Cancer Full Moon: The Awakened Heart
When our lunar hearts are opened at this Cancerian Full Moon, let’s leave them open and let them teach us, soften us, and bring us closer to one another. Our awakened hearts can draw us, gracefully and naturally, into the joyful light of the Moon, setting us aglow with the comfort, hope, and merriment of our own Buddha natures.
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Cancer New Moon: Setting the Table
It’s a big round table that we’re all sitting at, more or less together, and even those of us who grew up with wise elders and stable households are still frightened children, sometimes. And sometimes there are bigger, stronger people protecting us from life’s harshness, but sometimes we’re the ones who have to fry the chicken and set the table.
Read MoreFull Moon in Cancer: Belonging
Not every family story is a happy one; for some of us, the healthiest life is one that cuts us out of that family portrait. But the family we’re born into is the preamble to building intentional family, those dear friends, spouses, and children who make you feel that you belong to them.
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Cancer New Moon: True North
I remember thinking, good god, now we’re all that’s left. Our mothers left us their compass, hidden deep in our fourth houses like buried treasure; but we’ll have to learn to read it ourselves if we’re to bring this ship safely into harbor.
Read MoreCancer Full Moon: A Soft Place to Fall
My astrology teacher used to say, “It’s a transit, it will pass.” It’s a comforting thought … but is the point of a transit, to just endure it until it moves on? Presumably we’re meant to learn from them – though it’s next to impossible to that do in the moment.
Read MoreCancer New Moon: Vacation
Sometimes, leaving behind what’s safe and familiar is the only way we’ll learn who we are… but it can make us fear that we’ll never find our way back home.
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Summer Solstice: Slowing Down, Turning Around
You get to the middle part of your life and you begin to want to jettison parts of your past, as if to make your life more fuel-efficient so that it will carry you farther. You look for new places and situations that you can step into without all that excess cargo of stuff and failed dreams and loss and sad relationships.
Read MoreCancer Full Moon: Mother Christmas
As in life, my mother’s face in the Moon is kind and wise and always happy to see me. It reassures me about the life I’ve chosen, and laughs at the idea that any daughter of hers could be as heartless as Scrooge.
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Cancer New Moon: Taproot
If you feel lonely and vulnerable, find the taproot that sustains you—often family, pets, and close friends—and nurture it with all the love and attention you can muster.
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Cancer Solar Eclipse: Setting the Table
We’re strangers, most of us, but we’re sitting at that big table together, just waiting to become a family.
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