign Dates: June 22-July 22 Energy: Nurturing Element: Water, cardinal Planet: Moon House: Fourth   Cancer Energy Words Emotional, Moody, Caring, Nurturing, Protective, Intuitive, Sensitive, Romantic, Imaginative, Artistic, Affectionate, Loyal, Private, Shy, Smothering, Tender, Gentle, Loving, Devoted, Receptive, Psychic, Reflective, Homebodies, Passive-Aggressive. Cancer Motto As a Cancer, I care about my friends and family. I am intuitive, sensitive, and feel other people’s emotions. Expressing my feelings and doing things for people I care about are my priority. I am affectionate and enjoy nurturing others. My emotions fluctuate and I need time alone in my home to reflect on my emotions. The cycles of the Moon impact how I feel and sleep. I fluctuate between emotional highs and lows. Using my imagination to express myself through music, art, and writing helps me balance my emotions. Being near water helps me heal. Harnessing Cancer Energy Cancer energy is caring, kind, and emotional. This energy is warm, cozy, and comforting, as well as slow and protective. Intuitive, perceptive, and psychic, this energy brings out deep insights through emotion. Cooking, cleaning, protecting loved ones, and listening to other’s problems come naturally. Cancers are shy and prefer to be home alone or spend time with family. They don’t like being forced into large social situations and prefer small groups. Helping those in need make them feel happy, and they like to listen and give advice. If they know someone is suffering, they will do whatever they can to offer help and support. Sometimes they find it difficult to have boundaries with family and friends. They can let other’s feelings and experiences affect theirs. People are drawn to their warm and caring energy. Cancers often hide their true feelings deep inside and only share with those they trust. Nurturing others and ourselves is how we can harness Cancer energy.      Harness Kindness Cancer embodies nurturing energy. Their energy is warm, calm, caring, and emotional. There is an understanding nature that surrounds them and draws people into their lives. Moody at times, their feelings ebb and flow. Emotionally perceptive, their nurturing energy is open, inviting, and absorbing. They long to feel wanted and needed. Nurturing energy is needed to connect to the emotions of others. Quietly, they listen and observe their environment. They pick up on subtle cues that most people miss. Withdrawing, comes naturally as they are introverts who need time alone to recharge. They seek kinship especially on the emotional level. Worriers, they fuss over feelings of discomfort and the fear of the unknown. Impressionable, emotionally responsive, and gentle, this energy is aware of the needs of others.      Born with a natural motherly instinct, this energy wants to protect and show affection to those in their lives. Supportive, secure, and devoted, this energy needs people to help. This energy is connected to childhood, nostalgic, and holds onto people, places and things. It only focuses on what can help other people feel better. It is important to have boundaries and to find balance. Sometimes restless energy needs to learn how to be still. You will want to look at your birth chart to see where you have the sign Cancer in order to harness this nurturing energy.  Calmness Cancer is ruled by the water element. Water flows, reacts, and is soothing. Always fluctuating, sometimes it’s calm and other times like a tidal wave. We bath in it, run our hands through it, soak in its warmth and coolness. Water energy helps Cancer connect to their inner feelings and intuition. Water gives them a perceptive, psychic, and impressionable energy. Like the tides of the ocean, water energy is changeable and has highs and lows. It can be calm at times and suddenly a tsunami. Tapping into this energy requires being more sensitive and vulnerable. Answers to problems come in flashes of emotional insights and gut reactions. Learn to trust water energy because it is rarely wrong. The best answers are found through the senses and connecting to our inner voice. Sometimes we need to be still and connect within. To connect to water energy, you have to focus within and connect with your feelings. Water signs are the feelers of the zodiac; they react and are instinctual. If you need someone to share deep emotions with those with water energy will likely understand.  Take the Lead Cardinal energy is associated with Cancer. This energy pushes action and inspires others. Always planning ahead, they are rooted in leadership. This energy takes charge and makes people keep going. We have to be bold and brave when dealing with cardinal energy because it wants to usher in new ideas. Cardinal signs like to start things and allow others to go forth and finish. Not known to be a flexible energy, they expect others to listen to their guidance. They believe it’s important to take charge. Sometimes they can push their ideas on others. They need other people to make their ideas a reality. Honoring relationships and being more open minded helps them get what they want. Cardinal energy always sees what is possible with hard work, dedication, and innovation. These individuals can be bored easily, unstable, impulsive, and risk takers. Listening to other people is not their strength, they prefer to run forward with a sword in hand and expect others to get in line. True leaders, they take on the stress and challenges of starting something new. They feel their best when they have newness every day, because monotony disturbs their ability to be creative. Cardinal signs believe change is better than stagnation. Being forced to stay on one path irritates them. Cardinal energy helps us use our confidence and innovative nature to usher in what we want. Tapping into cardinal energy can help us think about the future, come up with new ideas, and overcome challenges.   Harness Intuition Cancer is ruled by the Moon, connecting the sign to the tides of the ocean. Reflective, calm, and intuitive, moon energy helps us find answers. Harness emotions, inner feelings, gut reactions, and inner voice. The Moon governs desires, deep seated feelings, and connections to loved ones. This energy relates to how Cancers feel; they want to help others who are suffering. The Moon affects our inner lives and stirs up feelings. Anything that makes us feel sensitive and vulnerable is related to the Moon’s energy. Connecting to the energy of the Moon helps us dive deep within the soul and bring forth hidden emotions. Reactive, sometimes moon energy can cause drama, conflict, aggression, irritability, and sadness. Sharing what we feel with those we trust helps us balance Moon energy. Always shifting and changing like the tides of the ocean, Moon energy brings heightened intuition. An inner knowing and ability to be empathetic comes from the Moon. Everyone can harness the Moon’s intuitive energy by going within and reflecting. Expressing emotions through writing, listening to music, meditation, mindfulness exercises, or through solitude helps us tap into the Moon’s energy. Connecting to the past, our childhood, parents, siblings, and home bring comfort and an appreciation of the moon’s energy. Author Bio Carmen Turner Schott   Carmen Turner-Schott, MSW, LCSW, is a bestselling author, licensed clinical social worker, psychological astrologer, and teacher with a national and international clientele. She has been working as an astrological counselor and with victims of trauma for over 30 years. She completed her Master of Social Work degree at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri in 1999.     Carmen has been researching the eighth and twelfth astrological houses for the past 25 years. An eighth and twelfth house person herself, she has personally experienced the energies and lessons of these two very spiritually transforming houses. She has presented astrology workshops for Kepler College of Astrology and the Association of Research & Enlightenment (A.R.E.) throughout the years and teaches a variety of spiritual development classes.     She is a published author of 11 books on astrology and healing. Her newest books are Your Astrological Energy, Astrology’s Magical Nodes of the Moon, Phoenixes & Angels: Mastering the Eighth & Twelfth Astrological Houses, Moon Signs, Houses and Healing, Sun Signs, Houses, and Healing: Build Resilience & Transform Your Life Through Astrology and The Mysteries of the Twelfth Astrological House: Fallen Angels. You can contact her at : https://www.carmenturnerschott.com and follow her on Instagram at carmen_turner_schott_author and FB at https://www.facebook.com/www.deepsouldiversastrology/