Wednesday, July 6, 2005
5:02am PDT
14° 31'


Ah…a New Moon in Cancer, our chance to be held lovingly by the sweetness that pulsates through every living thing. In deference to Saturn's last days in Cancer, this New Moon provides us with one last chance to face our fear of love. This is the New Moon to build a bridge to the feeling side of life. If your life has been characterized by disconnection and alienation, this is the New Moon to honestly appraise the usefulness of this seemingly safe defensive posture against emotional interactions with others. This is the time to look with deep compassion at the insecurities and co-dependencies that arise from refusing to recognize and deal with inner emptiness. Don't be fooled by the romantic leanings of Venus and Mercury in Leo; our existential aloneness is as real as our transcendent interconnectivity. The beauty of the heart is its ability to feel the full range of emotion that arises from realizing this fundamental paradox of the human condition. We seek love and relationship in order to feel whole, yet wholeness arises from self-realization. If we listen to the longings of a lonely heart, we can find the tools to help us surrender into the ocean of love that is always all around us; always accessible to us.

Cancer makes everything more sensitive as it heightens the brain's natural intuitive capacities: our interactions, our ability to intuit the meta-messages of any action or statement are made real when Saturn is in Cancer. When we can sense the meta-message behind the words, we can also feel the full impact of any interaction we might have, before it occurs. As our sensitivity heightens, Saturn's placement in Cancer inspires a sense of responsibility for our emotional behavior. Because Saturn rules hard work and long-term commitments, this is our last chance to have a New Moon so beautifully oriented toward working on applying healthy relationship strategies; especially for families and couples.

My only warning for this New Moon is the placement of Mercury (communication and ideation) and Venus (love) in Leo (the romantic drama queen) and Mars in Aries (the impetuous child). These planets in Leo can bring up overly romantic ideas about love (even with Saturn in Cancer, the great reality check) and coupled with a fiery, libidinal Mars in Aries, great sex could certainly override any deeper feelings of being unloved. Cancer is about emotional nurturance, not libidinal fireworks. Mercury/Venus in Leo and Mars in Aries demand attention; primarily due to Aries' emotional immaturity and Leo's intrinsic underlying need to feel loved. If you love me, then it proves I am loveable. The truth is inner emptiness can only be healed from within. This is a New Moon to take responsibility for our inner emotional condition, without all the drama.

Need I mention that it takes at least two to heal a relationship? This means that if you want to work on a relationship, this is one of the few New Moons where ritual is best done with all involved parties present and ready to do some serious work. Remember that half the battle is finding a way to express truth with love (Moon in Cancer,) realness (Saturn in Cancer,) and an open heart that is ready to communicate (Jupiter in Libra.) And don't forget to listen patiently and lovingly to the responses of others. With so many planets in overly sensitive signs like Leo and Cancer, it'll be hard to not take things personally on this New Moon.

Cancer rules family, home, and the archetypal mothering energy. Saturn in Cancer adds the energy of the archetypal father to this New Moon. This is the best New Moon to work on your home life and the quality of interaction that goes on in your family. Though nothing is more important than family, it's hard not to get caught up in the day-to-day hassles of family life. These days, most families are overwhelmed and harried by a never-ending cycle of work, school and extra-curricular activities. Since rushed lives leave little time to just "be" together, this is the New Moon to make a commitment to bringing relaxation back into the family schedule. We all need time to stop and really appreciate our loved ones: to fully embrace them, look deeply into their eyes, allowing the heart to soar in the recognition of oneness.

Generation gaps often create poor relationships between parents and children. This is especially so with teenagers who need to separate and parents who desperately want to protect. This is a great New Moon to redefine rules and extend boundaries for teenagers, by creating a contract that is based on mutual respect, personal responsibility and trustworthiness. Supporting a teenager's need for independence can be done with love. I know... you'll have to strain to get through the Leo/Aries teenage drama queen syndrome that will be so prominent on this New Moon.

This is also a great New Moon to engage in healing work around your own childhood/family system issues. Most of us come at our adult lives based on our desire to recreate or disengage from our family patterns of behavior. Astrology is a great tool for delineating introjected familial patterns of behavior that affect our behavior in current relationships. Once the issues are delineated, there are many psychotherapeutic techniques for working on healing childhood trauma, and this is a great New Moon cycle to investigate issues of and methods for emotional healing. For those of you that have emotional issues with people who are no longer available, this is the New Moon to use the powerful psychic and intuitive power of Cancer to work on an energetic level and heal your own internal pain. Sometimes Cancer never knows when to cut the cords and stop trying to take care of other people. This is the right New Moon to take a hard look at your own patterns of neediness and codependency and let go of any strong attachments to constant worry.

Of course this is also the New Moon to work on intimate relationships. Saturn in Cancer is a big reality check for those of you who are imagining love where there is none. On the other hand, for couples who are considering a more serious commitment, this is the best New Moon to engage in serious discussion about the possibility of marriage or cohabitation. Saturn in Cancer wants a long-term commitment for love and not financial security. Yes both are important, but the impulse to deepen commitment on this New Moon comes from a desire to share love. Intimate relationships will get an extra boost from Mercury/Venus in Leo, both of which will increase romantic sexual/sensual desires. After all the hard work of talking and sharing, diving into each other's arms should be divine!

This is the right New Moon to begin letting go of old defense and protection mechanisms that may be doing you, and your relationships, more harm than good. With the Sun and Moon in Cancer, we could all benefit from looking deeply at our own egoic insecurities. Do you crave love as a way to fill up your own inner emptiness? Do you mother others as a way to bury your own inadequacies in feelings of power? Do you hold on to unhealthy relationships because of a deep sense of unworthiness? The answers to these important questions often teach us much about our own underlying motivations for being loved.

Cancer is the zodiacal archetypal Mother. This is a great New Moon to begin learning about the Sacred Feminine and incorporating this wisdom into your daily life and by extension, into our world. The Way of the Sacred Feminine is one of love, caring, understanding, compassion, peace and joy. Our world suffers from a lack of Her presence and Her values in our governmental, educational, business and religious institutions. It is of course our job to reinvigorate our workplaces, communities, schools and politics with Her wisdom. The New Moon in Cancer rules the power of the archetypal feminine and Saturn in Cancer is demanding that women become authoritative members of society. 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 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. There is no one that 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! Use some of your ritual time to release indifference and inaction and come up with a personal action-plan to empower women.

Since Cancer rules caregiving, this is the New Moon to take a good hard look at how much you give to those in need. Do you volunteer at a local school, shelter, food bank, environmental group, children's educational service, eldercare facility or hospice? How much have you extended your definition of family? One of my favorite Cancer New Moon cycle activities is to go through my house and gather up clothing and belongings I haven't used for the last year, and then donate them. It reduces clutter in my own life and allows me to share the wealth with others.

For those of you who use your intuitive skills in your work, this is certainly the time to start any new programs of study to increase your intuition. Those of you who call yourselves healers and spiritual teachers should use this New Moon to look at your own motivations. Do you crave attention and get off on the neediness of others? Are you disempowering through advice-giving, rather than empowering a client's ability to find their own answers, their own inner healing? Saturn, Sun and Moon in Cancer require an honest appraisal of emotional agendas. And Venus/Mercury in Leo give us all a chance to consider how much our own work as healers is rooted in a narcissistic need for attention. So don't be afraid to ask yourself these tough questions. In the end it can only benefit your clients.

Any of you who wish to get in touch with your own intuitive capabilities couldn't ask for a more psychically potent New Moon than this one. Try asking for wisdom while gazing into a bowl of water or crystal ball or drawing a few cards from a Tarot deck. You will be amazed at how much contact you already have with your own inner truth. You already have your own answers, and ready access to them. It is just a matter of opening up to your own inner voice and then trusting it. This is certainly the perfect New Moon to open the channel to inner wisdom and self-knowing.

So get on the stick and take care of your emotional life by committing to an insistence on love and kindness in all your interactions. This is the way of Cancer!

EarthAirFireWater said:

I thought this was a new Duran Duran song.


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MIGUELGOMEZ said:

Mach said:

oh lawd ... expect fireworks at the Org then

Reincarnate said:

but if informed people know ahead perhaps it wont be so bad ?

Mach said:

... wanna bet?

Reincarnate said:

betting is against my religion

Mach said:

pity ... the odds were in my favour ...

Reincarnate said: