This year’s triple eclipses of summer stirred up a stew pot of “OMG where did that come from??” issues, events and emotions. Though much of what has been stimulated will continue to reveal itself for months, we are starting to try to sort through the debris and find our way to solid ground.
Highlighted in this process at the Cancer/Capricorn Full Moon are the security of our families and our positions in the communities – our homes, our jobs. No big newsflash there, huh? Home and Family (and Mother & apple pie) are under the rulership of this Sun in Cancer while our public lives are ruled by this Moon sign, Capricorn. (also fathers, CEOs, Heads of State, other authority figures.)
I wish I could tell you this Full Moon will light up the sky and illuminate The Way Out but it’s not a good time to be making promises. The ongoing political debate over the National Budget is emotionally charged by the opposition of these two signs. Mom & Dad in opposition is a challenging family dynamic. A quincunx from the Moon to the Gemini South Node makes compromise difficult and as one party agrees to adjust, the other might just shift it’s position enough to require starting all over again. That’s how quincunxes work. Mars in Gemini sextile Mercury in Leo adds an element of a whole lot of grandiose (Leo) and/or aggressive (Mars) talk (Mercury and Gemini). The sextile’s opportunity to communicate and take action is in danger of being lost in verbosity. On a more hopeful note, with the Moon in Capricorn, Saturns’s rulership can be drawn on to provide emotional stability and the ability to find balance (being exalted in Libra) in the midst of seesawing possibilities. We can also take Heart that there are relatively few major aspects to the opposition. This can work to mediate full blown Full Moon lunacy.
Of course, these stars aren’t just shining on Washington, be alert to similar patterns at home and at work . Don’t forget the potentially harmonizing Saturn influence. With a sextile to Mars, we might also find the energy there to actively pursue productive equilibrium. The more efficiently we dispatch the clutter dredged up by the eclipses, the easier it will be to find our way to what my Libra Moon grandmother used to call “The Happy Medium”.