Cancer 2008

Summer in the north. Now, the energy that's been building since the first of the year shifts into release, starting with flowing feeling.

On Wednesday, July 2, the moon joins the sun over the top of our seasonal roller coaster in emotionally sensitive Cancer, where they meet for the first new moon of summer at 7:19pm Pacific time. In this year of historic power shifting, with Pluto hitting the bottom of our seasonal cycle for the first time since 1762, and with several outer planets now retrograde there like heavy undertow, the tide of vitality moving over the top into summer flow will generate big surf. It starts here, saturated in feeling, as the releasing energy starts to carry us forward.

Love light leads the way, charged with constructive creativity (Venus in Cancer opposite Jupiter in Capricorn at 10:18pm on new moon night, the 2nd). Starting Friday the 4th, into Saturday, the moon (a beautiful crescent) progresses through the peak passion of Leo, a preview of where we're headed this summer. By Sunday, as love aligns with wisdom in sensitivity (Venus in Cancer trine Uranus in Pisces), spirit moves into practicality (moon in Virgo), reinforced in fruitful expression (joining Mars and Saturn there). Tuesday the 8th the moon crosses into Libra's love-mindedness. Wednesday the sun (soul vitality) releases a charge of constructive creativity (opposite Jupiter in Capricorn), and Thursday action and grounding meet in practicality (Mars aligns with Saturn in Virgo). The moon goes into Scorpio for a weekend of intense feeling peaking Saturday night. Heart spirit meets heavy Pluto at the low ebb, in Sagittarius, on Tuesday night the 15th, and then the hits bottom, a full moon in the grounded earth power of Capricorn at 12:59am Friday the 18th, opposite the sun finishing a month in flowing feeling over the top, Cancer. From here, we will move into mid-summer's peak passion, Leo.

In this historic year of transition, as heavy power aligns with deeper physical nature, giving into feeling is the key to right relationship with intensified physicality.