Sign: Cancer
Ruling Planet: Moon
Element: Water
Keyword: Nurturing
Affirmation: “I protect and nourish all life in the world”
The New Moon is a time of initiations and beginnings when we are given a chance to make a fresh start, let go and leave the past behind and plant the seeds of our next phase with clarity and intention. This New Moon happens in emotional, caring and home loving Cancer 10 July 2021.
What is the energy and focus for a Cancer New Moon?
Cancer is ruled by the Moon and so this is a strong lunar time for everyone. Emotions, hunches and moods are all likely to go through phases around this time. A wonderful time for making fresh starts or ‘planting the seeds’ for a new beginning in your home, family or emotions. This can be as simple as creating a new bank account to save for a home, it could be letting go and rising up again after an emotional trauma.
Babies and women’s fertility in general are ruled by Cancer and the Moon so if you have hopes in this area, now is a good time to try. Nurturing others, though caring or by feeding them good and comforting food is highlighted. You may get the bug to try a new recipe or even begin cooking from scratch to save money and show you care.
Natural Zodiac Zone
The Fourth House is the place of home and family. It is where we come from and the place we withdraw to and feel safe, loved, and cared for. It is the house of the Mother in an individual’s life and their experience of home and their early years. People with a strong Fourth House often feel part of a tribe or clan not just a family and their roots and heritage can be incredibly important to them and their identity.
This house also rules real estate and the buying and selling of homes of all kinds, so this is a good time for all real estate dealings, especially if you are buying your family forever home.
Typical Cancer New Moon Events
1 Becoming pregnant or starting to try for a baby.
2 Buying or moving to a new home.
3 Learning how to cook or a new kind of cooking.
4 Caring for others, especially if they are sick.
Spiritual Practices for the Cancer New Moon
To be done during the night of the Cancer New Moon.
Emotional Release and Renewal Ritual
You will need a pen and paper/notebook.
Find a quiet place where you won’t be disturbed and take three deep breaths to calm and centre yourself.
Now bring to mind an emotional hurt from your past and let yourself feel it for a few moments.
Observe where it changes the tension or posture in your body – where are you holding this pain?
Now identify the emotion.
It could be:
· Anger
· Sadness
· Jealousy
· Anxiety
· Resentment
· Humiliation
· Shame
· Rejection
Write down the emotional hurt and how you feel about it. Let it all out and cry or swear or let out how you really feel while you do it if that is what comes up for you.
Now let go. You can represent this by tearing it up and burying it – or burning the paper, you can even flush the ashes down the toilet!
Now celebrate that this is over, and you have cleared the way for a fresh start in your emotions. Spend a few moments in gratitude for what you have learned and how you have grown from this emotional hurt and be excited that a new cycle is about to begin.
Rituals for any New Moon:
1 The New Moon is the best time for starting or launching new routines, diets, businesses, life phase – anything new that you want to last.
2 Write your intentions of what you would like to achieve or work on over the next four weeks of the Moon cycle. Use as a guide for focus during the month and check at the next New Moon how far you have come.
3 Declutter and let go of stuff you no longer need or have outgrown, creating space for new energy to come in.