Click on image for larger view	Cancer New Moon July 10, 2002 Sun and Moon joined at 18 Cancer 3:26 a.m. PDT; 6:26 a.m. EDT Sabian Symbol: "A hen scratching the ground to give nourishment to her progeny; the practical concern with everyday nourishment necessary to sustain  one's outreaching activities."
What does listening to the zodiac do for us at each moon cycle?  It attunes us to the yet living quality of this ancient rhythm.  It sharpens our senses to new ways to bring ourselves forth.  It puts us on the alert -- as an animal living in the wild -- to something new in the air...

Cancer New Moon
June/July 2002

by Dana Gerhardt

The Cancer New Moon always comes about now.  Her eyes are kind but vigilant, watching you like a pot that might boil over.  She carries safety pins, a damp cloth for soothing brows, colored band-aids, and a miracle cleaning fluid from her grandmother.  Her people always live by water.  She moves that way, like a stream down a mountain, soothing all the hard edges, finding every secret, blessing the roots of nearby trees.  For a long time I wondered if she was sincere, if her gifts would evaporate once she disappeared. I’ve since learned that she means business.  Don’t be fooled when she sits so calmly next to you, like a mother by a sleeping infant.  She’s feeding you, with quiet spoons of strength, protection, and the knowledge that wherever you are is home.  If you accept what she offers this cycle, it can nurture you for months to come.

It doesn’t always happen this way, but two hot planets are making the trip with Cancer this New Moon:  generous Jupiter and a somewhat secretive Mars.  The three of them got together at a solstice barbecue.  In a circle of lawn chairs, they discussed the future.  Jupiter saw something big next February.  Mars anticipated a wonderful challenge in mid-Spring.  Loving the present so deeply, the Moon kept her eyes on this month. Each vowed to bring us a pertinent message.  These intuitions will behave like stones dropped in water, widening our awareness into ever larger circles in our future.  The trick is being alert when they spring it on us:  while parking at Wal-Mart, over frappuccinos at Starbucks, or perhaps when your head leaves the pillow tomorrow morning.  Happy New Moon. 

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• The daily moon sign, phase and aspects... 

"At the New Moon refresh your animal nature, senses awake, happily, simply aware of being alive..." (Today's Moon)
 
• Lynn Koiner's Horoscope for July...

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• Meditate on The Soul of the Moon, with Pythia... 

"Like an empty vessel, the crescent New Moon fills with the solar power of the Sun; likewise, the soul empty of self receives the light of Spirit. This life-giving spiritual nourishment is the esoteric meaning of Cancer, the Zodiacal sign so often associated with nurturing, family, food, and security.  But the true abode of the soul is in the land of the unseen, the food that feeds our souls flows from the life force that pervades the Universe, and the only lasting security lies in the Creator-source of time and space.  ..." 
(Moon Meditations)
 
• Learn about This Season of Deepening, with Dana...

"At the end of the world a great wonder is supposed to appear in the heavens:  A woman clothed with the Sun, the Moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars. I don’t know about the end-of-the-world part, but I do recognize this goddess as a teacher of natural time.  Wearing the Sun and scaling the Moon, crowned with a zodiac tiara, suggests an intimate knowledge with the cycles of Sun and Moon through the signs.  They represent our inner and outer seasons. ..."
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