Today the Moon enters Cancer at 1:42 am EDT, on its way to the first quarter Moon in Leo on Sunday. This means it is still in its first week of growing larger, gathering energy on its way to the Full Moon in just over a week. It’s a time to move projects forward. With the Moon in its home sign these next couple days, it looks like the Moon is helping you to gather up the various threads of your emotional tapestry so you can weave them with integrity.
Quarter Moons are squares between the Sun and Moon; Full Moons are oppositions between the same. Each comes with its own kind of tension: the first resolved through action, the second, through negotiation. In both cases, it helps to see a clear pattern in your emotional fabric; it helps not to have loose ends or gaps that may unravel you when there is conflict or tension. Yet you don’t want it woven so tight that it has no give, no stretch, no ability to drape softly over the contours of your life as its circumstances shift.
We often find ourselves at one end of the spectrum or the other, however: either unraveling and fraying or presenting a stiff barrier like canvas to the weather of others. We’re human, after all. This has been an unusual spring that promises to get more interesting in the next month or so; see if you can take the next couple days to gather some of these emotional threads as the Moon moves through Cancer.