The
Cosmic Story: Cancer Full Moon January 1, 2018
Feeding
the Soul. Finally.
I’m
writing this newsletter as the Taurus Moon waxes past the first
quarter, the Earth sign concerned with what we value and how we value
things. Taurus is a fertile sign – just think of May and all the
beauty of that season. And this Moon phase is all about nourishing
the sprout that was seeded at the Sagittarius New Moon, which
occurred on the Galactic Center (the Cosmic Womb) on December 17-18.
It’s time to open to the cosmic mystery that we each birthed this
Winter Solstice and pour our love into that new life.
Every
January, while the Sun is in Capricorn, the sign that symbolizes
fathers,
our dharma and
our collective institutions, we have a Full Moon in Cancer, the sign
of our emotional body, the family, the mothers, our security. Every
year, we look within to figure out what our emotional needs are for
ourselves but also so our collective institutions can adjust to the
needs of the people. This year, it seems like there is a bigger
disconnect between people’s needs and the government’s agenda.
Do we really need ‘millions’ of jobs in the military to keep us
happy and safe? Doesn’t a happy, prosperous citizenry create more
security than a global police force?
This
year, it is especially important for each of us to understand what
will make us secure and content, fertile and creative. It’s
always about choices and opportunities.
If your life and your work are not serving you, what do you need to
do to change that this year?
What is your heart’s hope?
If our government is not serving our collective needs, what do we do
to change that? We live in a democracy, which means we need to know
how we want to live our collective life and
make choices that support those visions;
otherwise, we will be controlled and corralled into corporate
agendas rather than life-giving ones.
The
universe knew who it needed at this point in time – us! So do
whatever needs doing – band together and help each other. Share
you gifts and talents with others who need them as we re-build our
society from the ground up. If you’re a techie and a healer needs
some help, find ways to exchange your services – money, barter,
alternative ‘money’, ?. Who knows what we can all create if we
let our hearts sing us a vision.
At
least, that’s what my inner Council of Grandmothers is telling me.
The
day after the Cancer Full Moon, the planet Uranus turns to direct
motion, so we need to take those inner awakenings we’ve experienced
in the past 5 months and use them to re-create our outer lives. So
watch what happens on Tuesday, January 2, 2018 when Uranus stations.
Surprises, revelations, awakenings, rebellions are energized.
The
Sabian symbol for Uranus at 24*34’ Aries (25*) is: The
possibility for people to gain experience at two levels of being.* We
can only experience what we believe in. We need faith to accept this
new level of consciousness. Dane Rudhyar comments on this degree:
“Be
open. Be able and willing to shape your translucent mind in the form
revealing spiritual
fulfillment. And you will be able to experience life and power on
inner as well as outer planes.”
This
is the awakening that Uranus brings to us. We can live our spiritual
lives in the outer world. In fact, that is our real purpose in life.
To open to the great mystery of life, to live our spirituality and
see where it takes us.
Cancer
Full Moon
This
year’s Cancer Full Moon occurs on January 1, 2018 at 6:24pm PST/
9:24pm EST and on January 2, 2018 at 2:24am GMT.
Cancer
symbolizes the Great Mother, the ocean's depths, the source of life and creativity.
Cancer is a cardinal water sign – once Cancer senses what is
needed, she does something about it. If you’re hungry, she’ll
feed you. If you’re afraid, she’ll comfort you. If you’re
hurt, she’ll try to heal you. What do you need? Like any loving
Mother, this Cancer Moon wants to nurture you so that you grow into
your Higher Self. Accept that you are loved and watch how you
blossom.
Elana Gibeault ~ Cancer Sea Priestess
The
Cancer Moon is supported by planets in the other two water signs,
forming a grand water trine, which certainly can reduce any stress
and tension in our lives. The grand trine can even make us so
complacent that we don’t do anything! With the stress of the
holidays, this can be exactly what we need. A little self-nurturing
goes a long way.
It’s
also a great time to do some inner work. Just
because we’re not acting in the outer world doesn’t mean we can’t
engage with the inner world while we meditate and relax.
The Cancer Moon can sense what is needed to feel safe and secure.
Jupiter and Mars in Scorpio can help us decided who is most helpful
in getting us those things – and who is not. Neptune in Pisces
opens
us to
Spirit through
our dreams and imagination. While the Cancer Moon digs deep to feel
our needs and Neptune feeds our dreams of a better life, Jupiter and
Mars can go after the resources we need to fulfill those needs.
Why
not engage in active imagination with these energies. See what they
want to tell you. Our unconscious has so much wisdom to share. But
like all children, young or middle aged, we very rarely want to
listen.
When
you work with these planets, they open us to our psychic abilities,
so trust your intuitions, trust your heart and trust your gut. Our
left brain rationality needs to support these feelings rather than
create fear around them.
What
saves this watery grand trine from stagnating is the Capricorn Sun,
along with Saturn, Venus and Pluto in Capricorn. The Sun and Venus
take that watery grand trine and turn it into an aspect called a
KITE. With Sun/Venus opposite the Moon and
connecting energetically with the other water planets, we have the
opportunity to use
the Capricorn energy to
ground
our feelings and steady
our emotional body. It gives us an outlet for all that water, the
ground to pour it into. So
that our original Sagittarius New Moon seed may flower. What was
your vision for that New Moon?
Capricorn
and its ruler, Saturn, are good at structuring things. Especially at
this Cancer Full Moon, the Sun can use its Capricorn energy to focus
our Cancer feelings into something productive. We can build on them
if we’re brave enough and strong enough to believe in our heart’s
hope.
This
is our chance to re-structure our lives and bring them into alignment
with our soul’s purpose. So let your soul sing to you during this
Full Moon – as you relax from your New Year’s Eve celebrations.
With
Uranus in Aries stationing within 6* of its square to Pluto in
Capricorn, we are still in the revolutionary energies that were
strongest from 2012-2015. This is the Hero’s Journey phase
of their cycle – we have to overcome obstacles in the outer world
to ground our vision of peace and freedom (from the 60s) into our
society. This will be a peaceful revolution, so it takes time for
people to rouse themselves and it has to be world-wide. We are all
in this together. Know that you can change your life. Know that we
can change our world. It’s all about choice and opportunity.
The
Sabian symbol for the Moon at 12* Cancer is: A
woman nursing a baby, haloed by the light of a single star.* This
new child within us is the Divine Child. We each birth this Child
when we live with spiritual awareness and compassionate
understanding. Our soul’s work is to take part in this spiritual
evolution. So nurse your inner child – give it what it needs to
grow strong.
The
Sabian symbol for the Sun at 12* Capricorn is:
In
an old diamond mine, a showcase displaying and explaining different
crystalline structures.*
These crystalline structures are the basic structures of life.
Perhaps symbolizing the archetypes, those basic laws of life. We
need to reconnect (Venus can help us here) with this most ancient
knowledge because our society is sick and in need of restoration. We
need to release the past that holds us captive to unhealthy
situations, just as we need to let
those institutions that no longer serve us die,
so that new life can grow up in its place.
Venus
is traveling very close to the Sun – but on the far side of the Sun
– for the next 54 days. She is treading the underworld path of
death and rebirth as she rises as the Evening Star of Wisdom. She
takes with her the #metoo energy that has bounded women from around
the world – women and children of all races have experience the
degradation and fear of sexual assault – because our culture gives
men all the power but never the blame of their sexual violence.
‘It’s always the woman’s fault’ is the patriarchal #notme!
Venus
will conjunct the Sun and then Pluto on January 8-9, taking her
transformation so deep we don’t know how she’ll manifest in us
and in the world. Venus will embrace both life (Sun) and death
(Pluto) within
a few hours of each other, taking that shining solar energy into the
depth of inner space – to discover what? And then Pluto
communicates to the Sun what Venus is birthing.
The
Sabian symbol for Venus at 10* Capricorn is: On
a sailboat, seamen are feeding a tame albatross.*
Venus is the energy that connects us and here she is connecting the
human world with the animal world. An Albatross is a sign of good
luck to mariners, so feed your luck through compassion and sharing.
And
if you’re journeying into deep space with Venus, do not fear. Stay
open and make offerings to whatever flies your way. Like the helpful
animals in fairy tales, our inner beings can help us.
It’s
time to let
our emotional intelligence take
the lead.
We can retreat back into our shell out of fear, choosing the safety
and comfort of our old, known life, or we can trust
life’s flow
as we navigate the changes coming our way.
When
Saturn passed into Capricorn on December 19th,
it passed over the Galactic Center – the womb of our universe –
and seeded us with the
new
life intentions for
the coming age.
There’s
around a 50 year period (perhaps starting in the 70s) when the
Earth’s plane is aligned with the galactic center, so as planets
pass from Sagittarius to Capricorn, they are energized by the
galactic womb. After that time, the planes will separate.
Perhaps
we are being seeded by cosmic intelligence with information on how to
survive our environmental crisis and create a new type of society –
perhaps one that will go out into the stars one
day.
So
play with your vision and listen for messages on how
to shape it to your needs. As you know,
things take time to grow.
Mercury
in
Sagittarius
connects
one last time with Uranus
in Aries
on Saturday, January 6th.
Watch
for revelations, insights and changing choices.
Then
Mercury
reaches
the degree it retrograded at on Wednesday,
January
10th.
That signals the end of the entire Mercury retrograde period. What
have you learned about your beliefs and your spiritual practices?
Mercury
goes into Capricorn –
passing over the Galactic Center – later that same day, January
10th
– 11th.
Then Mercury
conjuncts Saturn
on January 12th
– 13th
. Watch
for any dreams or sychronicities that might bring you messages.
Perhaps your plans will come into sharper focus now. Let the shape
arise from your unconscious – don’t force things. Shape them
once they appear if needed.
With
Venus
traveling so close to the Sun now,
they both connect with Neptune
in Pisces
on January 2nd
– 3rd.
Venus will connect with Neptune’s message strongly and take it up
with the Sun. Then on January 8th
they connect with Jupiter in Scorpio, aiding
us to see our real goals and connect with people who share them.
Later that day, Pluto in Capricorn empowers Mars in Scorpio to really
commit to our new life.
On
January 9th,
the
Sun, Venus, Pluto in Capricorn and Mars in Scorpio
dance with each other, weaving together their energies and birthing a
new Venus energy, one that will raise up the Divine Feminine strongly
this year. Venus
will emerge from the Sun’s rays as an Evening Star in late February
in Pisces. This Venus, like Kuan Yin and Sophia, is wise and
compassionate. She will be our guide for the next part of our
journey. Open to her Wisdom.
The
intensity of these first two weeks of January ends with the Sun
and Venus in Capricorn squaring Uranus in Aries
on January 14th,
sparking our hero’s journey once again to change our lives and
change the world. And finally on January 15th,
Jupiter
in Scorpio
energizes Pluto
in Capricorn
to keep going with his wrecking ball, getting to the root of the
problems in our society.
Looks
like quite an exciting few weeks. What a way to start off 2018!
Connect
with heaven’s energies and work with them to download cosmic
information. Then trust it, hone it and share it. Remember, we
don’t have to do things on our own – we have our tribe to help
us. Don’t go it alone anymore. Ask for help.
This
is our new beginning.
May the blessings of new life fill you.
Walk
with the Light,
Cathy
*Steve
Eardley, The
Revised Sabian Symbols.
For
the Unknown Self
So much of what delights and troubles you
Happens on a surface
You take for ground.
Your mind thinks your life alone,
Your eyes consider air your nearest neighbor,
Yet it seems that a little below your heart
There houses in you an unknown self
Who prefers the patterns of the dark
And is not persuaded by the eye's affection
Or caught by the flash of thought.
It is a self that enjoys contemplative patience
With all your unfolding expression,
Is never drawn to break into light
Though you entangle yourself in unworthiness
And misjudge what you do and who you are.
It presides within like an evening freedom
That will often see you enchanted by twilight
Without ever recognizing the falling night,
It resembles the under-earth of your visible life:
All you do and say and think is fostered
Deep in its opaque and prevenient clay.
It dwells in a strange, yet rhythmic ease
That is not ruffled by disappointment;
It presides in a deeper current of time
Free from the force of cause and sequence
That otherwise shapes your life.
Were it to break forth into day,
Its dark light might quench your mind,
For it knows how your primeval heart
Sisters every cell of your life
To all your known mind would avoid,
Thus it knows to dwell in you gently,
Offering you only discrete glimpses
Of how you construct your life.
At times, it will lead you strangely,
Magnetized by some resonance
That ambushes your vigilance.
It works most resolutely at night
As the poet who draws your dreams,
Creating for you many secret doors,
Decorated with pictures of your hunger;
It has the dignity of the angelic
That knows you to your roots,
Always awaiting your deeper befriending
To take you beyond the threshold of want,
Where all your diverse strainings
Can come to wholesome ease.
~ John O'Donohue ~
(To Bless the Space Between Us)
So much of what delights and troubles you
Happens on a surface
You take for ground.
Your mind thinks your life alone,
Your eyes consider air your nearest neighbor,
Yet it seems that a little below your heart
There houses in you an unknown self
Who prefers the patterns of the dark
And is not persuaded by the eye's affection
Or caught by the flash of thought.
It is a self that enjoys contemplative patience
With all your unfolding expression,
Is never drawn to break into light
Though you entangle yourself in unworthiness
And misjudge what you do and who you are.
It presides within like an evening freedom
That will often see you enchanted by twilight
Without ever recognizing the falling night,
It resembles the under-earth of your visible life:
All you do and say and think is fostered
Deep in its opaque and prevenient clay.
It dwells in a strange, yet rhythmic ease
That is not ruffled by disappointment;
It presides in a deeper current of time
Free from the force of cause and sequence
That otherwise shapes your life.
Were it to break forth into day,
Its dark light might quench your mind,
For it knows how your primeval heart
Sisters every cell of your life
To all your known mind would avoid,
Thus it knows to dwell in you gently,
Offering you only discrete glimpses
Of how you construct your life.
At times, it will lead you strangely,
Magnetized by some resonance
That ambushes your vigilance.
It works most resolutely at night
As the poet who draws your dreams,
Creating for you many secret doors,
Decorated with pictures of your hunger;
It has the dignity of the angelic
That knows you to your roots,
Always awaiting your deeper befriending
To take you beyond the threshold of want,
Where all your diverse strainings
Can come to wholesome ease.
~ John O'Donohue ~
(To Bless the Space Between Us)
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