CANCER
Our world is causal, complex, relational, entangled.
You know this but, sometimes you like to forget.
What you’re remembering now, again,
is that subtle temperature shifts change ecosystems and
sometimes a process that feels impossible
is only waiting for a shared breath.

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Hello and welcome to Embodied Astrology. Thank you so much for listening. You're tuned in to your horoscopes for Pisces Season, February 19th through March 20th, 2022. My name is Renee Sills. I'm a consulting astrologer, somatic educator, and artist. I'm interested in exploring astrology as a tool for self-awareness, relational growth, and personal and collective healing.

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Before I get into your horoscope, I want to share some information with you about the future of Embodied Astrology horoscopes. You may have noticed that I did not release horoscopes for Aquarius Season, and I want to extend a thank you to everyone who reached out to me with concern this past month. Thank you so much for your care and for your warm wishes. Folks, I really needed a break. 2022 marks the seventh year of creating Embodied Astrology horoscopes, and I really adore this practice, I have to say, it also takes a lot out of me. If you've been a listener for a while, you probably know that I am definitely not brief in my interpretations, and creating individual 20 or 30 minute podcasts for all 12 signs — sometimes I choose to redo them if I feel like I forgot something — every single month. This is a lot of work.

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Additionally, on January 10th this year, I released your year ahead readings, which are between 90 minutes and two hours for each sign. They go in depth into the major themes I feel coming through for every sign throughout 2022. So by the time I got to Aquarius Season, I was just tapped out on my capacity and I needed to take a pause. During this time, I was able to reflect a bit on my intentions and desires for this work and on the evolving landscapes of technology and social media that have allowed me to share this work with you. I still have a lot of thoughts and a lot of questions, but a few things have become clear, and I will be making some changes in how I distribute my content. And I want you to be aware of these changes so that you can continue to access this work if you want it.

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First and foremost, your horoscopes are not going anywhere. As I said, I really love making them and I'm definitely planning to continue. They will continue to come out monthly with the start of each new Zodiac season and they will continue to be offered for free. Your donations and other forms of support gladly accepted. However, beginning next month with Aries Season, I will no longer be distributing my horoscopes through Spotify or iTunes, and they will only be available from embodiedastrology.com. So if you love your horoscopes, please head over to my website, click the horoscopes tab, and sign up for the free monthly horoscopes membership tier.

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Secondly, I wanted to mention that there have been several recent occurrences of fake accounts on Instagram who have been impersonating me as well as other astrologers, tarot readers, and psychics. And I should say that my Instagram content is distributed across Facebook as well. So these fake accounts copy our pages and they have a lot of the same photos, they use our taglines. But if you look carefully, there are some variations on our names. So for example, the most recent fake account for Embodied Astrology had two Y's at the end of the name. You'll also notice that the posts are usually all from the same date and often don't include all of the content that I will post on my own page. So these accounts then follow my followers. They send private messages offering readings and asking for payment upfront. Please don't fall for these scams. Okay, friends? If you get a message such as this, immediately report and block the account and definitely don't send them any money. This has been a super frustrating and ongoing problem for a while now. And the admin at Instagram has been very unhelpful. They continue to let these accounts proliferate and they refuse to verify my account for reasons that they won't explain.

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So for this reason, and others that I won't get into right now, I also want to let you know that I will be transitioning in the next few months from using Instagram as a primary space for releasing astrology updates and live videos, and I'll be starting to post the content that I create directly to my website. And I'll be hosting live and free events in my virtual community space instead of on Instagram Live. So if you want access to this content, if you want to join me in these live events, that's another reason to head over to embodiedastrology.com and make sure that you are signed up.

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I have varying levels of membership, beginning with a free or by donation tier that will get you access to horoscopes and my regular astrology content and writing. I also host monthly workshops where I offer embodied, creative explorations of current astrology and support for working with your own chart. And finally, there is a beautiful and growing community space and monthly astro teatime meetups where you can learn with others, with us about chart reading, working with transits, and how astrology manifests for all of us differently. All of my levels of membership are offered by sliding scale.

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Last but not least, I just want to thank you again. Whether you're new to this space, or if you've been tuning in with me for a while now, thank you so much. It feels really risky and vulnerable to be pulling back from social media since it's been such an important space of connection for me, and also a space where this practice has grown a lot. But it's clear to me that I'm not aligned with the priorities of these platforms and their owners, and the space that I want to hold with you is ultimately a lot more relational and interactive than these platforms can support. So thank you so much for listening. Thank you for signing up. Thank you for sharing with your friends and networks. And thank you so much for your support. I hope to see you in the near future at one of the Embodied Astrology virtual events.

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Okay, on to your horoscope. Please remember as you listen that my intention as an astrologer is always to see and support your greatest well-being and potential. Sun sign horoscopes are general readings. If as you listen, something doesn't land for you, it's not for you. Please feel free to always take what works, leave the rest. Make the meaning that is most meaningful for you. I also want to remind you that you can find written transcripts of these horoscopes at embodiedastrology.com in the horoscopes section.

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Hello, Cancer. Alright, Pisces Season. Pisces, like Cancer, is one of the signs in the water element. And so Pisces Season is a powerful time of year for you. And as I'm tuning in with your charts for this season in 2022, it feels like a period of time in which your personal growth and development is a main theme. And your growth and development aren't just happening inside of you, they are happening in a world that is more and more supportive. I think that's the word I want — supportive for the growth that you want to be doing. New opportunities are presenting themselves to you. These opportunities have been coming for a little while now. But as we move into Cancer Season, I think they are starting to land for you, and around you and in you in different ways. And it feels like you are feeling yourself in different ways. You're feeling your own capacity, your own potency, your own vision and possibility and feels like an exciting time.

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However, before we get into Pisces Season, let's backtrack just a little bit back in time to the last week of Aquarius Season, and bring in some themes that have begun to emerge. The first part of the year, January and the first couple of weeks of February, there was a concentration of energy that was slow, potentially stuck feeling or at least if not actually stuck feeling then definitely slow. I need to remain with some themes to work through some stuff, particularly for Cancer in the relational field. This is the place of labor for you, these days, in the space that you share with others and in the space between you. And the first part of the year, I think you were doing some, some labor. For some of you that may have felt like joyful labor, like labor you wanted to be doing. I think for a number of you, it felt like, here we go again, you know, like, okay, I you know, you are coming to one relationship after the next to learn lessons right now. And these lessons have to do with you caring for yourself, knowing yourself, knowing your boundaries, learning what your boundaries and your needs are, communicating them with other people, communicating them in ways that other people can hear and understand, maintaining them. And then also growing and evolving within them. Because of course, as you know, healthy boundaries are adaptive. They are spaces of relationship that need to be responsive because you change and people change. So beginning in mid-February, it feels like this space of stuckness or slowness begins to disperse a little bit and there is easier movement forward. There may be some important conversations that you're having around this time that allow you a better sense of what is actually happening. I feel like you're getting more information. And I feel like the more information you get from other people, and the more information you give to them, then the more information can open up for everybody. I think that lines of communication have been distracted, squeezed, blocked, confused for a little bit. And now things are opening up in some kind of new way. And as communication opens up, there's also a sense that you have more preparation, and more possibility to think about the future. This may be the future within particular relationships. And I think for probably most Cancer identified people there is at least one relationship right now that has really been a place of struggle and process and you are getting somewhere. You know, where is that somewhere? I don't know. But you are moving forward incrementally. And I think that by the time we get into the middle of February, there's a little bit of a different sense at least of how things could move in the future and where you at least need to be orienting yourself and positioning yourself.

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It also feels like maybe a state of agreement or some kind of, at least temporary, arrangement is reached. And this is again, in specific relationships, it feels like there's a coming together that is happening and an orientation around, how do you and this other person or these other people need to support each other now, what needs to happen in order to move forward. And if it's not with a specific person, then it's for you in general, or maybe towards particular relationship dynamics. But I feel like there's more coherence and integrity, in your energy and also in your relational dynamics, as you get into the second half of February. And Cancer is a relational sign. And I think that when you're feeling uneasy in relational dynamics, it is really frustrating for you, and it kind of blocks you from thinking forward in some ways. Not in all ways, obviously, but there's something about whatever these situations are, that as they clarify a little bit, more space gets opened for you to dream into the future and to dream into possibilities. And I think that these possibilities are multifold, they have to do with a lot of different things in your life with a lot of different projects. But as a Cancer, a lot of your relationship, excuse me a lot of your energy, in general, your life energy is wound up in relationships — in bonds, in your sensitivity, and your care for other people. And when things feel funky, it means you have less energy for the other areas of your life. So it does feel like there's a little bit more flow coming into your body, coming into your experiences as we get into the last week of February, which is when Pisces Season begins.

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Alright, so I would love to invite you to the Embodied Astrology Pisces Season workshop, the live workshop is on February 21st. And the recording will be available throughout the season until March 20th. In this workshop, I'm going to be focusing on the endocrine system. And the endocrine system, of course, is the system that produces hormones, the chemical messengers in your body. And these chemicals, these hormones, have everything to do with everything about your body. They regulate all of your body's cycles, your general vitality, your organ functions, your sleep and metabolism. They have so much to do with your mood and your perception. Hormone gets released when you get scared. Hormone gets released when you fall in love. If you just think about those two different states of feeling freaked out by something or feeling excited and turned on. Can you imagine now how your perception changes, right? When, when we feel scared, our perception tends to get very narrow and very focused in a very particular kind of way. When we feel excited and turned on in general, I think most people are a little bit more open minded, have more sense of humor, more space and grace for others and see more possibility in the world. These are hormonally related states of course, they have a lot to do with the conditions of your environment, your relationships, etc. And I'm sure you've had the experience in your life of just feeling day to day, week to week, how your perceptive capacity shifts because of your mood. So in the Pisces Season workshop, we're going to be working a lot with this. And I think for any watery beings, for any, anyone who's Cancer identified for sure, you might get a lot from this type of work because you are sensitive, right? You are a being who resonates with the intelligence of water. And what water does is it moves down and in. It moves into the emotional experience. And when you have developed practices that help you regulate your emotional experience and help you track your emotional experience and help you recognize when you're being influenced by certain chemical states or hormonal states, etc. It can be really supportive, and just that alone, I think, is worth a lot right now. But also because Pisces is so closely related to fantasy and imagination and dream. And in your chart, the placement of Pisces in the solar ninth house has so much to do with possibility — what you can open up to and call in for yourself and the opportunities that you're trying to gain in your life. I think that you might really get a lot out of this workshop because the sense that I have for you, and I mentioned this at the beginning of the horoscope, is that this is a period of time, where opportunities are opening and you, you yourself are the opportunity, the more connected and coherent you get in your being between your mind, your body, your heart, the more powerful you become in the world, in your relationships, and with the work that you do, however, that takes shape. So I hope you can make it to this workshop, I think it'll be really supportive and it might be particularly supportive through the months of March and April, as we move into, as we move through Pisces into Aries Season and even into Taurus Season, there are a lot of vibes in the air there. There's a lot going on in the collective consciousness, a lot of emotions. And for someone like you who is a water identified person, I think that this work could be again, super supportive. It could give you, it could give you some, some spaces to help work with yourself, because these months are also big opportunity windows for you. And we don't want you getting unnecessarily bogged down and distracted or spun out by states of being that seem to just come and go and lump you upside the head and stuff like this. Practices that can help you be in your body, be present, and also open your perceptive capacity and see what opportunities are in fact available for you, and then move towards them with confidence and clarity — this is what we want for you. And this is what I feel for you as we move into the last week of February.

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Once we get into Pisces Season, especially in the realm of relationships, it feels like you are understanding the state of things in a new way. Like I said, it feels like there's some kind of new clarity coming in. And this clarity is directional. It helps you know where you want to go and how you want to move there, how you need to get there. And the work that you've done very recently in the last year, and also the work that you have been doing now for the last 10 to 13 years. It all starts to integrate now it feels like you are really putting some new ways of being into practice — what you are calling in in your relationships includes remarkably different energy than you have indulged or fostered in the past. You're understanding more about your relational dynamics and how you want to work with them. And this feels motivating and supportive.

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Then as we move into March, we have a big, brighter and still dark moon. The New Moon on March 2nd is conjunct with the planet Jupiter, which is a big bright energy, which is why I said that even though the moon will be dark at that point. This is a New Moon that is, I think, pulling in a lot of vision. A lot of expansive opportunity and sense of the future, of where do you want to go, what do you want to open to, who's there with you. This could be a New Moon that brings some new openings in friendships and connections for you, as well as new people into your life. It feels like a period of time when you are potentially working on a shared vision on some kind of shared collaboration with others or you're thinking about how your personal vision and your path is holding space for others, or opening up some kind of space in the world. I feel you being very imaginative and very creative at this time.

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The New Moon is also a day when Embodied Astrology will host Dr. g (Claudelle Glasgow) for a special New Moon ceremony and I'd love to invite you to that as well. On Wednesday, March 2, beginning at 5:30pm Pacific, Dr. g will lead a Yoga Nidra practice. And Yoga Nidra is the practice of wakeful dreaming. This is a guided meditative, creative journey into the realms of the unseen, where we'll open doors — or will have doors opened for us, into ancestral connection, into conversations with our higher selves, our spirit guides, etc. Dr. g is an incredible facilitator. They are a longtime meditation practitioner, a somatic therapist, a visionary artist, an author and a spiritual guide. And the space that they'll be holding I think is really supportive, really nourishing space for you. Especially when it comes to tuning in with your bigger vision. How do you want to be growing into the person that you are becoming? I think that you are actualizing yourself in some really new ways. And like I said at the beginning of the horoscope, you're feeling yourself — you're coming into yourself, you're feeling your potency, your potentiality, your vision is expanding. And when I say your vision is expanding, I mean, the vision contained within your spirit, within your heart, within your sense of possibility and how things could be. And this would be an amazing time for you to connect to the liminal realms, to the subtle, spiritual, invisible realms, and tune in with that wisdom and that support.

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This is a New Moon that also opens up just a lot of space in your chart. And I feel like the space that's getting opened, again, is relational in its nature. But the sense that I have is that it's a personal shift that's occurring for you. That, like I was talking about, kind of begins in mid-February, but as we get into the beginning of March, I just feel you having a lot more clarity. And this feels so relieving in your chart, it feels like you can make sense of some situations now that you haven't been able to make sense of before. And the clarity may be coming with other people, or it may just be coming for you, with yourself. But what I'm getting is, is like you have more space, you have more space to feel your own desires and needs, you have more space to figure out what the strategy is going to be. And I feel that you have a different kind of support now. And this gives me the sense that other people are working with you, that there's been some, some kind of shift in relational dynamics that allows you to feel a different kind of support. And I don't know what the support is for you. But what it gives space for is strategy — is a feeling of, okay, this is where we can go from here.

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And then as we get into the second week of March, as the moon is growing, in its crescent phase, wow. This is where we can go from here. You have ideas. You are having conversations. You are giving and receiving knowledge and wisdom. It feels like you are inspired, and you are inspiring. This is a powerful time for you to be in a space of leadership yourself. And when I am feeling this, this leadership from you, it feels really authentic. It feels very deeply emotionally self aware. It feels tender, it feels transparent. It feels like you're speaking your truth. And it feels like you are also really attuned with the people around you. Like you're cutting through layers of, you know, all the stuff that we do to defend ourselves with each other. And I think the most immediate way that we defend ourselves is we leave our bodies a little bit and we shut down our hearts and we get up into our heads. Right? And there, we can engage in all kinds of psychological and conceptual warfare. And it feels like you're just, you're just not doing it. You're staying in your heart. You're staying really present with your feelings, and you're aware of other people's sensitivities. If they go into a place where they're out of their body, where they're up in their head, okay, that's where they went. But that's not where you have to go. And this is such a powerful time for you.

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I also want to say that for any of you who are in positions where you are actively teaching, or in some kind of leadership position or role, if you happen to be a writer, or anyone who is disseminating information out into the world, in some way through, especially through speaking or through writing — this is a really powerful period of time for you. And for mid-March through second or third week of April, major opportunity windows are here, major opportunities. So if there are projects that you have been wanting to do, opportunities that you've been wanting to create for yourself, people you've been wanting to meet, pay raises you're trying to get — this is the time to go for it. You have a big opportunity, basically from the second week of March until the third week of April. Go for it. What is your biggest vision for yourself? Right? What's the next step for you? You don't need, you don't need to have the whole thing. But what is the next step? You can make that step now and I think that you will get a response and it'll be a good one.

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Alright, so moving on and into March. I talked about some new connections coming in, it feels like some of you might be meeting new people or cultivating new friendships, or you might be moving into new chapters and pre existing relationships, it feels like in mid-March, people need to give each other a little bit of space in this new energy that's coming in. There may need to be relaxation in the back and the forth. I know for myself that, especially since the beginning of the pandemic, it's been really important for me, to be honest about my capacity with communication. Sometimes it takes me a long time to get back to a person and it doesn't have anything to do with my interest. It is simply a capacity issue. This is the kind of feeling I have, as we get into the second week of March. And, especially since I was just talking about opportunities, right, maybe you cast a line out there, maybe you give somebody a wink, or "Hello", or you send a letter of inquiry or something like that. If you don't get an immediate response, take a walk, chill out, you know, put on some music and dance, you don't need to worry about it. This is not a time to engage insecurities or neediness or pushiness with people. This is a time to be consistent and aware of your own desires, or consistent with and aware of your own desires, but also a time for you to give yourself and lots of other people some space. People are going through a lot. And spaciousness is helpful at this time, remembering that there are ups and downs. And if any relationships that are or have been important to you are going through a lull at this time, like, you know, again, just don't take it personally and give people space, it's going to be okay.

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March 18th, there is a Full Moon, the Full Moon in Virgo. This is a Full Moon that continues to highlight opportunities, particularly opportunities when it comes to collaboration, and anything that has you engaging in relationship and particularly with groups of people or with group dynamics, anything that has you giving and receiving information or teaching and learning. This is a powerful Full Moon for you to be aware of your communication. Okay, I'm going to underline that for you. This is a powerful Full Moon for you to be aware of your communication. In the days leading up to the Full Moon, and the days after the Full Moon, notice when you are engaging your old tactics. For Cancer especially, you want to be mindful of emotional defense patterning and emotional control patterning. If you don't get what you want from somebody, or if you get freaked out, or if your feelings get hurt, can you take care of yourself without going into your hard shell and getting out your crabby claws? This is really a Full Moon that could heighten a certain kind of reactivity in you that I think you have been in a space of transformation with. This is also a Full Moon that could amplify feelings of neediness and insecurity if there are fluctuations in your bonds, in your important bonds. Take care of yourself. First and foremost. Remember, this is a period of time when people need space, including you. Try not to take things personally. But also really try and be aware of your personal patterns, especially when it comes to communication. And if you're trying to communicate anything that is complex, and particularly if you're trying to communicate anything that is emotional, I can't encourage you enough to spend some time writing it down, going back over your writing, editing it out, clarifying it for yourself running it past some neutral parties or friends, and really making sure that you know what you're trying to communicate. Because I think that on the one hand, this is a Full Moon that definitely can be a doorway for opportunities, right, and can be a time for you to come into a space of leadership and to share information with others. But it is also a Full Moon that can highlight some patterning for you that facilitates unclarity, especially when there's emotional confusion. So I want to ask you to be conscious of that around the Full Moon.

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In the couple of days after the Full Moon, we are approaching the vernal equinox, March 20th. This is an important turning point for you. The beginning of Aries Season, March 20th, corresponds with the beginning of Cancer Season. The Aries Season is initiated with the equinox, Cancer Season is initiated with the solstice. These are really significant points of transition of the Earth's orbit around the sun. And so as we move towards the vernal equinox, there is an amplification and intensification of energy for you, that has you feeling more and more energized, to put yourself out in the world. To realize some of your goals, your projects to direct energy into ideas that you've been having, you know, ways of being that you want to feel more of. And also, there's more willingness that you have at this time and more interest that you have in this time in being seen. And so there's more attention for you. And just to go back to what I was talking about before, with the Full Moon, as we approach the equinox because this energy is amplifying, it's even more important for you to be doing practices that help you recognize where you're coming from — where you're coming from, and what's happening for you internally. Because I think that as we move into Aries Season and as we get into the month of April, again, you've got a lot of opportunities coming in but you really want to be as clear as possible about what you are trying to get out of them and what you are trying to ask for within them. Okay, so another, another reason to take the Pisces Season workshop again, it will be available from February 21st until March 20th as a recording. The live event is on the 21st. But this work with the endocrine system, I think, is very informative as a tracking practice to notice when we get activated in certain ways and then to study what mindsets and perceptive patterns do these specific activations bring up. When you are conscious of how you're getting activated in certain ways, or what energy you're working with, it helps you to work skillfully with yourself, with the energy that you want to bring into your relationships into your projects into your opportunities. It also helps you to emanate and therefore attract the kinds of relational dynamics and opportunities that you're wanting to bring in.

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​​Alright, I am going to leave it there. I always recommend tuning in with horoscopes for your Sun and your rising signs. If you don't know your signs, you can get a free chart at embodiedastrology.com in the horoscope section, where you can also find your 2022 year ahead reading, which goes over the major themes of this year with suggestions for creative, embodied and practical support to make the most of your opportunities and work skillfully with your challengers. For support throughout Pisces Season, tune in with the Embodied Astrology workshops and member spaces. And definitely make sure you've signed up for at least my free level of membership to make sure that you get next month's horoscopes delivered directly to your inbox. For those of you who want to learn how to read your own chart and work with astrology, you might be interested in my class series Your Chart is a Body, an introduction to chart reading, where you'll learn to identify, interpret and synthesize the main components of an astrology chart — signs, planets aspects and houses — all through an embodied, somatic lens. These horoscopes and transcripts are offered for free. If this work benefits you, please consider making a one time or recurring donation. Other great ways to support this work include sharing it with your friends and networks, and of course, signing up for one of my membership levels. Until next time, I am wishing you all the best in Pisces Season and beyond.