DECEMBER 14-15: MOON IN CANCER - CHALLENGING DAYS

MOON ENTERS CANCER at 7:09am EST on Wednesday December 14 after being VOID OF COURSE in the early morning. Moon remains in Cancer until 4:37pm on Thursday December 15 when it goes Void of Course until the Friday the 16th at 8:15am. LAST ASPECT OF MOON: Moon Square Uranus in Aries.  As the Moon begins to wane and the Gemini climax has come and gone, we find ourselves back in the womb of The Feminine archetype. In its own sign of Cancer, the Moon is comfortable; home and family, the emotional life and the past, food and all that nourishes  - and of course all things Women - are highlighted during this period. We are likely to find, however, that actions initiated now will tend to have CHALLENGING results. The Square to Uranus may show up as sudden upsets, breakdowns, breakups, and just your basic run-of-the-mill disruptive situations. While Uranus reflects the theme of separation, the Moon symbolizes the container that holds things together. Their combination in square, is indeed a conflict - the breaking of the vessel. It brings to mind the Kabbalistic concept of Tikkun Olam, of which I have previously written. The translation from Hebrew is the 'mending of the world.' The simplified story goes: The Divine force put all his/her Light into a vessel which could not hold all this energy, so it shattered. The moral is: It is the work of all human beings to gather the shards of the vessel to repair the broken world. Our world feels more fragmented than ever these days. Perhaps we might consider that the Challenge of this Moon period is to find ways to mend emotional hurts, notice what is separated that wants to be united and to look outside our subjective selves to see what others need. It's likely, though, that we'll feel our own wounds more than usual now. This is a GOOD time to stay home and tend the hearth...and all that that implies.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeOtS5crtco

SCENE OF THE DAY: The Bee Season, 2005; Directors: Scott McGee, David Siegel. I've written about this film before (the clip was banned for rights issues on youtube, though, so I'm using the trailer this time). It's one of the most poignant films I know. The Broken Mother archetype, embodied here by the magnificent Juliette Binoche as scientist-wife Miriam to Richard Gere's professor of spiritual studies Saul, is a pivotal theme of the narrative. She is drawn to Saul for his academic wisdom about healing. His rational intelligence, however, is not what repairs this shattered family. While older son Aaron (Max Minghella) searches for his own religion, it is daughter Eliza (Flora Cross) who turns out to be their spiritual guide as she intuits what they need for reunification. The visual sequence of her encounter with the Divine, before the National spelling bee finals, is something to behold.