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Posts tagged "solstice"

Cancer Full Moon December 22

Posted by Sheri Horn Hasan - December 21, 2018 - Blog post

Sun Into Capricorn December 21/Winter Solstice
Cancer Full Moon December 22

On December 21, the day before the Cancer Full Moon, the Sun enters Capricorn & the winter solstice–the shortest day & longest night of the year, at least in the northern hemisphere—arrives.
 
As the Sun moves out of happy-go-lucky, adventurous, & optimistic Sagittarius and into more solemnly serious Saturn-ruled Capricorn, it’s time to recognize that hard work results in a strong sense of accomplishment & satisfaction as we move through life.
 
When we put our nose to the grindstone, we’re capable of achieving much & our resulting sense of accomplishment is what leads to us to feel like responsible adults.
 
Saturn, and by extension it’s sign Capricorn, represent the no-nonsense, physical, concrete empirical world where persistent perseverance and the will to rise to a challenge rely on our assurance that feeling successful in life is what counts most.
 
And this is true, as long as we are clear on what defines “success” for each of us individually. This definition may change from our younger years to our middle ones, and again later in life, depending on our natal Saturn placement, the house(s) it rules (with Capricorn on the cusp), planets in Capricorn, and our response to transiting Saturn’s journey throughout our lifetime.
 
The Saturn/Capricorn archetype often manifests early in life, meaning we may carry a strong sense of seriousness & adulthood about us—even before we’ve lived long enough to truly achieve the title “adult.”
 
As we age, however, the wisdom of maturity allows us greater flexibility as we realize we need not emulate “adulthood” based on what we were taught, told, or forced to believe is its definition. Over time, we learn “that which will not bend with break…”
 
As we reach the northern hemisphere’s shortest day of least light at the winter solstice, the entrance of the Sun into more melancholy Capricorn reminds us there’s hard work ahead. And the definition of hard work may just turn out to be our ability to trust…
 
Trust that we’ll make it through to the other side, that winter truly will recede and make way for the approach of spring, & faith that we’ll once again feel the warmth of the Sun on our faces.

I Keep Fighting Voices In My Mind That Say I’m Not Enough

The ancients saddled Saturn with the moniker the “greater malefic,” which comes from a more fatalistic view of life in general. The bad reputation acquired by both Saturn and Capricorn through the ages is often based upon the association with authoritarian, restrictive, harsh, strict, stuck, suppressed, repressed, or depressive energy—in short, anything that causes us PAIN.
 
Modern astrologers—especially psychological & evolutionary ones–don’t accord Saturn such a fateful role. As the Lord of Karma, Saturn (and by association his sign Capricorn) teaches us how to grow up and survive while providing us with the kinds of experiences that lead to self-discovery.
 
“The frustrating experiences…connected with Saturn are obviously necessary as they are educational in a practical as well as a psychological sense,” writes Liz Greene in her book Saturn, A New Look at an Old Devil. “Whether we use esoteric or psychological terminology, the basic fact remains the same: human beings do not earn free will except through self-discovery, and they do not attempt self-discovery until things become so painful that they have no other choice…it’s not the enjoyment of pain that Saturn fosters, but rather the exhilaration of psychological freedom.”
 
Astrologer Steven Forrest echoes this sentiment when he talks about Saturn transits, saying they often deliver to us two choices: depression or exhaustion.
 
“Saturnian depression is often the kind that arises from very concrete outward situations that are ‘stuck,’ Forrest told me during an interview on the subject several years ago. “Depression is so ‘medicalized’ in the popular imagination now. It is important to remember that people get depressed for good, specific reasons: bad health, no money, overwhelming but meaningless responsibilities.
 
“Saturn requires hard work, and that is sometimes the cure,” he continued. “But it also requires that we mature–a situation that was formerly engaging to us might grow sort of stale. For example, when you are young, it is good to date. As you get older, you might need to move on into marriage. If you’ve gotten there inside yourself but you haven’t made the changes, you’ve flunked Saturn–and you will experience depression.”

Remind Me Once Again Just Who I Am

How often have we heard other people say to us at one time or another in life “you’re just like your mother,” or “you’re just like your father?”
 
The Cancer Moon reflects back to the Capricorn Sun its own light at this Cancer Full Moon, highlighting the parental axis and our early upbringing, both literally and psychologically. That means this Cancer Full Moon raises issues about our childhood and asks us to review whether or not we’ve matured into our own best loving parent.
 
The Moon rules Cancer, an archetype of nurturing, sensitivity, security, the past, habit, memory, family, and mother. Saturn rules Capricorn, and archetypally represents authority, hard work, responsibility, achievement, success, and father.
 
Cancer associates with mothering, while Capricorn suggests the authority figure in any family, usually the father. Of course, this is not always so, and Capricorn energy can reflect back to the one who sets the rules, be that mom or dad, or anyone else during our youth.
 
In pondering the meaning of this Cancer Full Moon, the question arises: from whom did we learn how to be our own best adult or parent? And, are the terms “adult” & “parent” synonymous based on our early experiences?
 
Authority figures most often come in the guise of literal parents—be they biological or not—but can also be represented by teachers, clerics, judges, or other institutional organizations. The point is that it’s through these “role models” that we absorb our ideas & perceptions about, and opinions of, ourselves.
 
Now, these ideas—and the way we think about ourselves as a result—may be accurate or inaccurate, true or false. The problem is that we’re exposed to them from birth and through our early childhood developmental learning phases, and so are not capable of objective rational analysis, or looking at ourselves from the outside.
 
In short, how do we see ourselves–through someone else’s eyes, or through our own? If through someone else’s eyes, then who? Mommy? Daddy? Grandma or Grandpa? Your second-grade teacher, your priest, reverend, minister, rabbi, or imam?
 
This makes it all the more important that we utilize this Cancer Full Moon’s energy—along with the Capricorn/Cancer transiting karmic nodal axis for the next 16 months—to ascertain the accuracy of our self-perceptions, and to release those which prove false…
 
In doing so, we may begin to shed any “false” personas acquired through what we were taught, told, or forced to believe when young, and replace these with what we’ve discovered about ourselves on our journey toward true mature adulthood thus far in this lifetime.

Try A Little Tenderness…

As in the past few lunations, Uranus—still retrograde in Aries—squares the transiting Capricorn/Cancer karmic nodal axis. We know this is in large part an energy affecting the collective, and that Uranus represents change, especially social change.
 
A square is frictional energy, so something’s gotta give and we’ve had many examples of what that something has to be over the past few months or more. Uranus energy revolves around the need for evolutionary change, but the more we resist such change, the greater is the force of change that may suddenly shock or surprise.
 
And what’s ripe for change now?
 
The Capricorn South Node, which is a kind of “keep a stiff upper lip, man,” and the rigid upholding of tradition, regardless of whether that tradition has outlived its useful purpose or not, is faced down by Cancer’s more sensitive, nurturing and protective energy.
 
Authoritarian Capricorn—much more likely to tell you to pull yourself up by your bootstraps and make something out of yourself and stop your whining already—is being asked by Cancer to lighten up. Mom says you get more flies with honey than with vinegar, but Capricorn believes all you need do is work hard and you’ll reap your just rewards.
 
Now, neither of them is correct when taken to an extreme.
 
Extreme Capricorn can be found where there is no compromise, no bending, no negotiation, it’s dad’s way or the highway. And extreme Cancer coddles and overprotects to the point where a child will never learn to grow up and face the real world.
 
The nodal axis calls us to look for middle ground here, without going to either extreme. And Uranus square the Nodes tells us that whichever side we’ve gravitated toward that’s caused imbalance in our lives is where we need change, & perhaps drastically so…
 
When the scales have been tilted too far to one side for too long—and this nodal axis says it’s been more heavily weighted toward the Capricorn South Node, since the South Node is always about past karma—then it’s time for a change our perspective. And it’s Capricorn’s polar opposite, Cancer, that we need to gravitate more toward.
 
And change can happen by recognizing that yes, all of us have to be responsible individuals, do our part, pull our weight and all of that, but that we can also have compassion for both ourselves and others as we go through life.

And I Believe, Oh I Believe…

This lunation brings into play a waxing Mercury/Jupiter in Sagittarius square to Neptune in Pisces. Mercury squares Neptune exact on December 24 and may contribute to some over the top good feelings during this holiday period.
 
However, Mercury’s influence here is brief because he moves so quickly through the zodiac, so it pays to be alert about what you hear or say now and to make sure you can verify any communication you receive or distribute.
 
Jupiter’s square to Neptune, however, takes on greater import because after exacting on January 13, it will occur twice more in calendar year 2019—in July and September. While normally this can be an extremely altruistic combination, it cautions us to beware of over-idealism, especially in the realm of religion, spirituality, relationships, and finance.
 
Beware false gods & gurus on the spiritual side—the guru/disciple relationship often mirrors a parental one (God our father, anyone?), while this Cancer Full Moon & the Capricorn/Cancer transiting nodal axis call us to become more confident of our inherent capability to be our own best parent. Others may guide us, yes, but not ask us to be subordinate, especially when the goal is conscious self-fulfillment and freedom of expression.
 
Money and gambling become other themes to watch closely during this period, as we may all have to try hard not to fall for any get rich quick schemes! As always, whenever Neptune’s involved, it’s good to remember that all that glitters is not necessarily gold. If you can’t afford to lose it, don’t put it into play…
 
The Moon sextiles & the Sun trines Uranus at this lunation, too, telling us that the opportunity certainly exists for us to take advantage of working on changing up any internal concepts that move us from self-judgment toward self-compassion.
 
Release self-conceptions that don’t prove nurturing—or worse yet promote only self-harm—at this Cancer Full Moon, and prepare to wrap up another year by understanding that no matter what happened in the past, we did the best we could with what we had to work with, i.e., limited resources, be they physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual, at the time.
 

If we work on this now, we may go forward into the new year cherishing all that we’ve learned from our past experiences and grateful that we’re developing into mature, learned, adults who can take loving and compassionate care of ourselves—mind, body, & soul–in healthy ways…

You Say I Am Strong When I Think I Am Weak

I chose this song You Say by Laura Daigle, a contemporary Christian singer, because its lyrics best exemplify how to create a positive internal point of view that differs from a current negative one.
 
She speaks here of God, but I believe god, goddess, creator, universe, source energy–call it what you like–is INSIDE of us. Rather than searching for an external father or parental figure, why not recognize that for every negative or pessimistic put down we can think of about ourselves, there’s always an alternative positive perspective with which we can replace it.
 
That’s Uranus square the Nodes at his best! Shift your reality, increase self-discovery, and get younger and more flexible as you age!

You Say


Laura Daigle 

“I keep fighting voices in my mind that say I’m not enough
Every single lie that tells me I will never measure up
Am I more than just the sum of every high and every low?
Remind me once again just who I am because I need to know
 
You say I am loved when I can’t feel a thing
You say I am strong when I think I am weak
And You say I am held when I am falling short
And when I don’t belong, oh You say I am Yours
And I believe, oh I believe
What You say of me
I believe
 
The only thing that matters now is everything You think of me
In You I find my worth, in You I find my identity, o-ooh
 
You say I am loved when I can’t feel a thing
You say I am strong when I think I am weak
And You say I am held when I am falling short
And when I don’t belong, oh You say I am Yours
And I believe, oh I believe
What You say of me
Oh, I believe
 
Taking all I have and now I’m laying it at Your feet
You have every failure God, and You’ll have every victory, o-ooh
 
You say I am loved when I can’t feel a thing
You say I am strong when I think I am weak
You say I am held when I am falling short
When I don’t belong, oh You say I am Yours
And I believe, oh I believe
What You say of me
I believe
 
Oh I believe
Yes I believe
What You say of me
Oh I believe…”
 
Namaste…
#Fullmoon, #karmic, #nodalaxis, #selfdiscovery, Cancer, Capricorn, Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn, solstice, Uranus

Sun Moves Into Capricorn & Winter Solstice Dec 21

Posted by Sheri Horn Hasan - December 21, 2015 - Astrology

On December 21, as the Sun moves into Capricorn & the winter solstice arrives, we experience the shortest day of the year in the northern hemisphere, the day of least light.

Despite unseasonably warm weather here in the U.S. northeast, it IS winter.

That means December 21 is the longest night with the least light–the darkest darkness lasting the longest—of the whole year!

Accepting The Dying Of The Light

Many pagan rituals have become incorporated into our more modern religions and thus we celebrate the end of this season’s dying of the light with various different religious holidays, including Hanukkah & Christmas.

As the Sun moves into Capricorn & out of Scorpio, which has taught us the energy & power of the process of transformation–& the knowledge that something must die in order for something new to be born–its entrance into the sign of Capricorn asks us now to translate this knowledge into concrete matter.

Capricorn, ruled by the planet Saturn, is earth energy. It’s not only associated with responsibility, success, achievement, work, & business–but also with our conscious ego, or the part of us influenced by our strongest beliefs.

Often our foundation or recipe for success rests upon these beliefs.

Our conscious beliefs–the ones we often stick to or defend adamantly, especially when we smell doubt or fear creeping up from within–are most often comprised of what we’ve been told, taught, or forced to believe since birth.

As the Sun moves into Capricorn and the winter solstice arrives, it asks us to go deep within to rediscover whether or not our current conscious beliefs are ones that will best help us form the foundation upon which we may build our way to true future success.

And it’s this foundation upon which will rest our capability to transform our thoughts into the kind of tangible concrete matter that brings our soul true gratification and happiness…

“Let Us Love Winter, For It’s The Spring Of Genius.” ~ Pietro Aretino

On this shortest day of the year, we move inward in order to recognize our less conscious higher self & most authentic voice. It is this voice that speaks to us of our truest beliefs.

But we cannot hear this voice if we are not silent…

Capricorn, Oh Capricorn!

Capricorn, ah Capricorn, the sign of Scrooge, the sign most connected with the mantra “another day, another dollar.”

As the solstice hits, we are called to go deep about WHAT we’re doing it all for…where Capricorn energy can go astray is when it hardens into a more rigid judgmental thought process about the who, what, why, where, when, & how of our lives…

The solstice is a time when we go inward–and Saturn loves to go inward! Much of the time, as he transits our natal chart, he’s asking us to stop and pay attention to something important.

Capricorn energy can get a bad rep because it’s deemed to be all about deprivation, loneliness, misery, and other dire circumstances when people & things seem to disappear from our lives…and we mourn…

But by understanding that the depth of our mourning is meant for us to be able to appreciate that–even if we have no others in our lives who can feel compassionate toward us–we have it within ourselves to light this fire from within.

Now he’s saying pay attention to the shortest day of the year and go inward fortified by the light emanating from your own heart & soul. In this way you move forward more joyfully into the new year with the wisdom & flexibility to create a foundation more closely aligned with your soul’s true needs & beliefs.

In this way we may begin the process of transforming our true beliefs into concrete success. Thus, when we begin to see the external light grow once again, it represents the growth of our internal light, the light of our soul…

And this light gives birth not only to the miracle of new life in the spring, but also to our movement closer to allowing a new vision of self to take root…

Namaste…

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