On June 21 at 9:07pm EST, we will experience the first of two back-to-back Full Moons in the first degree of Capricorn, as the Sun in Cancer opposes the Moon.
If you feel formless right now - like a blob floating in space - you’re not alone :). The energy of Neptune on this lunation is deeply transformative. It’s a metamorphosis that is bringing to culmination a long journey of transformation. This is the energy of karmic knots loosening; of dissolving, release & culmination. With Neptune in the last degree of Pisces, this is the creation point - the merging with the divine that happens before new life takes form. Can you allow yourself to float in the realm of possibility?
Those with personal placements in the early degrees of the cardinal signs (Aries, Libra, Cancer, Capricorn) and late degrees of mutable signs (Virgo, Pisces, Gemini, Sagittarius) will be most affected by this energy. Find out if this is you by signing up to the Lunar Alchemy Collective, where you’ll get full access to this article and instructions on pulling up your chart & learning how the energy is affecting you.
Lessons in Capricorn vs Cancer Polarity
As always on Full Moons - this is a story of polarity. Of balance between the realm of intuition, feeling and unseen depths of our human experience, versus matter, responsibility and the physical world. As Full Moons are a time of culmination, we are likely to understand this polarity within ourselves on a new level. Learning about our inner mother and father or feminine and masculine - and understanding where we might be out of balance or living from a wounded expression of these energies.
Capricorn and Cancer both symbolize the past, our roots, traditions and origins. This lunation illuminates our emotional landscape and coping patterns that stem from our inner child’s experience of parenting - either by parents, guardians, or society in general. What conditioning is present in your life as a result of what you have experienced? As Neptune crosses the creation point (29 degrees of Pisces) in a tense aspect to this lunation, what beliefs are present about what is possible for you?
This axis teaches us about how we create security and safety for ourselves - on the emotional and physical plane. Are we able to self-soothe our emotions? Can we provide for ourselves so we feel grounded and secure? As an earth sign ruled by Saturn, Capricorn teaches us about our responsibilities, the legacy we are building, how we create physical security for ourselves and how we contribute to society. This is the masculine or father archetype, and its expression in our lives is shaped not only by our own fathering experience, but also by the level of emotional security we feel - from our mothering experience. Cancer is the mother, and the foundation - it teaches us how to meet our own emotional needs, self-soothe, and feel secure within ourselves. If we do not have this security within, it is likely that our impact on our society (our legacy) is not truly aligned with our life path.