A New Moon Beyond Beginnings
This New Moon in Cancer isn’t simply about fresh starts. Arriving just after Jupiter’s recent Cazimi, it carries an amplified emotional charge. But beyond that, it casts a spotlight on the ongoing Jupiter-Saturn-Neptune square, a powerful configuration signaling the closing of not just a chapter, but an entire tome.
New Moons always hold the promise of renewal, but renewal requires release and sacrifice. What must be let go to make space for what’s next? In Cancer, the question turns inward: Where do you feel most at home? This isn’t just about physical location. It’s about safety, belonging, and emotional rootedness, whether within your own body, with another person, or in a place that nourishes your very essence.
The Pressure of the Jupiter-Saturn-Neptune Square
With Jupiter now in Cancer, squaring Saturn and Neptune in Aries, this lunation surfaces ongoing tensions. Where have boundaries become too rigid, too stifling, when we thought things were changing? Jupiter seeks expansion, freedom, sovereignty, but not freedom for its own sake. This is the desire for independence that feels safe, grounded, and emotionally sustaining.
The themes at play aren’t new. The Jupiter-Saturn-Neptune dynamic has been unfolding since last August and December, as these planets moved through Gemini and Pisces, we needed to adapt, to change, to transmute. Now we arrive at a decisive threshold, a threshing moment, separating what remains viable from what must be surrendered. Saturn, weakened in Aries, struggles to maintain rigid control. The old prohibitions, No, you can’t. No, that’s not appropriate, begin to lose their hold. This New Moon calls for forward movement, out of crisis for change, deliberate or accidental.
Mars and Mercury: Deliberate Emotional Action
Progress under this lunation may unfold slowly, due to the Saturn/Neptune influence. Mars supports the New Moon and Jupiter through a tight sextile, offering opportunity for intentional, maybe a little stop and start action. But Mars must answer to Mercury, positioned at the final degrees of Cancer. Before meaningful action can take root, there is emotional work to be done, a quiet reckoning with identity, belonging, and the deeper emotional currents that shape our choices, our voices, and our deeper sense of comfort.
Mercury’s placement also brings support through a trine to Saturn and Neptune, while simultaneously preparing to enter its shadow phase as it moves into Leo later this month. Here, internal friction surfaces: unresolved wounds, simmering tensions, cognitive dissonance. Yet beneath the discomfort lies clarity: We know where this is taking us. Our intuition, while not logical, is guiding the way.
The Boomerang Yod: Pluto at the Center
Adding further depth to this lunation is the formation of a boomerang Yod involving Mars, Jupiter, Mercury, and Pluto. Pluto, stationed at 3° Aquarius, becomes the focal point, placing questions of power, sovereignty, and identity into sharp relief. This is both a personal and collective recalibration.
Pluto’s influence pushes us into uncomfortable but necessary processing, particularly as Mercury approaches opposition to Pluto. This is where difficult conversations may arise. Unspoken truths surface. Cognitive dissonance demands resolution. What does authentic power feel like? Where have we compromised ourselves in the name of comfort? Mercury’s opposition to Pluto asks us to confront these questions directly. Or maybe indirectly for now, we may be sidestepping to avoid outright confrontation, but, the further into July we go, the more direct and over the top we can become about the necessary changes and power dynamics that must shift.
Uranus: The Stabilizing Shock
Meanwhile, Uranus, positioned at the final degrees of Taurus, offers surprising assistance. Its sextile to Mercury provides flashes of grounded insight, sudden realizations that disrupt, but ultimately clarify. Sometimes the very jolt of reality is what reorients us back to center.
A Lunation of Complexity and Potential
While Jupiter’s involvement in this New Moon can bring emotional abundance, meaningful connection, and the promise of new growth, every lunation carries its challenges. This one is no exception. The work ahead is complex, but deeply necessary.
Be intentional. Be honest. Release what must be released. And tend carefully to the new foundations you are choosing to build.
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