Cancer Full Moon: January 17, 2022
Cancer Full Moon,
January 17, 2022
peaking at 6:48 P.M. EST
happening at 27°51’ Cancer
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“All under heaven have a common beginning.
This beginning is the mother of the world and my eternal mother.”
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This moon serves as a portal, opening into the next karmic cycle.
I’m seeing the moon - the bright full moon - as if it’s an opening. As if we are walking through it. As if on the other side, everything will change.
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Cancer is the sign of the mother, and a few days before the Cancer new moon in July -
Pause,
Reflect back to any major events/moments/imagery/themes/ideas that showed up in your life from approximately July 9 - July 22, 2021. What happened then? Or maybe even - a few days before? Take a moment and think, pull out your journal, your calendar, whatever records you keep. What happened then set the stage for what you will experience now. Now, when you are ready, return to this note.
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“All under heaven have a common beginning.
This beginning is the mother of the world and my eternal mother.”
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On July 6th, three days before the Cancer new moon, I was sobbing in a walk-in closet.
So much was changing in my life. I’d recently left the city where I’d lived for the last 8.5 years, I was ending the version of The Magic Guide that I’d spent the last three years building, and I was realizing that the team of people I’d hired to support my work were not at all the right people to support me moving forward. I felt Spirit pressing THE BIG RESET BUTTON on so much of my life, and while I’m no stranger to phoenix-style transformations, I was not expecting this one, and I was having a bit of a breakdown. Okay fine, I was having a full on BREAKDOWN. I was having it out with God.
I tried pulling the ring off my right ring finger - the one that represents my marriage and commitment to God and this work - but it was stuck. It wouldn’t budge. When it eventually fell off my hand, I felt a sense of momentary freedom. I placed it somewhere safe while I let myself just be for a bit - without the weight of the commitment. The commitment to always follow the guidance even when it’s big and scary - as it was in July. And with the ring free from my body and tears pouring down my cheeks, I walked to the closet. I closed myself in there to be away from everyone and everything. But when I did, I immediately saw - in my mind’s eye - and felt - in my body - someone else in the space with me.
I saw the Virgin Mary - the archetypal mother - standing right in front of me.
I’d never prayed to her in my life, and I’d never thought much about her. I had no prior relationship with her other than the fact that she came up in some research I did months earlier on the rosary and Isis. My point is: I wasn’t looking for her. I experienced no conscious invocation. I simply bore my broken heart and she appeared.
And as I sat on the floor - crying - I watched in my mind’s eye as she knelt beside me, and she held me, and she handed me a white rose. She told me it represented my purity, my love. The thing inside me that makes me make all of this.
She told me, Your love is like a white rose. And I looked down at the wad of white tissues I’d been wiping my tears with and blowing my nose into and laughed, and she told me: Don’t you see how important this is? And she meant this moment, this breakdown, this test of faith.
It’s all been important. Everything that’s led us here - to this moment, this full moon, its white light shining in the sky like a white rose, inviting us into its folds.
After I had the vision, my intuition told me to look up the asteroid Maria (#170). When I did, I was shocked (but also not) to see that the Cancer new moon (which was coming in just three days) was falling at the exact same spot in Cancer where the asteroid Maria is in my chart.
And on this full moon now, in January, the sun is conjunct (within 8 degrees of) the asteroid Maria, and Saturn and Mercury are conjunct the asteroid Mary…for us all.
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“All under heaven have a common beginning.
This beginning is the mother of the world and my eternal mother.”
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On this full moon, the sun is in the exact same place as the dwarf planet Pluto. WE ARE BEING REBORN through the womb of the cosmic mother, the cosmic web, which is not just an idea but an actual thing made of dark matter and gas, permeating the universe: a building block of all that is.
“The cosmic web, a vast, mysterious structure that links up far-flung galaxies, has been observed directly for the first time. The observations reveal that an ancient cluster of galaxies about 12 billion light years away in the constellation of Aquarius are linked together by a network of faint gas filaments.”
I see now - in my mind - the card for us, for this month of January: THE STAR.
The gifts of heaven are pouring down to Earth.
This full moon brings a MAJOR TRANSFORMATION OF SELF - for individuals and the collective body.
The moon (in Cancer) opposes the sun, Pluto, and the asteroids Juno, Maria, and Gaia.
While the sun, Pluto, and Juno are in Capricorn, Maria and Gaia are in Aquarius, and of course, I think, of course Maria is in Aquarius. The Star, pouring her gifts down to us.
I see this as the sun pulling in the energy from all of these planetary bodies and shining them onto the full moon. This portal is imbued with the love of the mother (Mary), the power of the earth (Gaia), the marriage of heaven and earth (Juno), and total rebirth (Pluto).
The only way through this portal is surrender.
Surrender to the embrace of the cosmic mother and let yourself be held.
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“All under heaven have a common beginning.
This beginning is the mother of the world and my eternal mother.”
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In the days after this full moon, as the karmic nodes change signs and Mars crosses the galactic center, there may be more upheaval than expected. I’m seeing this like literal, physical earth being moved. Like dirt that was underneath rising to the surface, creating a loose mountain of sediment and clay. This is new earth.
And we are ready. We are prepared. We move through it by embracing the practice of eternal light.
What is the practice of eternal light? Close your eyes. You already know. Let the answer come to you. See what it looks like for you. Write it down.
And when you’re ready, in the days to come, reflect on The Golden Gate Reading and THE GREAT DIVIDE.
There is a special meditation waiting for you in The Great Divide. You’re welcome to pick a ritual from the library for this moon, but perhaps you just let the reflection exercise in this note be enough, and then, in a couple of days - or whenever you’re ready - read The Great Divide. Allow the exercises and meditation there be your ritual for this moon.
This moon’s energy will keep rippling through to the end of the month, leading us to the Aquarius new moon on February 1st.
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And now, the rest of the story:
The day after Christmas, I had this intense impulse to tear down my personal website. The homepage had a big picture of my face, and I wanted to remove my face from everything because it’s not about me, it’s never been about me. And I suddenly saw in my mind a new vision for the site that put the work front and center, and I saw it placed beneath the image of a blooming rose.
In my mind, I saw a red rose - like in all of my drawings - but when I searched the free stock videos, I kept being drawn back to this one rose. It wasn’t red, but it was right.
So, in a flurry of creative inspiration - in the final days of 2021 and early days of 2022 - I completely redid my personal website. It wasn’t until it was all done that I remembered the vision I had had of Mary, and I remembered the white rose, and I looked at the video I’d chosen and smiled - the rose is white.
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Long story short:
This full moon opens its light to us like a portal into a whole new karmic cycle. The energy is BIG - a transformation of self! And the earth. Surrender to it. Let yourself be held. You are pure love. You are held by pure love. Practice unconditional love of self and everything each and every day. Godspeed.
A Special Note: For this full moon, rather than revealing your ritual through The Library of Rituals, I recommend that you read and do the reflection exercises in this note and in the special Taurus/Scorpio note called The Great Divide. There is also a special meditation at the end of that note. If this takes a few days to do, no worries. Make it work for you.
