Welcome to Cancer Season, can you feel the emotions coming to the surface? After leaving the busy air of Gemini Season, it's time to deep dive into the nurturing waters of Cancer Season to spread love and compassion to our communities and ourselves.
Cancer Season 2023: June 21 - July 22
Symbol: The Crab
Planetary Ruler: Moon
Element: Water
Gemstones for Cancer Season
Ruby
Ruby is a precious gemstone often associated with luxury and opulence, but also carries within it many excellent metaphysical properties.
Giving us a zest for life, Ruby can help you feel motivated, confident, and boost your drive- while also keeping you calm and warding off hyperactivity and overwhelming feelings. Ruby can inspire you to set realistic goals and is a great stone for promoting wealth, passion, and knowledge.
The birthstone for our Cancer friends born in July, Ruby is great for those that don't feel confident to put themselves out there and tend to be more modest. Ruby loves to nurture ones self-worth and boost your determination.
We also love Ruby for it's protection ability to protect your home, family, and material possessions. It can expel negative energies from your path, improving concentration, creativity, and compassion. Pair Ruby with another one of our Cancer Season gemstones, Obsidian (or other black gems), cloaking you with invisibility from bad energy.
Ruby is said to stimulate the heart chakra, promoting positive dreams and shielding against psychic attacks. Boosting joy, laughter, spontaneity, and courage, wear Ruby for an overwhelming amount of positive emotions.
Turquoise
Turquoise is a powerful gemstone, beneficial to all of us. It is thought to be a renewing, boosting and clarifier of energy, especially when it comes to communication, leadership and creativity.
Cancer season may bring feelings or situations akin to the traits of the sign itself. Highly emotional and sensitive to other's energy, Cancer season may bring the need to wear Turquoise. Wearing Turquoise when you are feeling emotionally overwhelmed and unable to communicate your feelings will help you clarify your thought process and bring confidence to the message you need to convey.
Turquoise is also good for renewing your energy, in order for new creativity and ideas to flow more freely. If you're finding yourself in a creative rut this season or are having trouble solving a problem, use Turquoise to get the creative juices flowing and to feel confident when putting these new ideas together and communicating them to others.
Moonstone
Moonstone represents Cancer's ruling celestial body, the Moon, making it a potent stone to use during this season and is thought to enhance the qualities of those born under the sign.
Helping you to connect with your emotions, Moonstone can provide a calming energy to stabilize emotional turmoil. Helping you to sort through your feelings, Moonstone allows you to gain a higher perspective on your emotions to unlock any hidden meanings or triggers. Releasing frustration, Moonstone encourages us to surrender to the natural cycles of life, enhance patience, and stay empathetic to others. Moonstone helps you stay calm and not overreact to situations outside of your control. Moonstone is also known to support the feminine spirit, making it helpful for those that suffer from PMS. fertility issues and childbirth. Believed to aid in balancing hormones and male/female energies, Moonstone can help us all get in touch with our emotions.
Pink Opal
Pink Opal brings energies of love and kindness to the surface for all kinds of relationships. Stimulating the heart chakra, Pink Opal opens our hearts up so we can feel the love around us and within.
Connecting one to their highest self, Pink Opal allow us to let go of ego-driven attitudes so that we can become more generous and community focused. Pink Opal can help you feel confident in standing up for social justice in compassionate and inclusive ways as it gives us the sight to see all of humanity.
Pink Opal is an emotional stone that encourages us to release any rigid beliefs and open ourselves up to new possibilities. Boosting ones independence, Pink Opal is great for those born under the sign of Cancer and all of us during Cancer Season, helping us to claim our self worth, while we release trauma or anxieties. Pink Opal gives you a boost to help you show how strong you really are.
Wear Pink Opal this season to enhance your creativity and self-expression, bring love and compassion to everything you do, and ease away your stresses.
Snowflake Obsidian
Snowflake Obsidian is the ultimate protective stone, shielding Cancers against negativity during their most vulnerable times. Strengthening its wearer against emotional pain and trauma.
It's a catalyst for growth, opening up new possibilities and opportunities. In addition to the properties of Obsidian, turn to Snowflake Obsidian to sooth and balance your mind, body, and spirit.
Snowflake Obsidian's calming nature teaches one to value our mistakes as well as our successes, helping us release and transform negative thinking. Promoting dispassion and inner centering, Snowflake Obsidian empowers isolation and solidarity, aiding in meditation.
Aquamarine
Aquamarine, with its cool blue color, almost brings a sense of calm by just looking at it. When examining its metaphysical properties, one will find soothing characteristics as well. Among its many traits Aquamarine is thought mostly as a reliever of stress and anxiety.
Cancererians, being highly emotive and sensitive, have the capacity to feel so much, which is great for empathy and compassion for others, however those born under the sign and perhaps some of us navigating Cancer season may feel overwhelmed by these feelings.
Wear Aquamarine to sooth and clarify these emotions. Aquamarine, while soft and soothing, also carries aspects of strength as well. Boosting courage, emotional strength and personal power, Aquamarine will balance and fortify your emotions during this watery season.
Aquamarine embodies themes of reflection making it extremely helpful in meditation, inviting you to plunge in and delve a little deeper to discover your own truths. Wear Aquamarine this season to soothe and clarify emotions, boost courage and strength, and focus your attention inwards during self-reflection.
Pearl
Pearl is known as a stone of inner wisdom, enhancing intelligence, improving memory, and bringing balance to your nervous system. Amplifying your voice, Pearl can help you with communication and confidence to be a better advocate in the world.
Repelling negative energies, Pearl brings it's soothing and stabilizing energy to anyone that wears it, and can even have a positive effect when dealing with mental health issues.
Pearl inspires loyalty and truth, allowing you to release feelings of nervousness, stress, and even that negative inner voice. Lightening our minds and soothing our emotions, Pearl can bring a boost to your mood and lighten ones mind.
The birthstone for Cancer people born in June, Pearl can help you find a balance and flow to your daily life. If you're feeling off kilter this season, Pearl brings feelings of harmony to your body, allowing you to find your strength and find your footing.
These are just a few gemstones that you can work with during Cancer season no matter what zodiac sign you are. Remember that there is no right or wrong way to do this, so don't get so caught up in the details you hesitate to move forward. Look for gemstones that resonate deeply with you and that your intentions are honorable when you set them. Lean into your intuition and explore your personal power and magick