Cancer New Moon: Time to return to the Womb!

CANCER NEW MOON:
TIME TO RE-ENTER THE WOMB OF LIFE

Viva Las Vegas! Forget about the Casinos! I’m living in a different Las Vegas. It’s been so hot – but as they say, it’s a dry 116! Today for the first time since I’ve been back from Los Angeles, I went out for a swim. I allowed myself to be engulfed by the cushion-deep heat of the desert air, the glorious richness of the greenery surrounding the pool of glistening water, and the sun-burnished blue of the sky. And I had a revelation! I am living at the Oasis of Las Vegas! And I felt awe and gratitude that I was being sheltered here for awhile. A Big Thank You to Bea, my mom!

That’s what Cancer feels like. A shelter, an embrace, a sustaining presence. We come, now, to the Cancer New Moon of a very auspicious year. After a very long year of disillusionment with our government and perhaps ourselves, we have hopefully realized the difference between our real dreams and our illusions.

This is the year that Pluto creates a doorway to the center of the Milky Way Galaxy (the second transit is on July 17th – the day to Fire the Grid!) A year in which some of us will perhaps grow into adults by allowing ourselves to be reborn according to the directions we were sent here with. Pluto on the Galactic Center invites us to be re-birthed by the Cosmos. And the Cancer New Moon is where it begins.

How do I describe a Cancer New Moon? The quintessential energy of Cancer’s power is birth and nurturing.

Cancer is the amniotic fluid that nurtured us into life. Wet warmth surrounded us in our mother’s wombs. We were sheltered and kept safe – emotionally secure for perhaps the last time we can remember. All of mom’s feelings fed us – even the darker ones. And we still felt safe and loved.

Now IMAGINE being cradled in the loving womb of a dolphin, delighting – along with mom - in every vibration she takes in from the surrounding ocean waters, leaping up to shout her joy to the winds of heaven.

Or, have you ever been rocked on the breast of the vast ocean? Have you ever surrendered your control to IT? (I’m a floater, so I guess you could consider me a witch. Perhaps the real reason is that I totally trust the waters to support me.)

Fluidity, wombs, dolphins, water, feelings, the ocean, joy! These images speak to how life nurtures us. The Earth sustains us and gives us life. We just have to remember it and surrender to trust. That’s the message of Cancer.

We learn to grow through our feelings. If we have the courage, we listen to ourselves: This feels right. This feels wrong. And when you are in transition: This feels bad and good. This feels like it will be a struggle. And yet courage tells me to engage in this struggle for the big prize – being born. Or re-born on that deepest soul level.

Can we trust our feelings enough to let them inform us of our next step? Life beckons to us, offering opportunities, which come in many unexpected forms, ready to meet many needs. Are you open to receiving the messages life is sending you? Which needs are being met by your life at this moment, and what are you learning? Do you know if you are done learning the lesson? Is it time to move on to the next lesson? What has your longing called forth in the world – and how are you answering the call?

We’re back to the Hero’s journey, which describes what is born through Cancer, the Mother. Always the child – the girl child to learn the creativity of birth. The boy child – to learn how to live fully. (Each Man and Woman has both within their psyches.) Together, they give us a life that is constantly growing and changing and a consciousness to get the most out of life’s lessons, thereby growing into our True Self.

And so this month we are thrown back into the womb of the Mother for another go around. Memories, such a Cancer gift, can drag us back into the past, or propel us into our future. You choose! Anabolic energy or catabolic? Life or death? If you choose life, you are resting in the amniotic fluid of the next stage of your life. So take time to relax and enjoy yourself. What conscious intentions do you want to make? What dreams do you want to manifest? Now is the time that the seed will be planted.

To help you make your choices: Go for a swim. In the Ocean if possible, a river, lake or pond, and if your intention is right – a tub or a swimming pool will do in a pinch. Float. Feel what it feels like to surrender to the waters. Let your body understand that the waters will sustain you, cradle you, as you were once cradled by your mother’s waters.

This new moon wants to birth our feeling bodies. Our souls. Our passions.

Ride the Energy. And Channel that energy through your desire to manifest it.

If you do, and your intention is true, you will be doing what you love by this time next year.

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Sabian Symbol for 22 Cancer:
“A young woman awaiting a sailboat: the longing for transcendent happiness in the soul opened to great dreams.” Our feminine side is highlighted, and it is this part of us who will dream the new dream that is asking to be born. With the sailboat as a symbol, we are asked to pay attention to our daydreams and nightdreams – for the imagination is awake and wants to communicate. (Mercury is finally moving forward in Cancer.)


New Moon inconjunct Neptune in Aquarius.
Here’s where you need to get your head and your heart reconnected. This means that there is still a need to balance the desired against the practical, the ideal against the real. It requires us to find a balance between wish-fulfillment and responsibility. You might find yourselves caught in emotional ambivalence. Learn to communicate clearly and make some emotional commitments to yourself. Overcome self-doubt and escapist tendencies. Indulge yourself in your creativity and in your spiritual practices. It is time to work with the imagination and to accept the spiritual aspects of life.

**********VENUS RETROGRADE on July 27, 2007

Venus, the Great Goddess of Love – all kinds of love from the erotic to the spiritual – doesn’t turn her back on us very often. Venus is retrograde the least amount of time of any of the planets. Golden Aphrodite wants to connect us to life, so when she goes retrograde, there must be some internal need to reflect on our values and our sense of relationships. During Venus’ retrograde period (in Leo and the first few degrees of Virgo), from July 27 to September 8, it will serve us to look at and let go of any circumstances that are counterproductive to our growth and our ability to move forward in our lives. She will let us know what we do need to move forward as we release our old skins. New values and new needs will help us create the life and the relationships that will best serve us and make us happy. Aphrodite wants to bring us JOY – the true joy that comes from being connected to our TRUE SELF.


ONE LAST LOOK AT NEPTUNE & SATURN
We are just finishing up the final dance between Neptune and Saturn. Did you think about your ideals? Do you know the behavior that keeps you from living them? What can you do differently now?




Blessed Be.

Cathy Pagano
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