Early this morning (12:24 am EDT) we experienced the annual Cancer New Moon. Happening late in the Sun’s run through Cancer, the New Moon picked up the signal of a diversity of planets associated with deep psychological, emotional and erotic healing.
New Moons represent a new cycle, and if you’re involved in a self-awareness or growth endeavor that fits this basic description, the next few days provide a space to go deeper into self-understanding. The message of this event seems to be: emotional healing arrives with self-forgiveness, as well as the personal choice to alter a negative cycle. When you heal, you also take yourself out of the “pass it forward” game that so often attends matters of abuse, and start spreading the positive vibes of self-acceptance.
There’s also the question of alienation, described by this New Moon’s proximity to a distant planet orbiting our Sun called Eris (named in 2006). This morning’s Sun-Moon conjunction was just a few degrees past an exact square to Eris, meaning that both the Sun and Moon recently made contact and carried some of its energy along to their own meeting. Eris is that part of us who yearns for connection she cannot find. She’s like a castaway part of ourselves who feels like she has no place in the world — an emotional condition that can come from many different worldly causes. In truth that alienation is from ourselves.
The New Moon is also square a point called 1992 QB1, which is about opening up to our inner connection. QB1 is not officially named (she still has her provisional designation); in past Planet Waves articles it has been associated with a kind of healer called a thresholder, who serves as a guide to bring people into relationship with themselves.
Past all the reluctance, resistance, shut doors, inner blocks, shame, guilt and embarrassment that we seem to drag around from childhood, there’s an actual presence within us, and that’s what you can think of as our Inner Lover. The role of thresholder QB1 is to guide us into relationship with that inner presence.