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)
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
