Thursday 21st August
Though Cancer is a fertile, watery sign that usually favours the leafy realm, today the Moon crosses a Mercury node. Such nodal passages unsettle the harmony of cosmic and earthly forces, making it an unfavourable time for sowing, planting, or transplanting. The wise gardener allows the soil to rest, withholding decisive actions. Instead, turn to lighter tasks—sharpening tools, walking the beds in observation, or simply giving a gentle watering where it is needed. On nodal days the garden breathes differently; our work is to pause and listen, rather than to act.
