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 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.
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 stead y 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.
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