Art ~ The Girl: Inner Strength Revealed
We are now in the New, ‘no’ Moon phase and on day 29 of this lunar cycle. As I write, the Moon has .2% light.
One of the things I encourage everyone to do, if they want to align with the Cosmic cycles, is to download an app that tracks the Moon. The app I use on IOS is just called ‘The Moon’. But not only that, I suggest getting out and getting your eyes to the sky as my colleague Gemini Brett says. As I mentioned yesterday, the Moon is waaay out-of bounds and will be high in the sky if you can see it.
I’m not suggesting everyone become an astrologer for others but I am suggesting that you all become your own astrologer to a degree. It’s why I write every day. I want people to find a sense of attunement reflected within. It helps us to feel a bigger picture, to know that we can work with the cycles in all ways.
The more I work with Astrology, the more I realize that some of the old rules and ‘this means that’ descriptors in Astrology don’t necessarily always apply. Does that mean I think Astrology doesn’t work? Absolutely not. It does. But there’s often something missing for me in many of these rigid teachings. This means that I am going to put together a mini ‘conference’ of sorts online later this year where I will be interviewing others who take a more innovative and integrative approach to Astrology. I’m putting the ideas together now for who to interview and how it will work.
I also have a couple of non Astrologers I would love to interview. Please set intention on this New Moon for those people to be willing.
That brings me to today's Astrology.
Today IS the 14˚ Cancer New Moon and the UK woke to a new government and a New Prime Minister with a landslide win for Labour after 14 years of Conservative rule. The news isn’t all good (from my perspective) because the far right Reform party did well in terms of votes but not seats and the horrendous Farage (a confidante of Drumpf) is now a Member of Parliament. I am just grateful that my country of birth chose the center left option overall in the face of fascism.
Here is the podcast for the New Moon.
The number 14, the degree of the New Moon, is a number of adaptability, resourcefulness, and independence. It carries the energy of transformation and encourages you to embrace change fearlessly.
In Cancer, a cardinal sign, this is a New Moon of initiation, a new start. Cancer is tenacious, mushy on the inside and with a tough shell of protection, associated with the gut and the breasts in medical astrology and a sign of emotional depth and intelligence, ancestral heritage and wisdom, security and developing a nourishing home environment, intuition and psychic gifts, and empathy.
I think it’s often forgotten just how tenacious the sign of the crab is. It will cling onto things for good or bad, in that way it’s ‘conservative’, wanting to conserve that which it loves. It’s also a sign that must ‘conserve’ it’s energy or strength because of that hyper-sensitive inner world. It must choose to retreat into it’s shell and fold those pincers in as a protective mechanism.
You know I am going to say it. Self-care, self-care, self-care. Balance that central nervous system.
Because we have a lot of chaos in the world, and, with Saturn, Neptune, Uranus, and Pluto all changing signs over the next couple of years, we have a lot more change to come. Unheralded change in fact.
The self-care will help you to embrace change fearlessly as you put your oxygen mask on first and take care of what you are able to. You first, then those you love. Then what you are able to support in the bigger picture.
The New Moon’s opposition to Ceres in Capricorn is a strong indication to look at how the structures of your lives meet your needs and how you are going to firm up areas of life that don’t.
This New Moon is also square to the Moon’s Nodes making it a major turning point and one of releasing the Cancer tendency to cling on to the past even if it’s NOT working. The shadow of that tenaciousness.
The overall message is to examine what really is worth conserving and to release that which won’t help you to embrace change fearlessly as you carry your home (you) with you into the future.
After the New Moon we have a fairly busy lot of aspects integrating the energy of this lunation.
A square from Venus in Cancer, which is almost out of the Sun’s beams - and visible in some places already, squares Chiron in Aries emphasizing this energy of healing the self to create your wishes.
The Cancer Moon then sextiles Juno in Virgo, trines Saturn in Pisces, sextiles Mars in Taurus, and then creates a water Grand Trine with Pallas Athena in Scorpio and Centaur Nessus in Pisces. These aspects are all about embodying your own healing and building your holistic resilience in mind, body, and spirit. A friend of mine said that we are being ‘called into a new body’ and I agree. Of course, what she means is your energetic body as well as the physical self. We aren’t literally morphing into a different body but it’s a dismembering and remembering of our molecules. This is a journey I lead attendees of my Venus Retrograde Heroine’s Journey Class through, but it’s also happening with these unprecedented shifts in our whole energy field as we move into this Quantum paradigm.
I am physically, mentally, and spiritually not the same as I was. I find it astounding. I am sure many of you are feeling this if you are here.
Mars in Earthly Taurus joins the water Grand trine with an opposition to Pallas Athena and a sextile to Nessus giving another big shove to create different strategies and ways to move forward that are no loner based on the strategies of the past.
Lastly, preventative holistic health asteroid, Hygeia, moves into Taurus and opposes creatrix Haumea in Scorpio saying you can renew your physical realms, including your body. The Goddess Haumea gave birth from every part of her body and also had the ability to rebirth herself. My health journey, which has not been a diet or an exercise plan of things I should do in any way, has reduced my ‘age’ on the body scan tool my gym measures me on from 66 to 51 last time I measured. I feel like Benjamin Button lol.
I mean, I know in real terms I will still die at some point, but I can be and feel as healthy and able as possible for as long as possible right? I feel MORE healthy in mind, body, and spirit than ever in my life honestly because there was always one area out of balance at least even when I was young.
Remember, Cancer the crab, carries its home with it as it moves forward. And we also do. In many respects, our mind, body, spirit is all that we have, or at least all that we are conscious of. So, self-care for me is taking care of that. A lesson I only learned in recent years but I thank being in alignment with the energies for that awakening over time. If you are whole and look after all your inner resources you can deal with these major shifts we have coming.
John Sandbach’s symbols all reflect that sense of being alone on this journey even though we are also bouncing off the other systems in our world. Because yes, we are also interconnected to all that is. It’s all paradoxical and Quantum.
I share his symbols here for the New Moon and leave you to your self-care. See you tomorrow!
“Cancer 15. A man in an air-conditioned space suit crossing the desert. (Omega Symbol) Transforming/Inspired
(Degree Angel: Yehuiah (yay-Hoo-ee-YAH) Revealing the Dark Side, Subordination to Higher Order)
You can be at home wherever you go, can make yourself comfortable anywhere, and find nourishment even in the most unsupportive of places. Rather than cocooning yourself in the familiar you need to strike out on your own into unknown territory, and can do this if you remember that you will always find what you need to support you in your evolutionary process.
The Chandra Symbol for this degree is “A boarded-up doorway that leads to another realm.” The space suit provides a way of entering into another realm, just as the boarded-up doorway keeps us out of it. We want to explore this new territory, but the sign Cancer loves its security, its safety, its familiar surroundings. And so there is conflict here – should I go, or should I stay. But even if you stay there will always be that nagging urge to go, the doorway will always be there, waiting for you to remove the boards and enter. The need here is to proceed slowly enough that you feel comfortable, and to take with you, if possible, some means of support. Eventually the Cancerian tenacity will carry you through, and great discoveries will be made.
Pleidian Symbol: After a feast everyone falls asleep.
Azoth Symbol: A man seeing through veil after veil of illusion.”
The card for the day is The Ten of Pentacles. Light Seer’s tarot
Another wonderful card reflecting the sense of wholeness and abundance available to us right now. This card means spiritual and material abundance. Community, generosity, wealth, prosperity, building a legacy, positive outcomes, and also GRATITUDE (in case you can’t see the abundance there already).
The affirmation is “I am successful and I share my wealth and joy with those I love”
Love to you.
Louise
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Fri July 5 2024
America / New York, GMT-05:00
Moon square Nodes 12:27 PM 10˚ 50’ Cancer/Libra/Aries
Mars sextile Saturn 3:02 PM 19˚ 23’ Taurus/Pisces
**New Moon 6:57 PM 14˚ 23’ Cancer**
Moon opposed Ceres 7:03 PM 14˚ 26’ Cancer/Capricorn
Sun opposed Ceres 8:03 PM 14˚ 25’ Cancer/Capricorn
Sat July 6 2024
America / New York, GMT-05:00
Venus square Chiron 2:32 AM 23˚ 21’ Cancer/Aries
Moon sextile Juno 3:56 AM 19˚ 16’ Cancer/Virgo
Moon trine Saturn 4:09 AM 19˚ 23’ Cancer/Pisces
Hygeia → Taurus 4:27 AM
Moon sextile Mars 4:56 AM 19˚ 48’ Cancer/Taurus
Moon trine Pallas Athena 4:57 AM AM 19˚ 49’ Taurus/Scorpio
Moon trine Nessus 5:05 AM 19˚ 53’ Cancer/Pisces
Mars opposed Pallas Athena 5:25 AM 19˚ 49’ Taurus/Scorpio
Hygeia opposed Haumea 6:56 AM 0˚ 01’ Taurus/Scorpio
Mars sextile Nessus 7:36 AM 19˚ 53’ Taurus/Pisces
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Thank you! I felt it coming, and it did. Invited to take on the leadership role of a lifetime. Scary. But oh so exciting! This reading helped me calibrate and embrace my Vesta (my namesake caring for Mother Earth) and my directive Athena (my 1st Capricorn 29!). Time to bring solar energy to Native American tribes.