The New Moon perfects on June 3rd
at 6:03 AM EDT. At this lunation, we enter a period of time that
feels like a lull, a calm before the storm or simply like a resting
spot. To me, it feels like a breezeway between two places. We find
the ruler of this Moon, Mercury in Gemini, well placed and with the
luminaries. But, the very next day he enters the sign of Cancer.
There is certainly a palpable shift in how we think and communicate
with the transition of Mercury from his Air home sign even if it is
just right next door.
Of course, the sign of Cancer itself
has emphasis already. We find Mars, Juno and the North Node there.
Plus, any natal bodies that a person may have in the sign are, have
or soon will be receiving “focus” from Pluto, Saturn, Uranus and
Neptune. Our Cancer planets are not the only bodies receiving energy
from these big players. However, the fact that they are included in
that mix by way of harsh and amicable aspect while the North Node
passes through their sign gives these Moon ruled entities emphasis.
In turn, as the North Node passes
through Cancer emphasis is also brought continually back to our own
Moon. The one we receive in our natal charts on the day we are born.
Where that Moon is now by progression. The season it is in by way of
her yearly cycle, our lunar return. Our emotional intelligence,
maturity, coping mechanisms. All the personal healths (physical,
mental, emotional, spiritual). The concepts of home, mother, family,
nurturing, birth, creation, women, children, self-care, nesting,
hormones, safety, security, attachment...regardless of whether that
involves “good” feels or bad...emotions are present and palpable.
These are personal core and root issues.
At the same time, within the
collective, the same energy from the North Node in Cancer brings
forth the same types of concepts and creates emphasis around them.
Our emotional intelligence, maturity, coping mechanisms. All the
personal healths (physical, mental, emotional, spiritual). The
concepts of home, mother, family, nurturing, birth, creation, women,
children, self-care, nesting, hormones, safety, security,
attachment....same. Perhaps you've witnessed/participated in some
“Collective” discussions that involve these topics lately.
Perhaps you dubbed some or all of it as “the same old song and
dance” well rehearsed, perfectly timed and rather unthrillingly
predictable.
13 Gemini (Moon):A great musician at
his piano
Just as the Sun's path, when rising and
setting, begins to drift slowly Southward after the Summer Solstice
tells us that we are entering the latter half of the calendar year,
so does the North Node in Cancer point us toward a season which
escorts energies thematic to its name simply as a result of a
predictable and continual cycle. The bodies in our Astrology spin
like clockwork. Their location at any given time (past or future) due
the predictability of their cycles can be easily calculated...even a
hypothetical point such as the nodes of the Moon. It's no different
than what happens in any other season. Autumn brings death. Spring
brings birth. The Season of North Node in Cancer brings a time in
which we are tasked to grow, heal, nurture and mature all that is of
the sign of the Crab. It's not personal; it's the season we are in.
Just so happens, though, anything that brings forth issues that
strike an emotional chord or relate to core/root issues... feels
MIGHTILY personal.
Now, we get “all that” JUST from
the North Node's transit through Cancer all by itself. Additionally,
many of the relevant themes have recently been
agitated/irritated/inflamed by Mars, restricted/blocked/stone walled
by Saturn, tempted/destroyed/abused by Pluto,
softened/sensitized/confused by Neptune. Even MORE recently the same
themes were brought up against Chiron in Aries by Mars in square
which harshly mixed in topics like devaluing of the individual, human
life, emasculation, toxic or wounded masculinity, immaturity, wounded
animal-like aggression and our personal inability/ability to feel
“valid and vital” as individuals as well as our individual
abilities/inabilities to deal with emotions that revolve around
anger, frustration, self-assertion etc. Ensure that, regardless of
your biological sex/gender identity, you are seeking to appreciate
and healthfully employ the more feminine and passive energies while
actively seeking to heal innate masculine energies.
As this New Moon rises, the themes we
have been dealing with on individual and collective levels do not go
away. As a matter of fact, there is a higher chance of those themes
growing in intensity and meeting with a greater severity of response.
Plus, the way we think and talk about them will change, as well. We
go from a linear, straight-line, airy, curious but not necessarily
“immersed” in the fullness of the emotional influence of any
given topic from Mercury in Gemini whose word choice is geared toward
learning, exchange of information and ongoing conversation
to...indirect, fully immersed, empathic, intuitive, sensitive and
sentimental/nostalgic type of energy whose word choice in thinking or
communicating is GREATLY influenced by things such as one's personal
experience with the themes of Cancer which are... Our emotional
intelligence, maturity, coping mechanisms. All the personal healths
(physical, mental, emotional, spiritual). The concepts of home,
mother, family, nurturing, birth, creation, women, children,
self-care, nesting, hormones, safety, security, attachment. Those
core issues are going to keep bubbling forth on personal levels for
folks to deal with while they are also given chance to mature, grow,
heal and learn to deal more healthfully.
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| Artwork by Tiera Mitica |
Mars at 12 Cancer: A Chinese woman
nursing a baby whose aura reveals him to be the reincarnation of a
great teacher
Again, this will begin to peak in
intensity in July. But, these first two weeks of June? We are still
in the breezeway that will eventually lead us toward that less arid
and personally/collectively intense challenging season of energy. A
New Moon's energy offers a low emotional tide that has followed a
period of the emotional tides' recession or withdraw captured in the
season of the balsamic Moon. Following the “Drawing out” and
“withdrawing inward” cycle, it's as if the “vessel” of
emotions has been cleared out or emptied in preparation for the next
season to begin filling it up once again. The monthly season of the
New Moon in any given sign brings us to our “empty vessel.” The
intentions/seeds we set forth within that New Moon season dictate
what will fill the void.
At this particular New Moon, our empty
vessel finds tensions easing and relaxing momentarily. The South Node
slightly pulls away from Saturn. Mars wanes in square to Chiron. He
waxes in opposition to Saturn but there is still a wide orb yet.
Mercury wanes in opposition to Jupiter meaning the volume in the
atmosphere is dropping. Plus, Venus is richly grounded, grateful and
gratified still in close trine with Pluto in Capricorn while also
making gloriously rich and fertile soil for intentions
setting/manifestation efforts.
As we move further into June, softening
continues while Neptune and Water energies gradually and steadily
rise. Our First Quarter Moon, whose season thrusts challenges to
growth into our awareness, includes a mutable t-square with Jupiter
and Neptune. Our Full Moon, whose season reveals the blossom/fruit of
our seed sowing, features Jupiter locked into square with Neptune at
18 degrees. Which, just so happens, to be the same degree the North
Node is on. Oh yeah, Neptune is stationing on that degree...and,
btw, Saturn is at 18 degrees of Capricorn joining the party, too. The
softening continues. As the season of Gemini morphs into the season
of Cancer at the solstice, Neptune turns retrograde (6/21). Mercury
enters his retrograde shadow. Then, the energy of increased
sensitization/softening meets in confluence with the erratic and
anxious making energy of the ecliptic. I want to bring emphasis to
that confluence for a reason. As June moves forward the energy
operates to soften us. Empathy increases. Intuition and the “pull”
of the same increases. People become more sensitive. Emotions are on
the surface and raw. Saturn in sextile to Neptune is a wonderfully
employable energy but it also points to boundaries (emotional,
physical, psychic) becoming more permeable. Jupiter's square to
Neptune grows that permeability exponentially while also
spotlighting our personal vulnerabilities. This type of softening,
increased sensitivity and increased sense of vulnerability is a
greenhouse for anxiety to grow anyway. Problem being, the “flow”
of this softening doesn't trickle into immediate outlet likened to
the passage of an unencumbered gentle brook finally finding outlet in
a slowly passing river. Extended periods of choppy and stormy waters
separates the lull from smooth sailing.
The Eye, much like a storm, is a
passing phase. The sky and air lightens. Visibility clears. Those odd
and ominous moments in the eye captured in snapshot photograph look
like a regular beautiful sunny day. But, in those moments when all
looks still, the small hairs on our bodies are standing up. Our
visceral senses are piqued and physical energies fatigued as a result
of the adrenaline pumped into us in response to the first half of the
storm. The heart's movements are palpable. There is a brief moment
within the eye, that we can release the breath we've held imprisoned
in our chests and breathe a bit more deliberately and freely for a
moment. Yet, somewhere in the “whole” of ourselves we sense the
storm's imminent return. It is within those moments of the “eye”
that we are most present (connected to ourselves and the immediate
environment around us) and aware of “the moment” while also being
physically invigorated in response to what is waiting on the horizon
(the future).
While Mars resides in Cancer our
actions illustrate how the influence of the emotional body is
interpreted. If we interpret the emotional cues as anger; our actions
illustrate that. If interpreted as fear, our actions become fearful.
How things go with that on an individual level depends on how well we
can interpret emotional cues prior to allowing the body to respond.
In the most simplistic form, it's all in how you decide you want to
spend your time in the eye. A decision which will be influenced by
your ability to cope in response to an heighted or increased level of
sensitivity and influx of emotionally charged energy. That means it
is largely up to the individual to decide at this New Moon if this is
a time for them to seek shelter, gather supplies/information or
simply take a deep breath in appreciation of the respite offered in
the eye ahead of the next incoming wave.
The Sun, Moon and Mercury together and
basically unencumbered by anything else in the sky offers us a chance
to seek clarity and draw education from what is presented through the
emotional body. Within that is opportunity to further our knowledge
about how our personal system operates by consciously peering through
this brief window allowing ourselves to remain curious. As Mercury
drifts into Cancer the nuance surrounding our thinking shifts into a
nonlinear fashion. Mercury in Cancer absorbs and processes
information that resides outside the realm of logic. Her thinking
flows backward and forward from memory to anticipation of birthing
something new. In Cancer, our thinking is influenced more strongly by
empathy and mood as well all the aforementioned in relation to the
sign of Cancer.
As that occurs, however, Mercury is
also embraced by Uranus in Taurus in waxing sextile. If we allow (as
the expression of water would have us to do) ourselves to follow the
flow of thought as if we were standing on the banks of a river
watching it flow by instead of standing in the flowing water itself,
we can glean much wisdom about the ways in which emotions (and all
those other Cancer themed matters...home, mother, women, safety,
security, all the healths, nurturing, attachment) may impact how we
think and process information. As well as show us the ways in which
the same bears influence upon the actions we ultimately decide to
take.
If it feels as if the mind has a
tendency to wander or flow through pages of time either backward or
forward after Mercury enters Cancer, my advice is to allow that. To
stand on the bank of the river and observe it all as it passes by.
Allow yourself to daydream and sculpt in your imaginings the best
possible outcome you can fathom for yourself. Drift back in time to
pleasant memories and those that bring forth a comforting sense of
nostalgia. And, Tarot thinks this is a good idea, too. For advice
under this New Moon, we have received the 4 of Cups.
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| Artwork by stalkinghyena |
The 4 advises we monopolize upon the
chance to catch our breath and then to surrender to the flow of
thinking that follows. As we envision that ideal outcome, day dream,
sink into nostalgia and imagination, the scenes we conjure deliver
unto us meaning in an indirect way. What can be gleaned from our
“visions” is what it is about the 3 cups we have in the tangible
realm that makes them unfulfilled, drained and disinteresting.
Through our visions we can learn what it is we may be personally
missing or what factions of our lives we are finding unfulfilling or
dissatisfying. Plus it can help us identify more clearly what it is
we find in our lives to be draining. With that knowledge and vision
in tow, it becomes more clear what ruts it is time for us to emerge
from. We learn more about what it is we personally need and what
“nutrients” of life sustenance may be missing denying an
opportunity to experience a full and healthy life.
Mercury 28 Gemini: A man declared
bankrupt
Leaning into that while focusing your
energy toward accepting, healing, allowing, resting, and grounding
instead of attempting to force an external agenda in the physical
world monopolizes upon the energetic atmosphere at hand. The time can
be used to hone skills related to learning to work with resistance and
flow. It's well framed to use as a study center to increase your
ability to decipher emotional, non-verbal, psychic, empathic or
intuitive cues. Plus, reserving energy at this time leaves us well
prepped to follow the advice we encounter at the Full Moon in
Sagittarius, the Knight of Cups. At the Full Moon the horn sounds for
the army to “charge” and folks take off from whatever position
they find themselves in relation to all that is Cancer. Our emotional
intelligence, maturity, coping mechanisms. All the personal healths
(physical, mental, emotional, spiritual). The concepts of home,
mother, family, nurturing, birth, creation, women, children,
self-care, nesting, hormones, safety, security, attachment. But,
victory in this battle? It's crown goes to the person who is able to
endure healthfully stuff like emotional intensity, pain, feelings of
vulnerability..to who is best at indirect and nurturing
leadership..to the folks who prioritize the health of themselves so
that they may then also reach out nurturing to others...to those who
are able to help others feel nurtured and safe providing shelters
from the storm.
Venus at 24 Taurus: A mounted Indian
with scalp locks
Monopolize upon the lull found in the
eye. Prepare and ground ahead of the quickening of the ecliptic.
Allow yourself to envision and set intention toward what you deem as
worthy under this brief moment of clarity because the ground for
sowing seeds is very rich. Remember that regardless of your current
skill level in dealing with matters such as anxiety, intuition,
empathy and general sensitivity...your level of sensitivity to all
that is going to increase as we inch toward the end of June and July.
That means reinforcing boundaries, increasing efforts at self care
and being extra diligent about the healthfulness of what it is you
are exposing yourself to. Just as it is important to remember all
this about yourself, it can be helpful to remember it is happening to
everyone around you too. It's a gentle hand that is operated by
strength. Not a violent one. Remember that in your own responses to
yourself and others as the lull begins to swing toward turbulence.
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