Just a quick update for Part II of the Cancer 1 decan.

The most notable manifestation of the Cancer 1 decan has been many sightings of baby animals. During this decan I’ve seen a baby fawn, a family of baby skunks, many, many, baby turkeys, baby rabbits, baby turtles, and a nest full of baby wrens.

I did not get to experiment with rain-making during this decan, as I had to put my magical energy instead into healing some injuries from a mountain biking fall. Nothing too major, thankfully, just a few new scars to the meat suit.

As far as “Love” goes, I’ve been having a good time with my partner with some time off from work.

I’ll also share something I Love that happens annually in Cancer 1 decan. During this decan we went to one of our favorite annual events that we love: a “rock swap” where mineral hunters and miners sell and exchange their finds. One sees so many absolutely stunning crystals there. Some of them cost more than my car! (Obviously I have an old and inexpensive car, but still.) But you can also find some incredible deals on cool specimens too.

It happens every year in this decan, and I’ve been going there for many years. It is one of my very favorite things. Lots of love there – you see the same people there every year, same vendors, and all just share a love of rocks, crystals, minerals, and fossils. Some are just sellers but most of the sellers are rock hounds who actually mine them. Everyone there collects them. Everyone is really nice and willing to share knowledge of what they have, where they found it, the geological conditions that made it, how old it is, etc. Stuff from all over the world. I saw a lot of very beautiful crystals, minerals, fossils, and even dinosaur bones.

Some of them come from mines specific for that type of crystal, but some collectors find them when things get blasted for making a road or something. Or they are a “by-product” of some other mining for something for industry.

The last few years, most of what I’ve bought there are what they call “garden rocks.” That is this year’s haul seen above. These are the larger, rougher, more imperfect – and far less costly – mineral specimens. They are considered less desirable and so cost a lot less generally than the “crystals.” Plus got some smaller but cool minerals. Most of what I got were things less than $10, or even less than $5. Got a few in the $20-30 range, and one for a little more. So for very little we got a big haul of cool things. And got to look at and lust after the beautiful expensive ones too, some of which were just stunning. I’m a bit of a dragon in that I love my rocks.

Those rocks above were enough to turn into a “Stones and Bones” garden:

Finally, a type of garden I don’t have to weed or water! Though sometimes it is fun to water the rocks as some of them look even better when wet. That is a moose skull and jawbones I found in the woods.

Here is last year’s garden rock haul that was made into a matching “Sticks and Stones” garden, with various driftwood finds, twisty sticks, and old rusty tools.

Had a really great meal at a place called “Pearl” too – pearls correspond to Cancer, so I thought that was a nice coincidence.

See you in Cancer decan 2, Abundance, coming soon.