Full Moon
Full Moon in Cancer
A Full Moon in Cancer is when the Moon in Cancer opposes the Sun in Capricorn, bringing the tension between home and work to a head.
Modern
The Full Moon is the bright, culminating point of the cycle, when something that has been building comes to light. In Cancer, the Moon is in the sign it rules, and opposite the Sun in Capricorn it lights up the pull between your private, feeling life and the demands of duty and the outside world. Old feelings about home, family, and who cares for whom tend to rise to the surface now and ask to be felt. It is a tender, clarifying time to release what you have been bracing against and to let yourself be cared for, without retreating so far inward that you shut everyone out.
Traditional (Hellenistic)
The When two planets sit directly across the zodiac from each other, about 180 degrees apart. It creates tension, awareness, and a pull between two sides that need balancing. of the lights, the Moon in Cancer against the Sun in Capricorn, was read as a moment of fullness and visibility. The Moon rules Cancer, set against the Saturn-ruled Sun, and the old tension between the hearth and the world comes to its peak, a time of culmination and, often, of release.
- culmination
- home
- feeling
- family
- release
Lean in
Letting an old feeling rise and be felt, and allowing yourself to be cared for.
Watch for
Retreating so far inward that you shut out the people who want in.
Sources
- Hand, Planets in Transit (1976)The standard modern reference on how transiting cycles, the lunar phases included, are experienced.
- Brady, Predictive Astrology (1999)A modern guide to timing and the rhythm of the lunar and planetary cycles.