from the chair: 21st July 2020 New Moon in Cancer 22nd July Sun enters Leo

Hi everyone!

Whew...still walking along the shore line.

‘Walking on eggshells’ ?

After so many weeks working with the Sun in Cancer, Mercury in Cancer for an extended stay and two lunar months in Cancer, the beach may feel more like we’re walking on pebbles and shells than soft sand. ‘Walking on eggshells’ may capture the essence of how it’s been for more than a few of us. Whatever...it’s a long walk home this year.

We’re completing our beach journey

More beach to go, maybe a little softer on the feet, one step at a time as we prepare to welcome our second New Moon in Cancer for this year. It marks the exit from the eclipse zone, the vortex of turbulent energy which has been tossing us about since the last new moon on 21st June.

We keep bouncing back...out of despair

We cannot afford to lose the plot, drop our bundle, even if we lose heart and hope, periodically dipping into despair. It’s in our capacity to feel the despair and bounce back, to re-surface and continue that we maintain the vibration of higher consciousness. That’s our calling this lifetime and especially at this time.

From 19th to 21st July: The dark of the moon release time

The time to let go the baggage and residue of this past lunar month. It’s been big, explosive in some instances as huge dollops of karmic baggage surfaced from within. This is a big ancestral release and these two days we just drop it!

Neowise: New Wisdom

A cosmic messenger flashed across our skies this week...a new comet named ‘Neowise’. Its name means ‘new wisdom/understanding’, offering us a message from the outer reaches of consciousness.

Comets have been regarded as messengers from ancient times. Back in those times they were more often considered harbingers of disaster. Since those times, with the benefit of hindsight, this has not proven to be the case.

These days, whenever something new appears in the night sky, in the cosmos, it is regarded by astrologers as new consciousness coming into our world. our vision. The name given to the new ‘body’ by astronomers is of significance in astrological understanding.

This new comet is a messenger of something new coming in and its name can only make us feel hope and promise of new wisdom and understanding in our world.

Image: Comet Neowise over French Alps

By Christophe Suarez

21st July:

New Moon in Cancer at 3.32 am AEST 28 degrees 27 Cancer

Messages from the sea

Are we hearing the messages of the moon attuning to our inner guidance?

A New Moon, a fresh start, new lunar month with the Sun and Moon on the same page, setting the agenda for our ‘undercover’/lunar work for the next month.

The focus continues on the nurturing, nourishing reassuring mother energy which comforts, supports and helps us build our inner emotional security. The ancestors are working with us in divine partnership. We are still very much working with the past, changing old damaging stories into new positive ones.

Exit from eclipse turbulence! Here we come birthing a new reality

This year has been a bumpy ride and for many this past month has been extra bumpy. That’s the nature of eclipses. But this New Moon leads us out of the remaining issues and insecurities that have been plaguing us over the past two years. No, it’s not the absolute end as the eclipse energies are still active.

Eclipses still in effect for up to 6 months afterwards

We can find that the eclipse will kick in a month afterwards, which is this new moon. However the eclipse changes play out up to 6 months afterwards. So, maintaining equilibrium is still the challenge, the key to negotiating the emotional landscape.

New Moon in opposition to team Capricorn...balancing home/work, emotional/physical

Saturn/28, Pluto/23, Jupiter/21

This New Moon gives a clear guidance for our brief this month...strengthening our nurturing power as we continue to face off to the Capricorn power pack of three, Saturn, Pluto and Jupiter. All opposing energies such as this always call for balance, meeting the demands of both energies, the Cancerian need for emotional security and the Capricorn need for physical/financial security.

We are continuing to balance the demands of the status quo against our need for emotional security, comfort of home. It’s societal demands weighing off against home, family, place of belonging.

More memory magic...purging the neural pathways! Challenge and opportunity!

Mercury 8 degrees Cancer squaring/challenging Mars/Chiron 9/12 degrees Aries

More magical healing by fire of the Cancerian memory banks, clearing the mental body, nervous and respiratory systems. It’s a purge, an energetic cleansing. Could impact head, sinuses, stomach digestion.

Sabian Symbol for the New Moon in Cancer: From Lynda Hill http://www.sabiansymbols. com/

Cancer 29

A GREEK MUSE WEIGHING NEW BORN TWINS IN GOLDEN SCALES

This Symbol shows the ability, or the necessity, of being able to weigh up seemingly similar things and being able to make distinctions between them. In a creative or intuitive way you may be pressed into making judgments and decisions, but the elements of your judgment are, in many ways, exactly the same. The choices can be confusing because they essentially lead to the same result. This situation is probably brand new; maybe the answer lies in taking an intuitive ‘punt’, or waiting for the solutions to become more clear-cut. Comparisons and similarities. Weighing things up. The law and lawyers. Seeking subtle differences. Measured responses. Using intuition. Inspiration. Fairness. Equality.

22nd July: Sun enters Leo at 6.36 pm AEST...let there be light!

Let the fire ignite our hearts!

Until 23rd August

The new solar month celebrates the Sun as ruler of Leo. It rises over the ocean, shining on the rocky shoreline where we are treading warily in the new moon Cancer energies.

Turn up the pilot lights

Our pilot lights might have been wavering a little this year, our spirits depleted with the removal of familiar stimulating creative energies. The lockdown has been much more than physical, restricting our usual avenues for fun and dampening our creative spirit.

The divine light is pouring into us...opening up all our cells to joy!

Leo is a big extroverted energy that beckons us to bring forth the light of our being and shine it into the world. That inner light grows and expands when we engage with our own divine gifts and talents, our creativity which brings us joy.

We’ve been forced along new creative pathways

These past months, many have been forced to discover new avenues for creative expression, joy and experiencing fun. It hasn’t exactly been a fun time on the planet. Indirectly we’re being forced to find alternative means for experiencing the joy of life.

Get ready for a boost of light invigorating our tired spirits

Now, the Leo light shines a spotlight on us all, re-invigorating our inner flame, boosting our pilot light, lightening a little the karmic work of this year.

Leo rules love, romance, creativity, children as well as our own shining divine light! Time to loosen up and get into the dance of life, to play

It may not feel an easy time to get in touch with the lightness of life but that’s the call.

To start...activating our own creative juices will set the ball in motion. As we get in touch with our creative spirit, possibly through expression of our ‘past’. our memories in creative form. With the Cancer moon still underpinning our next lunar month, we’re still dabbling in times past, activating memories and experiences. This is not necessarily a bad trip. Enjoy old connections in new ways.

26th July: Opening of the Lion’s Gate

The Sacred Year begins on the 26th of July, with the planetary New Year, and is preceded by the celebratory "Day out of Time" on the 25th of July. On the 25th your ancient ancestors knew to celebrate the passing over from the old cycle to the new, with creative joy and festival.

On the 26th the new cycle was initiated.

8th August: Full opening of the Lion’s Gate Portal