The
Cosmic Story: Capricorn Full Moon 2017
Finding
our Ancestral Roots/Healing Our World
This
weekend’s Capricorn Full Moon illuminates what we need to do to
realize the gifts of the Summer Solstice, when we celebrated the
union of Heaven and Earth. It’s a powerful Full Moon which can
give rise to intense, disruptive feelings of fear about our security
or it can bring us the wisdom we need to heal our lives and our
world. Our personal needs meet up with political realities and we
might not be very happy about it. That’s why we have to take
charge of our own freedom.
The
Capricorn Full Moon occurs this weekend on July 8-9: at 9:06pm PDT on
July 8th and on July 9th at 12:06am EDT and
4:06am GMT.
The
Sabian symbol for the Sun at 18*Cancer is: A
Hen scratching the ground to find nourishment for her progeny.
Just as a mother hen works to feed her chicks, we too have to find
our grounding so we can nourish future generations. We have to take
responsibility for our world.
The
Sabian symbol for the Moon at 18* Capricorn is: The
Union Jack flag flies from a British warship.
This symbol speaks to imperialist political power. How
can we break the mold of patriarchal warmongering and domination?
Taken
together,
the
symbols of
this Full Moon asks us, What do we need to do to secure our future in
the face of a dominating political power or ideology which works
against life itself? The answers lie in the revolutionary energy of
the waning Pluto/Uranus square which is accelerated by Jupiter in
Libra joining the fray. As well as a missing ingredient. The Mother
Love of Cancer.
Cancer
is the sign of the missing leg of this year’s potent Cardinal
T-square between Uranus/Eris in Aries, Jupiter in Libra and Pluto in
Capricorn. Something is terribly wrong with our society—we are
killing ourselves and our world and Pluto in Capricorn is exposing
just how rotten things are. The rich and powerful are in charge and
no longer hiding behind their false patriotism.
Vice President Henry Wallace said in 1944:
'They [the super-wealthy] claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.'
President Jimmy Carter said that America, in large part because of Supreme Court decisions like Citizens United, has become 'just an oligarchy, with unlimited political bribery.'
Jupiter
in Libra desires justice for all as we see the corruption in the
political and corporate state. And so Uranus and Eris are demanding
that we couragously take action and follow the dictates of our
hearts. But we first need to be grounded within ourselves, in our
emotional bodies.
That’s
where the energy of Cancer comes into play. Cancer poses the
questions: What really makes us feel safe and secure? What ancient
knowledge does our family lineage and soul wisdom have to say about
what’s happening in the world? How do we own both our inner
freedom and our political freedom?
With
this Full Moon’s connection to the Pluto opposition to Mars, we can
engage in power struggles or we can use this energy to transform our
own lives. Mars is conjunct the Cancer Sun, giving us courage to
search our souls and find our truths. Pluto’s conjunction to the
Capricorn Moon can break up patriarchy’s hold on us – all those
rules we’re been trained to live by such as ‘a good wife must put
her needs aside for her husband and family’ or ‘a man is the head
of the family’ (in reality, Mom is!) or ‘you’re a sinner/loser
if you don’t have money, but saved/good if you do’.
Our
society’s rules, our religions’ rules are buried deep within us
to control our behavior. But since patriarchy refuses to give equal
importance to the feminine gifts of life, these old rules are killing
our joy in life, our reverence for life and our belief in life. This
Full Moon gives us the opportunity to throw off the chains of
patriarchal control so we can find our balance with others. The fire
trine between Uranus & Eris in Aries, the North Node in Leo and
Saturn in Sagittarius can give us the courage to follow our passion
and creativity to the next part of our lives. It’s time for a new
story.
So
to help you find that courage, I’m going to tell you a story. This is where the Neptune in Pisces trine to the Cancer Sun comes in. It’s
a story I didn’t know about until a week ago when my son from Dubai
was visiting me and got me to watch it. This movie tells the story
of this Cancer/Capricorn Full Moon. You might have already seen it.
It’s called Moana.
Moana
is a Polynesian girl who’s destined to become her island’s next
chief (Capricorn).
But
she is also
called
and chosen by the Sea (Cancer) and longs to go beyond the barrier
reef. Her father, Chief Tui, refuses to allow her those dreams
because he is afraid of going
beyond
their island, Mata
Nui.
He
struggles
to get her to stay put and take care of her own people rather than
dream of exploring the vast ocean of life. All the Cancer elements
are here: the Ocean, family, security
and nourishment, along with the
struggle between doing what is expected (Capricorn)
and wanting to follow her soul’s urges (Cancer).
Baby Moana at the Ocean
Little
Moana, however,
is enchanted by her grandmother Tala’s stories of an ancient
demi-god, Maui, who stole the stone
Heart
from the goddess Te Fiti, wanting
her life-giving power for himself (Capricorn!) But when he steals
the stone, the islands begin to crumble and die, and death
and destruction slowly seep across the ocean’s islands (a
perfect example of Eris in Aries – discord:
‘going against the heart’ because of his own hubris).
Maui is exiled and his magical hook is lost. But there is a legend
that one day the
Chosen One
will
find Maui and help him find his magical hook so he can restore
the Heart to Te Fiti and heal the world.
Gramma
Tala, who
is definitely an Ocean priestess and a self-proclaimed ‘crazy lady’
knows that Moana is the chosen one, but her son’s fear won’t
allow the girl to go beyond ‘the field they know’. Moana learns
how to be a leader to her people, but when crops and
fisheries
fail and the island begins to die, Moana determines
to go find Maui and get him to restore the Heart.
That’s
when her grandmother shows her the secret
cave where their ancestors hid
the sailing
ships they came in. For her ancestors were journeyers, traveling the
ocean currents to discover new lands. Through
the years,
though,
death crept over the ocean, and
they
hid the boats and forgot they were journeyers, settling into a life
of ease and security on their island. (Just
like we have lost our founders’ revolutionary courage.)
When
Moana
discovers
the boats, she
reclaims her ancestral wisdom (Mars and Sun in Cancer) and taking one
of the ships, leaves the island as her grandmother dies so
she can
send her manta ray spirit to guide Moana over the reef and into the
unknown.
Tala and her Manta Rays
This
Cancer Sun/Mars opposite the Capricorn Moon/Pluto story also includes
the energies
of the
Aries Uranus/Eris opposition
to our
Libra Jupiter. Moana sails by herself (Uranus in Aries) until the
ocean brings her to the island where Maui is exiled. Maui is such a
stereotype of the masculine ego that he’s funny (Pluto
in Capricorn bringing on the ridicule).
He’s
a shape-shifter, con-artist,
macho-warrior
who thinks he’s the hero of mankind. (Sound
familiar? This movie came out in 2016—I love synchronicity.)
It’s all about him and his exploits. All he can think about is
himself and at
every turn,
he tries to leave Moana behind,
but
she is never stopped by his betrayals. She couragously
follows
him to the
underwater hideout of
the giant crab
Tomatoa,
(another
Cancer motif), whose
shell is covered with gold and jewels and Maui’s magical hook –
another aspect of the Cancer-Capricorn axis: hold onto what you’ve
got to stay secure.
Moana
keeps thinking that Maui is the one who has to restore the Heart to
Te Fiti – that old patriarchal belief that man is the hero who will
make all things right. But
she is the couragous one, for
while
Maui deserts
her,
she believes in completing her mission – a very Jupiter kind of
thing to do. When it comes time for him to fight the lava demon and return the stone, Maui is afraid, afraid to face the Goddess. And in the end, it is Moana
who
recognizes the Goddess behind the evil lava demon Ti
Ka, and restores the Heart to the Goddess and the healing of the
world begins.
When
Moana returns to Mata Nui, she helps her people reclaim their
ancestors’ wisdom of the waters, and they set sail on those ancient
ships to a new land.
Great Sailing Ships
This
story touches the heart – everyone I’ve mentioned it to has the
same reaction – they love it. If
you haven’t seen it yet, it’s available on Netflix and other
outlets. Good stories feed the soul and that’s what Cancer is all
about. When our souls are nurtured, we gain the emotional security
we need to face anything our world can throw at us.
It’s
a beautiful story for this powerful Capricorn Full Moon. We need to
find our courage (Aries) to leave behind the death and destruction
that our governments and patriarchal rules glory in (Capricorn) so we
can nurture ourselves and our people (Cancer) and bring about a new,
more
balanced world (Libra).
To
swimming in the ocean of life!
Cathy
East
Coker V (excerpt) -- T. S. Eliot
Home is where one starts from. As we grow older
The world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated
Of dead and living. Not the intense moment
Isolated, with no before and after,
But a lifetime burning in every moment
And not the lifetime of one man only
But of old stones that cannot be deciphered.
There is a time for the evening under starlight,
A time for the evening under lamplight
(The evening with the photograph album).
Love is most nearly itself
When here and now cease to matter.
Old men ought to be explorers
Here or there does not matter
We must be still and still moving
Into another intensity
For a further union, a deeper communion
Through the dark cold and the empty desolation,
The wave cry, the wind cry, the vast waters
Of the petrel and the porpoise. In my end is my beginning.
Home is where one starts from. As we grow older
The world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated
Of dead and living. Not the intense moment
Isolated, with no before and after,
But a lifetime burning in every moment
And not the lifetime of one man only
But of old stones that cannot be deciphered.
There is a time for the evening under starlight,
A time for the evening under lamplight
(The evening with the photograph album).
Love is most nearly itself
When here and now cease to matter.
Old men ought to be explorers
Here or there does not matter
We must be still and still moving
Into another intensity
For a further union, a deeper communion
Through the dark cold and the empty desolation,
The wave cry, the wind cry, the vast waters
Of the petrel and the porpoise. In my end is my beginning.
