Cancer New Moon July 4 2016 - Facing fearful thoughts & feelings leads to new beginnings

New moon Monday morning 4 am PDT at 12 degrees 53 mins of Cancer (13 deg) in the protective Water sign of the Crab. This new moon has the influence of Mercury and Venus so indicates the mental focus is on your feelings about multiple relationships including maybe even family or people you're close with. There is a safeness that allows for sensitive communication, perhaps about subjects of the past or things that have been too difficult to feel safe expressing around fears and anxieties. If not actual communication, then the energy of the circumstances this weekend, Monday and beyond will allow for intellectual and emotional understanding within, which opens the path for new beginnings for some of your relationships, and even home and family matters.

1st aspect the moon makes after new moon is trine South Node, sextile North Node, so the past is biggest theme. Past memories, past feelings, past relationships, or whatever it is, there is something ready for a release and change. Cancer is symbolic of your roots, home and family, where you need to feel safe and protected. Find the sector of your chart that has Cancer, apply this information to those matters. Let go of the past which gives you an opening for something new. This is a karmic alignment for positive change if you face your fears.

New moon then opposite Pluto - facing the unspoken, transforming circumstances, home and family changes. Power and control dynamic is big factor and shifting in home and family circumstances. Feelings like guilt, fear, anger, memories, sensitivities, etc can make for some passive manipulation, consciously done or otherwise in order to express the feelings wanting to surface now. This leads to a transformation and new beginning in life circumstances to help you feel more safe and secure in your home environment or within your closest relationships.

Saturn Neptune - New moon energy is dealing with the Saturn Neptune battle, between dreams and reality, current obligations, long term plans vs new imaginative insight of possibility or where you self sacrifice, keeping you from progress in life. In order to feel safe people need to work out this confusion within, around what's real, what's not, what's wanted, what's needing release, etc.

July 6 has Venus in easy creative alignment with Mars. If you have personal planets around 23/24 deg Pisces, that's gonna be a nice sexy opportunity for you that day, getting a Grand Water Trine from Mars and Venus. In general this is a positive sex alignment. Both people will be feeling the desire and into it, depending on how transit Venus and Mars align with your own chart. There will be a sexy vibe in the room, even if you don't get any action. It's also good social cooperation. Trines don't create enough tension to cause people to do anything if they don't want. However, only hrs later Venus square Uranus indicates forced changes and some kind of unexpected relationship or money activity. It could be related to the Mars contact earlier, and probably is, because Mars rules Aries where Uranus is. This indicates it may be a surprise and a little stressful, but seems positive too, maybe even really exciting. If there is negative surprises for you, just remember that it leads to positive in some way. If nothing happens for you, then this alignment is not making any contact with your personal planets.

All this change is in the waxing energy of new beginnings on one or more levels of your life. The hardest thing about this is fears and not going direct enough on your desires, while not letting go of the past, including those tough memories and feelings.Perhaps its time for a change of home environment? Relationship changes?  It different for everyone. Some people will retreat to safety if they are too full of that fear and build a protective shell around them. The opp to Pluto and square to Uranus will cause too much tension to do nothing. It will be less stressful just to flow and change rather than fight and hold on to the past. It's a change of season now, inside and out...flow with it for best results.

Happy new moon folks,
Rik