Two hands clap and there is a sound. What is the sound of one hand?
— famous koan attributed to 18th Century Zen master Hakuin Ekaku
Friday’s Cancer New Moon at 4:08 am EDT may ultimately correspond to your solving a koan, only to receive another. Only time will tell, of course.
A New Moon cannot be seen when it moves through the sky with the Sun. Similarly it’s difficult to see the outcome of the more-or-less monthly lunation cycle every conjunction of the Sun and Moon initiates.
Nevertheless, both the timing of Friday’s luminary conjunction, and the location of last year’s Cancer New Moon indicate you are at a turning point akin to a Zen monk who has satisfied her master that she is ready for a new challenge.
Of course, classic koans like the one captioned are never definitively solved. Rather, they are devices to stimulate development and evaluate progress.
As philosopher and Zen master G. Victor Sogen Hori explained in a 1999 treatise:
…in the beginning a monk first thinks a koan is an inert object upon which to focus attention; after a long period of consecutive repetition, one realizes that the koan is also a dynamic activity, the very activity of seeking an answer to the koan. The koan is both the object being sought and the relentless seeking itself. In a koan, the self sees the self not directly but under the guise of the koan … When one realizes (“makes real”) this identity, then two hands have become one. The practitioner becomes the koan that he or she is trying to understand. That is the sound of one hand.