Waning Moon in Cancer

The Moon transitions now from bright, outgoing Gemini to Cancer, the Moon's home sign. As I write, she's between-times, having made her final square to Uranus at 6:37am EDT. With aspects to Neptune, Chiron, Jupiter and Uranus ushering the Moon into her reflective void-of-course, I'm looking for more reports of powerful dreams among the PsiberDreamers at the annual conference. Last night was the Mutual Dreaming event and I dreamt this morning of King Kong ... definitely something BIG!

Broadway Tower, England

The Moon will enter her Cancerian home at 9:46am, so don't be making key decisions or starting new projects first thing this morning. Sometimes when the Moon transits Cancer, we start baking, filling the house with warmth and the aroma of comfort foods like chicken soup and chocolate chip cookies. Today's aspects might make this transit of Cancer feel more like a time to retire to your tower in silent meditation. Once you're sure the family's safe and accounted for, you may even raise the drawbridge.

Pluto and Saturn make their presence felt today, and while the gifts they bring are considerable, they are not a light-hearted pair. The Moon's first aspect in Cancer is an opposition to Pluto, Cardinal Water and Cardinal Earth face to face. How do we balance the inner world and the outer? Our commitments to home and family, and our role in the world? Our need for safety and security, and the call to follow our star?

These weighty questions are emphasized as the Sun and Saturn reach conjunction today, in Libra, sign of relationships, creativity and balance. The Sun illuminates our Saturnian issues of responsibility, limitations, the need for hard work and patience. Saturn works hard but is not very social; associated with the archetype of the hermit, he can leave us feeling a deep need for solitary reflection, and a bit grumpy if we don't get it.

hermit crab

Even as the Sun and Saturn join together, they square the Nodes of the Moon, the karmic path in the sky leading from what we've already mastered to what we are called to do in this lifetime. By this evening, the Moon will join the South Node (exact at 10:36pm). The South Node and Moon together in Cancer may create a powerful pull to the past, or at least open wells of memory we haven't plumbed for a while. The Sun-Saturn square to the Nodes asks us in yet another way to look at where we are in our life path.

If you're sketching this pattern in your head (or looking at today's chart), you'll have realized the Moon is also squaring the Sun and Saturn, aspects that come exact at 11:40pm (Saturn) and 11:52pm (Sun). The Sun-Moon square ushers in the last quarter of this lunar cycle, the time when we need to assimilate what we've learned, fitting together the pieces of recent experiences and insights.

To channel these powerful energies into productive reflection, give yourself alone time today. If Saturn asks you for effort, clean up the garden, add to the compost pile, or make sure you have what you need to winterize the house. Today it will feel good to strengthen our foundations.