Dear Journi - I look forward to receiving them. It's a great pity you can't supply the times of birth as well. But never mind, I have come to some pretty poignant conclusions by now - even without time and places of birth. More soon.

With love - Aquarius

Dear Journi – today I have prepared some wisdom from the Moon for you. Please note that this is not a psychic reading but an interpretation of what is actually moving through your life, the way it is indeed written in the stars for you. In my view, there is a world of difference between the two. My readings are strictly not fortune telling or some kind of ‘fog-knitting’, as you will soon be able to verify from your own experiences, I hope.

                                                                                    Cancer Moon Progression

For approx. the past twenty-three months you have been going through a progression that is under the influence of Cancer, the Moon’s own sign. It will continue for you only for about another seven months. This progression is a time when we feel the characteristics of the Moon in our birthchart by sign and house placement much more strongly than usual and we gradually become ever more moody and emotional than we normally are. Regardless of our basic nature and outlook on life, during this time we are likely to act and react  towards people, things and situations far more from the emotional level. This can affect our lives in many different ways.

For example, you may become more interested in the private and personal aspects of your life. You are also likely to encounter more than your usual share of people who themselves are strongly under the influence of the Moon and Cancer. Home circumstances are playing a major part in one’s life. This could include moving house, building work, alterations, and home improvements, as well as decorating and investing in new furniture and fittings. This progression has such a strong domestic slant that it could temporarily be anchoring you quite firmly to home and family. You may have to take on more responsibility for relatives, in some way. Whether this is a source of comfort or an irritation to you, depends as much on your outer circumstances as it does on your inner attitudes. There will be more dealings with your mother, even if she has passed on already. If that is the case, you may feel the need to get in touch with her in the world of spirit, possibly to make peace with her. Most of your dealings will be with female friends and relatives, especially with older women and mothering types.

Feelings of family loyalty will now strengthen and you may wish to research your family’s background. It is a good time for finding your true home and roots, your inner ones, and you may feel like delving into your past. You could set off in search of your roots, and study subjects like genealogy, history, as well as antiques. Stronger than ever before, you feel the need to identify with a group and to find your own place within it. This could be based on family, race, religion or nationality, and you could even experience a surge of patriotic feelings.  

Frequently, you will feel the need to simply retreat from the outside world, and to sink into the comfort and security of your own home. You will probably have little desire to meet new people, but prefer to stay close to reliable old friends. You will enjoy new domestic interests and gadgets, learning how to use them in and around your home. You could work from home now or start your own small business from your own back room. You could get connected with shops in some way, for example by being offered a job in one or you could open one of your own. Whether you are male of female, one way or another, you will be getting far more concerned with day to day chores. The reason for this could be just about anything, including setting up a family or retirement.  

You could become unreasonably possessive towards the people around you. At times, you may feel alienated, neglected and superfluous, and you may find that your moods fluctuate between sometimes wanting to be alone, and the next moment fearing loneliness. This flood of feelings, in itself, is nothing to be over-concerned about, and no matter how troublesome this may sometimes be, ensure to remind yourself frequently that you are dealing with feelings only. They are sure to slip into the past, as soon as this progression is over. Being aware of what is operating inside you, should help you to cope with this progression more easily.

Friends will cling to you and you will hang onto them. People you have not seen for years could suddenly come back into your life. The influence of Cancer will make itself felt in many different ways and you will enjoy dealing with women more than usual. A child conceived, during this progression, is likely to be a girl. You could start working with liquids and may feel so strongly drawn to the sea that you wish to live or work on or near it. Travel on or over water will be particularly enjoyable.

This is a time for making slow and gradual changes. You will feel the need to spend time to look inside yourself, and to review your inner needs and attitudes. Old habits could be seen as inappropriate to your present and future life, and you may decide that it is time to shed them, once and for all. You could either be setting up a family or continuing to care for one. Whatever you do, you will feel the need to keep your feelings hidden from public view. If instead of suffering one wishes to benefit from the energies that are available at any given time, one needs to learn to use them wisely. This will not only stand us in good stead, but for the rest of this lifetime, but also beyond. There will be many opportunities for becoming more familiar with yourself and in touch with yourself, as well as for bringing your inner house in order.

You will now be so strongly influenced by the Moon that you could be feeling weepy and over-emotional, much of the time. This could be a considerable nuisance to you, especially if you are not usually the emotional type. For example, if you were born into one of the air signs, like Gemini, Libra and Aquarius, who normally function on the mental and intellectual level, rather than through the emotions, like the Water signs, Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces. You may feel so weepy that you and those around you could begin to wonder whether you might be ill. Rest assured, weepiness is part of this progression and there is nothing wrong with you. If you would like more information to help you cope better with the watery aspect of this progression, see the main part of your birthchart – if indeed you have one.

A word of warning may not come amiss here. Those who do not wish to be considered a nuisance by the world around them take care not to fall into the trap of acting out the downside of Cancer. Because of their extremely high emotional sensitivity, Cancerian’s feelings get hurt very easily. As a result, young and inexperienced souls can be in constant danger of wallowing in self-pity and on the lookout for a shoulder to cry and lean on, whilst being blissfully unaware of how trying this is for the world around them. It may also be helpful to become aware that Cancerians are known to be expert manipulators of people. Try to watch out in case you feel tempted to manipulate someone into things they do not want to do and that are not good for them.

Needless to say, that is not at all what this progression is about! Rather, it deals with home and mother, on the inner and the outer level. The fourth is probably the most deeply emotional one of them all and takes us into the depths of our inner being. The way I see it, its intention is to create opportunities for taking us back to our true roots. Through the spiritual understanding we are now finding it becomes possible to change our relationships with our early home, mother and siblings. And if we so wish, we can rise above the circumstances that surrounded them and return into the consciousness of our true mother, the Great Mother of all life and our true home, the inner world and the world of spirit.

This progression is about true homecoming – into our inner home – and for re-discovering one’s inner centre. All true strength comes from there because that is our inner connection with God, the source of all life. Part of the process of working our way through to this the inner core of our being is that memories from the past seem to want to overwhelm and haunt us. It may look like this on the surface, but they are not meant to be a nuisance to us. Yet again, this is something that is being given to us for good purpose. The experiences of the past serve no further purpose any more. We need to draw our learning from it, and then bless, heal and forgive ourselves and everything that was in it.

If we make good use of the energy that is available to us now, when this progression is over, we can get on with developing other aspects of our lives, especially the creative ones. Having done the work that is required from us, during this progression, our learning will stand us in good stead for the coming one and also for the rest of this lifetime. When the next progression begins, to our amazement, we may then find that we are coping with our life much better than we ever did before. So, if during this one, our feelings are sometimes threatening to overwhelm us, it is important to remind ourselves that we shall not always be this way and react in this manner. The more we rest safely in the knowledge that things will pass, the greater the ease with which we work our way through them. Instead of suffering from the flood of our feelings, how about tuning into them, working with them and getting some lasting benefits? Only what we seriously work on, becomes rightfully be ours and can be kept forever.

For a better understanding of the energies that are at work in your life during this progression, I recommend the reading of ‘The Sun In Cancer’.

- To be continued. -