The Full Moon in Capricorn Opposing the Sun in Cancer 2018
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The Full Moon in Capricorn arrived June 27, 2018 at 10:53 PM (Mountain Time.)
This opposition between the Cancer Sun and the Capricorn Moon -- the Full Moon that graces the celestial landscape after the Summer Solstice, highlights the tug-of-war between the responsibilities you have to your private life, family members, and home situation -- and the emotional yearning for fame, acclaim, recognition, and accomplishment in your professional field and career.
It intensifies the need for balance between your public life and your personal world -- in time-sharing, attention, and commitment.
This is what it looks like to an Astrologer.
With the afflicted Cancer Sun, the prevalent energy affecting you (and everyone else!) is moody, resentful, overwrought, insecure, self-pitying, and often highly upset about conditions "at home."
Your irritation is connected somehow to the state of your physical dwelling, or to problems within the family circle -- which consciously or not, you feel reflect badly on you or which fail to give the kind of support and emotional protection you believe you need and deserve.
With the afflicted Capricorn Moon, the prevalent energy affecting you and everyone else is frustrated, inflexible, discouraged, "rule bound," status-conscious, lonely, stingy, and mean-spirited. In extreme cases, it can be extraordinarily cold and vindictive. (It sounds like a terrible combination, doesn't it?)
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Both these energies are highly concerned with matters of status -- both at home and in your public life. How you appear, what others think of you, how your authority and control is respected, the comfort of your surrounding conditions, what these say about your achievements and personal worth ... all these are under heavy scrutiny -- and the verdict is rarely one that pleases you.
You may be extremely discontented with the status quo ... and yet feel blocked from making any changes that will give better results.
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If this is where you feel "you live" during this time every year ... well, this is the discomfort that will help you find answers to realign the balance -- and solve the problem, at least temporarily.
We'll meet this same polarity from the other side of the scale this winter, when the Moon in Cancer opposes the Capricorn Sun sometime soon after Winter Solstice. The tensions will be the same, but the priorities will be a little different. Nothing in life, you know, ever just "gets fixed and stays that way." (Yet, wouldn't it be nice if it did ... sometimes?)
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