Summer 2022 Will Lift Our Spirits
Summer is here and the living is easy, as the Sun enters Cancer on the 21st of June for the start of the summer solstice, the longest day of the year here in the northern hemisphere. Each of the four seasons starts off as the Sun enters one of the Cardinal signs: Aries, Cancer, Libra, or Capricorn. The Cardinal quality has a very forceful, in-your-face energy, so people born with the Sun in one of these signs rarely ask for what they want, they demand it! Cardinal energy gets right down to business. There are of course two other qualities in astrology, Fixed and Mutable, and as the season continues and the Sun passes through the signs of this nature, each of them gradually refines that Cardinal energy. The Fixed signs (Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius) are very focused and direct, and thus create the specific activity that defines each season. Finally, the Mutable energy of Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, and Pisces marks the gradual transformation of each season into the next.
Each of the Cardinal signs that start a season is identified with an element, which in the case of Cancer is Water, and this adds an energy to summer that is both sensitive and sentimental. At the fall equinox, the energy of
