Even though the Cancer Full Moon was yesterday, we’ll be feeling its emotionally charged energy reverberate over the next day or so. Am I safe? Am I loved? Who are my family? Who is going to be a part of the most important, intimate moments of my life?
It’s hard to be vulnerable. As a water sign, Cancer opens us up to emotional connection. And it’s through Scorpio, the following water sign, that teaches us about emotional risk, intimacy, and facing the unknown. Which brings me to Pisces, the final water sign.
We’ve got quite a bit of action happening in Pisces right now. Not only is the South Node of the Moon in Pisces — a placement that hints that we’ve had to take a look at our karma with illusion and deception as well as spirituality and compassion — but Venus, Mars, and Chiron are also in Pisces.
If Cancer is basic emotional needs, then Pisces is the sign that speaks to the emotional needs of humanity. If Cancer is the mother, then Pisces is the Cosmic Mother, the universal womb from which we came and will return again and again. A Cancer Full Moon + a line up of planets in Pisces means that our feelings are not just our own. They connect us to the universal, to the collective.
Quietly tucked into the chart of the full moon was a conjunction between Venus and Neptune in Pisces, a beautiful, magical alignment of planets. Venus, the planet of love, meets Neptune, the planet of unconditional love. Venus, the planet of beauty, meets Neptune, magnetic, charismatic, alluring. As the last sign of the zodiac, Pisces is a sign of endings, too. Whatever pain is coming up, whatever is gnawing at us, we have the redemption, the compassion, and the unconditional love of Pisces to help us let it go.