Cozy in her Cancerian home, the Goddess of Fortune rules the dark night sky with majesty. Calling forth a starry watercolor of experience, she delights in the ebb and flow of life’s natural rhythms and the watery veins of the familiar. Mothering, nurturance, our bodies, family lineage, protection, security, safety, and our sense of belonging beckon at this new lunar cycle.
Perfecting on July 17, 11:31 am PT, at 24 degrees of Cancer, the tender reunion of the luminaries catalyzes a resurrection at the cardinal cross of initiation. Square to the lunar nodes in new territory (Aries and Libra) and opposing Pluto, foundational support systems rise to the surface of consciousness.
Love is so short and forgetting is so long. – Pablo Neruda (Full Moon in Cancer)
Mother Moon invites us to look back to look forward. Pluto, hovering at 29 degrees of Capricorn, draws us into old, crumbling power struggles and the drive for control. We’ve been on this rugged mountain again and again, the shaggy Seagoat using its watery legs to help us let go of dense conditioning that ties us to a fixed past. Consider new support systems that meet your need for security, no matter how it looks from the outside. It takes courage to walk away from the old patterns. With Saturn making a whole sign trine, the omens divine a strong bank for the waters of creative solutions to flow freely.
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. ― George Orwell, 1984 (Full Moon in Cancer)
The relationship between intimacy and autonomy will call again and again as the lunar nodes shift into a new sign axis after 18 months in Taurus and Scorpio. Welcome Rahu and Ketu to Aries and Libra! This New Moon dancing within 5 degrees holds an anticipatory edge for this changing landscape. Activating Mars and Venus in their Fire and Air elements, use this lunar cycle to reflect on your “attachment style” in relationships. Are you anxious, avoidant, disorganized, or secure? Luna, alongside her beloved Sun in Cancer, knows that strong relationships root us in a sense of belonging and are deeply connected to our safety, security, and survival.
Join us for our second AO Salon to discuss the significance of the Nodal shift into Aries and Libra! August 3, 11 am – 12:15 pm PT. Limited to 12 people.
Guided by the far-off sheen of Uranus and Neptune, emotional waves of forgetting and remembering help guide the way forward. Making a sextile to Uranus in Taurus, Luna activates the liberatory impulse to shift entrenched systems through innovation and experimentation. New collaborations may even lurk in familiar places. With Neptune trine, expand your perception and trust the process, even when a tidal wave of emotion washes over you.
The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is… - Marcel Proust (Jupiter, Mercury, Sun and Uranus in Cancer)
Consider this…
There’s a lot of cosmic happenings in the second half of July. Coloring this month’s lunar cycle, Mars in fastidious Virgo opposes Saturn in Pisces. The malefics face off at the crossroads of change, bringing potential frustration but also perseverance. Let Luna remind you of the ebb and flow of life—two steps forward, one step back.
Mercury is square Jupiter and will quicksilver his way to square Uranus on July 23. These are speedy planets willing and ready to shake up entrenched patterns. Communication may be wonky, but could also lead to breakthroughs and big-picture thinking if you can ride the wave.
And then there’s Venus. At long last, here comes her much-anticipated retrograde on July 22. Read our Love Letters from Venus to see how her epic journey to a morning star may affect you.