MARCH 24-26: CHALLENGING CANCER MOON

MOON ENTERS CANCER at 4:53am EDT on Saturday, March 24 and remains here until Monday, March 26 at 2:58am. LAST ASPECT OF MOON: Moon Square Uranus in Aries. We should be used to this Cancer Moon configuration by now! Ruled by the Moon (the Moon is in its own sign), the Feminine Archetype is highlighted. Home, Family, Nourishment and Protective Containers are the likely themes with which we'll be engaging. The Mother Archetype is center stage. Cancer also rules the past, so Uranus may reflect family traditions being shaken up. Personal relationships may be upsetting and will often involve the Uranian theme of independence and new ways of behaving. Cancer tends to see circumstances subjectively. This is a Cardinal Water sign, so it wants to act and is motivated to do so through the emotions. Try to step back and get some objectivity before you act. Perhaps, instead of feeling alienated or separated from a relationship, you might frame your perspective more positively such as liberating yourself from a toxic situation. In general, though, actions initiated during this Moon period tend to have CHALLENGING resolutions.

NOTE: MARCH FOR OUR LIVES: How appropriate it is that on March 24, this Cancer Moon hosts over 800 marches globally in support of creating a Protective Container for schools around the world. The cover of Time Magazine is yet another indication that the voices of Parkland School leaders are being heard. Will Enough appropriate results be produced? The last time students took to the streets with such dramatic global demands was during the Uranus/Pluto Conjunction of 1965-66. Almost 60 years later we're at the next major angle of this Uranus/Pluto cycle: the opening square of Uranus/Pluto (now Uranus is separating - moving ahead of Pluto) which has been going on since 2008 (exact seven times during 2012 and 2015). Any major angle between outer planets resonates back to the initial conjunction of that cycle - and is a test or evolution of the issues brought to consciousness at the conjunction. In this case we would consider that the cultural revolution that was the '60's has been triggered during this opening square.  

Uranus reflects revolution, innovative science and technologies, New Age principles, breaking down before breaking through. Pluto has a compulsion, a drive to power: moving towards crisis, destruction and eventual regeneration. It is a time of slowly tearing down structures and rebuilding them. Best case scenario: Trump's attempt at assuming power, and all the insanely surreal events that have followed in his wake, are Uranus Square Pluto's collective last gasps of the patriarchy challenging its own demise. The other case scenarios involve looking at the last series of Uranus/Pluto squares (closing squares - the final square before the next conjunction) which occurred between 1932 and 1933, when the Great Depression was at its height and Hitler was consolidating power as Chancellor of Germany. We can sense the fine line we tread. We can see that this current moment is a possible turning point which could decide our collective future. May our strong intentions, voices and actions be loud and clear and have optimum resolutions for all!

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CANCER SCENE: The Room, 2015; Director: Lenny Abrahamson. This independent film is a tale of mother and son, their imprisonment, their mutual sustenance and their eventual liberation (Uranus). Based on a novel by Irish author, Emma Donoghue (which is based on true events) we witness a story of a mother's remarkable endurance while kept inside a small shed with her young son Jack (Jacob Tremblay). While her primary goal is to protect her son, who is a result of her being repeatedly raped by her captor (Moon Square Uranus), she finally realizes in order to do that, she must risk finding a way for him to escape. In this scene Ma (Brie Larson) trains Jack to wiggle out of a rolled-up carpet that their kidnapper regularly takes out of the shed. It is with heartbreaking emotional strength that Ma relentlessly forces Jack to practice the get-away over and over, much to his resistance. The film garnered many awards including the Academy Award for Best Actress for Larson. The film was also nominated for Best Picture, Director and Screenplay and included in AFI's Top Ten Films of 2015.