Summer Solstice Full Moon Blessings!
Happy Strawberry & Rose Moon of June!
photo by moi
SO many beautiful flowers in full bloom now, incl. Wild and cultivated Roses.
Time to smell the Roses, and pick up their Heart Medicine.
Native Americans and other traditions around the World gave names to the Full Moons of the year, according to the Medicine of the month.
So many names, so much diversity (so GEM – where JUPITER is now, since May 25), directed by Nature (so TAU, where MARS is now, since June 8).
Pick the ones that resonate and speak to your Heart!
First of Four Summer Full Moons,
just after Summer Solstice!
With Summer Solstice (June 20)
comes the 1st of FOUR Summer Full Moons of 2024, on June 21!
A cuspy one in early CAP – CAN that-IS, activating a Mutable / Cardinal Grand Cross on all 4 sacred Solstice / Equinox points of the Zodiac (see chart below).
Followed by another cuspy, second (‘blue’) Full Moon end of CAP – CAN with PLUTO, on July 21,
the first of 4 Super Full Moon of the year in AQ – LEO, on Aug 19,
and the second Super Full Moon – a Partial Lunar Eclipse – end of PI – VIR with NEPTUNE, on Sept 17.
Grandmother MOON
Intl. Council of the 13 Indigenous Grandmothers
Their number is perhaps related to the 13 Moon cycles of the year
…will be on the ‘Integrity Point’ cusp in early CAP, the sign of the Elder.
High-lighting what our Ancestors knew / our Inner Wise One knows from experience & guides us to put into practice, simply-powerfully.
She can be a catalyst to re-ground ourselves in what matters most & deeply nurtures us, to find calm simplicity.
CANCER SUN freshly in the Lunar Abode
…brings a sweet & sensitive, sentimental, nostalgic energy, with themes related to Home, Family, Children, dreams of Summer Journeys…
With the SoLunar polarity, we might be pulled into childhood memories, or reflect on the ‘Old World’… while honouring, and receiving guidance & support from Elders & Ancestors / or: being the Elders ourselves.
* Are you connecting with Traditions (CAP) at the Solstice season – with Family / Tribes, Children, and the Inner Child (CAN)?
* Who’s your Tribe?
* Where is your Home, and where do you feel you belong?
* How do you relate to the Country you were born at / you live in?
* How do you relate to Children (CAN) and Elders (CAP)?
* How do you compassionately take care of your own and others’ needs (CAN), while also being mature, realistic, clear, consistent and firm about where you stand, about what works for you and what doesn’t (ethically-morally, and practically-physically), what you’re willing to take on, and what your limits and boundaries are (CAP)?
Serious Cappy Moon & Ancestral ‘Load’ / Legacy
In CAP, the MOON is in ‘exile’ –
furthest away from its CANCERian ‘home’ with its warm, cozy and caring qualities, in safe momma-babe connection.
Here, serious matter comes to the forefront of our esp. emotional attention.
* Feeling rather ‘cold and wintry’, ‘out in the cold’ / rejected, judged, or full of judgment that isolates you?
* Managing scarcity and fears?
* Making sure resources are in, given the cost-of-living crisis?
* Is it an effort for you to sustain your and the livelihood of your family?
* What’s with Time for one another?
* What’s with sustainability in so many ways, personally, relationally, societally, environmentally? I.o.w., how long can this be going on???
If these themes come up for you, it’s time to take a look at old ancestral and societal conditioning and contractions / limitations around that.
With SATURN, ruler of CAP these years (2023 – 2025/6) in PISCES, limitations can show up everywhere in the all-connective, multi-dimensional energy field – to be released & transcended.
CAP flash-back:
* How did you personally feel in the harsh & cold & serious atmosphere in humanity since 2020 (with massive CAP concentration esp. that year, round PLUTO in CAP – which is this year now rolling out)?
How did you take care of unmet needs since then?
Is your world more gentle, sweet and loving again, in the meantime?
* What does the inner Elder say to the need to be connected, safe, cared for, and caring?
* What historic traumas and hardship did / might your biological ancestors, Spirit Elders, or your inner karmic journey have gone through?
How can you honour and acknowledge them?
* How can the experience find completion in you, rather than you self-sabotaging, out of unconscious ‘loyalty’ / ‘solidarity’ (also a theme with PLUTO retro on the AQ / CAP cusp)?
* How do your biological & Spirit Ancestors help you transform the ‘load’, and can you be sustained by their legacy?
Rest & Reflection – in a Chaotic World
Spiritual Practice brings Peace
Stepping away from the stress of all the hustle & bustle in the last weeks (sooo much GEMINI in the Air contributed) is what’s called for, at the onset of Summer (rather than adding more, perhaps in preparation of holidays).
Our oh-so-industrious / industrial / addictively-busy Zeitgeist, in a chaotic & overwhelming energy field is being called out by LILITH at the very end of VIRGO – helping us to find our unconditioned / uncorruptable Natural Temple of Wellness-in-Wholeness and live from there.
LILITH is about to oppose stationary NEPTUNE at the very end of PI.
The alignment is in effect in the 2nd half of June, exact on June 29.
Being unconditionally in service to what connects us (God, the Universe, the Unified Field…), doing what we can do best / are ‘made for’, while taking good self care.
Have you found your healthy & spiritually attuned practice that’s good for you, and contributes to making the oh-so chaotic world a better, more peaceful place?
The LILITH – NEPTUNE dynamic plays out right on the VIR / LI Fall Equinox Point (LILITH will enter LIBRA on June 30, for the next 9 months) and PI / AR Spring Equinox Point (NEPTUNE backs off from entering ARIES – not quite ready, until SATURN catches up, in Summer 2025 / Feb 2026).
The LILITH – NEPTUNE opposition is perpendicular to the Full Moon axis.
To the effect that the 4 points form a Grand Cross (see chart below) on the mutable (VIR – PI) / cardinal (CAN – CAP) cusps of Equinoxes & Solstices.
A rare alignment that activates the ‘4 Cornerstones of Life’:
Self (AR) – Home / Family / Country (CAN) – Partnership / Peace (LI) – Purpose / Responsibility / Leadership (CAP).
This Grand Cross may be felt like a crucible, esp. for those of us w. SUN / MOON / AC / Planets / Nodes on one or more of these Points.
Yet, as we know, pressure creates diamonds…
Countries affected by this crucial Full Moon
So many elections this year – changing the socio-political landscape.
So much turmoil and chaos, at this time of transion – of Eras(!) –
Calling for renewal (AR), safety for the people (CAN), justice & peace (LI), leadership in integrity (CAP).
The CAP – CAN axis is per se also about countries and their history & structures incl. government (CAP) and the People who call them their home / make their home there (CAN).
The Solstice Grand Cross Full Moon affects countries that have at least one of the Solstice / Equinox points accentuated in their charts (alphabetical order):
Canada (Confederation 1867):
MOON end of GEM / URANUS / SUN early CAN, LILITH early CAP (Trudeau: SUN early CAP)
European Union (Treaty of Rome 1957):
VENUS end of PI / SUN / MERCURY early AR, JUPITER end of VIR
France (3rd Republic 1870):
SATURN end of SAG / MOON early CAP (Macron: SUN end of SAG)
Germany (Reunification 1990):
VENUS / SUN in early LI, URANUS in early CAP
Greece (2nd Republic 1974):
VENUS early CAN, PLUTO / MOON early LI
Russia (Lenin’s Proclamation 1917):
PLUTO early CAN, VENUS early CAP
Turkey (1923):
MOON end of GEM, MARS early LI
United Kingdom (William the Conquerer crowned 1066):
URANUS end of SAG / SUN early CAP, MOON end of PI
U.S.A. (Independence 1776):
VENUS / JUPITER early CAN.
The Old comes to Fruition.
The Full Moon births & catalyzes the New.
So much is coming to Fruition & Harvest that is ripe for release now!
A birthing out of the Old Matrix, and into the New & Unknown World.
Other Planets besides the Full Moon are cuspy now too:
Esp. PLUTO retro, on the AQ – CAP cusp, and NEPTUNE, on the PI – AR cusp.
You can see them in the FM chart below.
Their Archetypes tell us about the bigger transition themes.
PLUTO retro in early AQ, re-entering CAP one more time (Sept 1 – Nov 19) before it fully enters AQ for the next 19 years, until 2043 / 44.
The Old Regimes, based on fear, scarcity, top-down domination are dying…
As the Old Empires expire, crumble and collapse, a new Era for our shared Humanity emerges.
The old & dying paradigms have been revealing their power & control shadows big time, in the last years. What a purge!
Showing us where we’ve given power / authority away, and where renewing change is needed – and happening.
We’re in a massive birthing process from an old era to a new one.
A call for new Life, beyond what’s energetically not alive anymore.
I bet you feel it strongly coming up too, with this Full Moon on the ‘Integrity Point’ in early CAP… which can bring back ‘ghosts from the past’ – once again PLUTO activated (purged!) this year.
Beyond giving power away to the ‘old & told’, the Power of Love for Humanity, Friendship & Community (AQ) set us free, from the inside-out.
We’re less prone to be controlled / to tune into these dark & low vibrations, and perceive the world differently / live in another world.
We’re in this together.
As we share from an empowered place (beyond old & heavy CAP / PISCES oppression / victim consciousness) we gain strength to BE the Change.
In solidarity – since we’re all in this together (AQ / PI).
AQ is where it’s at for PLUTO, from 2024 on.
Time to align with the Power of our Shared Humanity!
And with the natural Power of Evolution!
Speaking of ‘being in the same boat’ together: The CANCER constellation involves Argo Navis – the boat of Jason & the Argonauts in Greek Mythology.
Rhythmic CANCER and lots of retro energy to come over the Summer shows: Sometimes we need to pull back / stir away from the wind to move forward.
Also cuspy / pointing to a major transition:
The duo of SATURN in mid-PI / NEPTUNE end of PI – both currently stationary focal points (SATURN will go retro on June 29, NEPTUNE on July 2).
Plus, as mentioned, cuspy NEPTUNE is directly involved in the ‘Full Moon Matrix’ of the Grand Cross.
SATURN, the Ruler of CAP is now in PISCES.
SATURN is the ‘dispositor’ of the FM, since it rules the Lunar sign.
While apparently ‘casually standing by’, in unaspected fashion, it’s nevertheless a V.I.P. (Very Important Planet)…
Esp. due to the trend:
The Ringed One will catch up with NEPTUNE, as both will together leave PI for ARIES (first ‘preview’ in Summer 2025, fully in Feb 2026) – a big deal!
Another indicator that the Pisces Age with its mass consciousness, collectivism, addictions, and pervasive co-dependent vicim – perpetrator – saviour /martyr dynamics is coming to an end (how much more evidence for the suffering it has created do we need???).
While the AQ Age is in the making…
Let’s take a look at the
Summer Solstice FULL MOON Chart
The Full MOON in early CAP – CAN will be exact
on June 21 at 6:08 pm PDT (West Coast Perspective)
It illustrates the themes described above…
See the polarity / opposition of SUN (w. VENUS & MERCURY nearby) – MOON, and also of LILITH – NEPTUNE? Forming together the cuspy mutable / cardinal Grand Cross, on the Solstice / Equinox Points.
SoLunar Polarity and Cuspy Grand Cross –
A Call for Balance & Integration
Balance is a key theme for any Full Moon Polarity.
The Full Moon is the ‘Mother of Oppositions’, calling for Balance & Integration of Solar Yang & Lunar Yin.
How can we create a balanced relationship between these apparently opposing orientations (mainly through the CAP – CAN axis)?
And give equal importance and energy to:
CAN
Gentleness, compassion, nurturing our own and others’ needs, family, tribe, finding belonging, going with rhythms and cycles, protecting Nature and our loved and little ones with loving care.
CAP
Being mature and in integrity, accepting leadership / leading by example (not giving authority and responsibility away), working with priorities, resiliently, respectfully, using time and resources well, being the ones we’ve looked up to, and the experienced Elders.
Here’s a little contrast table of CANCER and CAP for you.
Hopefully a simple reference to tune into that helps reconcile the polarities.
The two sides of the equation don’t have to be a dilemma but can synergistically cooperate and integrate, in various ways:
CAP asks us to take responsibility for our part in history / humanity (AQ) whose power (PLUTO) and control / authority structures have been exploiting and abusing Mother Earth (shadow of CAP) and her human, animal, and plant Beings that need protection & care (CANCER).
To have healthy boundaries, disengage from being sucked into the shadow, and Be the Change, the Ones who care (CAN), and the Ones we’ve been waiting for & looking up to (CAP).
Consistency and leading by example, rather than judging and blaming. Makes us feel better and more empowered too…
Resisting and blaming external authority and power structures can’t be the way forward. It still feeds the energy field of the Old & dying, by giving it attention, acknowledges it energetically, and basically responding / reacting in an adolescent manner.
How about claiming self-authority, and ‘outgrowing’ old modes, by co-building new & better (yet not buying into the top-down agenda of “Build Back Better”), more compassionate & humane structures that take care of needs more directly, and on an equal level?
…rather than letting the old fossilized, institutionalized world turn from Plutocracy (governance of the wealthy) to Technocracy (governance of technology – based on a materialistic worldview)!
Let’s not allow technology to influence / claim our biology!
Says also URANUS in TAU.
Time for liberation from old attachments of pseudo stability…
And for spontaneity & emBodied Freedom!
How can the CAN – CAP Full Moon affect & inspire us?
* Where / in what ways can we receive nurturing satisfaction, and reward, from being creative & resourceful, and working with what’s available to us (CAN – CAP)?
Rather than buying from / into the system that makes it convenient to consume (and promises status a la CAP) – at what price?!
Here’s to ‘grass roots’ gardening, cooking, and to (re-?)learning / applying traditional home / building / repair skills!
* Let’s spend less time shopping / consuming.
And have quality time to care, play, create & celebrate more!
Let’s go in general for quality over quantity.
* Where-else can we respond to what’s sold to us by:
“Thank you, I (already) got this.”, and be content with less?
A la Refuse – Reuse – Repurpose – Recycle
* Which wasteful (time, energy, resources) habits can we get out of, and establish higher vibrational, and deeply satisfying ones?
* How can we take more time for doing what we’re best at?
* Creative play & fun beat the heavy CAP vibes of ‘no time for that’…
Maybe ‘even’ shifting the old conditioned paradigm to:
Play first, work later.
How does the CAP – CAN Full MOON show up for you?
Do the themes above sound familiar?
Esp. if your birthday is
end of June (early CAN),
end of December (early CAP),
end of March (early ARIES),
or end of Sept (early LIBRA)?
Or you might have your MOON, AC, Planets, or Nodes in the early degrees of these cardinal signs (check out your chart, or let’s take a look together).
Then a lot of this is has been probably UP for you, these days / months, to culminate with the FULL MOON.
More Questions to ponder, with the CAP – CAN Full Moon
…which affects your early CAP / CAN (but also early AR / LIBRA) placements.
And for all of us, these polar opposite sides come up related to the Houses Axis She falls into, in our birth (or relocation) chart:
Early CAP / CAN in your…
1st – 7th House: Self & Relationships
2nd – 8th House: Owning & Sharing
3rd – 9th House: Social / Local Environment & World at large
4th – 10th House: Home / Family & Public / Purpose
5th – 11th House: Creativity / Children & Community
6th – 12th House: Health / Wellness / Livelihood & Soul Service.
* How can your basic-and-beyond needs be met, and your life be sustainable, in the context of the structures you’re living in?
* How about purging, repurposing, and downsizing to keep life simpler, and have all that you need – plus more time?
* How can important themes round home, family, belonging, safety, emotional needs, and on the other hand long term building of sustaining structures, responsible working with time and resources, and ‘s-aging well’ be reconciled?
* How is the structure / the system you’ve been in changing?
How can it be sustainable? Where’s your part in the change?
* In a time where families in the traditional sense lose their cohesiveness (or will there be a renaissance?) – what’s your world of home & family transforming into?
Where / who is your tribe?
* Who are the Elders and leaders you turn to for guidance?
Who are your Spirit Elders?
How are you elder-ing?
Your inner Elder might be waiting to connect with you.
All important questions to explore and LIVE now, under the Full Moon dynamic and beyond.
They’ll be deepened and brought again to our consciousness with the mid-CANCER New Moon on July 5 (super relevant for the U.S. with their July 4 country chart, and given the upcoming elections), in square with stationary CHIRON in ARIES (plus: CHIRON Return for the U.S., every 50 y.), and in T-square w. the Nodal Axis in LI – AR.
Lastly, I felt called to introduce the
Sabian Symbols
for the Zodiac degrees of the FULL MOON (1°07′ CAP / CAN).
The MOON at 1°07′ CAP:
“CAPRICORN 1°
AN INDIAN CHIEF CLAIMS POWER FROM THE ASSEMBLED TRIBE
KEYNOTE
The power and responsibility implied in any claim for leadership
The religious ideal implied in the preceding symbol has now materialized or crystallized into sheer power – the power to lead the community and to ensure its welfare or even its physical survival.
The energies released through group cooperation (Libra), deepened and emotionally experienced as forces of great potency (Scorpio), and given meaning and conscious purpose (Sagittarius) are now stabilized and hierarchized. The power of the group is turned into a measurable and carefully managed ‘capital’.
The words ‘chief’ and ‘capital’ come from the same Latin word, caput, meaning ‘head’. A time comes in many lives when the individual finds themselves placed in a situation that allows them to assume power over their comrades, however limited this power may be.
Is s/he ready to do this effectively and responsibly? This is the supreme test of humans in society. It complements its polar opposite (Summer Solstice degree), which refers to the acceptance by the individual of a new kind of allegiance as a foundation for the integration of their mature personality. Such a foundation may, but need not, refer to establishing a home.
This represents the first stage in a five-fold process – the fifty-fifth sequence of five symbols. It refers to the capacity latent in every individual to claim and assume AUTHORITY in a vital group-situation.”
The SUN at 1°07′ CAN:
“CANCER 1°
ON A SHIP THE SAILORS LOWER AN OLD FLAG AND RAISE A NEW ONE
KEYNOTE
A radical change of allegiance exteriorized in a symbolical act:
A Point of no Return
We have now reached a square to the beginning of the cyclic process.
This is a moment of crisis, a sharp turning point. In the zodiacal cycle, at the Summer Solstice the northward motion of the SUN stops; the SUN rises and sets as far north of exact east and west as it can during the year-cycle. Its motion is now reversed. Slowly the sunset points move southward on the western horizon, and the length of the day decreases. In the lunation cycle (from New Moon to New Moon) this is the First Quarter phase.
On the ‘ship’ which symbolizes the ego-consciousness floating, as it were, on the sea of the vast Unconscious, the individualized will makes a basic decision. The dominant Yang force allows the Yin force to begin its six-month long rise to power. The ‘collective’ will gradually overcome the ‘individual’, and at the end the state will overpower the person.
Now, however, the individual person enjoys his / her most glorious hour; exulting in their ability to make a ‘free decision’- i.e. to act as an individual who selects their life goal and allegiance.
This is the first stage in the nineteenth five-fold series of degree symbols.
In a decisive act heavy with consequences, the symbolic college youth might realize that he / she should bring to an end the quest for the ideal companion and enter into matrimony.
He / she assents to the possibility of progeny, of home responsibility.
His / her consciousness accepts a process of fundamental REORIENTATION, implying the stabilization of his / her energies.”
Not much to add here…
The themes of claiming leadership in integrity, honouring of elders & traditions, and re-orientation towards caring for home / country, family, and children are ‘written all over’ this very crucial Solstice Full Moon.
Much Love and Cosmic Blessings
for the CAP – CAN Solstice Full Moon!
Melanie
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