New Moon in Cancer

 

Cancer 1 Decan 

The Moon will unite with the Sun and Jupiter in the first decan of Cancer (June 25) associated with the Two of Cups arcanum. The image by Pamela Colman Smith contains two lovers coming together in longing, with a caduceus of intertwining snakes and a winged lion arising in the space between their merging desire. 

Austin Coppock in his book on the decans 36 Faces ascribed the image of “A Mother and Child” to the first face of Cancer, as he wrote that the face holds the hungers of our emotions and biology, the womb that gives birth to us and all of our resulting needs. Coppock connected the themes of mother and child to the pursuit of romantic love found in the Two of Cups since “it is the perfect support, half-remembered from the womb, that gives rise to the human dream of similarly nursing bonds between committed partners.” Coppock wrote that idealized unions can be realized in the first decan of Cancer, and that the “face’s magical virtue is to establish mutually nurturing relationships.”

 

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