The 2025 Cancer Full Moon enters its maximum phase at 2:27p PST on Monday 13th January 2025. This Full Moon is occurring in the Moon’s home sign, making it unusually powerful – an appropriate level of power for the first major Moon phase of the 2025 Gregorian calendar year.
Cancer is a cardinal water sign, all about initiating emotional connection. However, it initiates from what it would need emotionally rather than what others may actually need. As the “mother” of the Zodiac, Cancer strives to nurture and protect whomever and whatever it is emotionally invested in. This could prove interesting, as it’s often assumed these investments are home, family, and other people and things of sentimental value. However, the best indicator of where someone would be most nurturing and nostalgic would be to look at which houses hold Cancer’s presence in one’s natal astrology chart. The placement of Cancer in one’s chart reflects where people feel most at home, most safe and protected, and/or emotionally supported (or where and/or how they tend to find the most emotional nurturing and support).
Opposite the Capricorn Sun (cardinal earth), the Cancer Moon reflects our emotional investment in our worldly ambitions and goals. What are we striving for, and how do we feel about what we’re striving for? This 2025 Cancer Full Moon may find us reassessing our not only our worldly goals, worldly ambitions, and how we define success; but also reassessing our emotional investments in our goals and ambitions, especially at a time when there is so much changing so quickly, it’s difficult to keep up with the pace. In order to prioritize, we may need to surrender the effort to try to hold onto everything, and allow ourselves to prioritize what we feel most strongly about, but also, possibly, what is actually in our lives here and now.
Speaking of changes, numerologically, the 2025 Cancer Full Moon is occurring on a 5 Universal Day in Europe and all points west of it, while it occurs on a 6 Universal Day in all points east of Europe. While the 6 UD regions and their residents and occupants may find themselves focused on those nurturing and caring elements of Cancer (as 6 numerological energy is very similar to Cancer astrological energy), the 5 UD regions will be experiencing increased intensity in their awareness and experience of the changes occurring not only in the world, but more acutely, in their own personal/individual worlds. In this 9 Universal Year of completions and endings yet a 1 Universal Month of new beginnings and fresh starts, recognize that any endings you may be experiencing now are meant to clear and create space for new seeds to be planted, new intentions and goals to be set, and new beginnings to emerge. That means that for many of us, this 2025 Cancer Full Moon is likely to be an exercise in learning to let go of the way things have been and the dreams we may have held onto tightly for a long time. This is only because we’ve outgrown and/or evolved beyond those old objectives, and it’s time for us to create new dreams and visions for ourselves and our lives, collectively and individually.
For deeper insights into the energies of this 2025 Cancer Full Moon, here are the astrological transits occurring at the time of the Moon’s maximum phase (within 3° orb):
- T-SQUARE: Capricorn 1 Sun square Aries Eris square Cancer Moon (24°) – This is a call to step into your most unique and individual self-expression, especially if you’ve felt like an outcast or pariah in any way in your pursuit of your worldly ambitions and goals. For whatever goal you want to achieve, there is something and/or someone who will give you the nurturing and support you need… but you have to let them know you exist.
- Cancer Mars Retrograde trine Pisces Neptune (27°) – Look at what comes back to you after you took actions to pursue your dreams and visions. Also notice where and how you’re taking action – are you taking action toward your dreams, or toward someone else’s? This is great if you and the other person share the same or similar goals. But if your objectives are different, make sure you’re not sacrificing your dreams for someone else’s.
- Scorpio Juno sextile Capricorn Sun (22-23°) – How committed are you to what you say you want? With Juno in Scorpio, you’re all-in or you’re out – in-between won’t cut it now. You need to take a stand for yourself, one way or the other.
- Capricorn Sun square Aries Eris (23-24°) – If your goals and ambitions are about achieving what society expects you to achieve, you may find yourself having a difficult time feeling like you’re being true to yourself now. This tension isn’t without purpose – it’s encouraging you to allow your true self to emerge and be seen, even and especially if your desired expression and path don’t fit with society’s standards for success.
- Pisces Venus trine Scorpio Black Moon Lilith (9-11°) – The one-on-one relationships of all kinds in your life may be the connections of your dreams, but also may, at times, seem to bring your nightmares to life. However, this is only because some of your one-on-one relationships may draw out your deepest and darkest fantasies and delusions – the parts of your emotional truth you haven’t even begun to deal with yet. The entirety of your emotional truth will come to the surface – the whole truth – and this will be a moment for you to realize the power of the feelings you keep hidden, and how allowing them to surface may help you feel safer and more secure in yourself and in all of your relationships with others.
- Pisces Saturn sextile Capricorn Pallas Athena (9-11°) – As you focus and discipline yourself around your dreams and ideals, you may recognize a need to break old habits and bring old patterns of behavior to an end. This is especially the case if you tend to addiction or obsession as forms of escapism.
- Capricorn Pallas Athena square Aries Chiron (17-19°) – To expand on the last transit, this breaking of habits won’t be easy, but it will be rewarding if you can meet the challenge… and it will be challenging. However, the challenge will be worth meeting to experience the healing of your self-identity that awaits you on the other side of the effort.
The energy of this 2025 Cancer Full Moon will be felt from Friday 10th/Saturday 11th January through Thursday 16th/Friday 17th January 2025. If you’re going to take work-life balance seriously, use this time frame to get serious and reset your emotional compass by resetting your personal (and professional) priorities. Of course, in order to successfully make those choices and take those steps toward the accomplishment of your worldly goals, you may need to let go of whatever may be holding you back emotionally. This is especially the case if you are someone who tends to addiction or obsession as a form of escapism from real-world challenges and fears – it may be time to face these demons head-on (with the help and support of family, friends, and/or others you feel emotionally safe with and supported by).
It’s time to set new goals, pursue new ambitions, and do those things while also prioritizing what we need to keep ourselves safe and secure emotionally as well as physically/materially… and to do it all in ways that are true to who you really are. If you’ve been afraid to do this, take a courageous step forward, trusting that now is the time for you to discover what you’re truly capable of in this life, and to find out really has your back when it comes to following your heart and going after what you truly want for yourself and your life.
it’s time to emotionally invest… in yourself and the world you want to manifest.
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~ Light and Blessings,
Grace
