Full Moon in Cancer 27º January 17, 2022

The modern world talks about emotion like it’s some abstract thing that isn’t mental, physical or spiritual but something “else.” In actual scientific reality, emotion IS physical. Traditionally in astrology, the moon–the seat of our emotions–is also associated with the physical realm, and particularly the body.

Emotion is a physical experience. It’s a chemical flush, muscles tensing or spasming or releasing or rippling, thoughts popping like lightbulbs, nerves firing tingling burning, skin warming or cooling, digestion slowing or quickening, heart racing or slowing, pupils dilating, ears ringing, breathing patterns changing. Nearly everything we feel as emotion is bodily. It’s the body holding what happens around us. It’s how we process things. To allow ourselves to feel emotion means to feel the body. @brendawiththeagenda articulates this beautifully in her TikTok about feeling your feelings.

Opposing Pluto and Juno in Capricorn, there is an immense amount of intense energy surrounding this month’s full moon – tornados, swarms of hornets, projectile vomiting, emotions knocked loose from and sweat out of the body, matryoshka orgasms, sobbing, laughing into the night, tearing open the velvet curtains and letting the light pour in, digging up the desert under the light of the moon, rich desserts, nourishing soups. Juno commits, holds and loves, but she’s fear and rage as much as fidelity — the rage that comes from being trapped, locked in chastity, spayed and betrayed. She can be the best and worst of committed relationships. Pluto is the underworld, the root, the god-awful truth beneath the golden halos. Once you look, you see that there’s comfort, too, in knowing and sitting with the truth.

Cancer–and the moon–knows that by adding extra comfort, safety, connection, support, nourishment, and nurturance, the comfort zone just… expands, naturally, like massaging tension from a muscle, like leaning into someone’s mouth and just gushing. There’s no need to push. We can just release into expansion, knowing we’re supported by others (Jupiter exalts in Cancer!). Capricorn knows that commitment means choosing that bond every day, in sickness and in health, ice and ocean, salt and honey, for better and for worse. We have a responsibility to one another. Love is Juno and Venus retrograde in Capricorn remind us of this.

I strongly, wholly disagree with the idea that we need to find everything within ourselves. We do not need to do everything on our own. There’s a way to remain grounded and centered, far from becoming a codependent leaf blowing in someone else’s wind, and simultaneously find nourishment, regulation and healing through relationships with other people.

What does your body feel like right now? What webs lead back to last summer?
What began with the corresponding new moon in Cancer, on July 10th, 2021? What has grown from what was started then?

What has grown from the seeds planted at the new moon in Capricorn on January 2nd?

What can be purified in the piercing, warm light of this month’s full moon?

What buried secrets and feelings and experiences can be unearthed, dislodged and liberated from your body and connections?

Can you help someone through the process of regulation or letting go? Can someone help you?