Cancer New Moon: Bonds, Belonging and Busting Beyond the Discomfort Zone

Cancer New Moon tonight. Lots of watery energy about as you've read in the Weekly Scopes (scroll down my page to see them). The New Moon falls at:

6.24pm LA
9.24pm NY
2.24am Thursday UK,
5.24am Thursday Dubai,
9.24am Thursday Hong Kong,
11.24am Thursday Sydney

This one is all about the PAST, our FEELINGS, our NEEDS, our EATING HABITS, our LIVING SITUATION, our FAMILY, our sense of BELONGING.

A square from Uranus in Aries adds a sudden urge for freedom from past restrictions, past feelings/triggers/reactions - in short, old worn-out emotional material. There's an urge at times to throw everything out from our past, but the square shows it's really an internal friction playing out externally between the habits that have become comfortable even in their discomfort, and the striving Valiantly, Nobly and Bravely and Suddenly (Uranus/Aries) towards something fresh and new.

We have no choice but to Update Our Lives now. Helpful Trines from Chiron (healing) and Saturn (structuring) are welcome signposts that beyond the yearning, burning, churning feelings in the pit of our stomachs, lies is a New Comfort Zone waiting to be tried out. All it takes is listening to that still voice within and taking one foot forward...
Send some good vibes my way, will you? Still trying to secure a new home and it's been one challenge after another. Saturn back in Scorpio is a real Test. Don't give up.

Your Astrologer,
Neil
www.NewWorldAstrology.com

New Moon in Cancer (July 8th) : How ya feeling?!

The Cancer New Moon:  Jul 8, 2013. 0:14am

See that large green triangle? It's a GRAND WATER TRINE. Connecting Neptune (5Pisces) to Saturn (4Scorpio) and Jupiter (2Cancer). Neptune/Saturn/Jupiter is about spiritual surrender/hard work/faith.

We all need these three attributes to get through the months ahead. Grand Water Trines offer an Escape Route Through Tears of Joy or Sorrow. 

The floodgates are opening, whether we like it or not. Too much pressure (Pluto opposing the Moon) inevitably leads to some form of breakdown or breakthrough, to make way for something better.

The New Moon in Cancer urges us all to Make Home. To realize that the past is gone and that there's no use picking at it. Where is home? A physical building? Or a feeling within?

CHIRON IN PISCES continually reminds is to Let It Go. Pray about it, Surrender it up to your God(s). Forgive. Soothe. Calm. Float. Exactly trine (13 degrees) the North Node of Karmic Evolution has the same message. To move forward we have to keep Feeling Our Feelings and Not Getting Stuck There,  And trine the Cancer New Moon, again another reminder that you have to find an oasis of calm security,  nest to withdrawn to, a safe space within, even amidst the most turbulent of times.
Even if you have to run to the bathroom to cry and regroup.

Real transformation comes now by going deeply, deeply, deeply into a feeling. Only then can it be relieved. RELIVE to RELIEVE, it's the mantra I offer in my Surfing Your Solar Cycles under Cycle 4 (the chapter relating to House 4 and the sign of Cancer - the theme we are collectively moving through).

This NEW MOON connects with RETROGRADE MERCURY  - asking us to look back and learn, to truly FEEL the emotional lessons and experiences of the past because so often while "in the moment" we miss things. Emotions take time to process. We need to go back over them to finally feel them fully so they have passed on their wisdom and can finally be freed up from our energy space.

We just lost our home this end to a fire as you already may have read, and so this rings doubly true, 'you can't go home again', 'home isn't a place it's an internal and unshakable feeling of security'. I'm still learning that one (I was born with a 4th House Pisces Sun and Mercury both squaring Neptune).

When you lose something externally, you have a chance

 to  build it and find it internally. 

Perhaps the external loss is a sign of your newly reclaimed inner gain?

Venus in Leo squaring the Lunar Nodes reminds us that we need to keep playing, to hold on to Joy. To find and feel Love no matter what because without it, we develop back into unhealthy stagnant and stuck materialistic and dense energy patterns (Taurus). With a childlike sense of glee, wonder and creative possibilities, we can evolve beyond the shadows of our painful pasts (North Node in Scorpio).

Things hurt. Especially right now. Many of us are crying, frustrated, blocked, trapped.
No way out? Nowhere to turn? No one to rely on?

The Cancer New Moon has one message loud and clear:

How you feel is totally justified. Understandable. You have to give it time (Saturn).
You have to wallow a bit (Neptune) and allow yourself to feel a little lost, sad, overwhelmed.
Seemingly 'off track'. To remember that where you are wounded (Chiron) lies a wisdom
that no one can take from you but that which you can offer others in their Time of Need.
That Faith and Hope and Optimism are always there close by, if you choose
to reach for them. As possibilities of a better tomorrow. And let's face it, during times
like these the only way is up. And yes of course, since Saturn in Scorpio won't allow
us to sugarcoat anything anymore, sometimes you have to hit rock bottom in order
to finally be able to bounce back.

Finally URANUS IN ARIES is a constant inner and outer urge to follow the dictates of what personal freedom means to you. You HAVE to figure yourself out now. What goes, what stays. Where You Need to Make Changes. And it starts from the ground up under this Cancer New Moon. If your emotional foundation is wobbly, anything you build is laced with insecurity.

Start with the basics. Eat. Drink Water. Find a comfy place to rest. Remember the safe and comfy and happy times. Feel them again in the present. Go easy. Give yourself time. Nap. Listen to soothing music (or sad stuff to let the tears finally roll). If you need to withdraw, do so. But not to hide long-term.

This period is a PIT STOP in a larger cycle that still asks that we get up and keep going and keep trying. Nothing lasts forever and behind every physical event, is a spiritual meaning and a Higher Purpose.

No we can't see it from this perspective but try this:  Picture another Yourself, a more highly evolved one, the one that knows the whys and hows behind what you are currently going through. You're somewhere else right now. Another dimension? Heaven? Whispering to you in moments of calm stillness (which can be hard to hear when you're consumed by feelings). Or simply standing watching you now, laughing at how seriously you are taking this all Down Here On Earth yet how proud too that you're getting through this Illusion (yet very real feeling) Classroom of Life.

When in doubt, give yourself a hug and know that EVERYONE - everyone EVERYWHERE is under the same planetary alignments in various degrees and going through a rough patch in some form.  Let that nurture you. Times may be tough but things ARE getting better. I said it years ago and I'll say it again now:

When things seem really dire, dark or destructive 

on the outside/surface,

amazing things are taking root and taking shape 

on the inside and in the depths.

Don't get lost watching the TV movie of the outside world.
Stay close to your heart, listen close to your instinct and calm yourself.

Be the Best Mom you can be to yourself. Guilt free.

Love,
Your Astrologer,
Neil
www.NewWorldAstrology.com


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Cancer Solar Eclipse (Jul 1)

The Solar Eclipse at 10 Cancer today heralds a potential new beginning. When the Sun’s light temporarily goes out, it invokes a symbolic time when we can ring the changes in our lives and ‘start over’. In Cancer, we all have a chance to establish new habits.

Wherever the Eclipse falls in your own Birth Chart, you have an opportunity to see if you can let go of old emotional ‘pulls’ and establish a new foundation, a new secure place on which to build.

For example: in your 2nd house, new self esteem practices will provide a solid foundation for new earning potential. In your 9th house, new comfort zones help create a new sense of faith in life. In your 8th House, you get to embrace the intensity of your feelings and do away with any unhealthy attachments you still have sticking to you.

Get it?

For all of us, the Cancer Eclipse will rock our emotional world – our intimate connection to others. Expect shifts within your family for better or worse. Try and get comfy where you are and “make home” in all areas of your life. The more secure and comfortable you are, the more this period opens up and you can create some new, healthier, emotional habits for yourself.

With the Eclipse slap bang between Uranus in Aries (personal freedom issues) and Saturn in Libra (relationship legalities and commitment/rules of engagement issues), the Eclipse in Cancer brings us back to what we really need and where our hearts REALLY are.

Follow them to a new, healthier place. Don’t follow old feelings if they don’t feel good. It’s that simple. You can always reframe your present based on how you’re feeling right now. Opposing Pluto in Capricorn, the Eclipse says offload your baggage as you only have yourself to blame, if you’re suffering from something that happened to you in the past.

Use the next week period to begin something that “feeds” you. Anything else you’re hungering for that doesn’t ultimately satisfy you, try and release your attachment. You’ll leave energy for other things – things you truly need now.

If you feel a little emotionally shaky, unsure, confused, lost or unhappy - or you just want a check in to see how best to navigate the road ahead – you can always check in with me for a Personal Reading (or order a Report specific to you).

Enjoy your human feelings, but don’t take any of it too seriously – and don’t, I repeat, don’t, cling to your feelings (or any life situation) as though it WAS you. You’re bigger than this, and it’s all an illusion.

Choose the best feelings and proceed!

Love,
Neil

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Your Astro-Guide,
Neil
www.NewWorldAstrology.com

Focus on Feeling: The Cancer Solar Eclipse (Jul 21)

(10.35pm Eastern, 7:35pm Pacific, 6.35pm GMT.)

Welcome to another big chapter change in your life. And you've already felt it, haven't you. Another opportunity to ring the changes and start anew. A fresh possibility. A new way to do things differently. Especially if you're a Cancer born near Jul 21 or a Capricorn born around Dec 21 (then you'll notice it's a mega time of personal change and growth). But it's a great time for us all.

Here's how to navigate it.

Jul 21 brings us into contact with yet another Cancer New Moon (and a Solar Eclipse) (normally we just get one a year) in the final degree (29 Degrees) of the first water sign of Cancer the Crab bringing us a strong emphasis, in the months ahead on: Our Feelings, Our Habits, Our Past, Where we Live and What's Going On At Home, Family interactions and our Self Comfort.

Solar Eclipses turn out the light in key areas of our lives - to help us to re-member & re-vitalize those parts of us in need of re-awakening.

How often we forget to live as well-rounded souls, experiencing various facets of human existence! Anywhere you're stuck in the past is up for review. Anywhere you're stuck in outdated feelings, is up for change. Anywhere you're in need of shaking out of a rut, is spotlighted. Anything you're ignoring that's truly what need, begins to shout for your attention.

And those lagging areas in your life you now get to re-discover and re-explore at the time of the Solar Eclipse. This one is the longest in the 21st Century, lasting 6 minutes 39 seconds, (there won't be another one longer than this until June 13, 2132!) and is drawing major interest. You can watch an animation of the Eclipse path here.

The Sun is our life force, our sense of self, our reason for being, our illumination and light in the world. During an Eclipse we find a renewal, after a moment when our light is 'cast out' and overshadowed. Then when our light returns, we see things differently. Things we never saw before. We make decisions that affect our entire lives, our central reason for being.

So look for that feeling, and for everyone else around you feeling it too - major decisions are made, major changes arrive. People get divorced. Marry. They move out of town. They suddenly switch jobs. They decide to Totally Alter the landscape of their lives, or find that life forces a shift upon them that does the very same thing.

CHANGE is here in your life, knocking at the door asking you to go. How will this Eclipse be affecting you for the rest of this year and into next year?

Stay tuned for more. But for now, as my personal yoga instructor mentioned today during his class, Solar Eclipses are times when our energy may not be at full capacity. So if your sleep patterns or off, or you feel a lull, then it's just the 're-setting and re-charging of your solar batteries. And soon enough you'll be powered and amped up to continue building yourself a new chapter.

Exciting times. Look for that, then in the months ahead. And maybe, as usual, some strong weather shifts to reflect the Earth's changes also as she shakes things up for herself and all of us aboard her spaceship!

Your Celestial Solar-Panel Astrologer,
Neil
www.New World Astrology.com

P.S Solar Eclipse Readings available!

Emotional Release: Cancer New Moon opposing Pluto

It all comes back to how you feel.

The next two weeks host a dramatic, life-altering pattern of energy that will enable many of us to release ourselves from old stuff. Expect anything as intense as:

Relationship Break-ups
Relationship-Make-ups (dramatically altered)
Job Releasing (fired, laid off, quitting)
New Jobs (more in line with our true feelings)
Family showdowns
Resurrecting the Past
One Last Clear-out
The Blame Game
Bad Habit Removal
Toxic Waste Clearing
Emotional Showdowns
Death transitions
Power Games
Emotional Manipulation
Major decisions chosen or forced upon us
Finally being free to feel better


The key result is the same - releasing feelings in a tidal flood of emotion. We simply can't hold back any longer and we can NO LONGER GIVE THE POWER OF OUR FEELINGS AWAY TO OTHER PEOPLE.

Life now forces you to play your hand, by helping you go inside to dictate how you feel and how you want to feel.

Can you let go of the past?

Expect this next two weeks to be a major CLEARING OUT period as the New Moon in Cancer (feelings, the past, our safety) is opposed by Pluto (release, resurrection, rebirth).

How intense. How dramatic. But how necessary.

See the higher perspective. It was high time for change and this is it.
Go with your intuition, ignore fear, and find your safety, comfort and peace - which may mean rebuilding NEW COMFORT ZONES and letting the old ones die.

You're new. Be gentle. Go easy. Allow. Free yourself from the muck.

Let your feelings reflect this new you.

Much Love,
Neil

New Moon in Cancer - Today!

Stay tuned for more on today's New Moon in Cancer.

Hint: it has to do with your living situation, and your current feelings about a certain situation. You know what I'm talking about.... stay tuned!