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| 'Birth' by Salvador Dali |
Cancer New Moon: Beginnings Birthed from Endings
Moon conjunct Sun- 7/20/2020 @ 12:32pm CDT
This New Moon (the beginning
of the Corn Moon cycle here in the Heartland) is the second in the water sign
of Cancer this year, as the first was on June Solstice. This indicates that initiations this season
are focused in on the Cardinal Water themes of Home, Family, Ancestors, Roots,
Emotional Bonds, Privacy, and Protection. For two lunar cycles, we begin here in the watery
realm of our feelings…in the womb of the Mother…in the memory of our past.
And opposite this conjunction
of our luminaries is Saturn Retrograde in Capricorn. Moon is strong in her domicile of Cancer, and
Saturn is strong in his domicile of Capricorn.
This is a formidable opposition…if your goal is to predominantly favor
one side or the other at this time, it can be a heavy battle. However, the cosmic lesson is to find balance
between these two. On one hand, we have
the luminaries bringing the focus of our Feelings (Moon) and Consciousness
(Sun) to private matters at home and with those closest to us. And on the other hand, Saturn Rx (at its brightest
and orbiting closest to Earth now) has some big re-structuring plans to orchestrate
with the rest of the Capricorn Council in the societal, public sphere…a much
more gradual process, but an important one for this year. Both will have our focus not in one area of
our lives, but two.
Look to your natal chart to
see where 28 degrees of Cancer and Capricorn are…what houses are they in, what natal
planets are they interacting with? This
can give you an indication of the areas of life where your intention for this
lunation can bring some balance. For
example, these degrees are right at the beginning of my 4th and 10th
Houses (house cusps we refer to as the nadir and the midheaven)…so balancing
between home/family contribution and public/world contribution is particularly
highlighted at this time for me (story of my life, really).
The Sabian Symbol for this 29th
degree of Cancer where Moon and Sun conjoin is ‘a muse weighing newborn twins
on golden scales’. This, again, alludes
to balancing the scales between two things that are so very similar but hold different
expressions. We enter this lunar cycle
feeling some pressure to soon arrive at a choice between opposites. We are weighing options and alternatives,
trying to find some balancing force that can address the concerns of both sides
of the thing in question. The Muse in
this symbol indicates that forces beyond the intellect are involved in this
decision. If we are to resolve anything within
this lunar cycle, intuition is key.
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| 'La Discordia' |
But it’s not going to be easy
(really, has any decision been easy this year?). On this same day of the New Moon, Eris
stations retrograde. Unseen and
unacknowledged as she often is, the Great Warrioress who has no qualms creating
strife and chaos as a means to teach purposeful lessons has been a key player
this year. Her square with Pluto is an
enduring one, a featured dynamic of the times we are in. This year, the Pluto-Eris square has been
exact 2 times already (in January and then again in June) and will be exact again
in December. However, because both
planets (or dwarf planets, if you prefer…which I don’t) move so slowly through
the degrees of the zodiac…the dynamics of their square hold throughout the
years surrounding these exactions and continue to be an underlying theme of necessary
action. Essentially chaos pushing
transformation, and transformation pushing chaos…a battle that urges us all to
take action in no superficial manner.
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| Apple of Discord: "To the Fairest" |
If you have natal planets
around 22-26 Aries or Capricorn, the call to action may be stressing you in a
very personal way. But for all of us, as
a collective, Eris has thrown her ‘Apple of Discord’ into the mix this year
because we all need to accept this inevitable death and regeneration that means
to transform us on the deepest levels. It
is no accident that structures are crumbling before our eyes…especially those
that are unsustainable for the future of our planet. There is great purpose behind what appears to
be large-scale chaos this year. The call
is to keep our integrity through self-reliance (Eris in Aries) so that corrupt,
unsustainable structures can fall away to make way for rebirth (Pluto in
Capricorn). And as she stations
retrograde, these Aries themes of integrity and self-reliance will be unavoidably
in focus and ready to shift into an alternative direction.
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| The Yod aspect pattern: 'Finger of Gaia' |
This alternative direction for
our Collective Soul purpose has some recent past to uncover in a new
light. Adding to the imperative tone of
this gradual shift in direction is an aspect pattern with this lunation called
a Yod (also called ‘Finger of God’ by many Astrologers, but called ‘Finger of
Gaia’ by this Astrologer). At the base
of this Yod is a sextile between our luminaries in Cancer and Sedna in Taurus. Sedna is a planet (also called a ‘dwarf
planet’) that is named after the Inuit Goddess of the Ocean. Her vibration is deeply connected to the
Unconscious realms and all the life that swims within it. In sextile with our luminaries, it is an
opportunity to work harmoniously with both our conscious feelings (Sun-Moon)
and the unconscious, underlying feelings…especially those that involve abusive
power dynamics and trauma (as that is part of Sedna’s mythical storyline).
Through quincunx aspects (150
degrees apart), this sextile points the ‘Finger of Gaia’ directly toward the
South Lunar Node in Sagittarius at Galactic Center. The Goddess (our Earth, her Oceans, and her
Moon that moves them) is urging us to take this opportunity, right now as we
begin this lunar month, to understand that this recent past we are meaning to
correct (the nature of the retrograde focus of this season) carries a much
longer past with it…the Collective Soul’s past of the South Node and the greater
story of our cosmos. When we connect
through the sacred aperture we call Galactic Center, we receive important information
from multi-universes (The Star Nations).
In this internet age, we often refer to such receptions as ‘downloads’. With the Moon’s South Node here, while she
points with Sun and Sedna to it, there is an open channel…a line of
communication exchange…between our galaxy and that which is beyond us.
The following is something I
have written about Galactic Center in a previous post (from 2019, at the time
my beloved feline familiar, Ani, passed away):
“Many cultures around the world have a similar cosmovision of
the black hole at the center of our galaxy, even thousands of years before it
was scientifically proven that it exists. To try to sum up many sacred stories
into one idea (for brevity), there exists the opening of a portal at Galactic
Center where souls go when the physical body dies. Through this portal, they
are reborn again into the Land of the Ancestors (much like through a wormhole,
out a white hole, and into another dimension). It is also said that light
information, often described in deified form, emanates from this place to
communicate with us...teaching us in individual transmissions our own pieces of
the vast cosmic wisdom.
My understanding of this cosmic wisdom is that the more we share
our own pieces of it with others, the more we integrate and connect our
Collective Consciousness to the greater story of the Universe. Having Neptune
(Retrograde, in my case) at Galactic Center when I was born is a spiritual
inclination that is specific to my generation, an unseen and extrasensory
inclination to transmit Cosmic Wisdom through Universal Love.
Others have different cosmic associations with Galactic Center,
such as Uranus in the last degrees of Sagittarius for those born several years
after me...which connects them to GC through awakenings of the Higher Mind.
Many people alive today have connections to this Cosmic Passageway in different
expressions, all of them part of the transmission of Universal Knowledge. We
don’t all express it astrologically, of course, but our many ways are like the
colors that come through a prism when light enters it. Each is an expression of
our Spiritual Source through the Prism of our Matter, transformed through the
colors of our Soul’s Expression.”
I always feel connected to the greater story in times when GC is
activated. That last time, I was saying
goodbye to Ani. This time, I am
celebrating what would have been the 80th birthday of my dear friend
who passed away last month from complications with Covid19. The Soul’s Departure can be quite literal for
me in these times…but there are also collective transformations connected to
these personal experiences. The collective
symbolism of this Finger of Gaia illuminating our South Lunar Node connection
to Galactic Center speaks to the acceptance that death (or any commitment to
transformation) is as beautiful as it is necessary. Such acceptance encourages
us to embody the earthly role our Soul urges us to take in this life and move
onward...trusting that we are in right alignment by following the direction of
the Soul. We are always connected, no matter the physical form...so onward
never means ‘without’. But it does mean progressing with new expression.
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| Image of Neowise by Miloslav Druckmuller |
You may ask yourself as the New Moon shows herself in a few days
time, ‘how can my release of the past transform into New Wisdom?’ It seems likely that Comet Neowise has
something to share in relation to that ‘New Wisdom’. Nobody quite knows what to expect when a
comet appears…their expressions vary wildly.
However, what I’ve observed from nearly everyone who has shared their
own experience of this comet with me is that people are often met with an
earthly messenger at that same time, to ground that new wisdom into a personal
expression. Because of the animal
medicine connected to Neowise…I am personally referring to this tailed
messenger as Comet Kitsune, as fox medicine is what arises for me
personally. If you haven’t already, I recommend
connecting with your own personal experience of this comet…without expectation,
just an openness to whatever wisdom it may share with you.
Love and Gratitude,
Felina Lune Kavi
P.S. In honor of my dear friend, Judy, on the
birthday she wanted to celebrate with her friends and loved ones…a song called ‘Saturn’
by Sleeping At Last.
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