New Moon in Cancer - July 5: Tending the Garden
The New Moon in Cancer takes place July 5/6, depending on your location. Cancerian energy connects us with the principle of caring for and nurturing what and who we love.
On the shadow side, it can be clingy, experiencing intense waves of emotion that can lead to challenges with self-regulation.
(Having tools and techniques like EFT and emdr can help us through these waves, as can yoga and exercise. Music and dancing can be especially supportive at this time.)
Cancer is a tenacious, ambitious, cardinal sign, so taking the initiative on important matters is highlighted now.
Venus, also in Cancer, is lending sweet vibes to this New Moon, and Mars in sympatico Taurus strengthens and invigorates this gateway period in a solid, grounded way. Saturn now retrograde in Pisces is speaking in perfect harmony with the New Moon and Venus. We could not ask for a lovelier time to receive the blessings that are on offer. And as Elizabeth Purvis has noted, receiving involves some sort of action step.
I pulled a card for this time, asking what conscious AND ambitious women entrepreneurs and leaders can gather from the energy of this time (Turtle Spirit from CBR’s Animal Spirit Oracle in the reverse position. Divine! ) I am interpreting this as a need to be extra intentional about where we’re directing our energy. We may feel impatient or else fritter our time on things that either don’t matter or bring us joy. As long as we’re moving in a grounded and thoughtful manner, we can know we’re making the best use of our energy in the moment, whatever that is. Slow n steady is great.
Things will get choppy soon enough. Mid-month mars and Uranus will form a conjunction in Taurus so if you have some anger you think you may have suppressed (and who doesn’t?) make sure you have a way to express and channel it in a healthy direction. With Uranus involved it’s impossible to predict exactly what we might face; it tends to be what you'd never expect.
This is not necessarily negative. (Astrolada had a very interesting breakdown on her yt of the ancient astrology behind the degree and constellation of this conjunction.)
Both Mars and Uranus are decidedly fierce in their own ways so if people-pleasing has kept you from acting in alignment with your truth (i still find myself doing this at times) this conjunction can have a way of forcing a decision to liberate you from stagnant or stale situations. Best to do this with a very cool head though so allow the feelings to be felt before you take action or say things you might regret.
On the very positive end, as women entrepreneurs and leaders, we can expect to feel invigorated by creative downloads and epiphanies and take action on them. Neptune (which retrograded July 2) and Pluto retrograde in Aquarius will also be involved at this time lending an element of spiritual and creative renewal at this time.
Because Taurus rules money and Pluto (ruler of Scorpio, also associated with money) this whole conversation could have us tuning into both the spiritual and practical purposes of wealth and wealth creation. I love that. Money is an important tool available to help us contribute to reducing suffering and increasing satisfaction and fulfillment (personally, inter-personally and collectively.) At a pragmatic level, expanding our sense of what's possible means allowing more financial flow to support us and others.
This is a time to be bold in claiming that and modelling it for our communities.
Collectively, it will be a fascinating time as we move towards the second full moon in Capricorn July 21 and enter the Mercury Retro shadow phase (Mercury will go retrograde August 5 in Virgo and Leo.)
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