June 2024 - Full Moon in Capricorn
This month’s full moon in Capricorn brings us an opportunity to find calm within the storm. We’re challenged to stay open-minded even when we’re feeling big things, and investigate the way our relationships cultivate independence, dependence or both.
Here’s a breakdown of the energy at play, and the challenges and opportunities this full moon brings.
The Energy
On June 21st we have a full moon at 1º08’ of Capricorn with the Sun at the same degrees of Cancer.
There’s a few other transits active at the same same time:
Neptune in Pisces forming a t-square to the sun-Venus conjunction in Cancer and the moon 🥴
Mars in Taurus sextile Venus and Mercury in Cancer 🚪
Neptune in Pisces sextile Pluto in Aquarius 🌈
The Challenges
Neptune’s role in this full moon will make it hard to identify exactly what you’re feeling and why, all while you’re likely feeling a LOT. The Cancer -Capricorn polarity is highly sensitive and security-minded. Neptune is challenging us to hold boundaries while also offering care, rather than jumping to the nearest numbing coping mechanism.
With the Sun, Venus and Mercury in Cancer we may all be experiencing a little emotional tunnel vision — that what we feel is what is true, end of story. Mars in Taurus can help slow our impulsivity, but it can also create stubbornness and a scarcity mindset which won’t exactly help us listen to others and challenge that emotional reasoning.
The Opportunities:
Building skills to manage emotional reactivity in times of uncertainty. When things feel off and you’re tempted to scroll endlessly, what do you do instead?
Cancer and Capricorn represent two ways of caring for someone. Cancer cares by meeting your immediate needs, nurturing and soothing — encouraging dependence. Capricorn cares by teaching you how to meet your own needs — encouraging independence. This full moon gives you a chance to balance those energies in yourself and in the way you show up for others, with some extra stamina and clarity of intention.
Reflections and Activities:
In what ways were you taught dependence versus independence as a kid? How does that affect your relationships to others now?
When you have a big feeling, try to notice your physical response. If you can, try to sit with the physical sensations for 10 solid seconds. (I know, I know. It sucks.)
Lean into the positive side of all the Cancer energy by creating a safe space inside of your “shell”. Add extra flowers to your bedside table or light a candle and try to journal for a few minutes each morning. Cultivating a little cave of emotional safety will be a helpful, calming base to return to this week.
I hope this full moon reminds you how to be independent without shutting down, and dependent without abandoning yourself. You got this.
As always, wishing you the best out there.
