Saturday, June 23, 2018

The Cosmic Story: Capricorn/Cancer Full Moon, June 27-28, 2018

Capricorn/Cancer Full Moon, June 27-28, 2018





Happy Summer Solstice! And Happy Winter Solstice for those of you down under! May the light shine brightly on all of us in these transformational times.

Capricorn and Cancer form the axis of security, family and community responsibility. Since we associate Cancer with Mother and Capricorn with Father, we’re talking about creation, for the child is the creation of the union of woman and man, wife and husband, Earth and Heaven.

As we write our new stories, take time to look at your life with new eyes: to look to the future rather than to the past. To let the sacred marriage of Heaven and Earth at this Summer Solstice engender the Divine Child – who we’ll encounter during the Leo/Aquarius eclipse season coming in July/August.

Cancer is the sign ruling our emotional body, our home, our mother and our country. (The United States is a Cancer Country – born on the 4th of July!) This includes memories of our own life as well as of our ancestors lives. Cancer’s creativity is that she can weave together past, present and future into a new whole.

This is an especially poignant time for me because I’ve just had about 100 boxes of ‘stuff’ returned to me after being in storage for 12 years. The ‘stuff’ is the remnant of my old life as wife and mother – memories (Cancer) of a far distant time. And I have to sort through those memories and let them go, because they no longer serve my life or fit into my cozy 3 room apartment. Children’s clothes and toys, old wedding gifts, china tea cups and champagne glasses passed down to me from my mother, boxes of photo albums (yes, I’m that old!), crystals, rocks and shells, too many tarot decks. Sadly, too many great books.

Since it’s time to release the past and write a new story, going through these memories is sad and funny, happy and frustrating. How do I choose what to release and what to keep? What is precious and needs to go forward? Letting go of the past is a sacrifice. I just look at my wonderful library filled with books on Jungian psychology, astrology, Celtic Arthurian studies, Goddess studies, dreams, magic, fairy tales and myths and I am devastated that I have to get rid of 1/3 of them.

Having a Taurus Sun and Cancer Moon, this is a hard test for me. Releasing the past to get on with the future. But I find myself eager and willing to do it. In reality, the past is already part of me. I can’t lose it. The rest is just ‘stuff’!

How are you doing?

Capricorn Full Moon 2018

This Capricorn/Cancer Full Moon occurs on June 27 at 9:53pm PDT and on June 28th at 12:53am EDT and at 5:53am GMT.



Full Moons are part of the natural rhythms of life. The alternating darkness and light as She travels across our skies from day to night to day give her different shapes and feelings. Sometimes only a small slice of Her is visible and She is Beautiful Possibility. Sometimes she is dark and far away, and She is Mystery. And sometimes She rises full and bright and She is Revelation.

The Sabian symbol for the Sun at 7* Cancer is: Two nature spirits dancing under the moonlight. These are the magical energies of life, dancing under the power of the Moon’s constantly changing light. We are asked to look with the eyes of our creative right brain to access truths that patriarchy has denied. We can access knowledge of life’s elemental energies through our creative imagination, which is our deep connection to Spirit.

The Sabian symbol for the Moon at 7* Capricorn is: A veiled prophet speaks, seized by the power of Spirit. In this image we see how the future interacts with the present to release it from the inertia of the past. It speaks to our ability to envision the next step of our new story – of our evolution, personally and collectively.

The Sabian symbol for Saturn retrograde at 6* Capricorn is: Ten logs lie under an archway leading to darker woods. This is a threshold symbol. The number 10 marks a completion as well as a call to go onto the next level of achievement and knowledge. First we must make sure of what we have accomplished and make that the foundation from which we continue to explore the mysteries ahead of us.

This Full Moon manifests the seeds of June 13th’s Gemini New Moon – a call to change our perspectives and believe in the magic of life. It’s time to see just how much we’ve changed how we think about and understand life. When we planted those seeds of possibilities and magic, did we nurture them?

Do you believe in magic yet?



This Capricorn Full Moon will show you if you do or not. With Saturn retrograde joining this Full Moon, it’s time to honestly look at your life and determine if you are on course for the change you’re seeking. Your outer life will manifest your inner beliefs. If there’s a course correction needed, take responsibility and make it so.

This Full Moon squares Chiron in Aries, activating our need to heal our self-identity. If we can’t see ourselves in a new light, how can we create a new story?

The Sabian symbol for Chiron at 3* Aries is: The cameo profile of a man, suggesting the shape of his country. This symbol suggests that once we heal our perception of who we can become, we can be an agent of wholeness for our world. This is the power of the archetypal Self, the ability to express our own divine nature for the benefit of the whole.

The Cancer Sun is part of a Water Grand Trine along with Jupiter retrograde in Scorpio and Neptune retrograde in Pisces. These energies aid the Full Moon with the gift of seeing our shadows (Scorpio) as well as our hopes and dreams (Pisces) for the future. When the Full Moon shines Her light in the darkness, it’s to help us see what is living in the dark, both our hopes and our fears. Her light helps us find our way through the dark mystery of life. So during this Full Moon, pay attention to what is moving in your unconscious, in your own personal darkness, just as we can clearly see our cultural darkness in the abuse of women and children seeking asylum in the US.

With Saturn so close to this Full Moon, we are called to learn emotional responsibility. Just as the Cancer Sun demands that we look at our emotional body and see what it needs, this strong Capricorn Full Moon will show us which rules still shackle us to the past, and which eternal principles can shape our future.

We all need strong principles to live by. That’s the problem with our society today. As we leave behind old religious beliefs, there is a vacuum that needs to be filled. People are lost and afraid because nothing makes sense anymore. If we don’t come to understand the underlying principles of life – without the old religious context – we get misdirected by the ‘fake’ principles of consumer society or we rush back to old religious beliefs to be ‘born again’ in a more rigid and life-denying way. That is what the US Congress and Senate are doing at the bidding of their corporate masters while loudly proclaiming their religious beliefs are the only beliefs to base our laws on.

The Cancer Sun offers us a connection to the Great Mother of Life, the principle that accepts and loves us for who we are: all our gifts, flaws and inconsistencies. Under patriarchy, the mothering principle was twisted by the demand to make us into who the culture expects us to be, creating a very deep negative mother complex that makes us feel unworthy if we don’t meet patriarchy’s demands.

The Capricorn Moon connects us to the Great Father of Life, the principle that builds the structure of our lives which validates who we really are. Under patriarchy, the negative father complex lays out the rules and structures we have to conform to, regardless of what gifts we possess.

We only have to look at Donald Trump to see what that kind of cultural twisting creates – a narcissism that demands constant recognition (since we’re empty and unlovable) and a refusal to change (since it entails a death before new life is possible). He is a big example of our collective SHADOW.

But we can free ourselves from patriarchy and change our stories. There’s an inconjunct from the Capricorn Moon/Saturn to the Leo North Node. We have to adjust ourselves to our own creative power, self-expression and purpose. We have to choose to participate in the new story.

There is an inconjunct from the Cancer Sun to Mars retrograde and the South Node in Aquarius. An inconjunct is a 150* aspect which demands that we make the small adjustments needed to fulfill our purpose. Just as a plant might need more sun, water and time to fully blossom, we need to pay attention to the details during an inconjunct. With Mars stationary retrograde, that means we have to re-examine how our masculine doing is not supporting our feminine being.


Mars is the symbol (g) of man and masculine energy, our drive, our desires and our aggression. Men have fallen behind women in breaking free of patriarchy’s rules, but this Mars retrograde might just turn the tide. With Mars conjunct the South Node, old collective ideas of masculinity must be examined and released – which we are at least talking about. Which masculine energies can meet our new needs of gender equality? How about reclaiming the ideals of protection, respect, honor and truth? What old traits need to go? Domination, bossiness, self-interest, competition. Please make your own lists!

Gentlemen, we have been waiting for you to wake up your inner king. Please start working on it, just as we women need to discover our own inner masculine energy – our own way of doing things based on our feminine being.

Venus symbolizes our feminine creative energy as well as being the symbol of woman (f). Venus symbolizes our need for connection, love, sensuality, wisdom and self-worth/money. Venus in Leo and Mars in Aquarius opposed each other hours after the Summer Solstice, which celebrates the union of Heaven and Earth. Oppositions are complimentary, meaning they need each other’s energy to be complete. Our cosmic instructions are clear: The divine Queen (ft) needs the support of a renewed collective masculine ideal (g[) to move forward in creating the future.

Venus inconjuncts Neptune, testing us to see if we have learned real compassion. Have we? It seems like we’re being shown the hypocrisy of our American culture as we watch the heartbreak of children being ripped away from mothers by patriarchy.

Both Venus and Mars square Jupiter in Scorpio, challenging us to flush out their shadow qualities. Mars in Aquarius can be too stubborn about getting his own way, while Venus in Leo can be too dramatic, proud and self-centered. With Jupiter’s deep dive into our scorpionic depths, I’m sure there’s plenty of material to work on.

Both Mars and Venus are very bright now in the evening sky. Venus is in her Evening Star energy and very bright in the western sky at sunset. She shows us the wisdom needed to be fully embodied. Mars retrograde rises in the eastern sky and is at his brightest. If you look overhead, you can see Jupiter as well. Their T-square is visible now in the night sky. Go out and meditate under their stellar lights if you really want to invoke the magic all around us. Our new stories must be set in the context of our relationship to Nature.

Finally, Pluto in Capricorn opposes Mercury in Cancer. Mercury in Cancer is very intuitive and emotionally involved with life. Pluto can help us analyze what we’re feeling and open us to new insights into our place in life and explore if our cultural story meets our emotional needs.

This Full Moon can help us remember the Cosmic Laws of Life and start to build our new story around them. The first principle of Cosmic Law is that ‘the ALL or Spirit’ is a living, infinite Mind. Like the Moon, it is constantly changing, living, dying and becoming. We are part of that ALL, which is the Magic all around us and within us. Make a connection everyday to this source of infinite power and watch your new life blossom!

We are at the turning points of the year. Where you go from here is up to you!
Walk in the Light!
Cathy
Journey

The mouth of the river may be beautiful.
It doesn't remember the womb of its beginning.
It doesn't look back to where it's been
or wonder who ahead of it polished the rough stones.

It is following the way
in its fullness,
now like satin,
now cresting,
waters meeting, kindred
to travel gathered together,
all knowing it flows
one way, shining or in shadows.
And me, the animal
I ride wants to drive forward,
its longing not always my own,
overrunning its banks and bounds,
edgeless, pilling along the way

because, as I forget,
it knows everything
is before it.

~ Linda Hogan ~

(Rounding the Human Corners)

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Copyright 2018 Cathy Pagano

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