CANCER NEW MOON - 25 June 2025
This New Moon feels like a very potent one energetically, as it is activating many planets! We have an opportunity to let go of old emotional patterns that are no longer serving us, so that we can move forward with a lighter step. Cancer represents our inner emotional landscape, being the sign of family, ancestral roots, childhood emotional patterns, belonging, home, nurturing and emotional security. A Cancer New Moon invites us to really get in touch with our emotions rather than pushing them away, avoiding or suppressing them, allowing ourselves to be vulnerable and open rather than guarding ourselves, squashing our feelings or holding it all in. Our emotions have messages for us, if only we are willing to listen.
Cancer is the sign that helps us to feel the feelings and release them. These are challenging times for many of us, on many different levels, and we all have our learned coping mechanisms, some of which are not particularly helpful. A Cancer New Moon reminds us that sometimes the best thing we can do is let the emotions out, because then they don’t get stuck and wreak havoc on our physical and mental state. We tend to process emotions in the solar plexus, so digestion issues and stomach upsets can occur when we are struggling to properly process our emotions. A Cancer New Moon could encourage us to let it all out and have a good cry, which can be so cleansing as it releases any pent-up emotions and tension we might be feeling by trying to “hold it all together”.
Cancer represents our inner child, and while we may now be adults, it is still very important to tend to this inner child, giving it nurturing and love and listening to its needs. Sometimes it gets activated, as someone does or says something that really hurts because it triggers our childhood wounds, and it is hard not to react in a childlike or irrational manner. Ultimately this is a gift, however, as it helps make the unconscious more conscious, so that we can see what isn’t quite healed. Ideally, we would be able to respond in a more “adult” manner but can be difficult when it cuts really deep. These “activations” can be helpful, however, because they help us to understand ourselves better and to navigate our adult relationships more consciously and mindfully.
There are many planets activating this New Moon. We have Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto all forming a variety of different aspects, the strongest being Jupiter, which is sitting right on top of the Sun and Moon in Cancer. Jupiter is very happy in Cancer and can help bring great benefit from drawing on ancestral wisdom and from connecting with our emotions as a source of guidance, understanding and wisdom. It can also magnify and exaggerate our emotions, which could be helpful as it helps us to pinpoint old childhood patterns that need to be released. This could be a good time to connect to our ancestors, both past and present, and seek the advice of our elders who have walked this path before us. Some traits, struggles and tendencies have been passed down through the family line, so understanding these patterns can help us to navigate our own emotional journey.
Saturn and Neptune are also forming a dynamic, challenging square aspect to the Sun and Moon. This could make things feel somewhat heavy and overwhelming, as we could feel more sensitive, anxious, fearful, unsure, tired, tense and even hopeless. Thank goodness for Jupiter, with its optimistic and hopeful outlook! Saturn and Neptune in Aries could bring feelings of futility, angst, loss of meaning and aloneness, and we could struggle between what we dream of and yearn for and what is realistically possible. We could feel fears that are quite nebulous and hard to pinpoint. And while some of these fears may be ours, some we may be picking up on from the collective.
However, the gift is profound if we are willing to sit with our emotions rather than try to escape them. While we could be feeling a bit uncomfortable, we do have a chance to lay some old, unhelpful emotional patterns to rest. Some kind of new, unfamiliar version of ourselves is waiting to be born, so we are called to let go of any resistance and allow it to happen. It may be hard to see the path ahead right now, as it is certainly unknown territory, which can feel quite scary. However, we are called to be brave and really tap into deep trust that ultimately we are safe, protected and guided, even if things feel unclear, uncertain and unknown. Those of us with personal planets and angles around 1/2° of a sign, especially the cardinal signs Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn, will be feeling this energy most acutely. It is important to let the feelings come out, rather than bottling them up.
Pluto is also a very important part of this New Moon, as it is forming aspects to most of the planets at the moment, and is also at the apex of a Yod, or Finger of God formation, involving Virgo Mars and the Cancer Sun, Moon and Jupiter. Pluto in Aquarius is calling for deep change, progression and transformation, and invites us to throw off the shackles of the past and let go of old, unhelpful conditioning as we step into this New World that is currently forming. The Cancer part of us may find this somewhat scary, as we cling to old, familiar versions of ourselves that have outgrown their usefulness. There could be a sense that some new, freer, more authentic version of ourselves is trying to come into existence, but we might resist it as it is so unfamiliar and unknown.
Both personally and collectively, combined with the Saturn Neptune conjunction, we could feel like we are in a rather strange place, waiting to see where we are heading, which could bring a considerable amount of fear and trepidation around what might come next. On a deep level we might know that change is both necessary and inevitable, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t uncomfortable. That’s where Mars comes in, helping us to find the courage and will to recognise what aspects of ourselves and what emotional patterns simply need to go so that we can move into the next phase. It seems that the best thing we can do is relax and allow the change to occur, but that can be easier said than done, as the Cancer part of us prefers to cling to the safe, familiar, secure and known.
It could feel easier to detach and not feel the feelings, Aquarius style, or suppress our emotions, Saturn style, or find some way of escaping and burying our head in the sand, Neptune style, but all that does is bring anxiety, discomfort and weird physical symptoms! The Cancer Moon does seem to call for us to bring our emotions out into the open, while Pluto invites us to be emotionally honest about what patterns, habits, attachments and conditioning need to be stripped away in order for us to evolve and grow.
The Pisces North Node is calling for us to surrender, let go, accept and allow ourselves to be carried along with the tides of change, with full faith and trust that we are being guided toward something much better than we have known before. The more faith, grace and gratitude we can cultivate within us, the easier the path will be. Fear restricts, constricts and contracts, while faith expands and opens us up to opportunities that we might miss in a more contracted state.
The Sabian symbol for this Moon, at 5° Cancer is rather strange and not very comfortable either! “At a railroad crossing, an automobile is wrecked by a train”, which Dane Rudyar describes as “The tragic result that is likely to occur when the individual’s will pits itself carelessly against the power of the collective will of society. The automobile symbolises the individualised consciousness eager to pursue its own course of action regardless of how it may conflict with the collective consciousness of the community (the train). The symbol implies that all individual and relatively anarchistic or law-defying attempts are bound to fail. The driver may live, but his car will be wrecked. Lest we consider this phase totally negative, we should realise that most of the time man learns his lessons through relatively destructive experiences – the via negative of the mystic, or even the strange occult concept expounded in some sects of “salvation through sin.” One may speak here more generally of KARMIC READJUSTMENT.”
It is interesting – if the train represents the collective, then we are being reminded here that to get in the way of progressive collective change could not only be futile but could also go against us. The train can’t change direction or veer off the path, as it is on a set of tracks. If we put ourselves in its path or pit our will against this collective momentum, then it may not go so well for us! Pluto in Aquarius at the apex of this Finger of God is definitely pointing towards progressive collective change and revolution, and while it may be bringing up a considerable amount of discomfort, we are being called to surrender and release whatever needs to pass away so that something new can rise up in its place.
This Cancer Moon invites us to feel and properly digest all the feelings instead of stuffing them down or avoiding them, as they can ultimately show us the way forward. Cancer represents our emotional intelligence, and our emotions hold so much wisdom and the potential to guide us, if we are willing to listen and not ignore them. What needs to be released so we can move forward? What part of us do we need to leave behind in the dark of the Moon so that we can be reborn?
Much Love
Amy
xoxo
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