2009 Cancer New Moon Solar Eclipse
July 21, 2009
29 Cancer 27

10:36 PM EDT/ 7:36pm PDT/2:36 AM GMT (July 22)

Since the solstice Cancer New Moon, every Moon event has sent us deeper and deeper into a sequence of airlocks, which are transitioning us from our previous lives to where we will reside after the Aquarius Full Moon lunar eclipse coming on August. With July’s Cancer New Moon, a total solar eclipse, we are in the most intense, most important airlock of the summer. All of the changes, all of the insights and realizations, and all of the integration and alignment that we have been undergoing this lead to this moment.

Be very mindful of the thoughts (deliberate and habitual) you allow into your consciousness, and be even more mindful of the intentions that you are setting. This is no ordinary New Moon. It’s even unusual for an eclipse. The reality inside your head will affect the reality you experience outside yourself for a very, very long time. July’s New Moon is the doorway to the next phase in many, many interwoven periods of our lives: the next month, the next six months, the next year, the next 18 months and as far into the future as the next 19 years…and possibly beyond.

July’s Cancer New Moon is the second in this sign this year. The first one, on June 22, opposed Pluto, the lord of the underworld. Primal urges surfaced that are not going to go back under. Pluto made us aware then of transformations that were going to be necessary for our emotional survival and thriving. The giving and receiving of nurturing was at the bottom of it all, with a profound underscoring of the need to feed our hearts first and foremost. Pluto’s scythe is present again in today’s New Moon, which makes an inconjunct to Pluto. Adjustments, adjustments, adjustments are the order of the day, deep, powerful, transformative and permanent ones. The focus on the self is laser-hot now and will guide every choice we face. A wild card element is also at play, though. This New Moon, unlike the one in June, has the participation of the other cosmic change agent, Uranus. The New Moon is trining Uranus, in an easy flow of energy that triggers insight, drastic change and liberation without our having to take conscious action.

Pluto’s inconjunct requires choices and adjustments; Uranus simply changes the playing field, inside and out. If you’ve been sitting on the fence on an issue, particularly one that involves home, family and nurturing, your perspective may change in an instant and make hopping off to one side the most natural thing in the world to do. Or the fence may collapse under you, leaving you free to wander off to the side that your heart wanted you to choose all along. In either scenario, the result is liberation and self-actualization, leading us ever deeper into the lives that are true to our essence and highest vision. Since Uranus is involved in this New Moon, so is the triple conjunction of Jupiter, Neptune and Chiron, which remains in a growth aspect to the cosmic awakener. We’ve been dreaming ourselves into a more blissful existence; we have been setting up heaven on earth, actually. And now it’s showtime. This New Moon is the exit cue for people and situations that don’t support that existence and ushers in ones that do. The newcomers resonate with a joy that we never, ever encountered in the old.

This eclipse cuts us loose from the past in ways that make leave us breathless. The New Moon is conjunct the South Node of the Moon. It’s a new beginning in how we view and experience where we have been, individually and collectively. Thanks to Pluto and Uranus, it is a change of the guard, a point of no return, an irreversible end to the old order. The celebrity deaths of the summer have signaled this. Think of the iconic figures from the mid-to late 20th century who have departed since the solstice. Some were inescapably intertwined with specific decades – Farrah Fawcett with the 70s, when her poster defined wholesome sex appeal; Michael Jackson with the 70s and 80s, when he went from child frontman to trailblazing pop superstar; Ed McMahon with the 60s through the 90s, first as the genial sideman of the show that long defined late night TV and then as the fairy godfather of sweepstakes, bestowing unthinkable wealth on unsuspecting middle Americans. Each death has shut the door on the past and made mortality a little more real and immediate for everyone who knew them from the media.

Walter Cronkite’s passing, in the dark of the Moon, was an even more resounding door slam. His nightly newscasts guided the Pluto in Cancer (the eternal parents) and Pluto in Leo (the eternal children known as the Baby Boomers) generations through major rites of passage of the evolution of their world, and epitomized a form of information dispersal – trusted, nonpoliticized, avuncular, “we’re all in this together” – that is no longer possible today. These deaths signal that 20th century popular culture, journalism, information management and group dynamics are losing their toehold in this century. We are being unshackled from the tyranny of the past, collectively and personally, and freed to create our own world and future.

There is great meaning in the passing now of the anchorman who told us our history as it was unfolding. We are not bound by that story. We get to tell a different story now. Not by engaging n Stalinist revisionist history, airbrushing people out of photographs and rewriting inconvenient facts; by relegating the past to the past, adjusting our relationship to it, breaking free from its limiting us, and operating in time present. You can do this with your own life. Stop thinking of yourself in terms of the things that happened to you and definitely of the ones that held you back. Define yourself in terms of who you are now and what you are creating in your life. And if you have obligations or arrangements or commitments that are hurting you or preventing the care and feeding your heart and the development of your expressing your true self, this eclipse gives you permission to renegotiate, rewrite and even back out of deals. This solar eclipse gives more than mere permission, actually. It makes it almost unavoidable. Pluto will put you to a life-altering crossroads, then Uranus will turn on a light or trigger a catapult that propels you into the choice and new, freer direction. Many home, family and marital structures are going to be permanently altered as a result: some terminated, some deepened, some set in motion.

Our relationship to the feminine and all it encompasses is permanently altering. The celebrities who have passed recently all had strong ties to a masculine dominance, whether they embodied it themselves or had their fame propelled by it. That expression of the masculine is going out the door, along with the concept of dominance by either gender. Two New Moons in the sign of home and family signify that Mommy and Daddy are united at last – inside each one of us. The male/female fusion that has being going on for months now settles into our emotional cores. Deep within, below the level of thought and language, each of us now embraces our own right, need and responsibility to nurture ourselves first and foremost. Our closest emotional associations are changing as a result, particularly within couples. Quite simply, we are interacting differently with each other, particularly in male/female pairings, than we have ever before.

Some of the old order still remains to be relinquished. The inconjuncts to Pluto point out where emotional adjustments are beneficial in our own lives; Uranus’ placement in your chart show where unlocking is likely to occur. Last week we traveled a gauntlet of choices; in this eclipse, we must cast our lot one way or another on the level of feelings. Some bonds are intensifying as a result; others are withering and being cut away. Much of the old order is dying or leaving, and more is up for relinquishing now. Venus squares Saturn the afternoon before the eclipse. A clash erupts between old or existing structures and our relationships, financial arrangements and values. Something must give, and something will give.

Last Moon’s New Moon signaled the areas in your life undergoing these changes. No matter what specifics are lighting up, big-picture questions are coming up involving your personal and public places in the world. For further insight into what is being rebooted for you, think back to December 25, 2000 through December 24, 2002 and the summer of 1990 through the summer of 1992, when we last had eclipses on the Cancer/Capricorn axis. The current eclipse cycle is reactivating matters from those times. Today’s solar eclipse ties directly to the solar eclipse of July 12, 1990.

Events set in motion now will reach their first harvest at the companion Full Moon in Cancer, a lunar eclipse that takes place on December 31. (All New Moons will have a six-month seeding effect for the foreseeable future. The order of related New and Full Moons has been reversed because of having two back to back New Moons in Cancer this summer.) They will be rebooted in mid-January, when the Capricorn New Moon solar eclipse occurs within 4 degrees of today’s event. The events have even longer staying because of the connection to the Nodes of the Moon. Because July’s solar eclipse is tightly on the South Node, the Nodes will carry this energy with them when they move to the Cancer/Capricorn axis on August 21, where they will remain for the next 18 months.

In effect, though, the impact of what is unleashed now will be with us for the rest of our lives. This new Moon, coupled with the first in Cancer, changes everything. So explore those memory banks for information about the previous eclipse cycles. Then think consciously about the life you want to experience and especially the emotional sustenance you want to give and receive. With every thought, you are calling it in now.

The Sabian Symbol for 30 Cancer is
A DAUGHTER OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.

Commentary: ‘A Daughter of the American Revolution’ is an image of someone who stands for and is a product of change. She has promoted and adopted the changes that the ‘Revolution’ sought to achieve. ‘The American Revolution’, was a full-scale militant revolt against tradition, and the monarchy behind that tradition. The ‘Daughters’’ forefathers fought for Independence and took the “feudal system” head-on. The ‘Daughters’ stand for maintaining what has been won through this battle. They are needed to continue working and, although the war has largely been won, there are many more “peaceful” battles that must be waged in order to keep what the ‘Revolution’ fought for. They are not necessarily engaged in direct political or military activity, but offer their support to the powers that be. The alliance of their fathers’ political stance may be largely determined by their personal relationship to them, rather than their own political beliefs.

Oracle: A ‘Revolution’ is just the shakeup; it is the ‘Daughters’ (and sons) of the ‘Revolution’ that bring new ways into the world. The person pictured here is said to be a ‘Daughter’ because the way of continuing the revolution is with the feminine ways of communication, example and teaching. The ways of the “sons”, that of war and fighting, should be over and done with. That is, unless a battle needs to be fought to secure freedom from external forces once again. You may find yourself having to stand up for an ideal or a situation that demands your involvement. The difficulty is that these traditions are now predictable, conservative values. Despite any inner feelings of modern freedom, this is not how the situation now appears. However, although this image can be very conservative, can be an element of the “radical” within it. There still may be much yet to be achieved even though there has been major breakthroughs already.

Keywords: Being bound by social conditioning OR leading the charge to break down the barriers of tradition. Putting in the time to change social conditions for the betterment of all. The feminist movement. Sacrificing personal conviction to ambition. Sacrificing philosophy to a relationship that builds the ego. Inherited values.

The Caution: Supporting battles that have already been fought. False feelings of superiority. Having to be “in the club” to be accepted as belonging. Narrow-minded conservatism. Glorifying the past. Relying on the old traditions that were, in their day, radical and transforming. Rejecting one’s inheritance.

The greatest glory of a freeborn people is to transmit that freedom to their children. William Harvard

The hand that rocks the cradle rules the nation and its destiny. South African proverb

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won’t cross the street to vote in a national election. Bill Vaughan

Dear Mr. President, There are too many states nowadays. Please eliminate three. P.S. I am not a crackpot. Abraham Simpson

It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you. M. Grundler

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. John F. Kennedy

They want to be free and they do not know how to be just. Abbe Sieyes

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world. A Course In Miracles