The New Moon in Cancer on July 20, 2020 (at 13:32EST) is serious.
Handle with care.
In a time of heavy weather, seek sanctuary. This is a weighty and emotional Moon.
We made it through Eclipse Season - and its resonances will continue to unfold over the next 6 months.
This is the second New Moon in Cancer in a month. Look back at what the previous one activated on June 20, 2020 (the themes within this reading are very relevant now).
The last Cancer New Moon was a point of no return. A changing of the guard. A pledge of belonging-to.
A moment to consider our allegiances, sense our lineage of attachments, and change the legend.
In the last month since that Moon, we have been digging the bones. Unearthing essential memories. Bringing ages-old oppressions to account.
Those who got quiet could feel an ancient weight lifting, like the piercing of a veil, or the uncrossing of a curse.
The deeper we go into the layers of soil, stones, shit, and bones, the more real things get. Synchronously denser and lighter. More earthly, and more astral. Into the sparkling black space dust that’s been here longer than we can compute. Substantive substrate. Base material reminding us of our oldest home.
We are in the early labor of descent. On the way down, may we continue to be met with obstacles that set us free.
How This Moon Feels
This Moon is weary and emotional. Concerned. Somber. Sober. Morose.
It highlights the ways we aren’t resourced - indicates where we are fragile or overly defended - and instructs on how we need to be held and become better equipped to meet the times.
It also aligns us with a sense of purpose, committed connection, and our own integrity.
This is a grow-up Moon.
We face the necessity of emotionally processing what has transpired since March 5, 2020 (when Saturn was last transiting this degree), and setting up structures that respond appropriately to needs.
This Moon reveals restraints. It asks us to fully consider longterm implications and impacts from a responsible and holistic lens.
How will we meet requirements?
How will we advance within bounds?
How can we respond positively and effectively to burdens, restrictions, and limits?
What kind of world am I building for my family?
Under stressful conditions, how do I affirm life?
We are living in lean times. Invite essential nutrients for fortification and longterm sustenance.
Move carefully. Move with maturity, wisdom, and consideration.
To move carefully depends on awareness, discernment, and attuned intuition. Fear dulls our instincts and disrupts our broader compassionate intelligence.
Anxiety is not intuition.
Hypervigilance is distinct from carefulness. This reactive, defensive state stems from feeling a lack of control over one’s environment or condition. Hypervigilance erodes inner stability and chronically perpetuates perceptions of separation.
To be careful is to be full of care.
To be responsible is to be able to respond.
Listen with your whole self.
Place less emphasis on the world as something to guard against and more emphasis on the world as something to foster and cultivate into a real and connected place.
People are hurting. Systems are fragile. Fear is thick.
Every response that is happening right now matters. Each one is important to consider and weave into the cloth of how we move through this current context of mystery. Resist the urge to blame, shame, block, or fortify your fortress.
Wherever you can, respond with care. Respond with the awareness that everyone you meet is somebody’s child.
When urgency presents itself, give it time.
Emergency is a marker of conditions in existence that are emergent (budding, rising, emanating).
These puzzles are not easily solved. Give them time. Give them attention.
Encounter yourself. Don’t let the tension break you. Avoid shutting down or numbing right now. Cloister and feel in doses. If you are struggling or in pain, embrace yourself. You can do this.
Request support.
Find soul food.
Hold yourself. Allow yourself to be held, through this.
Out of necessity, people everywhere live into the question: how do we remake this world in the semblance of care?
We tend ourselves and our families. Build refuge within reach. Securing whatever’s beloved for generations to come.
Bones, Blood, Belonging
Themes of inheritance are up under this Moon.
A long history courses through our bodies, according to the matrices we and our predecessors came up in.
This Moon triggers sensitive and storied pain points around bonding and safety. Of particular import are impressions from early childhood, relationships with caregivers, as well as place-and-family of origin.
Every time and each way care was given to us or taken from us has been cellularly imprinted.
Every time our needs were met or we experienced a lack of bonding connection was written into us.
What made us feel unsafe when we were young?
What strategies have we developed or followed to gain authority or control?
What do we need to do to feel secure and realistically face what is happening in the world?
We are walking historical records, and our bodies regenerate by the day.
“Our bones [which provide the framework of our bodies,] are not inflexible like wood or rocks. They have an inherent ability to bend as needed in response to movements and impact… Bones are highly dynamic organs that are continually being rebuilt...Adults regrow 5 to 10 percent of their bones every year, meaning that a full replacement can occur in about 10 years.”
The past is carried with us. And with intention and sustenance, we grow the future inside of us.
We are rebuilding the bones.
The version of ourselves and our world that we’ve grown familiar with is rapidly dying back. We blinked and it was over. Knowing that grief is praise, we won’t allow this death to go ungrieved.
The Shape of Sincerity
Just Add Water
How do we become more of ourselves during a collective crisis?
Remaining right where we are, rather than receding or advancing.
Being in the living moment without dulling ourselves, or becoming hard, brittle, and unreachable.
In a climate of fear, instability, and collapse, is it useful to pause and soften?
Practice trusting. Reconciling. Reaching for repair.
“Cry so that the clay that makes up your body softens and does not harden.”
The environment, in cleanliness and in toxicity, pulses through our inner waters.
We can’t help what we encounter. But we can help ourselves.
Accept responsibility for yourself and what is honestly within your control.
Allow your body to take the shape that feels earnest and sincere.
A Biological Blueprint
How We’re Made and What We Make
This Moon asks us to become more equipped to help ourselves and those close to us. Top-down hierarchical models will not be sufficient to meet needs in the times ahead. Supremacy in all its forms is nearing total ruin. That’s simply what time it is. A great exhale. But it will not happen overnight, and the labor of rebirth is a trip. It takes tremendous intention, presence, endurance, perseverance, and commitment to expansion to bring a new world into being.
Our data systems and talking points fail to encapsulate the holism that is vital to guiding us through such incomprehensible waters. Supremacist, hierarchical, patriarchal conditioning is more irrelevant and blinding by the day, but it still lives within us, and we reckon with it as collapse uncoils.
The intensity with which these systems of belief and soulless lifeways attempt to consolidate is evidence of their impending extinction.
“During an extinction event, the response is adaptation. Biology goes into an explosive effort to find alternative biologic pathways. There is an explosion of genetic intelligence. Any naturally-occurring virus is actually an adaptation event towards the next opportunity for an explosion of life on Earth. Imagine we could realign and witness a level of biologic diversity and resilience that’s never been seen in 4 billion years.”
We must wayfind together. By trusting each other and respecting our differences. How do we take collective action that honors the bio-individuality of each person’s needs?
We can’t think or fight our way through this. We have to listen, feel, move earnestly, and allow for eventual rebalance.
To do so is to genuinely trust what it is to be inherently interdependent and biodiverse. To do so is to descend and extend into the matrices of Nature.
This is an immense learning curve, but it is also innate. We are organisms enmeshed within the eternal fabric of divinely designed, elegant ecosystem.
The Earth is fruitful and multiplying, regenerating itself in fractal inter-dimensions.
We are mutating at an almost untrackable speed. Becoming unrecognizable to our past selves. Becoming kindred with our ancestors of a more ancient future. Becoming something nothing has ever been before.
“We belong to what we long for.”
What is it like - the world you long to live within?
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Read New Moon Reports for your Sun and Rising Signs Below
Aries: I have a place in this world.
I am where I am. I am right where I need to be. Instead of rushing ahead, I can choose to move slowly and with care. There is nowhere to go but here. Everything I need is right here and within reach. I send my energy towards healing and self-integration. Struggles and insecurities I encounter within myself are an invitation to cultivate patience and learn how to hold myself in unconditional positive regard. I adore the parts of me that need more nurturing. The last month has been an opportunity to explore my roots - home, family, and belonging. Now I see how these themes coalesce to build my purpose in the world. Old goals die. Ambitious anchored in integrity form.
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Taurus: I welcome clear communication.
I have been in deep thought and consideration on many crucial topics. Studying, learning, sharing and absorbing information. This Moon invites dialogue and loving, healthy, honest communication to guide important life choices. If some ideas have historically been avoided, now is the time to bring them up. I choose to put my fear of entering discussion aside, so I can really see the truth. Where there has been polarization, I seek clarity of mind and explore opportunities for synthesis. What if it’s no longer either/or, but the truth is more like both/and? Disagreeing sides birth a resonant third option. I feel for it.
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Gemini: Intimacy brings me closer to myself.
Secrets, shadows, mysteries, the hidden… these are the voids that hold things together. The cavernous spaces between us can be used to merge us into direct experience of inter-connection. Intimacy requires the intensity of darkness. Shadows are fertile soil. Feeling discomfort could be a cue towards a useful and untapped resource nearby. I stay with it, follow it. This Moon is like a treasure map, leading me to invest more completely in what I’ve committed myself to. Avoiding life or looking away deprives me of the ecstasy of connection. I listen in to the places left unheard, clear out interferences, and restore the health and wealth of being deeply alive.
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Cancer: New Moon, New Me. Twice in one month!
This Moon highlights bonds and boundaries. The people in my life reflect me. I care for them deeply. For the past couple of years, I have been refining how I participate in relationships so as not to erode my own integrity. This Moon offers me a choice, brought to my attention by a partner, friend, or close contact. Am I going to repeat historied patterns of taking on more for the ones I love than is due? Will I choose to make myself and others aware that I have reached a limit? I will take the shape of what feels earnest, sincere, and true. I deepen my commitment to cultivating nourishing relationships with self and others.
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Leo: I purify, refine, and heal.
When life becomes overwhelming, I simplify. I embrace diminishment. I support myself by honoring my need for less. I clear out material, informational, emotional, and spiritual complications. My energy for drama is waned. I can best be of service if I move beyond habitual addictive patterns that keep me in distraction. The last month has presented a window of opportunity with breaking from the anxieties that underlie these patterns. This is a new beginning with my body, my daily habits, and my life. I already feel a difference. Like I can feel myself underneath these layers that have accumulated. My spirit is clear and rising.
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Virgo: I trust myself in community.
I look back at what’s transpired since June 20 and acknowledge the ways I have acquired maturity and wisdom (so much can happen in such a short time). Who is on my team? Are these my people? I can only know the answer to questions like these by practicing collaboration. I am honest and authentic, but at the same time, I hold my cards close, leaving room for others to share from their hearts, too. The issues that arise now deserve careful attention and discussion over time. I hang back a bit, expressing myself with wisdom and restraint. I tune into my heart about what I really want to be creating, moving forward. I stay anchored to my heart through difficulties. For the next month, I rest and restore.
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Libra: My life’s work matters.
Things are not always as they appear. Something changed for me this past month (since the last New Moon Eclipse June 20). Restrictions I have carried with me related to my work in the world have lifted. I am realizing a rebalance, a real measure of reciprocity. I am realizing my life’s work is not about appearing any certain way or fulfilling an external demand. It’s about being transparent as who I genuinely am inside. I am realizing my best work unfolds when I am genuinely unattached to the outcome. That I am here to follow the guidance of inner harmony. I am less burdened when I realize my work is to generate true balance and beauty.
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Scorpio: I speak life into a bigger vision.
I give myself credit for how far I’ve come in the past couple years. It has been a long process of learning, studying, and cultivating expertise. Mental labor is often invisible, so I take this moment to picture what I thought I knew before compared to what I know now. I have completed a lot of mental work, and it’s making a difference. It takes immense flexibility to learn languages, revise ideas, and reshape opinions. This is a Moon for important conversations and big decisions that lead me towards growth. In the last month, something broke free. I trust my vision for the world. I trust my vision for my life.
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Sagittarius: I deeply invest in what I deem valuable.
For the last couple of years, I have been gaining maturity around finances. Choosing wisely where to invest my time, my funds, and my energy - and ensuring that the investments I make reflect my values. The last month has brought forward further considerations regarding income, work, resources, and self-worth. The transformations transpiring now are transporting me closer to my own essence. I am in the dark mysteries, the intense unknowns, going deeper into the fabric of life. I hold the hands of a few people I trust. We come closer together. As we weave in and hear our ancestors, we can go deeper and past perceived limits.
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Capricorn: I take radical self-responsibility to heal relationships.
I look closely at myself. Am I embodying the person I want to be? Is this the person I trust to build a future that can hold others in healing? Are old hurts and patterns making me hard or holding me back from connection? This Moon marks a real new beginning in relationships, but it requires laying to rest old ghosts. I step further into the softness of self-responsibility. I want relationships that allow me to be vulnerable. I want to share responsibilities and nurture each other. I am willing to give up control. To have the relationships I want, I agree to break the trance of power-over pedestals. I am neither more than or less than anyone else. I am simply what I am. I am willing to listen, and I trust myself to change.
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Aquarius: I establish healing rhythms.
The final leg of a long journey often feels physically exhausting, but spiritually exhilarating. This is the promise of living between limits, in liminal space. In the last month, I experienced a major release. This is a time of closure and transition. I honor it with grief. I honor it with ceremony. I honor it by letting life be simple and clear. I release clutter. I release whatever impedes wellness. I center my own healing, prayer, and spiritual communion. Underneath the lingering anxieties and distractions is immense, profound limitlessness. I immerse myself in this wave, letting it heal me and put me on track with a lifestyle and way of working that supports my wellness on every level.
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Pisces: I place my heart at the center, for it pulses life.
This Moon centers matters of the heart. I wake up in the morning on this Moon and ask, what does my heart wish for today? What would make me feel more alive? What expressions and artistries poise to pour through my instrument? What will bring me pleasure and satisfy my muse? Will my nectar be found in connection, or solitude, or a combination of both? Community needs to be comprised of people who stoke and witness my authentic expression. I deepen ties to those who applaud me to be more like myself. On this Moon, I follow the feelings of vitality and vibrancy. I let my heart lead. I make art, and I make true love.
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