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Full Moon in Capricorn 2016

7/18/2016

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Cancer and Capricorn are often seen as representing Mother and Father. Cancer – home and family; Capricorn – one’s role in the world and career. So these are the themes of this Full Moon. They are not in opposition because in order to have a happy, healthy and balanced life, we need to get both in order. Some of us do better in the world, others in the home – we lean in one direction or another. Some don’t do well in either due to circumstances they cannot understand or control.
Nurturing oneself is critical to getting anything done in the world. Poor health can ruin all your plans, stand in the way of your success. So taking care of yourself is vital to any goals you might set. Eating the best food you can, getting enough sleep, and taking care of personal hygiene are not a waste of time but form a vital foundation. Cancer rules the 4th house - the nadir. It is also seen as the root, the womb and the source of our being. The soil out of which we grow.
Capricorn rules the 10th house and the cusp of the 10th is called the mid-heaven, our ultimate accomplishment in the world. The top of the tree so to speak. That to which we aspire.
Everyone knows if the root is infected, the tree either dies or is stunted, it cannot reach its full potential. That being so, why do we devalue the activities traditionally with the home?
Yesterday I had a desire for pudding and went to the market in search of it. I asked a fellow customer if he knew where it was and he said “The refrigerated section”. “No, I want to make it myself.” He said, “Probably with cake mixes.” As I walked away, he said “People still make pudding from scratch?” I turned and said, “A mix is not scratch…scratch is even more complicated, but I’m not up for that.”
The pudding mix has loads of chemicals. The pre-made pudding in the refrigerator section has double the chemicals. We’ve traded the good for the easy, but at what cost? There is little nutritional value in any of these products which used to be made from animal protein, but are now full of chemical substitutes which we learn can actually harm us. We are encouraged to buy into all this ease by the media which is supported by the manufacturers and purveyors of these goods. But again, at what cost?
This Full Moon just passed over Pluto retrograde in Capricorn, which is challenging all the structures of society. Unless you’ve been asleep or in a coma for the past few months, you can see that things are, indeed, coming unraveled.  Every day humans are killing each other with a vengeance
I feel the ‘issue’ that is at the heart of all this unrest is Capitalism. A system that used slavery, colonialism, repression and control to empower and enrich a few at the cost of the many. It is an unsustainable system and what we are seeing is the revolt of all the victims (the majority of people in the world).
The body of humanity is collapsing after centuries of abuse. As we age, we reap the results of our ‘wild youth’. If we neglected and abused our body when we were young, we will suffer the effects as we age.  
The structures are collapsing. The people will not put up with it anymore.
Most creatures know enough not to soil their own nest.
With our advanced intellect, we have created so much garbage and toxic waste that we have fouled our nest (the planet) in a way that may lead to our own extinction.
Technology creates more and more stuff just to see if it can. Do we need a new cell phone model every six months? The only way to continue more and more profits, things have to be made with built in obsolescence. Made to break. I have two refrigerators. One, at least 60 years old still works fine…the newer model only 25 years old, no longer works.
This past week, I have been dealing with health issues related to Saturn, the ruler of Capricorn. That is to say, bones and teeth. Due to pain, I have not felt like eating, have been sleeping a lot and have stayed close to home. Saturn and the Moon, Capricorn and Cancer have been the main actors in my life recently. Because I am in great health (for my age), I am not accustomed to be restrained by health issues.  Doctors say the things that have begun to plague me are part of aging….normal. “Nothing you did, caused this…it’s inevitable.”
Oh okay…
That being said, is it inevitable that our socio-economic system should now collapse? That it has lived it’s allotted time and will now deteriorate and eventually die?
Unfortunately, in its aging process, it is taking lots of people with it.
Trained as an anthropologist, I was taught that the development of agriculture is what was responsible for the ultimate creation of the State. The surplus of grain led to the idea of private property which had to be protected from (?) and controlled by (?) against (?). Move forward 5-7 thousand years and here we are bombing people from drones.
This ‘progress’ allowed the population to grow….food security.
So now we have a problem of over-population and people are fighting over resources.
Maybe the Earth is going through a needed readjustment. Maybe there is something going on that is much larger than ourselves. An Intelligence is at work trying to re-establish balance.
Our best resource is resilience. The more flexible we are the better we will be prepared for the uncertainty all around us. Spirals are examples of alternative ways of dealing with obstacles that come up in life.
Become a master of spirals
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


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New Moon in Cancer 2016

7/4/2016

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Here we are with the New Moon in Cancer. New Moons are, from Earth’s perspective, a Sun/Moon conjunction.  In the West, the Moon is feminine, the Sun masculine. But in other cultures the opposite is true. No matter what culture, they are opposite genders. At New Moons then, the masculine and feminine energies are closely connected.

When I write these posts, I look to what’s going on in my own life because I feel we are all microcosms connected to the macrocosm and thus each of our stories reflects and responds to what is going on in the cosmos.

What’s up for me is that I am seriously considering changing my residence. In fact, I have found myself seriously considering becoming a nomad. A kind of positive spin on ‘homeless’. That is, disconnecting myself from the need to be rooted.

What I’ve found is I am responding to this thought process in exactly the opposite way. I have come to see the many ways I am connected to my home and community and want to strengthen those connections rather than sever them. Now I want to stay in my home or at least in my community. I need to find ways to do that rather than planning on leaving.

By allowing one thought, another, opposite one is coming forth. This corresponds to my experience of the Cancer archetype. Represented by the crab, it is said that Cancer individuals have a way of side-stepping. Unwilling or unable to deal directly with issues, they find ways of either avoiding or deflecting them. There are times when this is exactly what is called
for and thus should not be considered ‘passive-aggressive’ or ‘negative’.  

The shell of a crab cannot grow, so as a crab develops, it has to abandon its shell from time to time. This molting process leaves the crab ‘naked’ and vulnerable until the new shell forms and hardens. It molts more often when it is young and fewer times when matured. Many believe there is a connection between molting and the New and Full Moons. This is an interesting and short article about it.
https://www.bluecrab.info/fullmoon.htm                  
My biggest issue about selling my house, is that I will have nowhere to go until it sells. I will be like a crab in the molting process. Crabs without their shells are called peelers. Naked and vulnerable. But unless the crab releases the old shell, it cannot grow and develop. The crab drops its old shell trusting that a new one will replace it. Why is it so hard to do the same?

Stephanie Austin says that this New Moon is conjunct the star Sirius the brightest and one of the closest to us. She says this signals the opening of “a stargate which facilitates heart-centered consciousness”. Sirius was extremely important in ancient Egypt and was associated with Isis. There are cultures that trace their origins to Sirius.
The Sun/Moon conjunction is a type of portal. The power of this image is magnified by the conjunction to Sirius our alleged homeland.

Are we humans actually peelers waiting for our new home to form around us? Or did we go through such a phase between when we left Sirius and we found our new home here? Interesting and intriguing questions.
Is our obsessive need for security; our insistence on creating, maintaining and defending our boundaries related to memories of when we were peelers? Did something happen to us during that phase that remains a deep trauma in our soul?

Why do we have such a hard time seeing our connections to each other rather than our differences?

Another feature of this New Moon is that there will be six planets plus Chiron in water signs: Sun, Moon, Venus and Mercury in Cancer, Mars in Scorpio and Neptune and Chiron in Pisces. Over the next 3 weeks, a Grand Trine in water will form. Trines are transits in which things move with less effort…but they can also be times when we don’t move at all. Talk about ‘the lazy days of Summer’. This is it!
If you have things you really need to accomplish, you might get more done by tricking yourself. Using the Cancer strategy of side-stepping, pretending not to do, avoiding direct confrontation when in the peeler stage. When I was in college and facing term paper deadlines, I often said to myself “I am not writing a paper, I’m just taking notes on this book.” Next thing you know, the paper was done.
In a culture that rewards action, movement, and doing, we may feel lazy and guilty when we are not behaving this way. And yet, taking to reflect and carefully planning our steps, we can ultimately accomplish more.
Relax and be a peeler for awhile. Trust that you will end up where you need to be.

 
 
 


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    Hamida Judith Dides, M.A. is an evolutionary astrologer living in Northern California.

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