Cancer Full Moon
Jan 12
Much comes out, at this Full Moon. A nice release moment
before we begin a new annual voyage. Cancer Full Moons are always
deeply felt. In very private ways. Some bring a deep and abiding feeling
of comfort, protection and security, in the safety of the tribe, the
team, the family, in the warm familiar walls of Home. Others bring a sense of
being torn from the nest, taking us back to a time when we could
not fly, or simply entertained the notion we may never fully learn
how to, on our own.
2017's Cancer Full Moon is part of a Cardinal
Square. A fixed grid that demands that New Action Be Taken Immediately. Nothing
can remain stagnant now. Change leaves an impression on us, once again. In Cancer, it's sensitive
and close to home. Something has to change, or something already is. the
emotions we unearth around this time, always, always find roots in our Mother
and Father experience, in What Went On
Back Then. The past comes into view again, through an even more emotional lens
to get our attention and to reconnect us to our core - so that we can better
feed our souls and give ourselves the roots and grounding we need during our physical time on Earth.
Some may be entertaining ideas of moving. Some may find themselves homeless.
Since the FM is a purge time, when tears are shed, [more
alcoholic drinks are imbibed and time and time again those in emergency rooms
and police departments see a definite influx of people around this
time], raw emotions are going to come up - relating to how insecure or comfortable you feel, relating to the nurturing or lack thereof within
your family tree, where you live and whether it again feeds your needs or
leaves you feeling un-grounded, relating to what happened in your past and
whether it gives you a firm foundation to build upon or reminds you to uproot and
build elsewhere.
This emotional illumination or emotional revelation will
serve you. It may hurt, plunging you back into uncertainty, but it will help in the
uprooting of old emotional scripts echoing through your life's journey so that you are
free to Find Out What Your Needs Are and go about Fulfilling Them For Yourself
in even better ways than you have so far.
Sometimes it's just the FEELING that wants to be found and
felt and freed.
So events arise to help us find them.
Pluto opposing this Full Moon is like the ache you feel
between what you know you need and what must be given up to be fulfilled. You
can't have it both ways, not at this Full Moon. Something has to give. And it will
always come back and come down to how you feel and what you feel you must have, in life, with no room for
compromise. Pluto opposing can help sever us from toxic connections to people or plans
if we are willing to put how we feel, at the top of our list of priorities.
Jupiter squaring from Libra could be the challenge we each
now find ourselves facing in how to handle our emotional natures without the need for
absolute compromise. Sometimes, people lose, feelings get hurt. Sometimes there
is no middle ground, there is no grey, there is only This or That. Much as we may
now try to keep the peace by following rules of etiquette, the Full Moon in Cancer
WILL have her way with us in revealing (bringing to our awareness through actual
events of inner feelings) what we feel. It's up to us whether to act on it, repress
it, deny it, fight it.
What will you do with the feelings that arise around this
time?
Uranus squaring from Aries could be the angry inner animal
we all possess, the primal side of our warrior spirits that wants to do as it pleases,
with no thought but to being the most authentic free "Me" we can be. Explosive anger then, could be the hallway of this tie to the Cancer Full Moon, since Aries-Cancer is
protective at best, and fiercely defensive at worst. Be careful you don't
overstep the line and cross into someone else's personal space or territory at
this time. And be wary of triggers and sudden irrational reactions. Cancer Full
Moons can pull in the passive-aggressive, emotional manipulator side of this sign.
That's another key theme. Emotional Abuse. The manipulating
of someone else to feel a certain way. Like advertising experts. Like the mother who
threatens to cancel Christmas to get her way. The father who ignores his kids as
punishment. Or the partner who scoffs at your sadness. However subtle, we are
AWARE of it now, and we know when someone is setting out to deliberately hurt
us.
A long time standing emotional pattern could be about to end in your life, if you're willing
to withdraw your involvement from it. Cancer Full Moons help in the dissolution of toxic loyalty or trauma bonding, any bad habits you want to give up and anything or anyone you no longer want to be attached to.
This Full Moon - remember that feelings pass. No need to get
that worked up about anything, except...how you feel. A Catch 22? Honoring our
feelings is essential now, but not living through them abandoning reason and sound
judgement. Something from the past needs resolution and completion but part of us may
want to hold on, To the old ways of doing and the old ways of being, but this only
delays growth, snags up the traffic and blocks your flow. The past can often be resolved by facing the present with more awareness and...presence. From nearly 24 years now in the field (time has flown, and what they say is true - I have enjoyed it!) I have seen countless times that our past (past lives, childhood, history) repeats throughout our lives as an echo, perhaps purified each time by our presence and actions, but always there, just behind the events and pictures, people and places of our Present Moment Lives. Major growth doesn't always come in huge leaps and bounds but in the gradual repetition of new patterns of behavior, through the many days of our lives.
And sometimes, only the names have been changed....
Realize that despite your best efforts at catering to everyone to find a Win-Win, that you can't please everyone, and
you're allowed to feel how you feel. You're free to react how you please, and act
how you please but that it's a Higher Path and a Harder Path to rein in the raw,
savage and to express our feelings without apology or guilt, shame or regret. The Lower Path is
always available to us - regression back to childish behavior to bend those close to
us to our whims and ways. As always, it's our Free Will Choice.
Accept what comes up around this time. Feel how it makes you feel. Decide what you'll do with the new insight. Stay? Go? Surge ahead? Pull back? Then turn
your attention to finding a safe and grounded space of your own again, where
you are safe to tend to your private needs, be yourself and safe to feel how
you feel..until that feeling passes too.
Enjoy cocooning,
Neil
