New Moon in Cancer

Today marks the beginning of a New Lunar Cycle.

Yesterday we experienced what is known as a Black Moon – a second New Moon occurring within a single month.

This is an event that only happens once every 2.5 – 3 years.

And this time around, these two moons have constellated within the sign of Cancer – home of the Moon herself.


Cancer is the archetype of the Mother.

She cradles our deep instinctual responses and the uncensored truth of our emotions.
She is the hand of nurturance – our ability to care for others, and most significantly ourselves.

In addition to submerging us further into the watery depths of our own truth, this New Moon has gifted us the medicine of Saturn, beginning her cycle in exact opposition to Him. As with the Moon, Saturn is currently enthroned in his home sign of Capricorn.

Saturn is the archetype of Father.

He supports our healthy expansion into world. As the tides of our emotions try to pull us back into the safety of our inner world, He is the firm hand at our back, urging us forward in our commitment to life.

Yesterday heralded a new beginning. Not just a new lunar cycle, but a renewed commitment between these two primordial archetypes.

A chance for us each to renew our sense of inner union between their energies.

For regardless of our own gender identity, or the roles that we assume in our daily lives, we each embody the relationship of our own inner Father/Masculine and Mother/Feminine.

We are each perpetually called to find a dynamic balance within their polarity.

Never more so than now, under this moon, in the midst of Water/Kidney season, which governs the dance between our inner Yin and Yang.



When these inner archetypes are not working together in concert, we lose our sense of inner integrity.

When the energy of Saturn is imbalanced we may find ourselves constantly subordinating to an internalised list of ‘shoulds’. We may feel weighed down by a sense of unending responsibility, or find ourselves climbing an insurmountable mountain or perfectionism and achievement.

We whip ourselves relentlessly onwards through life, relying on the fuel of caffeine or the steady low grade activation of ‘survival’ mode.

Conversely, when the energy of the Moon isn’t supported by a healthy Yang, we routinely loose ourselves and our sense of direction amidst the kaleidoscopic swirling of our emotional nature.

We may feel collapsed beneath the weight of life’s responsibilities, and unable to maintain commitments to others, and to ourselves.

This can feel like a deep, dormant sense of self-abandonment, as we fail to remain accountable to the cultivation of our truest needs.


For many, we pendulate between these extremes – our tireless striving giving way to tidal surges of emotionality, or ‘mood swings’.

Often we will seek a partnership that will allow us to rest comfortably in our polarity of choice. A situation that feels coherent initially, but inevitably leaves both party’s wanting – one perpetually seeking emotional validation, the other growing weary of holding the sense of direction and responsibility.

Our psyche is always seeking balance and ultimately integration.

But when these inner energies start to move in concert within, we are brought into touch with our sense of Divine Will – a willpower that is born of our deepest self.

We are able to rest in stillness long enough to hear our soul’s whispers.

We use the power of our accountability to carve out time for the things in life that deeply move and inspire us.

Our strides forward into the world are informed by our passions and desires.

Our service to others is congruent with our own truth.

Finding our way towards this sense of inner union isn’t an easy or straightforward process.

It’s a journey of disentangling intergenerational stories and societal narratives.

It’s the cultivation of sacred boundaries, which are capable of safeguarding the emergence of our most tender self.

It’s creating a deep, inner holding from which we can muster the courageousness to stand alone in our truth.

Like a long-term partnership, it’s a commitment to which we must continually return, as our anchorage slips amidst life’s unpredictable tides.

A renewal that begins again today, as we step forward into this new cycle.