It’s been quite a summer, hasn’t it? I spent the month of Cancer with family, and celebrating the first birthday of my granddaughter. (All Cancer concerns) Her uncles adore her, while her cousin isn’t sure he cares yet! What’s better than family and watching a baby grow into herself. Each of us begins this way – growing and exploring, unafraid and happy. Totally open to learn.
That’s not what most of us are feeling right now. After last Monday’s intense Uranus/Mars conjunction in Taurus, things seem more disruptive, if that’s even possible. But while Uranus brings surprises and upsets, ultimately this energy is about waking up and becoming more aware. (Do you know where this conjunction occurred in your birth chart? And what planets it aspected?)
As the feminists of the 60s said, the personal is the political. We are seeing this in American politics, with the radical, unprecedented Supreme Court decisions, with a presidential candidate’s possible assassination attempt, with unprecedented heat waves and the continuing horrors in Gaza and Ukraine – really all around the world.
The patriarchy is dying and it doesn’t want to go ‘gently into the night’. If you haven't heard about it yet, please read the Republican conservative manifesto Project 2025. Whatever your beliefs, this horrific vision of our future wants to take us, especially women, back to the Middle Ages. Women should be home while men work. No abortions at all. Get rid of no fault divorce (J.D. Vance thinks women should stay in abusive relationships – for the children.) Get rid of the Departments of Education and the Environment. They don’t believe in climate change – in fact they want to produce more oil. More tax breaks for the wealthy (Trump told billionaires to give him a billion and he’s take care of them.)
Do we really want white men like Musk, Bezos, Gates and Trump to dictate what our freedoms should be? Just because they’ve accumulated too much wealth? These ‘leaders’ want their followers to believe they’re in a second American revolution (as I’ve said before, Steve Bannon is an occultist and knows that astrologically, America just had its Pluto return that harks back to the original Revolution): unfortunately, this time they want their followers to fight for the king/nobles/corporations – the ultra wealthy.
2nd Capricorn Full Moon: the astrological Blue Moon
Since we live in a masculine mindset, we calculate time with a 12 month solar year, rather than a 13 month lunar year. So every few years, the lunar cycle is disrupted to fit that extra Moon in. Instead of a cycle of New Moon then Full Moon on a sign and its complement (Cancer/Capricorn), we get a cycle of Full Moon then New Moon in the next sign. (Capricorn, Leo). That’s where we’ve been these past few years.
With this 2nd Full Moon in Capricorn, we’re reverting to the original cycle. Hence it’s a Blue Moon. (There’s also a calendar Blue Moon when there are 5 Full Moons in a season, which also occurs next month.) But the astrological Blue Moon is the important one to track.
I bring politics in because Capricorn is the sign that rules politics, government, our financial institutions and corporations. Since Pluto originally went into Capricorn in 2008, we’ve seen the rot in our cultural systems, which is Pluto’s job to expose. While Pluto has entered the next sign of Aquarius, where it will expose the need to regulate technology, take away corporate powers and give those powers to the people, it is going to retrograde back into Capricorn from September 3 to November 19. For the US elections!
But don’t despair! This gives us a chance to vote for our vision of America. Will we choose democracy (which we will renew during Pluto’s stay in Aquarius until 2044) or fall into radical right-wing Christian fascism?
If you think this is hyperbole, please check out Project 2025. (Fundamentalist Christians believe we are living in the End Times foretold in the bible and they need to create a christian country so Jesus will return to rule. How they see Trump in that role is too delusional to get my head around. Oh, and Israel needs to get its land back.)
As I’m sure you’ve been hearing from all spiritual leaders, this is the moment we were born for. This is the choice we get to make for our children and grandchildren for 7 generations.
This Capricorn Full Blue Moon occurs at 29+* Capricorn, the same degree Pluto will be at on Election Day. 29* of any sign is important. The last degree is a karmic completion degree – to either complete the energy and purpose of a sign, or to utterly fail at it.
Capricorn Full Moon take two:
This 2nd Capricorn Full Moon is opposite the Sun in Cancer, the sign of the Mother, of the family, of home, of security. Will we let our feminine, nurturing, emphatic, life-giving energies show us what’s important in life? Because it sure as hell isn’t money or political power or domination.
This Full Moon returns us to the cyclical flow. The New Moon in Cancer on July 5th was conjunct the star system Sirius – known as our sister Sun.
Sirius is considered the star of healing, aligning body, mind & spirit, spirituality and freedom. The Cancer New Moon was a call to all spiritual warriors and teachers, and divinely inspired leaders, giving us spiritual protection.
The Star Sparks says of Cancer 14* that: “We are called on to do collectively what we have been doing within. We are here to assist in any way as the old systems crumble, the old forms dissolve, the old Earth becomes used up and discarded. We are tricksters...for the assignment is very hard to fulfill...
But we have an inner world power of wisdom and regeneration that we can call upon.”
This Capricorn Full Moon occurs on Sunday July 21, 2024 at 3:17am PDT/ 6:17am EDT/ 11:17am GMT. The Sun and Moon are at 29*09’ of their signs. The Moon is out-of-bounds, meaning it’s a maverick Moon – we have the power to feel exactly what we’re feeling. We don’t need to be proper or nice about it.
The Capricorn Moon is conjunct Pluto at 0*55’ Aquarius, so we get to embody the revolutionary energy of Aquarius to stand up to the dead-end patriarchal principles that have ruled Capricorn – and the US – for at least 250 years. The Moon and Pluto are also trine (a helpful aspect) Mars, which just entered Gemini after its meeting with Uranus on the 15th. It’s a great energy to ‘get the word out’ about Project 2025 – Gemini is all about communication and talking. Just remember to choose your words carefully. We do need to restore some balance to our cultural dialogues.
This Full Moon squares both Chiron and Eris in Aries, further calling upon us to stand up for what we need and want. To follow our heart’s desire rather than our cultural fears. (Watch the Disney movie ‘Wish’ about how patriarchy steals the wishes of our hearts in exchange for security and protection.)
As Divine Harmony pointed out, Mars is conjunct the fixed star Alycone of the Pleiades, another spiritual star system, symbolizing peace and the divine feminine. Uranus is heading there next year and Pluto and Neptune both connect to this system as well. I once had a dream that I saw the Pleiades in a day time sky and when I asked psychologist Jean Houston what she thought it meant, she said it represented a new dispensation – a divine re-ordering of the affairs of the world. A new beginning.
With all the outer, transpersonal planets connecting to this Full Moon, we have to make the political personal. With Neptune and Saturn both in Pisces, we need to connect to our creative imagination and imagine a better world. And then go out and make it so.
The Star Sparks for the Sun at 30* Cancer is: Wild grapes growing everywhere. Nature, our nature, is wild and free. We are called to be alive in the mystery of that wild spirit. We are called to come back to ourselves – our true, original nature. This is what I see in my one year old granddaughter — a wild and free nature who is happy to be here. I think we need to feel that right now! Amidst the chaos, there is still life and love. Choose it!
This is the karmic completion for Cancer: To set our souls free! So Drink from the well of the Divine Feminine – she will feed us as the Maidens of the Wells once did in Britain.
The Star Sparks for the Moon at 30* Capricorn is: Blue morning glories growing up a tall trellis. I see these at my son’s home and they are beautiful.
“If you shoot high enough if you aim for the stars and never let them out of your sight, you will attain mighty vistas of seeing and knowing and being above ordinary conscious awareness. You will live a higher-frequency existence, independent of your outer life, in which you are tapped for greater purposes as a matter of course.” (Star Destiny/Lonsdale)
Jean Houston just talked about this ability – to tap into the quantum field, not to ask for wealth or power like The Secret, but to ask to fulfill your soul purpose. I call it Aphrodite’s Law of Attraction – calling to the One, the purpose, that is ours alone. We each need to obey the law of destiny now.
It is time.
The Wheel of the Year: Lamas
The Wheel of the Year turns in the beginning of August. Lammas was celebrated from August 1st - 7th when the Sun arrives at the power gate of 15* Leo. This is the season of the first harvest.
The big change will come with the light. The days will begin to grow darker quickly now. The Sun reaches a point when its southern movement seems to move quickly.
In ancient times, people always offered the first fruits to the gods as a sacrifice and a thank you. Do we still offer thanks for the many blessings we receive from life, even in these chaotic times?
Jupiter and Mars are both making a positive alignment with this Leo Sun, asking us to share our thoughts about and gratitude to Mother Earth.
Enjoy the rest of the Summer and stay cool!
Cathy