Cancer: Playlist Prescription
© 2022 by Adam Rankin
Rx #04 Cancer Energy
Cancer lives and breathes in the watery depths of our feelings, moving Gemini’s intellectual energy from the head to the heart. Ruled by the Moon, the luminary of emotions and intuition, Cancer experiences life through the subtleties of the unseen. This sign is connected to the mother, to nurturing, to home. Cancer is soft, vulnerable and sensitive, yet quietly strong and tenacious, shielding itself and those it loves from the harshness of the world with its protective shell. This energy moves like the waves of the ocean, ebbing and flowing, hiding and seeking for safety, longing for home. Anchored in energies of the past, Cancer yearns for the familiar, the comfortable, the nostalgic.
To embody Cancer at its best is to allow feelings to move through you with ease, understanding that emotions are the currency of the heart. It’s embracing the emptiness between endings and beginnings. It’s understanding the cyclical nature of life and moving with its flow. It’s holding your people close and creating home wherever you are. It’s appreciating stories of the past and bringing the best memories with you into the future. It’s using your emotional intelligence as your North Star, knowing it will always guide you home.
Playlist Prescription (Rx)
Below is a playlist to accompany you in tapping into Cancer vibes during this season-or whenever you need some of this potent energy in your life. Obviously I can’t condense the entirety of a complex zodiac sign into 12 songs, so think of this as a small capsule of energy to try on for an hour and see if it can move you into embodying the archetype of Cancer.
NOTE: These aren’t songs I think people with signs in Cancer will necessarily like or identify with, nor do I think it sums them up in any way-our musical tastes & personalities are much too unique and complex for that! This is about music I feel evokes the essence of this sign and I hope it helps you then experience it within yourself.
Rx #04 Cancer
Use: June 22-July 22 (or as needed)
Qty: 12 songs
Dosage: 47 min
Directions: Listen 1x daily as needed to activate emotional Cancer energy
Active Ingredients:
Depth…………..……………..…..10%
Feeling...………………………….10%
Nostalgia…………..……..…..….10%
Longing………….………………..10%
The Void..………………………....10%
Softness….……..…………..…..…10%
Heart……..………………………..10%
Melancholy………..……………..10%
Ups & Downs……….…………....10%
Flow…….……….…………………10%
Inactive Ingredients: Water, The Moon
Recommended Use: feeling all the feels, remembering, tapping into your heart, writing poetry, moving through emotions, connecting with the moon, letting it out, transitions, moments of solitude, quieting the mind, self mothering
Refills: Unlimited
About Playlist Rx
Playlist Prescription (Rx) is a project about embodying archetypal energy. I’m fascinated by the patterns & crossover of symbols within systems of universal understanding, like tarot, astrology, and the cycles of nature, and how these archetypes have been used throughout history to understand ourselves and weave the important stories of our world across culture, religion and time.
I’ve created playlists ever since I can remember to move me through an experience, to shift my emotional state, or to embody a certain energy. Delivering these archetypes through music feels like the perfect to way to offer a personalized journey for you to try on the energy for yourself and see what it feels like for you.
I’m excited to team up with my brother, artist & photographer, Adam Rankin, to create the imagery for each sign.
The Zodiac Edition
In this edition, I’m focusing on astrology and the 12 signs of the zodiac. We all contain the energy of each of the 12 zodiac signs within us. Depending on our astrological makeup, some signs will be more expressed, comfortable or obvious and others will feel foreign to us or remain more hidden. Power comes in exploring and activating each of these energies within our selves and tapping into them as needed throughout the different seasons, not only of the year, but of our lives.
This series will follow the astrological calendar in real time with a monthly post and playlist intended to inform and evoke the essence of the featured zodiac sign within that season and within yourself.
