i’ll be totally honest – the fact that a full moon was upon us very nearly passed me by. these last few days i have been in that post-christmas haze…even though i probably shouldn’t be. my day job is incredibly stressful and of course, due to the pandemic staffing cuts, i don’t have nearly enough support. my inbox continues to fill up at a steady clip and there are a lot of time-sensitive things i need to get to.
but i just don’t have the capacity at this moment – mentally OR emotionally.
there was a lot of buildup, not just in the astrology community, but in the overall collective, leading up to the great conjunction last week. it was a truly exciting moment! but then, when the dust settled and the holiday hit, i sat back and remembered that i really needed to rest. that i really deserved to take a break. and that’s when i realized that the full moon was happening and i started to think more about the meaning of a full moon in cancer at this very moment in time.
a full moon in cancer is a beautiful, awe-inspiring thing. the moon is so deeply happy to be in her home sign, and i love seeing her bask in that glory. the delightful thing about tonight’s full moon is that she won’t be pummeled by the hard-hitting jupiter-saturn-pluto clusterfuck that we’ve been grappling with for much of this year. no, instead, the moon gets to frolic and play and just simply be *full* tonight. it’s going to be sweet and lovely.
with the cycles of the moon i think about the cycles we experience in our lives. cycles of sleep. cycles of *stress* (“oh, this is a busy period at work, but then after this date things die down.”). the menstrual cycle. the rhythm of the days, the weeks, the months, and the things we look forward to. the holidays approaching, then ending. getting back to school or work. looking ahead to the next fun thing we’re planning.
but one of the most critical cycles i think we experience is the one of hunger and fullness. when you’ve never been hungry – *truly* hungry – hungry in the sense that you don’t know where your next meal is coming from kind of hungry – you can forget that that is the reality, the lived experience, of millions of people every day.
a moon in cancer is about nourishment. about having enough. actually, about having JUST more than enough, because you never want to have to slip into a space of fear about whether or not “enough” will last.
tonight, on this full moon in cancer, i would ask folks to consider donating to their local food bank if they are able.
in recent months, i’ve been giving more. not just to food banks, but to philanthropic organizations in general. i don’t say that to brag or make myself look good. it’s literally the very least i can do. i sit in a space where i have a steady income and i know that that isn’t true for so many people. i can’t imagine the feeling of not knowing where your next meal is coming from, and if i can help folks relieve even some of that fear, even if it’s just for one day or one moment, i want to try.
the full moon in cancer is asking us to think about how we nourish ourselves and how we can help nourish each other, too.
when you become an astrologer, you become very intimate with your natal chart. i can tell you my exact planetary placements down to the degree. you also learn about some of the more minor celestial bodies in your chart, such as the asteroids. i have pallas athene, the asteroid that is named after the warrior goddess, at 8° cancer in my chart. and it just so happens that tonight’s full moon is happening at exactly 8° cancer. when i was doing a little research on some of the significations that might go along with pallas conjunct the moon, this sentence stood out to me: “having a strategy to feed people.”
having a strategy to feed people.
a little on the nose, no?
take care of yourselves and take care of your communities, my loves – today, tonight, and beyond. always. ❤
astromaeghan | astrologer 