New Moon [24 Cancer 56]
July 17, 2023 (19:32 GMT+1)
During a New Moon, the Sun and Moon sit side-by-side. During a Cancer New Moon, the Moon is strong in her sign of dignity.
The Moon is the significator for women and the mother in astrology and Cancer is the nurturing, maternal sign. This is a fertile New Moon ripe with potential.
Cancer is the star sign that pulls you back to your roots and draws your attention to your home and your family. You seek comfort, somewhere to nest so you feel safe and secure.
Wherever the New Moon falls in your horoscope, this is where you may feel the urge to retreat, be in your comfort zone and make everything cosy and familiar.
The New Moon in Cancer is the perfect time to set your intentions for the coming month, especially in the areas of home, family, your past and where you come from.
A New Moon initiates a new cycle and is prime time to start afresh, organise family events, focus on your home and anything else that brings you comfort in your life.
The Outer Planets
This feels like a significant New Moon as it links into the three outer planets, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. Big changes afoot, a deep and meaningful transition.
The Sun & Moon at 24° Cancer are separating from a helpful sextile aspect to Uranus at 22° Taurus, bringing a theme of change. The Sun/Uranus sextile aspect takes place on July 14th, before the New Moon on July 17th.
Then, the Sun & Moon in water sign Cancer align with sentimental Neptune at 27° Pisces, a perfect time to revisit your hopes and dreams – the Sun/Neptune trine aspect is exact on July 20th.
Finally, the Sun & Moon’s wide opposition to Pluto at 29° Capricorn is a reminder that when you begin something new, inevitably you have to leave something else behind. It’s the nature of things. The Sun-Pluto opposition perfects on July 22nd. This may be when you have to make a tough decision.
Endings & New Beginnings
Astrology is the art of patterns. Therefore, it can be helpful to look back to see what happened previously. From July 2018 to July 2020, there was an eclipse cycle cutting across the Cancer/Capricorn axis of the zodiac. What’s reverberating now in your life from back then?
Also, note the months when powerful Pluto is at 29° Capricorn completing its journey through the earth sign. This began in 2008 and Pluto will be taking up residence in air sign Aquarius at the end of next year. Here are the key months – Feb/March 2023, June/July 2023, Dec 2023/Jan 2024, Sept/Oct/Nov 2024.
This New Moon and Sun/Pluto opposition may be part of a process that’s gradually unfolding in your life and will be complete at the end of 2024.
Finally, you could look back to the Full Moon in Cancer on January 6, 2023. What came to completion back then in your life that’s under the cosmic spotlight once again at this New Moon phase.
The Cancer/Capricorn Axis
The Cancer/Capricorn axis is about home/family/foundations, also work/status/authority. It’s the past and future axis of the horoscope, the foundations of your life.
If the Cancer/Capricorn axis is significant in your own horoscope, you may have may been experiencing pressure or change in these key areas of your lives in recent times, whether you’re working from home, you’re out of work or you’re juggling your working life with your home and family.
You may have become acutely aware of the passing of time, your own mortality, of endings and beginnings. You may have lost people close to you.
The ties of ancestry and legacy can be clearly seen in the Cancer/Capricorn axis of the zodiac. And this area of your life may feel under pressure if you have planets/angles close to 29° Cancer/Capricorn.
Yet, all crises have the potential to lead to illumination, insight and a fresh perspective. Change requires courage and strength to step up to what next, what’s new, what’s beginning.
This week’s powerful New Moon may be the catalyst you need to enable you to dig deep and transform your personal situation. Actively engage with this New Moon energy and you can move forward, stepping through a new portal. Set some powerful intentions right here, right now.
What Does It Mean For You?
Here’s a quick guide to where this New Moon falls in your horoscope. Read both your Sun and Ascendant signs:
- Cancer – personal goals, image and identity
- Leo – your inner world, retreat and sacrifice
- Virgo – friends, groups and wider society
- Libra – career, vocation and status, future path
- Scorpio – global connections, travel and study, beliefs
- Sagittarius – joint finances, sexuality, taboo issues
- Capricorn – love and relationships, contracts, enemies
- Aquarius – work and health, service to others
- Pisces – what you give birth to i.e. children, romance, a creative project
- Aries – home and family, where you come from
- Taurus – community, siblings and neighbours, communication
- Gemini – money and assets, self-worth, values
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