Happy Birthday, Cancer! Here's what's in the tarot cards for your year ahead
Happy solar return to you, Cancer!
In honor of the sun moving into the cardinal tides of your sign, author and tarot reader Kerry Ward has prepared a tarot spread for your year ahead, featuring her Good Karma Tarot Deck.
As a Water sign ruled by the moody mirror magic of the Moon, Cancer is associated with intuition, the divine feminine, and the sacrament of care.
Cancereans move through the world within their own kind of weather, easily able to cast shadows, sunshine, heavy fog, and sudden downpours on others.
Keen emotional intelligence, coupled with borderline psychic ability, translates to supernatural sensitivity and ability to meet the needs and treat the ails of others.
Cancers learn through feeling, have a near masochistic sense of nostalgia for the dead past, and can sometimes confuse care with control.
Tarot spread for Cancer season
Good Karma tarot deck photographed by @inlovewithcameras
'Cancers are empathetic, creative, and hard to forget. Their sensitivity to and compassion for others is intense, and they possess a unique blend of passiveness and extreme stubbornness, loveliness and terrible moodiness. If you know a Cancer person, do wish them a happy birthday (because they won't forget if you forget, trust me!),' said Ward.
People of the crab, read on to learn more about what the upcoming year holds in store for your sign.
To book a personalized birthday tarot reading with Ward, visit her offerings page here.
What does the Universe want you to know this birthday? PAGE OF WANDS
With the guiding light of the Page of Wands, Ward tells the crab contingent that this is their era of experimentation!
'Play, innovate, step outside your comfort zone, and see what (or who…) is out there! Adopt a fearless and light-hearted approach to your life with the intent of seeing, doing, and trying more! Expand your horizons; the world is waiting for you.'
First step? THE FOOL
'Good Karma tarot deck photographed by @inlovewithcameras'
As you welcome your solar return, Ward recommends drawing a clear line between the present moment and the past, making sure to step forward without looking back.
'Make a dramatic and surprising fresh start in an area of your life where you want new energy and opportunity to enter. This might involve technology, travel, Aquarius folk, a progressive and humanitarian role, a project that leads to an invention, or a side hustle that something you're innately good at!'
Who are you becoming in the year ahead? THREE OF WANDS
To aid and abet your rebirth, Ward encourages Cancers to be 'more spontaneous, more open-hearted, and more forgiving of yourself.'
'Do not be ashamed of your desires.'
She cautions that playing it safe amounts to keeping yourself small.
'You want bigger! Bolder! Better! Altering your approach will fling open many new doors.'
What is your purpose in the year ahead? FIVE OF SWORDS
Ward imparts that the divine purpose of the Cancer contingent this year is repair as self care — and acceptance as accelerant.
'You are meant to heal and to feel more at home in your skin and at peace with any and all divisions and demises from the past year or so. People fall out, leave, change, inflict betrayals, and cruelty. You feel everything intensely and deeply, and it's hard to let go of old wounds as their familiarity offers a kind of comfort.'
Ward assures that if you can process this pain with an eye on objectivity and forgiveness, it will pave the way to progress on every front.
Astrologer Reda Wigle researches and irreverently reports on planetary configurations and their effect on each zodiac sign. Her horoscopes integrate history, poetry, pop culture, and personal experience. To book a reading, visit her website.
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