A good mother loves and accepts her child enough to encourage her/his unique development. A good father helps his child go out into the world and offer his/her unique talents to our collective destiny. This is the promise of the Cancer full Moon -- to nurture the new Light being born within you and to learn how to bring it into the world for our communal benefit later this year.
What does your intuition tell you to do about your life situation? Are you taking care of your needs so you can help others achieve theirs? What old patriarchal complexes -- both in the mother and father complex- do you need to heal? Become aware of how your life interacts with the life of the culture. Are you bringing your nurturing gifts to our collective table?
Cancer Full Moon 2012
The Cancer Full Moon occurs on Sunday January 8th at 11:30pm PST and on Monday January 9th at 2:30am EST/ 7:30am GMT. Besides the square from Saturn, Mars in Virgo will lend this full Moon the energy to help us focus on our task -- rebirthing ourselves and our world.
The Sabian Symbol for the Sun at 19* Capricorn is: A five year old child carrying a bag filled with groceries. This symbol suggests that we can rise to the occasion when asked to assume greater responsibilities than we might feel prepared for. We just might be better than we believe of ourselves. Why not give it a try and see?
The Sabian Symbol for the Moon at 19* Cancer is: A priest performing a marriage ceremony. This beautiful symbol suggests that the power of all our unions is blessed by spirit. Man and woman, masculine and feminine energies are need to birth a child or a new world. Perhaps if we want to accomplish our great goal and vision, we need to partner up with someone so we can help and nurture each other as we blaze a new trail (Uranus in Aries) for our lives and the life of the world. These partnerships will make new choices, to birth a new world-view.
Mercury, the planet associated with perception and communication, just moved into Capricorn and forms aspects with all the outer planets. The Sabian symbol for 2* Capricorn is a symbol of the unnecessary waste and destruction that is so inherent in our past culture. It's time to change it! Three rose windows in a Gothic church, one damaged by war. The rose window symbolizes how the light of Spirit enters into our social structures. The three windows also symbolize our three-fold nature: body, mind and spirit. The war damage to our spirit of love and unity must be healed if we're going to bring a profound change into the world.
Mercury in Capricorn is joined with Pluto, deepening the mind to receive new information while it trines Jupiter in Taurus, grounding us in sensual reality as well as our values, so we know what we want to build. Mercury sextiles Saturn and Neptune/Chiron, offering opportunities to expand our perceptions and our understanding of relationships (Libra) and both the group mind (Aquarius) and heart (Pisces). Mercury squares Uranus in Aries which challenges the mind to think outside the box of patriarchally-approved ideas.
All in all, this full Moon wants us to become aware of our new potentials and then nurture them. Our culture (Capricorn) needs our innovative ideas (Uranus in Aries), our compassion for each other (Neptune in Aquarius/Chiron in Pisces), our sense of fairness and our need for good partnerships (Saturn in Libra). And they have to be Earth-based, Earth-centered. Our Earth (Taurus) is our only home (Cancer).
The opposition between Jupiter (expansion and belief) and Saturn (constriction and despair) stretches us to find a third way through our broken world, a path of beauty, discipline, excitement, deepening, imagination, compassion and desire. It's time to live fully and freely. Don't forget to have fun doing it!
If we seek solace in the prisons of the distant past
Security in human systems we're told will always, always last
Emotions are the sail and blind faith is the mast
Without the breath of real freedom we're getting nowhere fast.
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