Welcome to the Cancer New Moon, the time when we get back to what really matters — home, care, and connection. This is a Moon that can bring up deep feelings along with the gnawing sense of what’s missing. The new moon is exact on July 9, 2021 at 9:17 pm EDT. That’s 6:17 pm Los Angeles, 2:17 am London on July 10, 3:17 am Johannesburg, 11:17 am Sydney, and 1:17 pm Auckland.
New moons are new beginnings, a time to turn the page, to renew our focus on a different part of life. This new moon comes one month after a solar eclipse, a reminder that we’re in a different container of time. After the busy back and forth and rush of new ideas with last month’s Gemini solar eclipse, it’s time to return back to home, family, and connection with our loved ones.
Cancer speaks to the heart and soul of life. Ideas, actions, and stuff are meaningless without an anchor and Cancer is that anchor. Whether it’s the physical anchor of having a home or the emotional continuity of knowing that we’re connected to something such as family, sentiments, and memories.
Over the coming days and weeks we may be sorting through photo albums and keepsakes. We may be reaching out to old friends and loved ones. We may be making new purchases or gathering resources for the home in order to build our nest.
This new moon is an invitation to refocus on getting the care and support that we need in life, to feel the gentle love of someone who is there to hold us or make us feel safe. Cancer is the archetype of the Mother, even if our own mother was anything but gentle or safe.
With a square to Chiron, this new moon may bring up something very old and it’s quite often that when we think of Cancer — home, family, the past – we don’t always have happy associations. Chiron is a pain point, a knot of suffering that we’re slowly trying to untangle ourselves from. It’s also something that we’re trying to transcend by understanding that our pain is not only our pain but representative or connected to a collective pain. When we heal ourselves, we help others heal, too.
The new moon also makes an opposition to Pluto in Capricorn. There’s something that we need to look at, confront, or face about ourselves, our family, or our past. Do we have the courage to let it go, to heal?
Thankfully we have support from Neptune in Pisces and Uranus in Taurus. Neptune helps us to find compassion as well as healing and forgiveness. Uranus brings in a quiet yet powerful nudge to detach from something that’s no longer serving us.