the moon is big mama and she moves in phases. symbolizing the parts of us we may keep hidden and show only at the right time. she shines in the darkness, sometimes showing herself in her entirety, in halves or quarters, and other times she blends into the night’s sky. she represents the intentional times we allow ourselves to feel again. she’s the tears that come when we get a lump in our throat or chest because we are at a loss for words. she’s the emotions we way too often try to repress.

the moon is intuitive. nurturing. she is grandmama’s bosom we can cry on knowin she ain’t gon judge us. the warmest hug from her that holds us through all of life’s moments. the part of us that feels first and asks questions later. she is the part of us we only share with a select group of folk we feel safe with. or when we don’t have time to respond through the filter of thought. the moon is the emotional precursor to logic. the embodied experience of feeling so deeply.

the moon is what allows us to see emotions as data. dis where intuition becomes law. unfiltered truth. the juicy parts of us that society tries to erase, what da world tells us we can’t be- and we eagerly participate in that erasure.

in astrology, cancer is a cardinal water sign ruled by the moon, it brings in our summer season and is the keeper of our emotional intellegence. the moon honors the phases of our moods, our instincts, the parts of us shaped by memory and experience. it is motherly, sensual, powerfully nurturing. the moon is the divine feminine, honoring both light and darkness, knowing that life moves in phases. nothing is static. everything changes. it must.

our emotions are the compass. the language God uses to speak to us. when we honor them, no weapon formed against us can prosper.

this playlist is especially potent during cancer season, when the full/new moon is in cancer, heavy cancer placements and transits, anytime you need to honor the parts of you that are cancer-ruled. listen when your emotions are loud, or when you need em louder. listen when you feel tender, when you’re grieving, nurturing, or rebuilding your sense of safety. listen when life says, slow tf down and feel.

press play when you tired of numbing and pretending.