Moon into Cancer: A Path with Heart

Wednesday night through Friday night

The Moon slipped into her home sign of Cancer last night, to join Neptune and then Chiron. If you woke with rich dreams this morning, images filled with mystery, and a sense of revisiting the past, know that the Moon, Neptune and Chiron were there.

A Path with Heart is a book written by Jack Kornfield, in which he teaches that connection with the heart is essential to living a calm, meaningful life. An earlier work of his was titled, After the Ecstasy, the Laundry ... these are Cancerian ideas.

Cancer is cardinal Water, the sign that reaches out to others, offering the nurturing warmth of home. The Moon in Cancer feels the importance of things like laundry, and the path of heart. During this transit, the Moon will stand up for the values of home, family, and living from the heart

Challenges began early this morning, as the Moon squared Uranus in Aries, and then opposed Pluto in Capricorn. The Moon triggers each of these powerful energies, which are squaring each other, with reminders of the importance of feelings, of family, of tradition.

hearts at sunset

As the Cancer Moon stands for tradition, this is a day of change. As Venus moves into Leo, a yod forms, pointing at the Sun and Venus both, from Neptune and Chiron on one side and Pluto on the other, opening the yod that will remain in place for the coming New Moon.

The Sun and Venus are at the point of this yod, the focus of Pluto and Neptune's transformations. Who are we, now? What are we meant to shine into the world?

This afternoon, the Cancer Moon squares Saturn in Libra, two forces of tradition looking for a balance between heart and mind. This is the Moon's last classical aspect in Cancer, beginning a long void-of-course time that continues until she enters Leo in the early hours of Saturday (2:16am EDT). During this void, Mercury and Neptune reach their opposition, our thought in touch with cosmic thought.

This Moon transit through Cancer brings us near the end of this waning lunar cycle, when we release what we've completed to prepare the way for the new. This Cancer Moon asks us to look carefully, to consider what our hearts need, as we move into this time of transition and transformation.