January 6, 2023| 3:07 pm (PST) | Keyword: Exchanging
The Moon is slowly drifting through the sign of Cancer while highlighting the bonds of family and intimate connection. An emotional need for security may prompt either a greater need for support or a desire to help others. Prone to a sympathetic and sensitive nature during this cycle, you can also be self-centered with the expectation that your needs should come first. If so, you may manipulate others through clinging dependency, over-protectiveness, and territorial control. Problematic relationships may first require the release of old memories of perceived wrongs in favor of forgiveness. Persons with strong Cancer in the natal chart (sun, moon, or rising sign) will play a lead role.
However, despite the desire for action, matters can be slow to start and slow to stop as there’s a tendency to be seen as stubborn or uncompromising. You may have been given the opportunity to express your ideas, but should consider words carefully before speaking. A weakened Mercury is struggling to influence personal action and domestic affairs. While retrograde it brings the usual snags and delays with communication, commerce, travel issues, and technology. A review of concerns may involve research, large companies in the news and the stability of the economy. It might also place the focus on a strong leader standing firm or a charismatic figure or cause.
On a personal level the emphasis is on taking a level-headed approach to life or using a good head for business to your benefit. This could mean working toward accruing money and possessions and creating a sound financial plan. With both the chart ruler and a stellium in the area of shared resources, you may need to review any financial vulnerability, dependency, or whether your salary provides the economic security required. Fluctuations in your resources can be the direct result of self-employment, working on commission, or part-time as needed. Your personal income may move in either direction depending on motivation and the accurate analysis of spending and saving habits. In fact, the aspiration for financial security is so strong that you may actually gain rather than lose. You’ll tend to be persistent in your aims and unswerving in your goals. The effort may be toward building a solid savings or a major purchase such as a home for investment.
The influence over financial matters indicates the end of a creative or procreation cycle and some of the changes you make can be due to children who are now grown and gone or the wish to turn creative energies in a new direction. Fresh pursuits may involve music and the arts or a strong spiritual life. Alternatively, you may be grappling with infertility or the heavy burden of caring for multiple children.
In fact, there can be difficulties with parents, the parental role, and home life in general, as well as all matters connected with domestic real estate. The father and mother archetypes can indicate impactful blockages that are difficult to fully comprehend. A certain restlessness surrounds either the home or professional life and childhood patterns can easily repeat in the relationship with “the boss” and through career. The challenge is in creating a peaceful and nurturing home environment while balancing career ambitions and responsibilities. This can manifest as the dilemma of the working mom attempting the impossible to have it all.
Current friendships and relationships with in-laws could also come to an end at this time. The conflict is one of divided loyalty in claiming your own individuality while trying to reconcile feelings of devotion to loved ones. Perhaps it’s difficult to feel grounded, connect to your origins, or even say where your roots really are. This can be attributed to a changing outlook on life that prompts you to isolate from those who don’t share your same vision of the future.
In some cases, illusion and confusion is the issue. You may have difficulty discerning the difference between achievable goals and mere fantasy. Despite a grand vision of what you’d like to accomplish, you may be lacking in the practical knowledge necessary for execution or unable to determine the difference between price and value. As a result, you can easily deceive yourself or be deceived by others. It’s critical to avoid denial to face and examine painful, sensitive issues in order to serve and help others in spite of differences. On the other hand, you can attract those who are initially optimistic and generous, but who later pummel you with relentless criticism.
Other factors that impact the domestic condition can be suspicion regarding infidelity. This moon is opposite the asteroid Adonis which may bring questions and/or a decision concerning the “ideal” physical specimen, the younger or part-time lover, the death of a lover, or a lover that women fight over. But it can just as well highlight males still tied to the mother’s apron strings and who fail to fully actualize as men.
Unfortunately, there’s a pervasive influence of separation and division that implies a negative answer to questions and warns of approaching misfortune, particularly with regard to health and travel. This may presage a period of depression or disappointment because you have difficulty in creating opportunities, yet spend a lot of energy looking for them. Although you can’t direct the course of events exactly as you wish and may feel disempowered because of it, keep in mind that these conditions serve a purpose and are temporary.
Albeit, she’s not particularly strong, Venus is casting out a limited line of help in an effort toward something very much desired. Perhaps you’re working on a personal project or new venture behind the scenes that will ultimately result in success. Masculine figures may play a significant role in these events.
The keyword for this cycle is exchanging and can highlight persons who love to travel or have leanings toward a nomadic life. It may indicate the traffic and sale of goods or services that aren’t confined by border or country. Those involved in commerce may accumulate by or through merchandise, exporting and importing, or through things of universal demand. It can also suggest seeing the magic in life through opening emotional channels of sympathy and understanding for others in order to know both self and others better.