Cancer Gift Guide: The Best Gifts For Birthdays This Month According To The Stars

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When someone tells me they’re a Cancer, the only response I could possibly give them is “awwww, sweet baby” (which I’d hate for someone to say to me, btw).

But that’s because that’s what Cancers are. No matter their age, they’re gentle, innocent souls, who just want to find their sense of home, feel deeply, connect immediately, have fun, and…cry alone. In a way, they’re like spiritual party girls, who also want to restore alone at home with a sage stick while also dreaming of their one true love, with whom they’ll share a full life in a (healthfully) codependent way one day. Ugh, I’m emotional just thinking about it!

So now that we’ve entered Cancer season and Jupiter is in Cancer for the first time in nearly 12 years (a good thing), it’s time to open our hearts and crown chakras to our not-so-crabby crabs, and show them the most manifested compassion with gifts that lean into their magic, their element, their heavenly body, their private nature, and their connection to home and family.

To Make Them Feel at Home at All Times

Cancers have this mystical ability to balance their external and internal worlds. They get energy from others, yes, but they also invest heavily into their private lives at home. Some might even say they live outside of the Myers Briggs paradigm.

In thinking about how to assist their efforts to adorn their home, consider their innate water element, their hyperfixation on coziness, their love of high-quality things, and their chaotic obsession with whatever is new and trending.

Since their minds are buzzing a mile a minute, a soothing, grounding space is key. The Mitzi Gaia Table Lamp is the tangible curation of all of the things a Cancer would need to maintain creativity while slowing the F down: warm lighting, avant garde design, and hella playfulness. But of course, a big part of nesting (and therefore regulation) for a Cancer involves breathing…which means their breath should be both measured and pure. The Sans Air Purifier Mini is shhhh-level silent and can do a clean sweep of a large room while the moonbird is a more hands-on, guided approach to regulated breathing for the Cancer who needs something more tactile.

To address the more “water” element of a Cancerian constitution, why not focus on tools that will improve their water quality? The AquaTru Carafe brings reverse osmosis water filtration onto the countertops of cosmopolitan Cancerians, who are ready to dive into embodied, water-forward wellness that engages them in as much of the process as the product. 

Should They Need to Reinvigorate Their Witchiest Woo

One of the more entrancing features of a Cancer is their ability to act as a vessel for intuition and energetic attunement for the rest of us. The abstract “hits different” for them, and they have this uncanny way of channeling “de oda syde” in a way that’s almost too quick for them. However, rather than ask them to live as pragmatically as the rest of us, we could all benefit from helping them just refine their sentient nature with tools that encourage their spellbound efforts. 

The first step to any witchy connection for a Cancer is an act of God wellness. Four Sigmatic’s Focus Green Tea combines the best of green tea with powerful, brain-loving lion’s mane mushrooms. Since we’ve already gotten them in the kitchen, add in Kroma Wellness’ 24K Chicken Bone Broth Jar to make them feel as if they’ve brewed something themselves that could even deserve the title of “elixir.” For the moments they need to just calm things down to receive any spiritual callings or “lock in,” IMBIBE’s Recover Rest 5-in-1 Chocolate Magnesium Complex provides theta-state recovery for their highly active lives (and minds).

Now that your Cancer is internally sound, it’s important to activate their witchy woo with altar-accoutrement that make them feel ritualistic. The TRUDON Cire Candle blends emanations of warm wax and perfumes in a 17th-century capacity, celebrating the power of bees, which—if you’re into woo—are spiritual symbols of transformation. Add in P.F. Candle Co. Blonde Hinoki HI-FI Incense Sticks and The Sage Vintage Belle Bag Charm for a fully portal’d experience.

To Let Them Let You Know That They’re Emo in a Cool Way

A part of being a more sensitive creature is quite literally activating all of the senses. We’ve already addressed the sight, touch, and taste, but now it’s time to activate smell.

From hair + body mists (which are having a moment) to unisex perfumes (which are also having a moment), give these water babies a chance to become fully embodied while also transforming them into pure lightsource energy.