The 2015 Cancer New Moon is at its maximum phase at 6:24p PDT on Wednesday, 15th July 2015. When it does, it brings the opportunity for an emotional fresh start…to those who choose to embrace it.
As I mentioned in my last blog article, this New Moon is occurring on what is already an emotionally charged day. There is a Mercury-Mars conjunction in Cancer opposite Pluto Retrograde in Capricorn that is also exact today. That means there are two conjunctions in Cancer, the sign of emotional nurturing, protection, and care – also known as the Zodiac mother.
That said, the key to this Mercury-Mars-Pluto opposition is to notice that the people, institutions, and organizations that you’ve always counted on to care for you and protect your emotional interests…well, they probably aren’t going to be there for you this time around, and they may never be there for you again. If you have depended on others to fulfill your emotional needs or to take responsibility for your emotion-based behaviors, today may bring the reality check you’ve needed to wake up and realize that no one else is responsible for your emotional well-being but you. If you haven’t stepped up to nurture and protect yourself before now, you may be forced to step into that role for yourself on or very near this New Moon day.
Some of you will resist this new role for yourself. If you’ve blamed others for your misery and you want to continue blaming others for your emotional woes, then you’ll probably be one of the people resisting the heck out of the energies of this day. If you believe that you are responsible for others’ happiness or unhappiness, you may have an exceptionally difficult time dealing with the energies of this day.
Others of you will walk through this door to emotional responsibility with glee! This 2015 Cancer New Moon may be the moment you’ve been waiting for…yet you may not recognize it if you’re expecting it to come to you a certain way. In fact, you may miss this chance at a new emotional experience unless you’ve already chosen to be responsible for your own emotional truths and if you’ve chosen not to be responsible for others’ emotional behaviors or responses.
This is the call to step up and claim an emotional fresh start. This day holds the potential for a powerful clearing of the slate – an opportunity for you to claim your emotional truth, declare it powerfully, and to choose a new emotional experience of yourself and your life within the energy of the 2015 Cancer New Moon.
Your mission – if you choose to accept it – is to claim emotional responsibility for yourself and only yourself.
Some of you may think, “Wow! How selfish is that?” The idea of emotionally nurturing and caring for yourself first may seem foreign to you. Yet consider that maybe you’ve been told it was selfish by others who wanted to be able to emotionally manipulate you into taking responsibility for their issues. Consider that maybe you use service to others as a way of punishing yourself or denying yourself emotional fulfillment because you were told or chose to believe that you aren’t worth being loved or nurtured. Consider that you may enjoy holding others responsible or accountable for your emotional truths so that you don’t have to do the work you need to do to come to terms with them for yourself. “Selfish” may not be selfish at all, but rather the key to everything you’ve ever truly wanted in your life yet believed or told yourself you couldn’t want or have. It brings you emotional self-awareness and emotional self-empowerment. Rather than emotional selfishness, it actually strengthens you to take heartfelt responsibility for what you truly stand for and how you really feel about yourself and your life. Coming from emotional authenticity and honesty, you may actually increase your ability to serve others selflessly because you’re already giving yourself the emotional support and encouragement you give to others – you don’t need it in return or exchange. You’re not giving in order to get in return.
To hold an expectation of return on your emotional and/or material investments in others, to put yourself through emotional upsets or traumas in order to please others, to hold others responsible for your feelings and emotional responses – those are acts of selfishness.
Through honest emotional self-awareness and self-empowerment, you can feel confident enough in your ability to nurture, care for, and protect yourself in ways that enhance and strengthen your ability to practice compassion and extend emotional support to others. You can do so without feeling like you are emotionally draining, taking away from, or abusing yourself in order to do so. You also aren’t defining yourself by the emotional responses of others – you stop looking to them to validate your feelings or to stand up for you in the face of opposition, and you stop defining your success or failure as a person by how many people are happy or upset with you. At the same time, you aren’t seeking to protect or rescue others from their emotional upsets or disappointments – you aren’t doing their emotional work for them and you aren’t allowing them to bully you into taking responsibility for how they feel about themselves.
This 2015 Cancer New Moon is all about recognizing and embracing your emotional reality so you can embrace your emotional truth and power. The Sun reveals all that you’ve been and are being, and gives you a chance to say ‘goodbye’ to whatever no longer serves you emotionally, and to say ‘hello’ to a new emotional experience of yourself and your loved ones now and moving forward. You may even find that you can now create a family/community of your own choosing – one that truly has your emotional best interests at heart by encouraging you to be responsible for yourself emotionally. This is an opening to connect with people who want and encourage you to feel about yourself and your life.
Of course, you have to want it for yourself more than others want it for you. You get to encourage yourself to be how you need to be and do what you need to do in order to have it. If you’re willing to do the internal work to see your emotional truth for what it truly is, you get to reap the rewards of your radiant self-expression later on.
I can’t wait to see what you choose for yourself.
Thanks for reading and sharing Signs and Numbers. Until next post…
~ Light, Love, and Blessings,
Grace
