Today is Monday, Jan. 9, 2012.. The Cancer Full Moon occurs early this morning, at 2:30 am EST. You may have felt the energy build over the weekend in the form of heightened emotions, and that may continue though the day – though with a particularly existential edge to it.
This Full Moon is activating a pair of aspects involving Eris, that planet representing identity chaos that we’re still getting to know. The Sun (in Capricorn), our representative of ‘Self’, is making a square to Eris in Aries. We know that squares create an internal tension that asks us to act in some way. If you have been basing much of your sense of identity in your worldly achievements and other external, physical markers, it’s likely starting to feel uncomfortable. Kind of like something keeps tugging at the corner of your attention, but every time you look at it squarely, it scatters out of focus – yet you know your attention belongs there somehow.
Meanwhile, the Full Moon is conjunct Varuna in Cancer, which in turn is square Eris from the other side of the wheel. This is a slow-moving aspect that, as noted by Eric, “describes the theme of the war on women we’re seeing dramatized in national and some local politics. Varuna has a theme of ‘the equalizer’ and Eris includes the theme of ‘the castaway woman’, and cast-off womanhood in general.” And gosh, one of our most prominent feminine archetypes (the Moon) is amplifying this little-known planet’s energy out from one of the zodiac’s most feminine signs, ruled by the Moon.