Cancer New Moon: July 17

Home Is Where The Heart Is

Here are some insights about the opportunities and challenges that this year’s Cancer New Moon offers. It includes an overview of this lunation and its unique features, calendar connections, stellar reflection journaling questions, self-care suggestions, and dates and inspirations for Moon Mapping this month. May they help you make the most of this moment.

Cancer is associated with that which gives us roots and grounded nurturance. It carries the archetype of the mother, the one who nourishes, tends, and protects. It relates to those whom we call our tribe, or wish to call our tribe. It connects us to ancestry, the home, and the past.

Therefore, the Cancer New Moon can provide us with an opportunity to begin a new cycle in relationship to our family. In doing so, we may survey the dynamics and patterns inherent within our family, those that course through not only our living relatives but also the ancestors who came before.

Feeling fed and feeding others is a strong theme during the Cancer New Moon. Reflect upon not only what it is that you find nourishing but how you feel called to nourish others.

The sign of Cancer inspires us to connect to a sense of belonging. Take the time to survey this urge within your self and where, how, and with whom you feel most at home. Additionally, it’s a good time to look to see how an instinctive yearning to belong shapes our beliefs and actions, and where wanting to be in connection to a clan may have us sacrifice our freedom of expression and abdicate our personal desires. See what you see and feel what you feel. It’s not even that you need to act upon your realizations at the moment; but at least try to greet them, allowing them a place within your awareness so that they can take root and inform your path forward.

Remember too that as Cancer is the first water sign in the zodiac, it carries a strong emotional energetic and an ebb and flow of sentiments. As such, don’t be surprised if feelings rise to the surface and/or you notice the emergence of the cyclicality of moods. There’s also often a pull to the past and a wave of nostalgia that we experience when in the sea of Cancer energy.

Unique Features of this Cancer New Moon

This year’s Cancer New Moon opposes transformative Pluto in Capricorn. And with this, we may find ourselves compelled to dig below the surface to unearth thoughts, feelings, items, and/or information that has been kept out of sight, whether by ourselves or others. Discover the support you need to be able to expand your capacity to embrace honesty and be more open to complex and layered truths. What it means to survive and what it means to thrive may be questions that further captivate our attention as may the subject of the cycles of life as well as the need to let something go in order to open to the possibility of it being reborn in a way that embodies greater integrity and vitality. With the Sun making an exact alignment with Pluto on July 21 (a day when both planets happen to square the Lunar Nodes), know that this call to dive deeper, tap into hidden resources, and greet both the personal and collective shadow may feel like a strong through line throughout the whole week.