The Full Moon of Can­cer, (Sun in Can­cer and Moon in Capri­corn), illu­mi­nates the rela­tion­ship between your ori­gin and your des­tiny, between your roots and your respon­si­bil­i­ties. This Full Moon will appear to you as a con­test, chal­lenge or strife between your pri­vate per­son­al life and your out­ward respon­si­bil­i­ties, between your home and career. Each is demand­ing atten­tion; one is caus­ing “prob­lems” for the oth­er. But, of course, the Full Moon is here to illus­trate the impor­tance and neces­si­ty of both of these realms to one another…The chal­lenge, as always, is to main­tain or restore the bal­ance between them.

The Sun has been mov­ing through Can­cer since June 21^st, pulling your focus inward towards feel­ings, fam­i­ly and car­ing. It has been all about your home, about how secure or inse­cure you feel, about how nur­tured or nur­tur­ing you are. Now the Moon reflects back to the Sun the under­stand­ing that the nec­es­sary coun­ter­point of your inward dri­ve for inte­gra­tion is the ful­fill­ment to be found in your capac­i­ty for, and out­ward man­i­fes­ta­tion of, your social, pro­fes­sion­al and spir­i­tu­al responsibilities.

Capri­corn rep­re­sents the sum­mit of achieve­ment, the cli­max of devel­op­ment in your expres­sion of your pur­pose. The per­son­al expres­sion of inte­gra­tion with­in the fam­i­ly fold is now spread through­out, expressed with­in and so pre­served by the insti­tu­tions of the cul­ture, in gov­ern­ment, in busi­ness and oth­er social organ­isms. The per­son­al inte­gra­tion of Can­cer, the cre­ation of a steady, secure and mean­ing­ful foun­da­tion upon which you are cen­tered (and can move out from) is absolute­ly nec­es­sary. But to what end, where do you go, what is your purpose?

The Full Moon in Capri­corn shows you that your per­son­al seed and root­ed self will and must lead to the flow­er­ing of your poten­tials, pow­ers and duties as a respon­si­ble mem­ber of your soci­ety. Yes, you must first stand upon some­thing but that is in order to pur­pose­ful­ly, mas­ter­ful­ly cre­ate some­thing that lasts; you must ful­fill your destiny.

The dynam­ic ten­sion between respon­sive­ness in Can­cer and respon­si­bil­i­ty in Capri­corn nev­er ceas­es. It will lead to con­flicts, to the hard­est choic­es as to whether to serve one­self and one’s fam­i­ly or the larg­er soci­ety, whether to fol­low feel­ing or duty.

These dilem­mas con­stant­ly tug at one’s heart and spir­it as they also dri­ve for­ward your sto­ry of becom­ing the becom­ing, of self-ful­fill­ment. Both Truth­ways must be hon­ored as each depends upon the oth­er for its exis­tence (and mean­ing). For just as much as the per­son­al devel­op­ment of a secure self leads to the cre­ation of a greater soci­ety, where­in you pre­serve and so can pass on all that has been achieved in your cul­ture, it is also true that even­tu­al­ly the over­ar­ch­ing insti­tu­tion­al ways of that order will crys­tal­lize and so fail to hon­or the liv­ing spir­it which gave birth to it.

It is at such times that the “Song of Spir­it” with­in your soul will move you and oth­ers to per­son­al­ly chal­lenge those out­worn struc­tures; so that the liv­ing spir­it may be freed again to cre­ate new forms for the sub­stan­ti­a­tion of Spir­it. And, as you might have noticed by now, the “Winds of the Spir­it” are blow­ing stronger each and every day. You are reach­ing the fork in the road; the deci­sions of des­tiny await you now…the whole world will hold its breath as we reach our moment of des­tiny together.

You must pre­serve what you can, pro­tect what you must, and pre­pare for the chal­lenges that lie ahead…There is a new world stir­ring and from the depths of your soul you can and must feel out the ancient truth­ways that will keep you on that noble path of hon­or and hope.

You will be car­ing and respon­si­ble, nur­tur­ing and courageous…This is your jour­ney; it is your des­tiny as you become the becoming.

Shine on!