Full Moon in Cancer
By: Adjust Your Sails
Tags: Astrology, Full Moon, Spirituality

I want to start by reminding you that prior to May of this year the North and South Nodes were in Cancer and Capricorn. This is the first Moon in Cancer this year that won’t be accompanied by an eclipse. It’s a great, soft way to end this difficult year, in my opinion. So, let’s talk about it.

Cancer is the first sign of the zodiac where we get emotions and soul. Expect these days leading up to and directly after the Full Moon to have us more in our emotions. The highest vibration of Cancer is heightened emotional intelligence, while the lowest is manipulation of emotions for personal gain.

Be self-aware and know that if you feel emotions bubbling up it’s just the Moon, and it’s asking you to feel those emotions and heal them if necessary. To let the baggage go before we enter a new year. It’s time to understand that life doesn’t have to feel so heavy. There is a great cleansing available here.

All a Cancer wants is to feel nurtured, safe, and secure. This year has taught us that safety and security are absolute illusions. Other people can help us feel safe and secure, even tell us we are, but ultimately they do not know that. No one can promise us we won’t experience hardship, pain, and death.

The best move going forward is to use your internal navigation system to build safety and security within. To understand the unknown is all we have. This is about our ability to self-soothe and nurture ourselves. It’s a great year to end on this note since so much of what makes us feel safe and secure was taken away from us collectively.

You are not alone because while we have all experienced different challenges we have all experienced challenges. This is about tuning into your higher self, your heart, body, soul, and giving it attention. We had a Full Moon in Cancer in January, on the tenth, too. However, there was a Lunar Eclipse with it, so there was likely some intense releasing or a culmination going on.

This won’t be quite as intense. There could be a final release and letting go, but overall this energy is quieter, softer, and more about resting and healing before we begin again. It’s about fighting the urge to control what you cannot control. To just let yourself be.

This year has been a universal year four, all about foundations. When I wrote about that on January 11th I had no idea what we were in for. Our foundations have definitely been shaken to the core. Many across the country in the USA are fearing eventual eviction. Losing their actual homes.

Our foundations have been thoroughly exposed collectively. Cancer is also the fourth sign of the zodiac and likes to feel at home. For me, this leads back to the idea that home is not a place. It’s a feeling of being authentic and comfortable in your own skin. Home is first built within.

Many of us have been on lockdowns and forced to spend a lot of time at home. In my situation we’ve had four or five complete bedroom quarantines. If you’ve been blessed enough to make it this far it’s time to ask yourself what you have been shown about yourself through this experience.

With Chiron’s involvement here it’s time to trust that it’s okay to rest. That the murky waters will settle. There isn’t much we can do to change or fix anything, and for many of us this is difficult to accept. The best thing we can do right now is stay home, rest, and do nothing other than nurture our own soul.

The degrees of the New and Full Moon’s as of late are interesting, too. It’s this energy of empowerment and change. Of no longer seeking to prove ourselves to each other, but to ourselves. Don’t shut off from the overwhelming influx of emotions that arise. Remind yourself you’re not the emotions. You are the awareness above them. Detach enough to learn what it’s telling you.

The Sun will be in the opposite sign, Capricorn. This is a great time to focus on balancing your yin and yang energy. Where are you putting in too much effort, or not enough? Where are you not open to receiving, or trusting the universe to give you all your desires so much so you’re not making any moves?

We must trust the universe and petition it, yes, but we also have to be tapped in to the universe to know what our next move should be. So, I encourage everyone this Full Moon to spend time alone, meditate, journal, reflect on what you’ve learned this year through our collective trauma, and how we can heal that moving forward.

Yes, our sensitivity is heightened, but the universe is asking us to release our naiveté about the situation we find ourselves in. We have a new reality to adjust to, and not adjusting to it sets us up for failure. Living in fear or avoidance sets us up for failure. We have to release this idea that we are ever going back to what we perceived as normal.

I don’t mean Covid won’t go away, or that we’ll be on lockdown forever. What I do mean is that we have learned a lot through the presidential race, and from Covid about how corrupt our governments are. It’s time for a shift and new reality to come in. We have to stop pretending it isn’t.

The Sun and Mercury have ended up conjunct for several of the past lunations, and this is no exception. So, while we’re being asked to let go of the naivete, we don’t know all the facts as to why. It’s going to take us trusting the unknown and that still, small voice within.

There is a trine from the Sun and Mercury conjunction to Uranus in Taurus. This can help us find grounding energy, and feel good about letting go of control. We cannot manipulate what is happening. The only power we have is to manipulate and cultivate how we handle what is happening.

For me, the letting go is around anxiety over the unknown. This isn’t new for any of us. If you’re a Leo rising this is happening in your 12th house of all that is hidden, of spirituality, of hidden enemies. It’s been like pulling teeth getting me to leave the house this year. I felt like I was entering a war zone with an unseen enemy (Covid), and it caused a ton of anxiety.

Thankfully, I have a lot of amazing tools, and the ability to self-soothe. So, I’ve gotten through the hardest parts of it. This is a final purge of the anxiety and fear that has held me back. Yes, I will likely still remain at home for the most part, and I absolutely will follow safety guidelines, but I will also start trusting that’s all I can do, and releasing the control of the outcome. More of the same.

If this Full Moon aspects any of your personal planets in your chart it could be more intense. For me the Sun and Mercury will conjunct my Venus, and the Moon will be opposite my Venus. No surprise my Venus is involved because Saturn and Jupiter just went conjunct in my 7th house, and I’m moving into a profection year seven. You can search what these aspects mean for you.

Readings:

Feel free to check any placement you wish here, whether Sun, Moon, Rising, Venus, etc. However, the astrology portion is based on Rising sign alone. The reading is more open to all. I hope this helps you find some peace. Remember to take what resonates and leave the rest behind. Don’t force it to fit.

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Aries placements:

If you’re an Aries rising this is happening in your fourth house of home, family, and emotional foundations. This could be anything from ancestral trauma, to moving homes, to real estate. There is likely an uncertainty you’ve been dealing with in your emotional foundations, and a release is necessary here. This could also have to do with your parents.

All Aries placements:

If you’ve been seeking an answer the answer is YES. Just say YES. If an opportunity has arrived in your life and you’re overthinking it you can stop now. No, you don’t have all the answers, but you don’t need them to take the next step. It’s time to turn your knowledge into wisdom.

Be open, be humble, be teachable. You don’t have all the answers and as such acting like you do will only turn people off from you and your projects. You will grow as you take each new step with an open mind and keep learning. There is definitely something you know would bring you emotional fulfillment and joy, but you’ve been holding yourself back a bit.

It’s time to make the choice to trust the unknown and really invest in it. There are people you’ve had in mind to collaborate with as well. If you follow those hunches victory is assured. There is recognition and success in whatever collaborations you’re taking on in the future. Don’t doubt yourself.

I feel like many of you have held back. You’ve just been watching and waiting. However, there is a part of you that knows your truth and you cannot deny it. Divine timing is here now. You can expect opportunities to come, and when they do say yes enthusiastically, or create your own. ❤

Taurus placements:

If you’re a Taurus Rising this Full Moon is happening in your third house. Your local community, extended family, siblings, how you communicate, short distance travel, media, and day-to-day affairs is found here. There may be something you still need to release or accept here.

All Taurus placements:

There is a need for you to stop being so serious right now. To allow yourself to just have fun and play for a bit. You could even make that part of your ritual. Dance, read, watch something funny, celebrate with those around you for no reason than you’re alive. Joy is lacking from your life.

You are absolutely exhausted for your efforts. You seem to have this obstacle in front of you, and instead of trying to find another away around it, you keep barreling into it head first wondering why it hasn’t moved. You are stubbornly insisting there is only one way and it’s through the obstacle, but if you’d back off a bit, let loose, you’d discover a way around it you haven’t thought of yet.

Sometimes an answer is no. Sometimes the answer is not yet. You can choose to keep stubbornly clinging to this one way, thing, or person, but it won’t get you anywhere. Not every conflict is worth engaging in, either. So make sure you’re picking your battles wisely. Maybe it’s time for you to say no to others.

You’re experiencing a lot of heartache and pain right now. There is a huge burden you have to lay down regarding what has hurt you. Whatever this is it was not your fault, it says nothing about your worth, and it is eating you alive. It’s time to surrender to the unknown path ahead of you.

You’re stubbornly clinging to the way things were always done, but it’s time to face the truth that maybe it wasn’t supposed to be done that way, or at least it isn’t supposed to be done that way anymore. There are a lot of good opportunities trying to make their way to you. Tap into your creative potential and spend time imagining the empire you want to build.

Find some balance in your life. Nurture your body with healthy food, dance, exercise. Nurture your soul with meditation and song. Nurture your mind with journaling and therapy. There are two paths before you. One leads you to leading your own life, to becoming more nurturing, loving, and abundant. The other leads to nothing but deception and more pain. Your call, Taurus. ❤

Cancer placements:

If you’re a Cancer Rising this Full Moon is in your first house. Your identity and how others perceive you. Perhaps you need to release an outdated version of who you are. Maybe you’re done caring how others perceive you, and so you’re releasing the weight of other people’s judgements and opinions.

All Cancer placements:

There is something you’ve been inspired and intuitively led to do for a while now, but you’ve held back. This inspiration welling up in you is divine. It’s meant for you to take the hunches and act on them. You’ve been hurt a lot in the past when you’ve taken risks, so holding back is understandable.

However, the familiarity of where you are is not offering you any real safety and security. It has nothing to offer you. It’s time to take the leap. Whatever new challenges you face as you leap forward you will handle with emotional intelligence and grace. You got this.

Your communication may be too harsh and cold right now. You’re speaking from past pain that wasn’t as personal as it feels. Even when you do speak to new people you’re deceiving them holding back because of what past people have done. There is great cleansing and healing available with this Moon.

It could be that others are harsh and cold when they communicate with you. If this is the case, maybe this is the leap you’re meant to take. You’re meant to leave people like that behind, and find souls who speak your language.

This opportunity or leap you take may seem small, but it is grounded in your legacy. You have the creative potential to make this happen, Cancer. To learn how to expertly blend the material and spiritual worlds to create abundance. Maybe it’s other people trying to talk you out of this, but the advice is to defend your passions and inspiration.

Spirit is trying to communicate with you in regards to your legacy. The pain has thus far gotten in the way of you moving forward and learning more. You’ve simply surrendered to this inaction, this inability to make a choice, and just move forward. You keep receiving signs, visions, or dreams, though. ❤

Gemini placements:

If you’re a Gemini Rising this Full Moon is happening in your 2nd house. This is about your personal finances and investments. Your self-worth and self-esteem. Where in life you’re self-sufficient. Your possessions and values. Are you still codependent somewhere in your life? Time to release it.

All Gemini placements:

There is something in your life that keeps crumbling down around you, and it’s meant to, but you are clinging to it for dear life. It’s time to recognize that what is familiar is not always good and healthy for us. Are you remaining loyal to someone or something you claim to love without being loyal to you first?

Your first priority and loyalty must be to your own highest good. Your heart is pure and love is strong, but are you investing it into the wrong people, places, and things? It’s like you want to celebrate the past, and you’re making it out to be better than it was. Aching for a time that never did exist if you’re honest.

Fate and destiny are here to bring you a shift. It may feel larger than life, but don’t sweat it. Start small and start paying attention to the synchronicities in life. Become a student of the material world around you. Trust your hunches and higher instincts over your ego right now.

In divine time you’re going to build abundance. You’re meant to be a leader who nurtures and cares for others, but it’s important to set healthy boundaries, too. I feel like many of you are in love connections that have brought a lot of sadness and regret, perhaps even cheating.

It’s time to communicate with your higher self about your next steps. Are you really going to throw away your purpose to remain where growth will never appear? Or, are you ready to release and creatively plan a better future? ❤

Leo placements:

As a Leo Rising this Full Moon is happening in your 12th house. The house of the subconscious, higher spirituality, hidden enemies. There may be a final purging and release in subconscious blockages. Perhaps you’ll experience a release of fear you have over the unknown and higher levels of spirituality.

All Leo placements:

There is something you know deep down is a rite of passage for you. You’re approaching the threshold and it’s likely you feel it. It’s more important than ever you watch your words. Are you aware of what you’re saying to yourself and others? Words have power and it’s time to use them wisely.

Whether these words are flowing from your mouth, pen, or keyboard it’s time to take heed. Communicate with integrity. Absolute right speech is being called for moving forward. Reflect on your internalized beliefs before you criticize what others believe. Your voice has great power right now.

All you seem to want is reciprocal connections in your life. An equal exchange of energy. Many of you are happy on your own. You’ve cultivated confidence and the ability to go it alone, but you want connections. There is some sort of sadness or regret that causes anxiety and fear over your purpose right now. Perhaps this has to do with a connection.

You’re being asked to find the strength and courage to overcome this fear and anxiety. To speak your truth, communicate honestly, and trust the epiphanies that come your way. This is especially important in terms of offers of love and emotional fulfillment. Don’t settle for less than the reciprocity you seek.

There is a mission in your heart and soul that is powerful. You’ve been an apprentice for a while. There is forward movement coming in soon regarding your mission and purpose. You’ll be able to move forward with confidence. Defend your purpose at all costs, no matter how many people are against you, but do so wisely, choosing your words carefully. ❤

Virgo placements:

If you’re Virgo Rising this is happening in your 11th house. The house of friendship, networking, groups, humanitarianism, your goals and dreams. What needs to be released for you to move forward here? Is there self-doubt, shady connections, fear of networking?

All Virgo placements:

Virgo, you’re here on a double mission. You’re meant to channel information that can uplift humanity. It is time to bring your ideas to life now. You have been awakened to many different things that you’re meant to speak to the world. This epiphanies and aha moments aren’t going to stop. Your life has the potential right now for profound transformation.

This is meant to set you on a new path. However, you’re pretending to be blind to this new path full of spiritual enlightenment and emotional fulfillment. Maybe you’re holding on to an ego based relationship that has nothing but fights and arguments. It’s time to love yourself. To stop clinging to the past pretending it was ever better than it is and you’ll somehow get that back.

You’ve been receiving so many signs and visions. It could feel scary and intimidating because when fate is involved it often does. We question whether or not we’re worth what the universe is trying to gift us. You are, Virgo. It’s time to radiate confidence and assuredness.

You have so much to learn and it’s time to find some balance and start educating yourself. There is victory and recognition here for you. Follow your passion and get inspired by the empire you want to build. There is great healing and rest found in your imagination right now. Walk away from people, places, and things that block you and hold you back. ❤

Libra placements:

If you’re a Libra Rising this is happening in your tenth house of career and public image. There could be a fear around how the public perceives you, leaving a job to start a business, something related to this area of life that needs to be fully released.

All Libra placements:

You’re not a lone here. Ancient ancestors are guiding you and standing beside you on this journey. They want you to take some time to be playful, Libra. Take on a lightness of being when performing your tasks. Blast the music and dance while doing dishes. That sort of thing.

There is an important milestone coming up for you worth celebrating. This likely does have to do with work, career, or your soul mission and purpose. The closing out of old cycles and the beginning of new. I see as you close out the old chapters you are fulfilled emotionally.

You don’t seem to be fighting this transition too much honestly. You know you’re carrying baggage with you as you move forward, but prepared to handle it and unpack it as time allows. You’re choosing empowerment and ready to lead your own life.

When you do find yourself overwhelmed by the options and choices you’re making take a time out. Meditate and tap into your soul. Remember your heart is full of wisdom and great love. You don’t need anyone else’s approval to live the life that is meant for you. ❤

Scorpio placements:

If you’re a Scorpio Rising this is happening in your 9th house. The house of learning, teaching, guiding, spirituality, higher beliefs, and long distance travel. Perhaps there are lessons you’ve learned in need of wrapping up.

All Scorpio placements:

You’re incredibly empathetic and tapped in. Highly sensitive to the energy around you. There is a need for you to ground yourself and perhaps even connect with nature if possible. Find a way to be present in the moment, rather than lost in the past and worried about the future.

The beauty and sweetness of life cannot be extracted from the past or the future. It’s found right here and now. You are becoming the person you’ve always wished to be, so enjoy the process. Feel your connection to Spirit.

You’re feeling incredibly confident and inspired. Ready to surrender to a truth you’ve been holding back for a while now. I feel like this truth is about someone you want to build a foundation with. Someone you’d love by your side to celebrate milestones in life.

I see you feeling full of creative potential and empire focused. There is great victory and recognition coming in for you. You and this person have an intuitive bond that runs deep. This is someone you may not have been in contact with for some time, but you’ve been speaking telepathically, receiving dreams, visions, and signs from the universe. Go for it. ❤

Sagittarius placements:

If you’re a Sagittarius Rising Cancer is in your 8th house. The mystery bag house. Deep psyche transformation, taxes, shared resources, intimacy, astrology, tarot, and the “dark” arts. Is there something else you need to release in order to allow yourself to move forward?

All Sagittarius placements:

There is something in your life that is not aligned. What needs to change? If you allow this change and alignment to happen a rebirth is assured for you. Something in your life has run its course. Surrendering this ending to the universe frees up space for the new beginnings.

A tower moment has either already happened or will be happening. There are cycles that you have to close for new ones to take their place. I do see some sort of communication coming in for you that ignites you. It fills you up with passion, and has you wanting to creatively plan for the future.

I see honest and clear communication here. You having brilliant moments of clarity regarding what you want to plant in the material world. You’re feeling quite powerful and able to manifest the life you want to live. It’s time recognize and live out your power. You have all you need within.

I see you tying up loose ends and fighting it out if necessary. You’re determined to speak and live your truth. The timing is important here. Just follow each new spark wherever it may lead you. ❤

Capricorn placements:

If you’re a Capricorn Rising this energy is happening in your 7th house of partnerships, both personal and professional. What has been happening with your relationships the past couple years? This can offer a clue.

All Capricorn placements:

There is someone or something you’re definitely meant to say NO to. Pause and reflect right now. You can do so with a gentle touch, but you’re definitely meant to do so. Be diplomatic when you say no, and when dealing with others, but no is the answer if you’ve been seeking a sign.

Understand others and their needs. Remember if they aren’t helping themselves you can’t truly help them anyway. You’re coming up on an awakening here soon regarding your own victory and recognition being tied to you releasing the past and no longer pining over it.

These endings have to take place. You have to learn to truly love yourself and nourish yourself spiritually and emotionally. Stop fighting battles that only lead to hollow victories. It’s preventing you from living out your fullest, most creative potential. You have absolute talent to build an empire.

However, you’re either deceiving yourself or allowing others to deceive you. There is a codependent, toxic energy around you. This needs to be removed, so you can usher in a transformation. Your opportunities lie right behind your decision to stop following the wrong path and get on the right one. ❤

Aquarius placements:

For Aquarius Rising this Full Moon is in your sixth house of work, health, and routine. Perhaps there is something you need to revisit and release here.

All Aquarius placements:

You are protected going forward. Call back any power you feel you’ve given away. Go ahead and cut cords and retrieve your soul. Tend to the smaller things and the details right now as you do. I think you are too focused on the big picture, and in doing so you’ve lost the plot.

If small or big emotions rise up in you during this time pay attention to them. Pay attention to the subtly in others, too. You will learn a whole lot here. If something doesn’t feel right it isn’t right, but only if that’s coming from intuition and not fear and anxiety. Learn the difference between the two.

If you’ve been waiting for honest communication or a breakthrough in the legacy you want to build expect that to come. I feel like you’ve been waiting for a while now. This may be you waiting on another person, who is hellbent on leaving no stone un-turned before they reach out.

I see a lot of planning, strategy, and soul searching. In the meantime, you’re a manifesting wizard. Know your power and stand in it. You lack nothing to create a harmonious environment within and around you. I do see someone coming back to make an apology at some point soon.

Don’t be so afraid of abandonment and rejection that you allow yourself to fall into sleepless nights. There is a unexpected moment coming up for. The rug will be pulled from under your feet. It will require you to be confident in yourself, your abilities, and all you’ve learned from your past. ❤

Pisces placements:

If you’re a Pisces Rising the Full Moon is in your fifth house. Creative self-expression, romance, children, sex, and so forth. Maybe there is something in this area of life you’ve been hard on yourself about and it’s time to release.

All Pisces placements:

What lights you up, Pisces? That’s what you’re being asked to give intention to right now. It’s time for a deep dive. What you’re seeking for doesn’t live on the surface you keep skimming. It lives deep within your soul. Deeper understanding is available to you now if you seek it.

I feel like you’ve rejected this divine understanding in the past. Perhaps didn’t see it for what it was, or felt unworthy of it. However, it’s time to leave the familiar behind and creatively map out a different future. Fate and destiny are on your side, and so is someone who loves you deeply.

I see a brand new connection or life being poured into an existing one. The two of you ready to learn from the past. To stop clinging to it, and instead allow yourselves to be inspired by one another to build something greater than you ever imagined.

It’s time to make a choice to listen to your calling. To stop the ego battles and hollow victories in favor of productive communication. If you want reciprocal energy demand it. People cannot read your mind. ❤

Namaste all!

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