A few days before the new Moon, we see her rise as a wisp in the light of dawn. Hard to catch her on a morning so close to the Summer Solstice when light begins early and stays late. Yet this is the new Moon in Cancer, the sign most associated with Moon, and the qualities of Moon: flux, cycles, emotions, the sea, security, family. Friday, the day of the new Moon, she rises in Massachusetts just before 5:00 am and is entirely lost in the brightness of her partner the Sun. There is a way in which the new Moon in Cancer is a secondary Solstice. It’s all about merging with a light much brighter than her own. Yet she is luminary quite as important in astrology as the Sun.
photo: Bruce Lhuillier
The Sun has reached his highest point at the Solstice. We are filled with light and heat. Animals and plants celebrate.
photo: Sarah Fuhro
Mercury is lost in this light, so he must speak in Moon language. Perhaps he is the young prince in the Tarot card which represents Cancer. The Chariot is a good metaphor for the Moon who represents constant movement and the passage of time.
The Sabian Symbol for the degree shared by Sun and Moon is a strange one for the gateway of Sumer! Maybe it marks the Solstice moment with a reminder that we now enter six months of fading light. ‘ A man bundled in fur leads a shaggy deer. The need to overcome stagnation and cold during a test of endurance.’
While the season is lighthearted, the mood of this new Moon cycle is quite serious. Venus arrives in a degree of Taurus, which says the ‘test of endurance’ has been passed. She is ‘A new continent rising out of the ocean, A surge of new potential after the crisis. Spontaneity.’
photo: Robert Fuhro
Birth never comes out of nowhere. There is always a season of gestation. Will I be able to see and embrace what wants to be born in my life? Will you?
photo: Robert Fuhro
At the moment of the Solstice, the Moon occupies the same degree of Taurus where Venus stands to greet Sun and Moon. The power of the feminine reverberates throughout this chart, and Venus holds the reins. But the feminine is always more difficult to see and comprehend. Her light is the Moon, not the bright Sun.
Queen of the Night1800 and 1750 BCE Mesopotamia
Venus is in a relationship with the lord of the Underworld, Pluto. She is the recipient of the rage and glee of Black Moon Lilith, she points to Jupiter in his sign of marriage and karma. She shakes the isolation of Vesta, queen of the hearth, and dances with Mars. She is indeed the new land arising from the water of mystery. She takes form in those who have the power to see her.
photo: Bruce Lhuillier
Neptune who rules the seas relates to Venus as well; the mystery of the boundless love, which holds all of creation. There is a song of gratitude held in this chart, the beginning of an awakened relationship between the distracted human mind and the unbending focus of the planet.
photo: Robert Fuhro
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