Cancer Cancer

A very wise shaman, who happens to have a Cancer Sun, recently shared this with me: Everything outside the known lies at the edge of dreams. Something is so close you can almost touch it; you can nearly taste it. It, too, waits at the periphery of your waking reality. A series of planetary movements will help bring this into form toward the latter part of this timeline.

Let’s work backwards.

On Monday, May 18, Mars, the planet of desire, enters compatible Taurus, the sign of the senses and material resources, where it will travel through the end of June. That same day, loving and prosperous Venus enters Cancer for three weeks—make note of this window, it is due to be sweet beyond belief, as you attract what you need with greater ease.

And on the evening of Saturday, May 16, in the West, a New Moon in Taurus joins Mercury at the anaretic degree, a point of completion, bringing something to a close just as something else is ready to begin. There may be an agreement, a realization, or a long-awaited return, something real that confirms what has long been building, possibly for lifetimes. Mercury enters Gemini on Sunday, May 17, delivering the message you’ve been waiting for.

From now until then, essentially over the next ten days, there is a kind of cosmic clearing—space being made for these pieces to fall into place, with Pluto stationing, reversing direction on Wednesday, May 6, and remaining retrograde through October 15. This yearly five-month cycle operates less like an external push and more like a slow swim. It is a time for Soul immersion, an inward journey that evolves as it is designed to—from the inside out.

Think of it like a salt soak—subtle, restorative, drawing out what no longer belongs while replenishing what does. Let those deep waters do the work. A harvest in spring is coming.

All we get is time and the choices we make—be wise with both.
~ Carson Anekeya