Cancer Full Moon 2023

The first full moon of 2023 takes place on January 6th at 6.06pm EST. This will be a particularly magical moon, finding its fullness in the sign of Cancer, which is ruled by the Moon. Both Cancer and the Moon offer watery, intuitive, imaginative, creative, healing, nurturing and magical qualities. 

Today is a beautiful day to settle into your intentions for 2023. The first few days of the new year for many can feel tired, heavy and low after the frivolities and feasting of the holiday season. Imagine that the new year begins tomorrow. Choose to live as you wish to for the rest of the year. Align yourself with the grace of this Epiphany Moon to receive guidance, nourishment and momentum.

Cancer is the Archetype of the mother, nurturer and caregiver. How do you wish to show up for yourself this year? What dreams and creations will you pour life into? 

Cancer teaches us to create healthy boundaries. For those that tend to over give - this is an invitation to re-prioritise and remember to tend your own fire. For those that find it challenging to let others in - now is a beautiful time to soften and welcome the support and love of others. For those that never say “no” - how would it feel to own your sovereignty?

A time  to dream and expand our psychic/intuitive awareness. This is the perfect time to start working with these magical gifts. Listen to the messages you are receiving, journal, pick an oracle card, paint, sing, start a dream journal. Activate a micro meditation practice of seven minutes a day.

This watery moon may also bring to the surface certain emotions that may have been suppressed or building up inside. The holiday season for many can bring up many triggers. It is a vulnerable time whether you are alone or surrounded by family. Many emotions can arise, especially due to an excess social pressure to experience joy and gratitude. Of course these are beautiful energies to invoke, but not at the expense of allowing yourself to authentically feel the myriad of emotions that may also be present.

This Moon in Cancer, Sun in Capricorn forms a T Square to Chiron. This challenging aspect to the “wounded healer” may also bring some hard truths to the surface. Chiron will press us to face our core wounds. The insecurities, self doubt, negative self talk, trauma responses and vulnerabilities that we carry in this lifetime. Yet this T Square is also known as an “achievement aspect” where we are put under pressure to come out transformed as diamonds. Observe what you are truly witnessing in your life that needs to change, then turn up the heat, the motivation and devotion to allow this part of yourself to evolve.

We are also experiencing some Retrogrades, offering the perfect opportunity to re-evaluate, re-think, re-consider and re-imagine. Has a certain dream or vision started to feel tired and worn? Have you been pushing, doing all the manifestation practices and vision boards to create a specific reality, yet it still feels like you’re swimming upstream? Maybe this is the time to deconstruct these ideas, come back to the heart and restructure this vision. It is possible that certain goals do not fully align with what your spirit truly desires. Have you taken on the hopes and expectations of others and made them your own? Or are you moving towards them in a way that does not truly serve?

Mercury retrograde (until Jan 18th), Mars retrograde (until Jan 12th) and Uranus retrograde (until Jan 22nd) give us the perfect window of pause to breathe into our choices for this year. Shift your perspective and ask for higher guidance to bring even greater clarity and momentum to evolution in 2023.

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