{"id":56382,"date":"2012-04-26T00:01:21","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T04:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=56382"},"modified":"2012-04-26T06:51:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T10:51:00","slug":"weaving-by-the-light-of-the-cancer-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astro-daily\/weaving-by-the-light-of-the-cancer-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Weaving by the light of the Cancer Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

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Newly-leafed honeysuckle as the sun sets, Portland, Maine. Photo by Amanda Painter.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n

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\u2019re 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.<\/p>\n

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Early on, the Moon makes sextiles to the Sun and Ceres in Taurus and Mars in Virgo. With regard to Sun-Ceres, how are you feeling about your finances and material environment? How are you feeling about your ability to nourish? Are you letting your physical senses inform your emotional understanding, and are you able to increase the pleasures and minimize the irritations in some way?<\/p>\n

Mars has recently taken us on a mental journey through desire (and the wounds to our desire). The Moon wants to receive that new understanding in a way that brings it home (Cancer being a sign of domesticity). How are you feeling about your Mars retrograde discoveries now that the planet is moving forward? Gather these threads, because they offer opportunities that must be acted upon.<\/p>\n

The Cancer Moon makes trine aspects to Neptune and Chiron in Pisces. This aspect is all flow, and very receptive. Can you feel Neptune offering more creative ways to conceive of and deal with your emotions? Do you need to spot-check your feelings for signs that you\u2019re working under some kind of illusion? If you tend toward self-delusion, Chiron may raise a red flag. Moon trine Chiron is not a \u2018hard\u2019 aspect, so you\u2019re not likely to feel \u2018cornered\u2019 by any unresolved pain. Just notice any blips on your emotional radar and stay open to the flow of Pisces\u2019 nutrient-rich waters (i.e., creativity) as you identify places where your healing is still in progress.<\/p>\n

Finally, the last couple threads the Cancer Moon will bring to your loom are squares to Uranus and Mercury in Aries, and an opposition to Pluto in Capricorn. These aspects bring some tension — just as the quarter Moon and Full Moon do. But it will be brief, and may feel familiar. The Uranus-Pluto square, which Mercury has just passed through, has been warming us up for evolution and revolution for a couple years now. Its first exact hit is one of the spring events you\u2019ll want to have your emotional fabric pliable for. Listen inwardly as the Moon makes contact with these points. How are you feeling about speaking your mind? Are you feeling energized or fearful about the changes you know you need to make? Where is your self-esteem right now, and how are the ideas you have about yourself changing?<\/p>\n

As the Cancer Moon and you gather up these emotional threads and start weaving, you may find the quarter Moon this weekend comes with a clearer sense of how best to move things forward as we approach the Scorpio Full Moon on May 5. At the very least, see if you can identify the patterns and hang loose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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\u2019s a time to move projects forward. With … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7221,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1734],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56382"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}