PALM SPRINGS — When Michael
Boatwright woke up in the emergency room at Desert Regional Medical Center, the
nurses began asking him questions for which it became clear he had no answers.
The gray-haired, soft-spoken man looked at his identity card and didn’t
recognize his own face. He answered only to Johan Ek.
The sign
Cancer is a Water sign and is often shown as a body of Water. Since ancient times Water as an element has been
associated with the psyche. One of the functions of the psyche is to act as a
storage for memories.
The map for
the current New Moon in Cancer at Palm
Springs is shown above. The New Moon is not only in
Cancer (fourth sign) but also in the fourth house which is a double
whammy.
The two
references below tell us (a) the meaning
of the fourth house and (b) the significance of a Cancer New Moon.
The 4th house in the horoscope
represents your roots. It is the family environment that you grew up at, it is
the family atmosphere that you create in your own family, and yet, it is so
much more. Each child is born with memories
of past lives, past experiences, and people with a strong 4th house
hear the memories of their race,
its history (the real one, not the one in the history books), their nation’s
past hopes and fears and its values.
Emotional memories can return. It
may seem like it, but this is NOT to make you miserable. Revisiting old
emotions now, at the Cancer New Moon, can CLEAR subconscious memories that are
casting shadows and doubt on your goals and preventing you from doing what your
heart desires – what feels right. These emotions can be holding you back from
your sense of well-being. Or, they can be guarding you, keeping you feeling
safe and secure. Now it’s time to decide if you need the protection or you’re
ready to step out of your comfort zone…. Yet, this NEW MOON can be the
beginning of reconciling your past, releasing long-trapped emotional tape
loops, and that can allow your emotions to move forward.
But why was
this drama taking place in Palm
Springs ? Mundane astrology recognizes that (a)
lunations (New Moons or Full Moons) that occur on the horizon or meridian axes
are very powerful and (b) should they also be in hard aspects to difficult
planetary configurations , the energies of those planets will show up in
events. In this case we can see that the New Moon took place on the IC opposite
Pluto on MC and square Uranus on the Ascendant. A key phrase for Pluto-Uranus from Martha Wescott is:
Pluto-Uranus: To see (disruptive) behaviour based on emergent (formerly
repressed) psychological content
Further
reading:
Mercury is
currently retrograde in Cancer. And retrogression in astrology is related to a
recall of the past.
Mercury
Retrograde in Cancer: The Anchor of Memory
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