Annular Solar Eclipse / New
Moon in Cancer: An Ounce of Prevention
Moon conjunct Sun- 6/21/20 @ 1:41 am CDT
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| Hygiea |
This New Moon at the Cancer
Solstice Point is significant in many ways.
Not only does this lunation begin with a Ring of Fire eclipse in a part of
our sky that is sacred to many cultures across the world, but it is also
conjunct the asteroid Hygiea…named after the Goddess of Health and Prevention
of Illness.
Hygiea’s name refers to the
Greek concept of ‘wholeness’ as it relates to health maintenance of the body…which
has been expanded to include body, mind, soul, environment, and every possible
aspect of health. Hygiea is where the
word ‘hygiene’ comes from, perhaps one of the most significant preventative
health measures in our human history.
Every significant celestial
event on the Solstice or Equinox points of our Living Sky are potent and signal
a shift in our collective consciousness.
The Solstice Points (1st degree of Cancer and 1st
degree of Capricorn) highlight the extremes of light and dark. To add to that during this Solstice, we have
an eclipse amplifying those themes of light and dark extremes.
And everything seems to come
back to the health of our world...where we have been dealing with the most
extreme measures to prevent illness that most of us have seen in our lifetimes. And how have we been faring so far? Some countries have been doing rather well
with staving off the worst of what this virus might do. Others, such as Brazil or my own country (the
U.S.) are not doing so well…largely because of the failures of politics and misguided
beliefs and conditioning (the shadow realm of the Sagittarius South Node that
we’re being called to release now, however resistant we may be).
And so as the shadow of our
Moon (emotions, habits, past) brings an annular eclipse to the standstill
(solstice) of our Sun (consciousness), what are we being asked to shift now in
our understanding of health and wholeness for the next 6 months of our
year? This eclipse takes place in the
watery realms of Cancer, where home and family, roots and ancestry are key to
our engagement. It is a sign of
emotional bonding and protection. It
asks, ‘how are you protecting those closest to you?’ With Hygiea’s wisdom so close at hand, we are
being called to take preventative measures as we make our way through still
more tough times ahead. And though
Cancer evokes the care of those closest to home…it also extends to the
protection of our nations, where whole countries are called to treat each other
as family and care for their well-being.
This eclipse is also at the
Moon’s North Node…an indication that we are to move forward now with a new
directive for our Collective Soul’s growth.
At the North Node, which is currently in the last degree of Gemini, we
are to take in the medicine of new ideas and network them in new ways
throughout our immediate environments.
The combination of this Gemini-Cancer cusp brings up the communication
of both our thoughts and our feelings.
It is the cusp where we merge our reasoning with our compassion. This is what will help us to make this shift into
Hygiean wholeness as the Solstice Sun starts moving back across our sky…gradually
bringing in more night for our Northern Hemisphere and more day for our
Southern Hemisphere.
Moon and Sun in Cancer 1- A Change in Direction
The Sabian Symbol for this 1st
degree of Cancer is ‘on a ship, sailors lower an old flag and raise a new one’. The Solstice degrees bring up turning points
in our lives, and this particular Solstice Eclipse is one that will be felt
around the world as a need for change.
We have already felt it stirred within this Triple Eclipse cauldron that
was lit in the last lunar cycle of the Strong Sun. And now as we enter the Blessing Moon cycle,
we pause for a few days at the Sun’s northernmost declination in our sky, we
contemplate what this shift in allegiances needs to be.
Just as in the Cancer Full
Moon hours after the December Solstice of 2018 (in this same degree), there is
a palpable feeling of breaking from expectations of what we have always done
and choosing a new focus that just feels more aligned to the Soul. This is a collective choice we’ll be making
together, though it all begins within each of us and blooms outward from our
roots.
It is a choice that promotes
wellness and wholeness, as Hygiea reminds us.
The shift we are seeding in this New Moon can prevent the kind of
illness befalling our former allegiances to failing systems from infecting more
of our world. There is a new way, and it
is just forming in this Solstice pause where Moon meets Sun on her North
Node. We’re stepping into the unknown,
and yet the calling of the soul of our planet assures us this shift is safer
than where we have been.
For some, this might mean
starting new traditions (or reviving some that nourish the soul) at home with
your family on these high holy days of our seasonal shifts. That is part of the specific seed that was
planted here with my family anyway…a personal call to our roots. It can also be anything that involves a
far-reaching decision on all things related to Cancer energy (such as home and
family). There is a feeling of ‘shifting
allegiance’ in the air…where, collectively, we can come together and decide
that what we were previously giving power to is unsustainable. This is a critical choice point being
illuminated now, and the shadows of our fears will certainly test us in this
eclipse.
What will become our new
focus? The collective feeling of this
New Moon brings its truth to each of us on the personal level too. Something we upheld in the past is no longer
working for us. There is an imbalance of
power there, and we are not wholly embraced in it. It’s time to replace it with something more
helpful (and healthful) that embraces where we are heading now.
Love and Gratitude,
Felina Lune Kavi
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