The end of June brings the second eclipse of the month, a New Moon Solar Eclipse in the sign of Cancer. A New Moon Eclipse forms when the Moon moves between the Earth and the Sun, blocking or eclipsing the light from reaching Earth. In Addition all Eclipses form near the lunar nodes which intensify and activate karmic patterns.
The Moon rules Cancer, increasing the sensitivity of this New Moon, and at 00 degrees is supercharged with initiative for a new beginning. Cancer is a water sign, empathetic and nurturing; the Mother and the healer. Comfortable in care-giving and invested in feeling emotionally safe, fear can close this tender sign down. The healing path out of this shutdown is to carefully open the heart to life; to risk vulnerability and honestly ask for what is needed.
Sitting close to the New Moon is the North Node in Gemini opposite the South Node in Sagittarius, infusing the energy of the nodal axis into the meaning of this Eclipse. The South node represents the past. The karmic energy of where we are stuck and what holds us back. In Sagittarius, a fire sign whose quest to understand life and believe in something can turn into the shadow expression of belief systems or values that become rigid and narrow, unwilling to evolve, dogma. The North Node represents the future, what is unfamiliar and challenges us to grow. The evolutionary pathway forward, in Gemini, an air sign ruled by Mercury the Messenger, the message is that a radically open mind and communication is necessary to move into the future. Gemini is a very busy energy, active, curious and quite changeable, needing a strategy or endpoint to be effective. Gemini's need to communicate helps give voice to the deep emotions and vulnerabilities of Cancer’s heart. Mercury currently retrograde in Cancer reminds us to go back over personal needs and the needs of others with sensitivity.
This is a wake-up call. That asks us to pause, let go of ego and support vulnerability. Open up to loved ones, listen and share. Cultivate empathy. Hold safe space for important and sometimes uncomfortable conversations that can break down old beliefs and lead us to new understandings, solutions and healing. In the dark quiet of night embrace the magic of the Moon. What do you desire? What are you personally waking up to? What seeds of intention would you like to see break ground and grow in your life? In your relationships? In our world? What does personal healing look like for you? Work with this powerful New Moon energy, water energy. Stay hydrated inside and out. Pay attention to your thoughts and feelings for water opens our intuition and creativity. And remember… the Moon affects us and connects us all. May this New Moon Eclipse hold the power of a new beginning that breaks from the past and guided by love leads us into our future.