Full Moon in Cancer Horoscopes

Inner child work can heal the world -- here's how:

There’s an emotional tug-of-war happening in the sky early this week, can you feel it? The Moon loves to be in Cancer, curled up at home, while Mars feels trapped in a straitjacket, unable to exert itself fully — and here they stand, side-by-side, creating two very different emotional experiences… like throwing a stick of dynamite into a gentle sea. Mars prefers direct and assertive action, while Cancer must process every shade of sensation before an action is taken. When they bubble into the perfect storm, it can sound something like:

“Rebecca used a period instead of an exclamation point in her text confirming brunch so that must mean she hates me and doesn’t want to go! I’m going to cancel and avoid her for a month!”

If that sounds childish, good! Catch the inner-saboteur in action. Writing down your feelings when reactivity starts to bubble up is a great way to master the art of the pause and reflect on the substance of what’s bothering you. Emotional immaturity is a common growth edge for Cancer. To evolve into a self-possessed matriarch, one must mature through phases of victim complex, self-infantilization, and childish behavior.

The art of the pause is an opportunity to reflect on whether your next action is to the betterment or detriment of future you.

Before you fire off a passive aggressive text, spicy work email, or pick a fight with your partner, remember the cosmos are aligned right now to test your emotional ownership. The high road of Moon and Mars conjunct in Cancer is knowing true power is in the nature your responses, and what you allow to provoke them.

The wounded Cancerian archetype is the mother who never got to be a child, the daughter who raised everyone else, or the child who didn’t fully mature past their first big trauma.

Inner child work can save the world. I think the secret to the subconscious is that we only experience true safety — to feel, to stay, to dream — when our beliefs become our own. And how do we build a world rooted in safety for all, if we don’t feel safe in our own stories and skin? Once we surpass the instinct to react to or run from our triggers, we begin building a life of true alignment. Is this conflict mine, or does it mirror how conflict was modeled to me? Is this my relationship to money, or my father’s? Do I really want to move again, or does starting over feel safer because I lacked deep roots as a child?

(I love the theory that your healing will ripple down to your future grandchildren, since the egg that created you was already inside your mother's ovaries when she was still in her mother's womb.)

The wisdom of Cancer reminds us that community care is self-care.

My heart is aching over the aftermath of the LA fires. A mutual aid group I follow shared a spreadsheet for over 400 Black families who lost their homes in the Eaton fire and surrounding areas. Here are their individual GoFundMe’s. 191 of them are still less than 50% of the way to their goal. Join me in spreading some love and resources! This link is also in my Instagram bio.

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Think of a Full Moon like a giant emotional flashlight putting a specific area of your chart on full display.

The house of Cancer, specifically 24° for this transit, is primed for inner child work. Consider the house(s) you have Cancer when asking the following questions:

• Did I grow up too quickly in this area? (2nd housers may have known bills were late as a kid and took on their parent’s financial stress)

• Are there any instances in which I self-victimize in this area of my life? (10th housers might feel like they always get the short end of the stick at work and will never find a career of true fulfillment, limiting their ability to change the story)

• Do I have a tendency to take on the role of the provider, caretaker, or helicopter mom in this area? (3rd housers might take on the role of speaking up for others thinking it’s advocacy, but really it’s taking their voice away)

• Do I have a history of self-infantilization, needing to be taken care of, or emotional immaturity in this area of my life? (6th housers might have daily codependencies on the people around them)

• Have I ever felt emotionally detached, disconnected, or cut off from the needs of this part of me? (11th housers could feel distant from friends or burnt out from being the mom friend, resulting in self-isolation)

House key:

1st: Body, self-image, personal identity
2nd: Finances, stability, self-worth, security
3rd: Communication, voice, ideas, sharing, siblings
4th: Family, home, unconscious, roots, private life
5th: Creativity, play, ego, being seen, joy
6th: Health, wellness, service, routines, details
7th: Relationships, balance, boundaries, law
8th: Intimacy, privacy, shadow work, inheritance
9th: Big ideas, travel, study, expansion
10th: Career, reputation, work ethic, ambition
11th: Friends, technology, community, circle
12th: Spirit, mysticism, subconscious, escapism

Ways in which the shadow of Cancer could have manifested in early childhood, through the houses

(Disclaimer: horoscopes are not one size fits all. Consider what resonates and leave behind what doesn’t.)

Cancer in the 1st house: do I allow myself to honor sensitivity, trust how a situation makes me feel in my body, and nurture my nervous system? Did my upbringing affect my sense of identity, self-worth, and body image?

Cancer in the 2nd house: how did my upbringing shape my relationship to money? Do I err more on the side of stingy and fearful, or lax and overgiving? How do stories of personal security continue to tie back to childhood?

Cancer in the 3rd house: how did my upbringing affect how I use my voice as an adult? Who was the first person who made me feel like my voice didn’t matter? Was it my mother? Or did your family encourage self-advocacy, singing, and speaking up?

Cancer in the 4th house: from an early age, were you the mom? Did you grow up quickly and take on responsibilities beyond your years? How has that shaped the way that you build a home for yourself as an adult?

Cancer in the 5th house: how often do you play with your inner child? Nurture your creative abilities? Did anyone ever make you feel like you weren’t talented, or it wasn’t worth doing? How can you reclaim the joy of creation for yourself?

Cancer in the 6th house: was perfectionism something you learned from an early age, either through expectation or modeling from adults? Were you taught that love and affection could be earned through appropriate action? Does your style of self-care as an adult reflect what you were taught was important as a kid?

Cancer in the 7th house: were you privy to marital concerns or relationship issues as a child? Ever put in the middle, playing peacekeeper or mediator between your parents or family? Consider the way relationships were modeled to you, and if there is a tendril of those relationships still wrapped around how you do partnership now.

Cancer in the 8th house: was it safe for you to feel the fullness of your emotions as a child? Or were you taught to keep them secret, to consider them an inconvenience? Were you raised around people who kept secrets or engaged in games of power and control? Consider the ways in which you could “declassify” your own emotional body as an adult; how keeping secrets is no longer a necessary form of safety.

Cancer in the 9th house: were your dreams honored as a child, or were you considered a fanciful Pollyanna? Did anyone around you ever live outside their means, creating a feeling of temporary safety? Were your roots shallow, moving often? How do childhood stories impact your own view of longevity within home and family today?

Cancer in the 10th house: how has your relationship to masculine energy been shaped and defined by your childhood? Was there an overly assertive or absent father? A parent who pulled double duty? Love that had to be earned through excellence? How did your childhood shape your own ambitions and definition of success as an adult?

Cancer in the 11th house: was there a flavor of detachment in the home that left you craving closeness? Parents who were busy, social, intellectual, but never a soft shoulder to cry on? Is it possible you learn compartmentalization from childhood?

Cancer in the 12th house: were you raised around escapism or addiction of any form? Was your mother able to be fully present, or was she entrenched in her own subconscious and emotional warfare? As a result, have you ever felt on the outside looking in or that your feelings are separate, unseen, untended?

Additional aspects flavoring the day:

• As we get closer to Aquarius season, the Sun begins a conjunction to Pluto, which happens for a few weeks every year when the Sun laps Pluto. This adds a lens of intensity, all-or-nothing, truth-seeing, and high stake frequency.

• Saturn conjunct Venus in Pisces, fortifying our relationships to overcome any rose-colored glasses and really be in true partnership instead of what we imagine love to be. Side effects include heaviness or bubble-bursting.

• Uranus is sextiling the Moon and Mars, adding a zing of electricity, stimulation, and desire to escape old patterns in favor of something new.

TLDR; Trust your gut and be patient with your heart and others.

To the moon and back,
Ocean Pleasant