☾Lunar Lit #4 | Moon Signs: Nourishing Your Inner Writer - Water Edition
This week it's all about those water moon signs. With a prompt for paid subscribers!
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We’re back with our Moon sign series. Next up we step away from the conservative, measured ways of the earth signs and step into the fluidity of water moons.
Our bodies are mostly water. Water, like emotion, is something we all innately have. Let us remember, the moon controls the tides. Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces moons have emotional capacity and fortitude. Water moons, inevitably, will feel. Intuitive, and dare I say magical, the moon in water knows secrets. The moon always wants connection and water tends to merge with things easily, the same way it tends to soak in and seep through.
The moon is watery. Its home is in Cancer. The moon is our inner world, the roots of our heart and the instinctive reactions we have to life. Water is ancient. Billions of years old, older than the sun, (seriously, google it if you want to nerd out on something). Ancestral and witchy, water moons can’t help but to spill toward other worlds at times. They embrace the fearlessness of transformation and vulnerability.
Water Moons
Cancer ♋︎
The moon rules one sign - Cancer. No sign loves the moon like Cancer does. The moon may be super powered (exalted) in Taurus, but it’s at home (domicile) in Cancer. A Cancer moon is a strong moon. So what does a strong moon look like? Nurturing is second nature and emotional intelligence is off the charts. Don’t forget moody. The moon, when it is free to be itself, shifts and changes. Cancer moon is not just a crybaby. It can be fierce and vengeful, too. Moon goddesses throughout time were warrior goddesses for a reason. True to the cyclical nature of the moon, Cancer moon embodies many of her many faces. Part sensitive water baby, part protector, and unsurprisingly part caregiver, the moon in Cancer is effortlessly loyal and doting.
Activities for Cancer Moon:
Poetry: If you don’t consider yourself a poet, Cancer moon, hear me out… maybe you are? Cancer’s deep reserves of emotion and nostalgia make great poem fodder. Could it be that I’m biased because I am both a Cancer moon and a poet? Or am I a poet because I’m a Cancer moon? The moon in Cancer accesses emotion on an instinctual level. Use this power. The page is one place no one is going to give you guff about being “too” sensitive. Plus it gives you every excuse to air out those decade old grievances you remember so well they feel like photos in your mind.
Water: Okay, I’m going to tell you the same thing I told Taurus - get literal. Be in water or near large bodies of water. Weekend swim, bubble bath, picnic at the beach. Water can be so healing for Cancer moons. This moon is often in the role of being the nurturer, being in water helps us feel held.
Get Lunar: Feeding, healing, growing, bringing to fruition. These are lunar things. Doting over pets and children is very on brand for the moon in Cancer, but nourishing doesn’t have to look like nurturing. Cooking is another lunar way to feed your moon (literally). The moon symbolizes the body. For the moon in Cancer, tending to the body is therapeutic.
Scorpio ♏︎
The moon in Scorpio doesn’t want to just connect. It wants to consume. Scorpio is not outwardly cuddly, it’s both a lover and a fighter. Moon signs are about feeling. Scorpio takes feelings to the next level, it is intimacy and depth. The moon in Scorpio keeps things at a distance until it doesn’t. While the planets associated with Scorpio, Mars and Pluto, are generally known to be cutthroat, Scorpio has a soft underbelly. When it loves something, it loves deeply. Obsession as self care. The moon in Scorpio is concerned with the price of a thing. It wants to make connections it deems worthy and valuable. It observes for as long as it needs to. Scorpio moon has no problem waiting.
Activities for Scorpio Moon:
Obsess: The word obsessed may be oversaturated and used as hyperbole more often than not, but for you it’s accurate. That’s not a bad thing. Scorpio is a fixed sign whose job is to be unmoving. Obsession comes with the territory. Find something new to obsess over and really let yourself get weird about it. A new author on your mind, an intentional binge watch. From Scorpio rising to Scorpio moon, might I suggest a new-old show you missed the hype on but never watched that’s got a comfy 5-6 seasons? Whatever it is, make sure it’s something you can really hone in on.
Bestie: Scorpio loves collaboration. A decompression sesh with someone they really value can be a restorative tactic for a Scorpio moon. Being suspicious by nature leads to a smaller circle, so spending time with people they trust resonates deeply.
Fight: Having a moon ruled by Mars isn’t for the faint of heart. Mars through slow, fixed Scorpio is still a fighter. You don’t have to dive into karate or self defense classes (maybe try them out before writing them off though?) but connecting with moving the body in any way could have a contradictory soothing effect.
Pisces ♓︎
Pisces wins the award for cutie-patootie moon. As the sign that rules over dreams and visions, being dreamy comes with this moon’s territory. Pisces wants to release. It is both a mutable sign and the last sign in the zodiac. It is the culmination of each sign that has come before it. The journey’s ending point that gleefully jumps off the edge, into the ether and becomes the beginning (Aries) again. The moon in Pisces is slippery. It wants to be everywhere at once. It wears its optimism like a badge of honor. This moon sign is fed by faith. Seeing does not equal believing. Believing does not equal seeing.
Activities for Pisces Moon:
Art: Pisces by itself is a benefic type vibe. It’s where Venus exalts and is ruled by Jupiter. Getting artsy is exactly the type of lackadaisical, boundless lust for life activity Pisces moon wants. In stark contrast to the previous water moon, Scorpio, it does not thrive in conflict. In fact, it would sooner slip into another world altogether than throw the first punch. Pisces wants to soak through and sip up every emotion that could ever be felt. Emote with your art.
Clear: The moon is intuitive by nature. Water moons reap this benefit. If you’re not a fan of the word “vibes” skip ahead. Pisces moon runs on vibes. It's almost eerie capability to reach beyond the veil of reality is not weird. It’s cool. Keep this going by clearing the vibes. Intentional baths, meditation, yoga, quick prayers - all of these could prove useful when Pisces moon is trying to reorient itself.
Sleep: Sleep just means more to Pisces moon. Snooze the alarm, who cares. Time is a construct. The moon already loves the night and dreams. In Pisces the moon feels liberated in its quest for otherworldly comfort. Anything that feels like a realm beyond feels comfortable for Pisces.
Water moons feel deeply. They can be whimsical or a little scary. Water is necessary and healing, but not all water is a calm bath or a babbling brook. Tidal waves and storms exist, too. Water moons are both sweet and worthy of respect. It can be tough work tending to the heart and the psyche. Working through the emotional backlog of these collective unprecedented times. Hug your water moon friends, they probably need it and they definitely deserve it.
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Jessica June Cato (she/they) is a writer, poet and astrologer. Her work has been published by Nightingale & Sparrow, Sampaguita Press, Querencia Press, Chicanx Writers and Artists Association and others. Her debut poetry chapbook, Through The Red Door's Open Maw, is available now with Beyond The Veil Press. She is a Roots. Wounds. Words. Storytellers of Color Fellow. Her favorite things include making memes, writing workshops, Nintendo switch, and her two small poodles. You can find her on socials talking about astrology, poetry, creative writing and the ways they intertwine @jessjunewrites and jessjunewrites.com
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Water Moon Poetry Prompt
“The Everlasting Self”
By Tracey K. Smith
Comes in from a downpour
Shaking water in every direction—
A collaborative condition:
Gathered, shed, spread, then
Forgotten, reabsorbed. Like love
From a lifetime ago, and mud
A dog has tracked across the floor.
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