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Mach

Sunday, December 26

Full Moon in Cancer
Sunday, December 26, 2004
7:06am PST
5° 12'

My deepest heartfelt wishes for a beautiful holiday season,
and a joyous and blissful New Year!

Love is the answer with a Full Moon in Cancer and emotional connectedness is the goal. This is the time to let go of your defenses and protection mechanisms, and celebrate all the love in your life: for there is no room for rationalizations and excuses. This is the Full Moon to swim in the unbounded ocean of love that connects us with the rhythm of life and all other sentient beings. Cancer pulsates with the energy of caring, compassion, and nurturance. This is that once a year when the Full Moon is posited in the astrological sign it rules, making the force of love and trust so abundant, that we must open our hearts. Even those of you who feel alone and seek love, you also are surrounded by love. Love is everywhere, in every particle, in every wave. It is the glue that binds us to our planet and all existent life upon it.

Cancer rules emotional healing of all kinds and this is the Full Moon to make an effort to bring love back to all your relationships. Though nothing is more important than our families, we often get caught up in the day-to-day hassles of family life. This is the Full Moon to stop and really appreciate our loved ones: to fully embrace them, look deeply into their eyes and let our hearts soar in the recognition of oneness. It is also a great Full Moon to do something wonderful for the primary caregiver in your family. Cancer represents the Nurturing Mother archetype. Organize a special treat and remember to make some else responsible for cooking dinner! Nurturing the nurturer is a necessity that is often ignored.

With Mars, Venus, Mercury and Pluto in Sagittarius, this is a "let bygones be bygones" Full Moon: a moon for seeking the deeper meaning of acting with lovingkindness and from a deep faith in the goodness of humanity. Jupiter in Libra makes this is a great Full Moon to reach out and heal estrangements and conflicts in your life. People do hurtful things; it is part of the human condition. But ultimately, emotional pain must be present for us to learn forgiveness. If you feel too vulnerable to do this by yourself, have the process take place surrounded by a group of supportive family and friends. This will ease those first steps toward reconnection and forgiveness. Cancer's greatest gift is the consideration of the needs of others over our own needs. To help others and relieve suffering is strengthening for everyone: to disregard others, only weakens oneself. Neptune (unconditional love) in Aquarius (the collective) coupled with Uranus (the awakener) in Pisces (interconnectedness) should contribute greatly to loosening Cancer's sense that it's all so personal, and open the way for globalizing strong emotions just enough to be able to see that the pain in the other, is your own pain as well.

This is a Full Moon of opposites: the Moon Mother (Cancer, the nurturer) goes head to head with the Sun Father (Capricorn the authoritarian and rule maker) highlighting the age-old struggle of liberty and restraint, love and hate, war and peace, separation and connectedness. It is has become abundantly clear that the men who control global politics, economics and all the major religions, have no intention of promoting life lived fully in the principles of love. Their way of separation and disconnection has outlived its usefulness. Though humanity seems firmly entrenched in the Saturnian ways of contraction, separation, and war making, the Full Moon in Cancer demands equal time for the Eternal Feminine; the way of connection, nurturance, compassion, forgiveness, surrender and peace. The path of the heart must be acknowledged and embraced by every nation and by all living beings, or we will surely perish in the fires of our own greed and disconnection.

The Full Moon in Cancer rules the power of the Archetypal Female. The time has come for women at every corner of the globe, of every race, every nationality and every religion, to rise up and break the continuing cycle of female powerlessness. It is our responsibility to wake up to reality, raise our voices as one, throw off our chains, and withdraw our political and economic support from the male-dominated institutions that have failed to create a safe, secure, and fair world. Women have to support each other in an effort to take our places as heads of State, corporate leaders and religious authorities. Venus in Sagittarius, the archetypal female warrior and world leader, shouts to Everywoman that there is no one who will free us: we must liberate ourselves and insist that the way of the heart, the language and action of love is the only policy we will support with our votes and with our dollars. Women have the power, but we consistently refuse to use it. Let us not abdicate any longer! Gather the women and likeminded men in your family, in your neighborhood, and join the swelling ranks of Americans walking the path of peace. Say "no" to violence and "yes" to meaningful conversation that opens awareness on all sides for responsible peacemaking.

So on this Full Moon in Cancer, bring together likeminded people at your Full Moon ritual, and commit yourselves to lovingkindness, compassion, and empowering the way of the Eternal Feminine in your life, your community, and throughout the world.

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