Cancer Lunation

At this New Moon, both Mars & Saturn square the Lights. Just after the Last Quarter Moon of this cycle, on the 29th of July, Mars opposes Saturn exactly. The first exact Mars opposition Saturn of this series occurred at the New Moon in Capricorn on the 9th of January 1997 & the second during the following Aquarian moonth. Cosmic timing is so fascinating. The archetypal conflict we are experiencing here can be languaged & symbolised by Aries squaring Capricorn, a Cardinal standoff of great importance. What is added to this is the fact that Mars is considered to be at its Detriment in Libra & Saturn in its Fall in Aries. Just so we really get the message! Now, in this Cancer moonth, we get to the last exact hit of Mars opposing Saturn & they both square the Lights. Unfair, unfair I hear you complain. Insult added to injury, or so it seems. Poor little Cancer, feeling attacked (Mars) & criticised (Saturn). Everything coming to a head, the completion of a process that has been going on for six moonths, what to do, what to do! Is this too complicated for you? Let me try & simplify, because if we run around in circle crying that it's too difficult, nothing much is going to be achieved. The exercise is about reconciling paradox, providing a motivator that can lead to greater personal integration & this an increase in consciousness. In terms of planetary cycles, think of it as a T-square involving the Moon, Mars & Saturn. At worst, you could find yourself in a lather of anger, frustration & rejection. If you contain sufficient history of not getting your needs & wants met, then this is probably how it will be. So, what can you do about it? Stop doing the Karmic Beatup on yourself (no, it's not a new dance) & start to nurture the "inner child". Seems so simple, yet you've evolved out of such difficult times that self denial seems instinctual. It's not! Could you let yourself be little, needy & apparently weak, for some of the next few weeks. Some women may be able too & probably very few men. Most men have been conditioned into work objects, cannon fodder & other disposable identities. What the Cancer vibration is best at is personal nurturing, caring & loving. So go with the flow, give it to yourself & others. A number of decades ago, Co-counseling was all the rage. People got together in pairs & committed to regularly do a co-counseling session. The basis of all counseling is the creation of safe space where a person can be encouraged to express what they feel. Ask Carl Rogers! This super Capricorn became renown for developing non-directive counseling. It's such a simple, ordinary & natural process; & it doesn't cost anything either, except your time. Use the bright face’ of Saturn in commitment to the process & in the discipline of equal time sharing. The framework of all paired sharing processes. One person shares their feelings for, say, 10 minutes while their partner just listens. No judgement, no intervention, just receptivity. Then change over. How simple can interaction get? And if this isn't sufficient, then you may need the help of an experienced & professional counselor. The protective, defensive controls in some people (especially those with Saturn on an angle or in hard aspect to the Sun or Moon) are so powerful that greater expertise is required to assist them to let go’. If you're able to let go the controls & express your needs, then this cycle augers well. If not, then you're going to have to go through the mill, so read on. First Quarter on July 13th @ 20 Libra 34’ Here's where traditional niceness’ tries to suffocate your feeling expression. Saturn is starting to slow down prior to its stationing so its strength is increasing. Its dark face represents all the parental shoulds & shouldn'ts that have inhibited your existence. If you've been conditioned normally then you'll have a sack full of guilt & shame. Now's your chance to start breaking out. Take the risk of being totally un-nice, which is a big one if you're female. Sugar & spice & all that garbage. Niceness can be a terminal disease if it is more important than your self expression. If your existence has been compromised by living in constant compromise, then it's time to spit the dummy. Anger is necessary to clear space, so that you can tell those uninvited others who invade your space to get lost. What's the worst that can happen? You'll be attacked or outcast from the tribe & then you'll die, or at least that's what your survival intellect will tell you. Sounds rather dramatic to me, but then I don't live inside your skins with all its programming flowing on from past generations. Hey, you're starting to outgrow all that old gender limitation stuff. Yes, yes, humanness shows up as either male of female. Or does it? What about the growing number of humans who don't subscribe to this simple polarity model. Like the gay & lesbian community. This first quarter is like being pinned on a grand cross of the Moon, Venus, Mars & Saturn. Make like a butterfly, sting like a bee. It wasn't your parents fault - forgive them because they knew not what they did unconsciously. Anyway, their biology overpowered them, otherwise you wouldn't be here. Full Moon on July 20th @ 27 Capricorn 28’ Education time for the inner child’ states. What will show up in the light of the full moon will be the memories of all those control freaks who stomped on your feelings & spontaneity. Some of it was necessary to safeguard your physical existence. Some of it was just their hatred of anyone who hadn't put their soul in a straightjacket yet. Probably you've got a lot of processing & re-perceptioning to do. This is certainly a great time to do it. Why not go with the wave rather than fight it? If you're feeling battered & bruised then that's an emotional truth for you. Are you going to validate it & listen to the grief & pain. For those for whom the battering has been physical, then the healing is going to require more intensive treatment than just counseling. This cycle is all about the ongoing Parent/Child conflict inside you. It is unresolvable on the level at which it was created & how it may still be held in your memory. It takes some maturity or a burst of Uranian clarity to actually see those struggling, inadequate, guilty, shameful humans who were your biological parents. It's a big step to distinguish them from the Parental images that live in our psyche. A good wave in which to kill off the false parent images. Some gestalt work, voice dialogue or psychodrama will serve you well in playing out the different parts & uping the exchange between them. Synthesis occurs when they are owned within the view of the third point of the triangle; when the Parent/Child conflict is transcended by the Adult state. This describes the ongoing individuation process, the growth of the integrated Self, the consolidation of decades of centroversion, the appearance of Centauric consciousness. All of this is supported by the easy opposition involving Venus, Mars & Uranus, of this moonth. As well as the easy opposition involving Jupiter, Saturn & Chiron. Last Quarter on July 27th @ 3 Taurus 47’ Now's the crisis in consciousness of this cycle. Either all has gone well & you've cleared some of your old stuff’ or you've gone completely unconscious & now you're stuffing your face to deaden the pain. The opportunity is to consolidate the changes or remain stuck in the patterns of the past. No blame. You all have your individual timing & maybe now wasn't it. There'll be plenty of other opportunities. Like each Cancer & Capricorn moonth, a similar scenario will come up. Maybe not as potent as this one. Because on the 1st of August, Saturn stations retrograde. For the couple of days leading up to this, repressed guilt, blame & dump will feel like such a weight on your soul. Like dragging yourself through life, carrying the accumulated burdens of your family line. What are these burdens? If you can get some seeing of them, then they can be more easily approached in the future. These burdens of the past will be ripening & all ready for their spirit crushing work in the Leo moonth. That's the bad news. What's the good news possibilities? Read next moonths Leo revelations.