CANCER FULL MOON HOROSCOPES
ARIES RISING
Big, powerful, visible achievements are often only accomplished through a layering of softer invisible things. This full moon is asking you to examine the hidden emotional work that is necessary for your public impact. In childhood, we maneuver around authority figures - learning hierarchal defenses or anxieties. With Venus retrograde in your 10th house until Jan 29, you may be confronting any false values or models of success the adult world has gotten wrong. You have the keys to your own house, respect your deeper needs, even if it means delaying results or upsetting the boss. We must pack enough food and water to climb an ambitious mountain - if you feel terrible on the way up, it will feel terrible at the top.
GEMINI RISING
Aside from the soothing dopamine hit of ‘add to cart’, sometimes we keep *stuff* around because of the memory attached to it. Whether it's from a good friend, a childhood event or an ancestor...this full moon asks: what sentimental value is binding you to your *stuff*? What do you really need, and what is just familiar clutter ? Likewise, with Venus retrograde in your 8th house until Jan 29, we’ve been confronting deeper truths about how we share what we have. What is yours and what is absorbed in a muddy place of joint-possession? As kids, we were forced to share our toys - but how might we be more honest with the things we cherish most? When you have clear, organized boundaries around what you need secured for yourself - you can give away the rest with gusto, without guilt or fear.
LEO RISING
Sometimes, like a cosmic joke - when we are trying to solve a complicated problem, the answers are found when we step away from it. The solution appears while washing the dishes or taking the dog for a walk -- because looking directly at a thing can obscure it. With all the work you have to get done, don’t be scared to accomplish it by not doing it. With Venus retrograde in your 6th house of health and work -- you may be coming to terms with your value system around labor and time management. You may be noticing how your day to day habits effect your health, realizing how important rest is to your well being. What would it be like to only work on things that essentially matter to you ? Your time and energy is important, finite, and your mind can only focus on so much at a time before it needs to zone out. Wrapping yourself in a deep and restful silence can be the most productive thing when you recognize that it is what your soul requires and that it is totally safe to do so.
LIBRA RISING
When aspiring towards a career goal, we often bury ourselves in video game levels of credentials to help us feel safe to call ourselves professional. Though, your work is a more sacred than that. In the end, people need you for the effect you have on them, not because of any gold medal but because you have sat with the deepest parts of your life, you have built a secure home there - and they feel it. The social worker Resmaa Menakem says: “...people don’t come to me to get advice, they come to me to be around my regulated body.” With Venus retrograde in your 4th house, you have been re-building the bedrock of your inner security, learning how to re-parent your nervous system, learning what you need in the private sanctuary of yourself in order to be well in the public world. Go back to the simplest parts of childhood and let that little kid grow up inside of you.
SAGITTARIUS RISING
At one time, people would exchange bread for a cow, a shovel for shoes. At one time, little sea shells were coins. For awhile, the value of things have been weighed, measured and totally made up. With Venus retrograde in your 2nd house, you may be confronting your values around money or reckoning with questions of self-worth. But self-worth has nothing to do how much we have. You ask for a raise not because you deserve it, but because it's math, because your industry has a going rate. Likewise, whatever it is we do, we need people to pay us to do it. Money doesn’t come out of the blue, money is relational, deliciously mixed up in everybody else's needs. This full moon asks: name your price, name your people and don't take it personally. There is a venn diagram of what you are good at and what the world needs. Nourish that cross-over of mutual transformation - where you are leading a satisfying life, for people who are being satisfied.
AQUARIUS RISING
A time to slow down, a time to get quiet. Listening to the difference between intuition and anxiety. Intuition often strikes us with neutrality, a calm knowing. Anxiety feels rushed, has a spinning quality, even a sense of doom. Sometimes intuition turns into anxiety, because the calm knowing we are struck with is not the truth we are ready to hear. Sometimes it takes time to admit to ourselves the truth we’ve always known, and that delay is meaningful. With Venus retrograde in your 12th house, you may have been reckoning with these invisible forces, or any self-undoing spirals. With the full moon landing in your 6th, it is asking for everyday practices that keep you clean, keep you warm and protected. Routine can offer a sort of psychic hygiene, a daily clearing or adding of energy that helps us paperclip together our fluctuating moods. From making the bed to smoking weed late at night in the bath -- what are your personal mental health rituals ? In these less sensational moments of self-care, the instrument of intuition gets tuned.
TAURUS RISING
The scary part about becoming a wise person is that, in order to do it, you have to uncover the hardest parts of the human experience: loss, failure, doubt, grief. Because every challenge you learn to survive, is a teachable map for others to follow. I wouldn't want to go see a therapist who has never struggled with their own mental health. I wouldn't want to see a doctor who's never been sick. This full moon asks: How might you feel more secure in communicating all the knowledge and experience you have ? And you know a lot, your life is huge, you have many stories to tell, many memories. What we choose to remember reveals to us what we value most in this world, thus telling our story, letting people know what we've learned from life, helps us stay in touch with our true selves. With Venus retrograde in your 9th house, you may need to kill your darlings - take some time off from looking for teachers outside of yourself. The curriculum is already there, and continuously developing.
CANCER RISING
Though we don’t have to be all-the-way-healed to help heal others (if all-the-way-healed is even a thing) - you can't help someone else relax, while you're trying to catch your breath. What boundaries do you need in place to show up for others with the wholeness of your emotional strength and support ? It might look like saying no, resting, eating a big breakfast, turning down a date so that you file your nails - it might look like you asking for help, instead. We know a boundary needs to be set when we start feeling resentful. With Venus retrograde in your 7th house until Jan 29, you may be confronting where you over or under perform in relationships - a crash course in your attachment style (avoidant/detached or anxious/obsessive, etc...). How can you strike a balance of authentic care for the people you love and also value your own self-preservation ?
VIRGO RISING
Perhaps, swayed by relationships or social media pressure, we find ourselves waking up one day living someone else's goals and expectations -- our community wants the best for us, but sometimes social-pressure smashes us into boxes that aren’t conducive to our true creative desires. With Venus retrograde in your 5th house this month, we come to terms with ways in which your creative energy is being misused, stagnated by any urges to please an audience or heed to how other people are doing it. In getting deeper and more fearless with your values around self-expression, you are more capable of attracting parts of the collective that you can impact most, by way of what you actually find pleasurable.
SCORPIO RISING
As long as we cling to the hope of getting “something out there” something we lack or don’t have yet -- we may keep reproducing its ‘out there-ness’ in our lives. How can we instead, practice seeing ourselves as not lacking ? How can we find evidence for all the ways we are fed by life, already have everything we need ? With Venus retrograde in your 3rd house, you may have recently turned on the storage closet lights of your mind…seeing rodents scatter, piles of boxes covered in dust -- scarcity, paranoia, fear. The mind is ready to be cleared out. Start with all your safe words, all your go-to pet theories, that may or may not be making life feel good. This full moon asks: how do you wanna feel instead ? We don’t have to preserve feeling good for some time in the future. Your search for meaning can begin and end now, tuck yourself into the worth of this moment.
CAPRICORN RISING
It's often exhausting trying to control how others perceive us, because we can't. In this way, nothing chinks the armor of the mask more than intimate relationships. A territory where first impressions dribble into vulnerable behind-the-scenes malfunction. If we are lucky, our imperfections are shared with others who compassionately hold space for them -- they model to us what acceptance looks like, and teach us how to mimic this behavior for ourselves. Yet, as complex human beings, not everyone will do this re-mothering for us gracefully. In the end, it is our responsibility, how we let people treat us is how we treat parts of ourselves, and so this full moon asks: what self-love are you making other people do for you ? What rules of engagement do you need within your own heart, in order to deepen intimacy with others ?
PISCES RISING
As you change internally, you find new, more expansive ways to express yourself. Fueled with creative potential, this full moon wakes up the artist in you and demands some creative housekeeping. This full moon asks: Is your imagination getting enough spirit food? What do you need in place in order to feel secure enough to run off and play ? With Venus retrograde in your 11th house of friends, the playground might feel a little deserted, you are re-assessing your community values, reconsidering who's worth having on your team and who's just a judgmental bully. But, how can you nurture what is special about you, no matter who is watching? Like hearing someone singing in the shower - the tender containment helps the voice feel safe to explore. Go to those cozy places where you can't help but start humming. Go to those places you went when you were a little clever kid. Joy is infectious, follow the gut instinct of your joy and the world can't help but hum with you.