On Tuesday, June 28, 2022 at 10:51PM EDT - the Cancer Moon meets the Cancer Sun at 7 degrees, giving us this month's New Moon - our annual New Moon in Cancer.
The Moon rules the sign of Cancer, so the New Moon in Cancer is UBER important every year.
This Moon is about home, family, our roots, mother, mothering, our ancestry,
real estate, country, patriotism, home businesses, family businesses,
the root of the matter - our emotional security - and, of course, the
theme of your personal natal chart's Cancer house - this is where we get the NEW BEGINNING. The New Moon is an excellent time for fresh starts and new projects. Old behaviors and beliefs can be replaced by more caring and nurturing actions and attitudes.
Let's unpack the chart!
The Moon meets the Sun at 7 degrees Cancer. They are sandwiched between asteroid Lilith, Black Moon Lilith and asteroid Child. The New Moon sqaures Jupiter, at 7 degrees Aries and trines Vesta, at 6 degrees Pisces. The Moon semi-sextiles Venus while Venus, at 7 degrees Gemini, is sextiling Jupiter. Neptune stations retrograde today.
The Moon is conjunct asteroid Child (separating, this connection has already happened), Black Moon Lilith (applying) and asteroid Lilith. So, the Moon meets asteroid Child, then is blown-out/re-set by the Sun, then gets a double dose of Lilith, with Black Moon Lilith first followed by asteroid Lilith - we won't be able to miss dealing with her!
The dark New Moon meeting anti-Moon, Black Moon Lilith, can activate our hidden mother/family/inner child wound that has grown dark/dangerous.
In Cancer this is about being shamed for being needy/needing mothering (tossed from the nourishing garden). Family secrets. Things done in the dark. Lies our inner child absorbed as truth. Hurt mothers who hurt their children or pass on unconscious wounds. This is our inner child feeling unsafe/insecure. Black Moon Lilith is known for her rage/vindictiveness at not getting her way when in fact her darkness is the result of being unjustly judged and unfairly treated by those who held all the power. God's unconditional love not there for HER, not unconditional for HER. She is a point in our chart where our 'temper at injustice' is triggered by transit. Maybe also shows where we showed anger or autonomy and were "cast out".
This is connected to the house of our natal Black Moon Lilith and what happened to us during the nine months we were in the dark of our mother's womb.
(we can free up ALOT of energy by just being aware of the implications of our Lilith junk - also if you volunteered your chart for a Lilith look, I haven't forgotten you guys and will have them to you this week!)
AND having said that, although Lilith was/is a victim she is now a touchstone in our chart for a dangerous black rage (with fear at its heart) that we ignore at our own peril.
With the New Moon conjunct Black Moon Lilith needs/wants/what is beginning can be driven by our Black Moon Lilith shame wound/by what we are NOT acknowledging. This is where the Moon gets tricky and the square to Jupiter can amplify this. If our need feels TOO BIG, if something feels like it absolutely MUST happen, tread carefully now. The square from Mars to Pluto is kind of echoing this, too. Anger can also seem to come out of nowhere.
Jupiter and the New Moon/Sun/Black Moon Lilith/asteroid Lilith, asteroid Child are forming a T-Square with asteroid Hera (of the Milky Way Galaxy spilled milk fame - we talked about HERE) with the focal point the New Moon herself. In our own life this is about a need to nurture our inner child, to KNOW what we want/need to feel safe. To NOT push the child away this time. To acknowledge that Lilith pain point (collectively not being allowed to be needy/to desire mothering), so that we can begin something that is NOT driven by shame.
The Moon's biggest aspect is her square to an expansive Jupiter in Aries. It makes me think of the mother pushing the baby into the world. We don't want to rip the mother apart/traumatize the baby, but the BABY IS COMING.
How are we going to carry what we are starting (this is as important as the birth itself)? How can this gestation period be the most loving and connecting? How will we give birth? We want 10 finger/10 toes, some things can't be rushed.
Although the Moon's contact with Jupiter is a challenging square, any aspect with benevolent Jupiter can bring confidence, optimism, LUCK. With Jupiter sextile Venus, I would double the LUCK and add bonus points. The fly in the ointment here is Venus can gloss over problems and Jupiter tends to over-do and is partial to rose-colored thinking, too. So moderation is needed now. With our ideals, with thinking we know-it-all, with taking on too much, with overspending or over-investing. To avoid disappointment/burnout - don't take on too much or move too fast.
After the recent Neptune squares pushing us to dissolve the lie, illusion, inflated dream, now we have the Moon's smooth trine to Vesta in Pisces just as Neptune stations retrograde pulling the past into the present. Vesta in Pisces is a connection to a higher power/the spiritual realms. A focus on something bigger than ourselves. An ideal. Now what is keeping us up at night is something bigger than we are. With Neptune stationing retrograde, maybe we are taking a clearer eyed look at an old dream or old ideal.
The New Moon semi-sextiles Venus while Venus sextiles Jupiter, our relationships, our values, our money are pulled into the mix. With Venus in Gemini, there are multiple choices/roads divided. Venus/Jupiter - our two most benevolent planets are making nice, there is something GOOD VERY GOOD here we don't want to over look. And happening at the New Moon pulls the entire 28 day lunar cycle under its spell! This is your Aries house and your Gemini house combining/bringing OPPORTUNITY. Collectively this is new action and those divided roads, multiple choices, the things we attract by being smart/flirty/open-minded and the new, the brave, the independent.
To bottom line this one (in 100 words or more, you know me) - the New Moon is a BIG new beginning for our Cancer house theme or the collective theme of home, family, our roots, mother, mothering, our ancestry, real estate, country, patriotism, home businesses, family businesses.
Something here is ready to START.
This START is entangled with the energy of our earliest/pre-birth FEAR which is triggered.
If we allow the fear to stop us in our tracks - allow the energy to just clam up/hunker down because Cancer likes to do just that - we might experience this energy as depressing, all this fiery Jupiter watered down/frozen.
If we go too big/too fast, act on impulsivity, be driven by those entangled/unconscious fears of not feeling safe, we can lose touch with what we really need. We over-do/over-reach. Projects get too big to support their own weight. We can burn-out. If we commit to things we don't really want to do out of FEAR or FOMO, we will most assuredly find ourselves feeling unsupported (and then shamed/guilty for being needy!).
The best use of this Jupiter square/challenge - because the square is an action aspect requiring movement - use it to feed our MOTIVATION, and take our time/great care to grow this fresh, new beginning - because we want a healthy baby and this time in the womb MATTERS/will make all the difference.
The trine to Vesta in Pisces just as Pisces ruler Neptune stations retrograde pulls the past into the present. The Cancer start includes a return to something in our rear-view mirror. This can be from earlier in this life or a past life/ancestral DNA. We can feel nostalgic. What is the old dream that is most simple/stabilizing? Where is forgiveness/compassion/connection still needed? Where is our spirit/the universe/God in all this?
The New Moon speaks of different options, multiple attractions, something being 'split into two' or a multi-pronged approach that will work/that makes a success of what we are starting. We will need courage, initiative. This makes something BIGGER and BETTER. More loving. More secure. This is how we get lucky!
This is a powerful energy to focus our intentions and make affirmations around general Cancer themes : mothers, motherhood, self-care, nurturing, home, family, real estate, home business, family business, food, breast health, stomach and digestive health, gut health, security ... AND around our Cancer natal/progressed house themes.
AFFIRMATION TIPS: get into a positive frame of mind, work in an uncluttered space - always make
affirmations from a positive place (positive meaning both happy and
certain) - write your affirmations down by hand in script, speak
them out loud - then release your attention from them knowing
your intention is known.
xo all
You might ask yourself what was happening to your mother when she carried you and how you might still be carrying that energy now/how it impacts your choices and actions.
