We start off this New Year’s Day, Full Moon in Cancer, with the biggest SuperMoon of the year. A SuperMoon is when the Moon is closest to the earth in its rotation and it appears brighter and more full than usual. It can look 16 to 20% larger. The gravitational pull on the earth is also greater and the strength of it can be measured by larger storms, tides and possibly earthquakes. (Let’s hope not!)
We want to use this super energy to magnify our desires for 2018. Cancer energy represents the Great Mother Goddess and adds fertile and creative power to our goals, hopes and wishes for the coming year. Cancer energy is very nurturing, flowing water and just as a parent helps a child to grow, this nurturing can assist us to grow into our potential this year. No need to look to the past, or past fears and blockages, look only to the future and your fertile possibilities. Here is a link to a great course, by Sarah Walton to help you do just that.
To further assist us toward our goals, this Full Moon is forming a Grand Trine with the other water signs with Neptune in Pisces and Mars and Jupiter in Scorpio. Our feelings and intuition are strongly activated at this time helping and guiding us toward our true path and passion, and assisting us in owning our power and our evolutionary process. Those with strong water in their charts could receive more psychic impressions during the next couple of days.
In opposition to this Cancer Full Moon are the Sun, Venus, Saturn, and Pluto in Capricorn. Capricorn can help bring structure, stability and success to your goals, increasing your ability to take them into a stable and tangible form. Water and intuition can be shifting which can cause apprehension and fear as we strive for concrete progress. Trust your inner guidance and follow your passion and ignore or push through the fear. Face it, it is only a mental construct in your mind. De-conctruct it with enthusiasm and determination. Soften your defenses, open your heart, and feel.
Cancer is a gentle energy and encourages us to be gentle with ourselves and others. Capricorn’s tendencies are toward judgment and the accomplishment of goals at the expense of needs and feelings. Cancer reminds us that vulnerability can be our strength. This flowing of emotion helps to balance out the rigidity of Capricorn (earth) energy.
To add to this Full Moon’s capacity for change, is Uranus. For the past five months Uranus has been retrograde and big changes have been simmering. Now, Uranus stations direct on January 2nd, and all those ideas and strategies can come forward. Uranus will not be ignored. Watch for unexpected shifts and changes in your life and in the public sector. Uranus is back within a 6° orb of its square to Pluto. This energy is what has been the catalyst for all of the global chaos we have experienced in the past few years. This means a continuation of governmental and corporate changes and disruption which will hopefully swing the pendulum back to some sort of sanity in the future. There is wisdom in experiencing the corruption so we will work to bring back an even better world where there is truly justice and a productive economic climate for all.
Written by Wendy Cicchetti