Full Moon in Cancer and Balance

I went around reading various posts on this Full Moon in Cancer, starting with Jeffrey Kishner’s Lunar Tunes and going to Moon Circles to read what those ladies had to say. Because this Full Moon features a Jupiter/Sun/Mercury conjunction in Capricorn with Pluto in Sagittarius on the side, all trine to Saturn in Virgo and more importantly opposed by a tight Moon/Mars Rx conjunction in Cancer, don’t be surprised if this one makes for an interesting Holiday season. The balance between nourishment and achievement is highlighted by the Cancer/Capricorn axis, or to put it another way, all the stuff you need to get done for your holiday celebrations is pulling you away from the year end tasks on the job and vice versa!

Full Moons are always about finding balance between different aspects on our lives and in a way they demonstrate what us Libra types deal with every day. What Libra seeks is to find ways to accommodate and balance. Most of us live perpetually in a state of imbalance and being Libra, it bugs the hell out of us! We’re constantly running from one side to the other, always afraid this time we’ll fly off the end of the teeter totter and crash.

The Cancer/Capricorn axis is currently my challenge because I’m working from home and haven’t even come close to developing a routine allowing me to spend a reasonable amount of time working and yet finding time to cook, clean and relax (a biggy for me!). Believe me it was a heck of a lot easier in many respects when I went out the door to my day job because everyone knew what my schedule was and where to find me and what I would be doing at any given time. Now I’m just flying by the seat of my pants and making it up as I go along. As a Sun/Saturn person one of my challenges is to remember to take time for myself in a consistent manner because if I don’t, I usually pay in one way or another. The Libra mantra of “moderation in all things including moderation” is a key here.

This Lunation will affect those with planets and Angles in the early degrees of the Cardinal signs most strongly. I will repeat the message all of us astrologers are putting out there and that is: Don’t forget Mars is Retrograde and is just going to keep demanding we be patient and do our homework for now. The end of January is “go time” when Mars turns Direct and Pluto has joined Jupiter in Capricorn!

We are also at Winter Solstice so please light a candle or several in remembrance of the turning of the year and the return of the Light.

This amazing picture is from a geocities webpage on the Winter Solstice. Please go check it out if for no other reason than it's beautiful: Happy Winter Solstice and Yule Blessings