Ceres Retrograde: Re-Parenting, Re-defining Nurturing, & Tending to the Garden

Have you ever felt disconnected from your nurturing side? Maybe you’re neglecting self-care, struggling with family dynamics, dysregulated eating, or feeling a general lack of emotional nourishment. If so, you might be experiencing the astrological influence of Ceres retrograde natally or by transit — occurring May 14/15 through August 26, 2024.

Redefining Self-Parenting and Nurturing

Many of us didn’t grow up with secure and stable parental relationships as well as experiencing trauma. Understanding our nurturing style can be a key healing tool for these complex experiences. Allowing us to self-parent — re-parent — and meet the needs that weren’t met in childhood and stabilize our attachment system.

I also find it helpful to redefine nurturing not as someone who makes soup and gives hugs — that may be a Cancerian way to do so. Nurturing others and ourselves comes in many forms such as providing inspiration or encouraging vulnerability. Ceres in our natal chart gives us a sense of how to tend in a way that feels most authentic to each of us.

This has been a liberating realization for me, that just because I don’t want to cook myself meals everyday doesn’t mean I’m not nurturing myself. My self-tending happens through daily walks in…