FULL MOON 19 DEGREES CANCER - JANUARY 9th 6.30PM AEST
The Moon is strongest in Cancer and, at a Full Moon in this sign, emotions can be heightened and overflow, as can the ocean tides. Crying can be therapeutic because it brings up and out old emotions usually based on sad memories. Cancer, a water sign, arouses soul memories along with themes and issues connected to family, home, nurturance and belonging. Old insecurities and neediness can also arise to enable the light of illumination and self-understanding. The Sun, moving through Capricorn, aids commitment to long-term plans and goals. However, during this Cancer Full Moon phase, it is important to spend time on self-nurturance, self-care, and self-reflection. You may also be called upon to provide emotional support to others.
Venus, waltzing with Neptune and Chiron for approximately ten days during and following the Full Moon, enables the healing of insecurities relating to self-value and self-worth. Old inadequacies could arise during this time and it would be wise to become conscious of cause. And then commit to change. Mercury, conjoining Pluto, offers an energetic channel for empowering new levels of perception along with honest sincere deep and meaningful communication.
Should the Full Moon fall on a planet or angle in your birth chart the issues of that planet or house (area of life) will be activated. Why not check your chart to see what this will be? A Full Moon offers illumination to whatever house, planet or point it activates. Below are some of the key words relating to themes and issues likely to emerge at this time.
Cancer: The Crab. A cardinal and water sign: Functional: Home and family lover, supportive, caring, nurturing, ‘mother’ archetype, sensitive, psychic, memories, a well developed a sense of belonging, emotional mastery and maturity. Dysfunctional: insecure, clingy, needy, moody and emotionally immature. Developing mastery of these forces requires taking self-responsibility - emotionally, mentally, spiritually and physically. Learning how to internally and externally ‘make home’ is an important facet to the Cancer spiritual growth process. ‘Making Home’ develops a sense of belonging and feelings of safety and security. Fear exits when this nurturing, supportive inner and outer environment is consciously created. Fear cannot co-exist with love. The consciously developed solid emotional foundation enables success in the external world.
Capricorn: The Mountain Goat. A cardinal and earth sign: Functional: ambitious; success, achievement and results oriented; authority, executive, business, organization, time, corporations, status, reputation, rewards, awards, responsible and mature. Dysfunctional: cold, hard, non-caring, non- supportive, fearful, anxious, limited, authoritarian, controlling, dictatorial, immature and irresponsible.
Since the recent Capricorn New Moon I’ve been receiving messages to share my recent bone/pain/healing story. Bones relate to Capricorn and their brittleness indicates lack of “oil” or supportive loving emotions (emotions – Cancer). Since I began seriously studying astrology and applying it to my life I’ve healed myself from all ailments. What follows is the most recent example. On 12th December, the day after the Gemini Full Moon, I awakened from a restless sleep with a very painful left knee. I couldn’t walk properly and hobbled around like an old woman. However I knew the pain would correct when I had the realization of why I unconsciously created it. Gemini rules the lungs, communication, movement and connections so how come the painful knee?
Over the years I’ve uncovered and healed many ancient fears, the memories of which were stored in my knees, so connected the pain to an old fear. Maybe it was the fear of moving forward into a new direction? The pain immediately lessened with this realization so I knew I was on the right track. However I also experienced breathing difficulties walking my dog up the hills around my home. Breathing is connected to the lungs and Gemini. My lungs had also weakened. “Hmmm! What’s the connection here?” I wondered. Capricorn rules the bones and structure of our body and my left (feminine) knee was paining. My pelvis was also out of alignment and hurting, as was my right groin. By the 22nd December, when I flew to Sydney to visit my youngest daughter, a chiropractor, my pelvis, lower back (indicating feelings of lack of support) and both knees were extremely painful. I could barely walk, to the great disappointment of my two youngest granddaughters. However I knew I was at the right place at the right time for a healing to take place. A family member would support me and help reveal cause.
I asked her for an adjustment and, during the six-day visit, she gave me six. The first adjustment, the day before the Capricorn New Moon, alleviated a great deal of the bone pain and I was able to help her with Christmas preparations. However I needed five more adjustments. Her final assessment, shared on 27th December, was that my pelvis was still unstable and that “something” had caused my pelvis to misalign. This in turn created the pain in my knees. Then she did an NET procedure that I felt was similar to kinesiology. Her findings were that the “something” was very deep old emotional pain connected to grief. It was related to a loved one and had lodged in my lungs pre-conception. My mind immediately flashed back to the deep heart-aching loss I felt in October 2010 when I realized I would no longer be leading groups to the sacred sites of Peru and Bolivia, countries where I had re-called so many happy soul memories. I also realized how the eighteen months long Neptune/Chiron transit to my Chiron in Gemini, as well as the recent Moon cycles and eclipses, enabled this ancient grief to re-play in my current life.
The “unfinished business” associated with the past life emotional pain arose in my body as a result of a realization I had on December 11th 2011, the day of the Gemini Full Moon. This was the day before the knee pain. And this was that a formerly supportive loved one had chosen to walk a different path and was no longer available. This wash of understanding awakened ancient soul grief that weakened my lungs (Gemini). The grief then weakened my pelvis and manifested as pain in my knees (bones-Capricorn). I know, without a shadow of a doubt, that all emotional and physical pain will cease by the time of the Cancer Full Moon because I’ll receive the necessary specific awareness to enable completion. I so appreciate the support of others who helped me to get to this place however only I can resolve the cause of my grief. And I will. I choose to move forward grief free.
I hope my story demonstrates how we can heal ourselves through self-care, self-nurturance, self-love, the development of a witness perspective and the realization that all is connected. “As above, so below” As it is in the heavens so it is in our bodies! Our body is the temple that houses our soul and we are the only ones who can make it a loving and supportive “home”.
I hope 2012 brings you much joy, happiness, fulfilment and good health,
Many blessings and much love,
Ashtara |
