New Moon in Cancer - What's Coming in June-July 2009

by Robert Wilkinson

The New Moon falls at 2 Cancer on June 22, 2009, 12:35 pm PDT, 8:11 pm Greenwich, 5:11 am July 23 in Melbourne, Australia. This New Moon in close opposition to Pluto marks a clear definition of the Bucket pattern shooting a massive amount of energy through Saturn's practical and discriminating focus. This begins Summer and the season of working to nurture what must be nurtured, while eliminating the weeds in the garden of personality. Many decisions and actions will be initiated that stabilize our well being for purely practical purposes.

The Grand Irrationality is not dominant in this Lunation, since the primary players are not within significant orb. Thank Heaven for the slack once in a while!! Enjoy the brief respite, since Saturn will again make that pattern significant for many weeks beginning the Full Moon Lunar Eclipse at 16 degrees of Cancer-Capricorn coming July 7 at 2:21 am PDT, 10:21 am Greenwich. Briefly, I expect that to be a spectacularly great Lunar Eclipse, given it drives a double sextile Grand Earth Trine "Peace Sign" pattern. I'll compose more on that in about a week.

Because Saturn is still the focus for everything, being the "handle" for the Bucket Jones pattern, the next few weeks continues to be a time to be practical, and finish lessons of discernment and ordering. We are finalizing the needed lessons, adjustments, and disciplines in order to know what long range venerable standards we'll be living in the near future.

Our search for those standards began Nov-Dec 2008, In the process we learned about cultivating cooperative skills while seeing possible new adventures where we can link with others, learned about inner guidance, some things erupted so that we could become whole, and we've had karmic confrontations so we could reclaim unused energies or caged-up inner powers. This lunation begins the final blowout of old complexes, so be prepared to allow the release of some powerful inner pressures.

Wherever transiting Saturn is in our charts is where we are learning a joyous rigor of learning and practicing a skill or two. It's THE dominant factor in how the planets express themselves throughout this Summer season, just like it was in the Spring. You can find more about this past season by going to this link on the Vernal Equinox.

Saturn is now direct and making its transit through the last half of Virgo between now and late October, when it will enter Libra. Until then, we are moving through a new experience of the lessons and trials of doing "the Great Work" since we're retracing steps for the third and last time. So our experience of "bottom line" issues are moving forward anew, but because we've already experienced this stuff twice in the past 7 months, we are now familiar with some of it and therefore have some degree of wisdom as a result of our education.

A reminder: For a long time to come, everything connected to the Saturn lessons in our lives is challenging our ability to deal with the long wave ongoing Saturn opposition Uranus. Though still 10+ degrees apart, it's now beginning to come closer, becoming exact in September.

This very powerful pattern is revolutionizing our lives and forcing us to adjust, learn, practice, and be very realistic in training for something that is to come. We can build a new interactive yet protected existence if we can do needed adjustments, conform to a plan, and do whatever it takes to live the higher standard we believe is worthy.

Back to the overall pattern. The Bucket occupied half begins with Pluto, and ends with the New Moon, just like the 2009 Summer Solstice 36 hours ago. I explained some of what is happening with the configurations in that article, so when you're done here, if you want to know more, enjoy revisiting that post.

As the Moon, Mercury, and Venus all occupy the signs they "rule," the life affairs symbolized by these planets will be more clearly evident in their natural function. The Moon rules the Sun and therefore the Lunation, but overall Mercury is the clear chart ruler, as it is the final dispositor for ALL the major outer planets, including the all-important Saturn.

As it is on a degree of a "new vista of concrete, conscious, development," that promises "renewed and enlarged opportunities," then we may as well open our hearts and minds to whatever new information, perceptions, or ideas we discover during this coming 4 weeks. It will show as flashed of uniqueness and/or brilliance because it's quintile Uranus, or perhaps bring specialized opportunities, which may be unexpected in some peculiar way.

Mercury ruled planets and houses will also see irrational actions, events, or critical choices and changes. In fact, all Mutable areas of our charts as well as wherever the Aquarius stellium falls due to Mercury finishing its biseptile to Jupiter, Chiron, and Neptune from the Gemini zone of the Grand Irrationality will be under pressure.

The aspects to this Lunation are few, but powerful. The opposition to Pluto brings that axis into acute focus, where the Moon nurtures the Sun's ability to stand firm and illuminate the purifier that destroys to transform. As Pluto is again on a degree teaching us about the correct v incorrect use of force, this Lunation will show a clear polarization between the corrosive factors and the nurturing factors in existence.

As with the 2009 Summer Solstice chart, Venus and Mars in Taurus cuts the Cancer-Capricorn opposition with a semi-square and sesquisquare. This creates an "Octile" aspect configuration, these being very frictional. In this case, with these planets involved, expect some crises of confrontation and purification to end some things and regenerate some others.

The need will be for some form of Appreciation and Faith in action, where we demonstrate a deeper, more powerful Self-reliance and sense of purpose. There will be tremendous (and tense!) cooperation between the Spiritual and the material, with the possibility of a pure Self-revelation. Concentrate, surrender whatever ego material that must be surrendered to a higher quality of Being, and move toward whatever transpersonal way of existence is opening for you. This is the ability to mutate through frictional (or at least uncomfortable) circumstances.

The only other aspect the Lunation forms is the quintile to Saturn. To reiterate, this will provide unique circumstances and gifts that can help us let some things come up and out to break up old complexes, or release old pent-up ego pressures for purifying our personalities. This will be very easy to do because of Venus and Mars trine Saturn, offering practical stabilization if we're willing to stop contemplating and get it in gear!

These Earth trines are very good for planning and executing actions that will bring wealth, stability, work, and a sense of clear purpose with the inner authority to achieve what we will. We just have to be willing to do the detail work and not fall into a comfortable rut, or continue a rut we've been in. This is a training period, so be robust in embracing what you need to with enthusiasm, remember that this is about the eternal battle between light and darkness, and keep moving toward those venerable standards you've been seeking.

A New Moon sets the seed forms for what the following 4 weeks will demonstrate. This is the first New Moon of the Solar year that gives substantial form to the lessons of the "3 High Moons" preceding it. The Life Force, grounded by the "Eternal Buddha Nature," and given form as a set of instructions and lessons for the year to come through The World Teacher, are now able to be felt and shaped appropriately according to individual needs.

You can find out more about the Three High Moons, including the Wesak Festival and the Christ Fest by checking out these links.

This New Moon in Cancer falls at 2 degrees, a point of getting beyond two-dimensional searching and gaining elevation in the 3rd and/or 4th dimensions of Consciousness. This shows a way beyond mere intellect, and raising the point of view to see "reality" in a "truer perspective" and a wider view of the interrelationships of things, people, and events. We are told we can broaden our perspective, and use our intelligence and "objective self-control" to overcome circumstances.

According to Dr. Jones, creator of the Sabian Symbols, we find this symbol is one of "an illimitable overview" of experience we can use to take care of details, and a poise of free choice through which we can "escape the bondage of any random compulsions." The keyword is CONTEMPLATION, and we are told this degree is "an exceptional spread of comprehension and a continual self-orientation of understanding."

Regarding the other aspects in the Lunation chart, we still have the Aquarius stellium exerting many influences as described in other recent. While Mercury is biseptile the Aquarius stellium, Venus and Mars binovile the stellium, setting up many Spiritual realizations as a result of things coming out of gestation. Again, the seeker will turn Warrior fighting anew "the Great Battle." This will be most powerful for anyone with planets at 7 Aries, Leo, or Sag, 17 Taurus, Virgo, or Capricorn, and 27 Gemini, Libra, or Aquarius. If you have planets within 2 degrees of these points, the effects should be very dramatic, and you'll definitely find multiple major spiritual realizations!

Find the self confidence you need to stay centered as chaotic conditions continue to show as a result of the oppositions to Pluto. Practice concentration and self-discipline, see what's happening as the pioneering efforts at illuminating a new life and set of habits, and try not to be unnerved by the extreme oppositions and polarizations going on.

Whatever is coming up must be let loose and released, so that further refinements of our feeling natures can occur. It's not about braking action so much as full-on realizations to the core! We're finding new ways of managing our individuality, with many opportunities to heal into our Higher Self by practicing ways to pick up and deliver some "higher power" that is our duty to master.

We are still learning ways to find genuine dispassion so we can prove our ability while deepening and broadening our experience of subtle feelings that link us across generations with other seekers of the highest. Release your inhibitions by getting a new view of how you have been repressing something before now.

To sum up, be efficient, adapt your understanding based in what's coming up out of subconsciousness that was forced down before now, and find the ideal that will help you heal into your Higher Self. We can find totems of enduring worth and stability, where we embrace a continuity of meaning and an anchor for the identity of the Higher Self.

This time continues to teach us about meaningful traditions, and can bring a very high realization of values as well as the ability to use them skillfully. We are opening new doors of feeling-perception and activity through using the techniques shown to us during these weeks. As noted earlier, these are the seeds that will be released globally at the coming July 2009 Full Moon Eclipse, so take note.

You can bet I'll be composing more on that very important celestial event in the near future. After all, that Eclipse will express in very favorable ways the World Teaching for the coming year that was just released for the Spiritual benefit of all sentient beings on Earth. We have a major protective integration coming that will open the hearts of everyone on Earth. Now is the time to reorient toward that wider view, accepting a newer, broader allegiance.

© Copyright 2009 Robert Wilkinson

Comments

[WarriorLady]

I've finally had a nice talk I've been meaning to have. Of course, by "nice", I refer to someting I've felt a little guilty about and perhaps should have brought to light sooner. However, the recipient made me realize that, all along, I've been worried about nothing-- that I did nothing wrong by fighting for something worth fighting for. And that we all know what is worth fighting for from within.

You see, my history dictates that I've tended to fight the "battles" of others. But even if my intentions have been good and pure while doing so, my best bet would have been to sometimes let it all go and allow others to fight their own battles. Thus, I felt guilty about interfering with "fate" or whatever was out of my control.

I feel a lot better now, though, knowing that what I've fought for these past couple of years has been worth it.

[Matt]

Robert,

I'm loving this new moon. As I'm in my PLR (it's exact at about the first lunar eclipse this summer) and being a lunar Cancer, re-invigorating my "home" is the theme du jour. The short and long of it is that, after chatting with my roommate earlier this month, he and I are going our own separate ways (he's moving in with friends) when the lease is up on July 31. I've decided to find my own place (new moon strongly conjuncts my moon and obviously, my progressed moon) in order to create the home I haven't been able to over the past few years by having roommates. I'm looking forward to the changes.

[S]

Blessings Robert...

As always this is fascinating stuff! Personally I am 'feeling' both intellectually and spiritually a shift in my life and am witnessing the same in the people around me. I have Saturn at 7 Aries in the 10th and my sun at 27 Libra in the 4th...do you have insights for me on things to come regarding spiritual realizations?

I am off to plant a sunflower along with my written "wishes" for manifestation in the next 30 days. All of my wishes concern love, family and financial abundance for myself and my family in the service of others. Wish me luck! ;)

S

[julie]

I have Saturn on 1st degree cancer (conjuct my South node)in the 11th house, opposing my sun at 9 degree capricorn (5th house). When will I be able to focus on my work again ?????

[alessandra]

Ciao Robert

Thank you for this wealth of information... I'm still learning to understand all of this, and I was wondering if you will write something about this summer upcomming eclipses...
Since they instigate change, (please all, do not laugh, I'm relatively new at all this, I've been reading along --on and off-- for the past two years) and since there will two of them in my sign ( I am a cancer born July 2nd 1967 in Montreal) I would like to know where (the « houses » I guess ) or how these changes will affect me.

Many many thanks, and many many blessings !!!

alessandra

[Marie]

I was waiting for this one, Robert,It might just be a good one,, the last couple of new moons didn't get off to the start I would have liked, but maybe it is, as you say Robert, the third time that we are more familiar and know the route. I am resolving to step into my own shoes, embrace the roles that have been evolving and not be weighed down by fear patterns and unfortunate lack of supports. I have been toying with ideas for long enough so maybe it will be time to formulate a solid plan of action. But at last, I have realized, or rather, accepted that it is, in fact, up to me:)

Thanks Robert

[Robyn]

OH what curiosities.

Most of the aspects conjunct in my natal chart somehow!
I got planets in Cancer, Leo, Taurus and Gemini.

Oh the myriad!

[Valerie]

Hi Matt,
I'm having a PLR too, and my life is full of changes too (covered to the max on other streams, LOL) It's exciting isn't it- good luck with your next "home" and prepare yourself to begin a new cycle! :)

Robert, very nice article, now I'm off to the beach tomorrow- a Cancer lady's favorite place! Namaste everyone.

[Jan]

I love a good earth trine! It's those non-earth periods that make me nuts... Interested to hear more about July 7 (as I was born 1-7) your friend & eathling (for life) Jan

[Leana]

Hi Robert,

This New Moon is happening right on my Venus in my 7th house, close to my descendant. One part of me feels frozen: Love, Creativity, and 10th house affairs, and then the other part senses a big change coming it's way. Strangely I'm not feeling that afraid. It's as if I didn't want a very long and comfortable life anymore (like the one where I've been for so long,but where something was missing) , but instead something that is really alive in me, lived in it's fullest: passion or nothing else! What do you think?

[Matt]

Hi Valerie,

Thank you for the well wishes. I'm taking the PLR in stride - I hope you are too! And happy early birthday and solar return.

- Matt

[Chickie]

Oh mama mia Your Highness!

My progressed ascendent is 2 cancer on my natal venus and I did a natal composite with a former colleague who has re-surfaced and we also have a composite ascendent 2 cancer. Here comes Mount Etna!!! Egos down, creativity should rule here...we'll see.

Thanks for such in depth scholarship and stellar intuitivness!

[Micheline Cloutier]

Oh, boy...oh no....its been crazy Robert, my love life has been one huge drama!!! from one extreme to the next....i have jupiter in taurus at 16 degrees wich is almost right on my mc, then i have the moon at 18 degrees cap, my vertex at 17 degrees both these point s are in my 5th house, and my saturn is in aquarius at 29 degrees and this is my 7th house....
plus that full moon eclipse is going to fall into my fifth house and will conjunct both vertex...

this new moon of course falls into my 11th house
but my eleventh house is ruled by gemini

this should be interesting
i did finally start recording my music
and as i said my love life is crazy right now i have someone who is really obsessed with me

[Marie]

Just wondering aswell, Robert, how come things and people are coming back from 6 years ago, when I made my last decisions about my path. Those I left behind are now back in touch, now that I have forged a new self image/ identity. I don't have any planetary aspects at hand and confess I don't really understand the facts and figures but go strongly on intuition and how a thing feels...do i have anything to bring back to them now that my long spell of self improvement has taken shape and what about the new promises I have made? will they bear fruition this time...maybe the answers are in the questions!!!

X M

[Robyn]

Marie, i've had that same issue, but with people from farther back in my past. One was a grade school friend and another was a one night meeting of the minds that left a trail of flowers and postcards....

its beyond bizarre but relatively enlightening to know that people are out there and still think of you after all the years.

R.

[Robert]

Hi WarriorLady - We never do wrong when fighting for something worth fighting for. The trick is to know when to hold 'em and when to fold 'em. Picking our battles carefully and all that. And there's no point in fighting for someone who won't fight for themselves. Everyone must learn to do SOMETHING on their own behalf.

Hi Matt - Glad you're getting in motion and know what's of the past and what's of the present. PLR is good for figuring out what we care about and need or not.

Hi S - You will bring many things to surface over the next two years, and make needed adjustments relative to the decisions you made in the late 90s. I also suspect you'll see multiple ways of interpreting prior spiritual insights. I suspect your thought form will yield good results.

Hi Julie - When you purify your integration principle and let go of old rules and limitations.

Hi Allessandra - Eclipse articles coming soon. Old lights shut down, new lights on the way!

Hi Marie - Well, this New Moon should help put into play all that has been set forth the past 3 months, plus Saturn being direct will help us pull it all together. Great that you're getting beyond fear. Good plan of action! It does sound like you're making Saturn your friend. As for people returning from your past, so it is with me as well and others I know, so it must be some transit influence that is nothing personal.

Hi Robyn - Sounds like your life will be lit up like a pinball machine! Enjoy the emergent possibilities, and take time to breathe and smile as things develop along multiple lines. As I told Marie, reconnections with people from my past is also happening to me as well as others, so I suspect it's something in the generic transits that is triggering such things.

Hi Valerie - Glad you have the beach. It was my best friend when I was young, and I miss it now that I'm in the high desert.

Hi Jan - Will be composing on the July 7 Eclipse soon.

Hi Leana - Sounds like your Venus will come alive in multiple ways. Glad you're learning not to fear changes that will come. It has been said that passion brings suffering. That's why we learn a range of feelings, but don't get attached to any one of them. Eventually we can catch fire without suffering over the changes.

Hi Chickie - A new progressed self image is already in motion! Glad you're connecting to others in your tribe, and your creative self is beginning to renew itself. And the parallels between Jacko and your work are interesting....

Hi Micheline - Saturn should be stabilizing your Earth planets in long term ways. Glad you're recording, and that your love life is heating up. While crazy is not a good thing, I know the feeling of intense love at its core, so open your heart while keeping your head!

[S]

Thanks Robert...very interesting...1998 & 1999 were HUGE trasition years for me. I got divorced at age 30 after nearly 7 years of marriage, moved to Manhattan and was offered a very highly paid position which set the course for my career through 2005. In many ways I am starting over now...as a matter of a fact I chatted with the guy who offered me that job back in 1999 on Tuesday...he is with a new company with HQ very near me...who knows...I am certainly due for an influx of cash. I love teaching yoga and hope to always, but a gals gotta make a livin... ;)

[Loretta]

S was very interested to read your comment and Robert's reply as our Sun and Saturn in are exactly the same houses and signs. I feel as though the past six months has been a lesson for me to learn what was important to me, my family as opposed to my career. This full moon also trines my MC so I'm hoping that means I've learnt the lesson Saturn was teaching and it's now ending. My wishes focus on the same as yours, may ours both come to fruition.

[Anna]

Have to smile - lessons and trials of doing "the Great Work" for our 3rd and final time... so true, so literally 3rd time true in dealing with relationships with my father and the man I love. Of course, what I read here has always been particularly on point for me and those I love since I began reading a few years ago. First time I've posted, but simply could not resist the exactitude of truth here as happening for many in the circle of my life.
Gratzi, Robert!

[CIndy]

Greetings!
This has been very informative and enlightening to read.
I have Saturn in Cap at 17 degrees in the 5th. I wonder if you could give more information on "the Great Battle". I want to be prepared for sure!
THANKS
Cindy

[Robert]

Hi S - I also realized you have a Sun quadranovile Saturn (160 degrees) which is a very spiritual aspect involving knowing who you must dance with due to spiritual similarities and who you must disentangle from due to spiritual dissimilarities. I suspect this life you must learn to craft a self-initiative while paying off karmic dues around reconstructing your light. I also had the Manhattan experience for 3 years beginning 30, resurrecting myself out of the wreckage of my first Saturn return. One thing to remember during this transitional era is that it's not teach yoga OR whatever - it's teach yoga AND whatever. Something to feed both wallet and heart which also allow a greater service to your sector of humanity.

Hi Loretta - You also will have many serious opportunities to come into your light and power as Saturn moves into Libra this Autumn. Taking responsibility will yield major long term results.

Hi Anna - Yes, Saturn in Virgo has certainly offered its share of "rigor" for our Virgo tendencies, wherever they fall. Saturn does show us how we relate to authority figures. Glad you posted. It's through sharing our stories that we come to know we're not as alone as we sometimes feel. Believe it or not, sometimes posting even once in a public forum can help a person overcome ego-fear and get clarity through self expression.

Hi Cindy - Glad you got some clarity. The "Great Battle" is a function of Mars in this Lunation, and as you have had a Grand Earth Trine going in your chart for a couple of weeks now, you should have been able to put some things together that are solid plans for your future. Through August keep identifying "the venerable standard" you're willing to embrace and live in the long term future. Your turning point will come in Nov-Dec and into early 2010.

[S]

Hi Robert-

Thanks so much for the the add'l info...I am not surprised...my "attraction" to yoga and the teaching of it has been very gravitational...aka karmic. Gotta love NYC to stimulate and beat the crap out of you at the same time...there is nothing like it! I LOVED living there but got my "wake up call" on 9/11/2001. There is no going back for me...I will ALWAYS teach yoga(god willing) and hopefully will find a job to feed the wallet...one that doesn't make me crazy!!!

[suz-d]

hi Robert
is there an article somewhere on the all important July new moon Solar Eclipse in Cancer coming up shortly? the way the articles are laid out, it can sometimes be tricky to find items... unless I missed something...!
thanks