Jupiter In Cancer, Cali Vibes, & How Home is Made
As Jupiter enters Cancer and festival season permeates our feeds, I’ve been thinking about what it really means to belong somewhere. What we protect. Why we dance. And what we mean we say “home.”
More Than Festival Fashions
Last weekend, my partner and I were lucky enough to receive tickets to the Cali Vibes Music Festival — a lively celebration of reggae, dancehall, and hip hop. If you’ve been here for a while, you know I love to let loose to live music. But engaging with the deep history of these genres in Long Beach — one of the most diverse cities in the nation — felt especially profound in the context of recent ICE raids and immigrant rights protests.
Deeper Than High Vibes
Music legends and rising stars like Steel Pulse, Santigold, and YG Marley permeated the atmosphere with messages of freedom, resistance, and pure love. The talent was transcendental — Sinners-esque even — a higher truth communicated through rhythm.
We all deserve to be free. And without diasporic art, we would surely grow hardened and cold.
Jupiter in Cancer & The Politics of Protection
As Jupiter moves through Cancer, the zodiac’s nurturer and protector, I’ve been reflecting on what “home” really means.
Not just the roof over our heads, but the right to exist. The right to move freely.
The right to feel safe in our bodies and communities.
Cancer energy asks us not to bypass conflict, but to defend what matters with care. To build family through shared purpose. To choose softness as strategy — not weakness. And I hope that Jupiter helps us expand our compassion on this matter on a universal level.
Immigrants Make Home
I love being from Long Beach because it’s always been a place of layered identities: immigrant-built, queer-loved, artist-fed.
And during a time when institutions are threatening that richness, I’m reminded that joy itself is resistance. Music is protection. Creativity is memory.
Immigrants make my home feel like home.
Reflection Questions
What does home mean to you — and how has that definition changed?
Whose joy has shaped the places and hobbies you love?
How can you experience pleasure without bypassing resistance, and vice versa?
What songs move your soul, and where do they come from?
Immigrant Rights News & Resources
ORALE: Organizing Rooted in Abolition, Liberation, and Empowerment https://www.orale.org/
The Coalition For Humane Immigrant Rights https://www.chirla.org/
The Centro Community Hispanic Association https://centrocha.org/
Art Is More Than Material
I’ve been using art and fashion to express deeper truths lately. How can you connect to your style on a soul level? Click this pick a card reading to find out now.
If this resonated, I invite you to share it — especially with someone who needs to be reminded that joy is sacred, and that culture is a form of protection.
Speak up. Dance with purpose. Use your creativity to say what matters. And let your heart expand as we resist fear and hatred.
