{"id":62706,"date":"2012-12-27T00:01:12","date_gmt":"2012-12-27T05:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=62706"},"modified":"2012-12-27T00:07:21","modified_gmt":"2012-12-27T05:07:21","slug":"cancer-full-moon-nourishment-or-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astro-daily\/cancer-full-moon-nourishment-or-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Nourishment or Death"},"content":{"rendered":"

The last Full Moon of 2012 occurs on Friday, Dec. 28 at 5:21 am EST. This is the Cancer Full Moon, in which the Moon opposes the Capricorn Sun. The Moon is in Cancer, its home sign — the sign of nourishment, raising the young, maternity, the home and the emotions. <\/p>\n

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Simplified chart section showing the Moon in Cancer opposite the Capricorn Sun (yellow circle). Flanking the Sun are Pluto (red golf tee) and Juno (purple asterisk). Mercury (green glyph) at 25+ Sagittarius is conjunct the Galactic Core.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Capricorn Sun will be aligned with Pluto, just one degree away. The Moon will oppose the Sun and Pluto, adding an urgent quality to this lunation: emotionally urgent, something palpable and even physically visceral. This Full Moon tends to translates to ‘nourishment or death’ — or perhaps, nourish or death.<\/p>\n

We have a strange relationship to nourishment in the era of processed foods and kids raised by daycare, TV and computer. Families are in crisis; the concept of the family is in crisis, with little to replace it; the notion of taking care of another person is straining in our era of gimme, gimme, gimme.<\/p>\n

Because the Full Moon is happening early in the season, opposite Pluto, and therefore in a square to Uranus, this event is linked to the solstice and the meta-themes of 2012. After a revolutionary 2011, 2012 was introspective and thoughtful by comparison.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s take a quick look at the Sabian symbol for the Moon\u2019s degree on Dec. 28. (The Sabian symbols are a set of channeled symbols created in the early 20th century, one for each degree of the zodiac, most famously interpreted by the Rev. Dr. Marc Edmund Jones and then by Dane Rudhyar.) <\/p>\n

The symbol for the Moon at 8 Cancer is, \u201cA group of rabbits dressed in human clothes walk as if on parade.\u201d Rudhyar in his book An Astrological Mandala <\/em>explains that this represents, \u201cThe tendency in all forms of life to imitate higher forms as a stimulus to growth.\u201d <\/p>\n

If nothing else, we\u2019ve had plenty of growth stimuli this past year: a series of inner planet retrogrades, Venus transiting the Sun, the beginning of the Uranus-Pluto squares, a much-hyped solstice and countless personal, social and global challenges and celebrations.<\/p>\n

Now here we are in the days just past solstice and Christmas, on the edge of a new year. It\u2019s a time when, if you can cut through the noise of toy ads and super-sales and carols (and this year, Mayan hype), you can start to hear the stories that actually make this season meaningful. Those are the stories of generosity and service, compassion and inclusion, gratitude and love. Not the latest Hallmark Cards TV special. I mean those everyday acts of kindness, done with humility, that can turn someone\u2019s day (or even their life) around.<\/p>\n

It’s unclear what to imagine in terms of a “higher life form” to emulate. Right now we could learn a lot from emulating allegedly ‘lower’ forms of life, such as cats and dogs, who have neither forgotten how to take care of their little ones, nor refuse to do so.<\/p>\n

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This Full Moon brings some extra juice to the signal of our higher selves: Mercury will be within a couple degrees of its conjunction with the Galactic Core. That\u2019s sort of like hooking up our galactic and spiritual homing signal (the GC) to a condenser (Mercury) that\u2019s pointed directly at our minds. The Full Moon, though not in an aspect to Mercury and the GC, is suggesting that emotional sensitivity needs to be connected to other sensibilities if it’s going to be useful.<\/p>\n

Full Moons, no matter how groovy they look on paper, are still oppositions. They are accompanied by emotional tension, sensitivity and the sense that it all has to do with \u2018the other\u2019 — and this one involves Pluto. This is a caution not to overreact, and a suggestion to go deep. <\/p>\n

Note that receiving nourishment involves vulnerability. Offering nourishment to another involves vulnerability. This all requires taking a risk.<\/p>\n

External relationships may in fact be asking for your attention; you may feel pulled between opposing views or desires. There\u2019s also a chance that what\u2019s going on outside yourself is a reflection of what\u2019s going on inside, just as the Moon reflects the Sun.<\/p>\n

Speaking of the Sun, and what\u2019s going on inside, and relationships, it\u2019s worth noting that the Sun will be close to Juno (as well as to Pluto) at the time of the Full Moon. Planet Waves published quite a bit about the Sun-Juno conjunction that occurred on the solstice, in terms of its significance for gaining some space and light around our relationships to ourselves and to our intimate partners. Juno is infamous for not being able to state her needs, and a power struggle often results.<\/p>\n

Sun\/Moon\/Pluto is carrying this theme forward. Sounds like now that these issues have entered our consciousness with increased awareness, it\u2019s time to get to work on the foundations in some tangible way. The Full Moon can be involved in the breaking of a deadlock or impasse. The key is to go gently, be clear about what you want, and let the momentum of the planets do the work for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have not yet mentioned the Sabian degree for 8 Capricorn, the Sun\u2019s degree. Partly that\u2019s because the Sun is involved in another significant aspect; partly that\u2019s because I was not sure what to make of the symbol at first. The symbol is, \u201cIn a sun-lit home domesticated birds sing joyously.\u201d Rudhyar continues to explain, \u201cThe wholesome happiness which subservience to the ideals and patterns of a well-established culture brings to those who accept them unreservedly.\u201d<\/p>\n

I was a little taken aback by the idea of subservience to culture. There is much about our culture that would be best not to serve, and Rudhyar himself acknowledges that the healthy culture referred to by the symbol is not currently reflected by our \u201cpresent chaotic world.\u201d <\/p>\n

I think there is something here akin to the paradox of needing to accept ourselves and love ourselves wholly as we are in order for change to be possible. On some level, we need to gratefully, fearlessly and lovingly accept the roles we were born to play in order to find the joy in where we are in life — and take part in the revolution to evolve.<\/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\/62706"}],"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=62706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}