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Ugh, Those Feels Again: What to Expect When Mercury Enters Cancer

Time to get acquainted with your emotions and your intuition.

Camille Michelle Gray
ZORA
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4 min readJul 12, 2021

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On July 11th, Mercury entered the sign of Cancer. Mercury has been in Gemini since May 3rd, an unusually long stay due to retrogradation. When not retrograde, Mercury usually zips through a sign quickly, generally anywhere from 14 to 30 days. This ingress will bring some sweet, sweet relief from the frenetic pace of Gemini where Mercury is home, all tools at its disposal to short your cerebral circuits.

In Cancer, Mercury travels from the brain to the heart, from objectivity to subjectivity, from what makes sense to what just feels right. This transit will offer us a guilt-free detour into our feels, which to Mercury in Cancer, can be just as accurate a source of information as any encyclopedia. Mercury in Cancer knows that the gut is a second brain, so why not listen to it? Intuition, or that gut, can cut through the needless analysis of airy Gemini, answers arriving in whispers when we dare listen to our hearts. Such is the brave act of the cardinal water Mercury: initiating deeper reflection.

For a few days, forgiveness is easier, spiritual studies are enhanced, inspiration is a-plenty…

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