Sun Into Cancer 2014: Turning The Tide

Published: Sat, 06/21/14

Sun Into Cancer 2014 Edition

Happy Summer Solstice!

Welcome to the Sun into Cancer edition of the Oracle and thank you so much for being here. Happy Birthday Cancer readers and Happy Anniversary to everyone! Yes, this newsletter was started 5 years ago when the Sun entered Cancer. So special thanks to all of you who have been here since the beginning, and a very warm welcome to you new subscribers. We've sailed some substantial cosmic seas together since 2009, including Cardinal Crosses in 2010 and this year. Tuning into those planets and writing about them for you has been beautifully anchoring. I appreciate your love and support immensely, and look forward to stargazing together in the years ahead. For now, we're reaching a turning point, both for 2014 and the year ahead. Giant, generous Jupiter is leaving Cancer for a year-long transit of playful Leo and Mercury is topping off seven (long) months of personal planet retrogradation. I'm hearing a round of cork popping as I write. As usual, you can listen to an audio version of this cycle's astrology news on Kristy's Connection To The Soul. We have a great time on that show and Kristy shares Angel messages with all of us as well. And on behalf of the other Kristi, Walsh, thank you!! Your clicks helped move her show, Surfing The Psychic Waves, past the million listener mark. There's a full summer forecast for you to listen to there. I am grateful to be in the company of these extraordinary Lightworkers and fabulous companions and we all thank you for tuning in. Please enjoy this month's feature article below.

Fun With Astrology

Last weekend two well-respected astrology authors, Eric Meyers and Chris Brennan, met here in Denver for a spirited debate on modern and traditional astrology. The winner was of course the audience. We got to listen to two very enlightened and thoughtful perspectives on the field, and you can listen too by clicking this link. After the event Eric and I caught up and he shared a fun game that I would like to play with you. List your favorite to least favorite astrology signs in order from one to twelve. Your list must include a definite favorite and least favorite sign and you're welcome to post your list on my Facebook page. In the Leo edition of the Oracle I'll have the second part of this experiment. Btw, no one correctly named the Monty Python song I (quietly) sang to Robert Holden. Here's a hint: it's from "The Meaning Of Life."

From The Oracle

Rainbow Bridge of Light

It is time to connect with those around you from the highest levels of your being, and to see them and your situation from a place of unity and goodness.

THE MEANING BEHIND THE CARD

We are all connected, and this message is urging you to build bridges and to mend fences with the people in your life. You are being asked to view your situation and those in it from the highest possible perspective. This means assuming the best instead of the worst about others, looking at what you can do to improve your relationships, and acting from a compassionate and generous place, instead of fear and negativity. As you hold good intentions for others, goodness and peace are yours.

TOOLBOX

Heal the rift. Bring to mind someone with whom you have been, or are in, conflict. Imagine all suffering, heaviness, and hurt completely lifting from this person's being until all is at ease and completely peaceful. Next, affirm joy and the root of joy for that individual. Hold this intention until you can see and feel him/her experiencing overflowing happiness and well-being. Remember, the more damaged people are, the more damage they generally do to others. When you begin to practice compassion for them, you begin to shift the energy for all involved.

AFFIRMATION

I see the good in others and in myself.

Cancer Infusion

On Sale!

Cancer Infusion is a trip to the Spiritual Spa for a full emotional body massage. This mini-mediation will soak you in sonic waves and liquid sounds designed to gently move and clear emotional blockages. if you have been feeling an emotional ache that you just cannot seem to name or release, the initiating and healing energies of caring Cancer are here to support you. Use this infusion to wash away past hurts and open the heart to new sources of love and Light. The Infusion package includes an MP3 file featuring original music set to a guided mini-meditation, instructional notes and a worksheet and glyph for you to work with.

Sun Into Cancer 2014: Turning The Tide

If the past seven months to a year have served up more than your share of intensity, delays or dilemmas, take heart; we are set for a celestial turning point. The cycle ahead will host both a release of planetary tensions and a coalescing of new and progressive energies. The pivotal figure in this cosmic play is none other than the king of planets, Jupiter. Its move from the Cardinal water sign Cancer into the Fixed fire sign Leo on July 16th not only begins the disintegration of the Gand Cardinal Cross, but also strengthens a decisive elemental shift in the heavens. Additionally, Mercury will end a seven-month-long series of personal planet retrogradation when is stations on July 1st, Saturn will turn direct on July 20th and Mars will move past the shadow of its retrograde late in the cycle. Our journey through this tidal change begins at 4:51 A.M. MST on June 21st when the Sun enters Cancer.

Back in April four planets met at fourteen degrees of each Cardinal sign, and that event was bookended by two powerful eclipses. Since then, those four planets have begun to move further apart, lessening the tension between them. For most of us, a noticeable decline in drama should be taking place. During the incoming cycle, one of those four players, Jupiter, will leave the cross for good, and by late July, another key cross component, Mars, will also move from a Cardinal to a Fixed sign. Then the once formidable Grand Cardinal Cross will be reduced to an inexact Pluto Uranus square. For now Pluto is powered down in its annual retrograde and electrifying Uranus set for its yearly unplug starting on July 21st. Those two powerhouse planets will form their final two exact squares between now and March of 2015. But for the time being, the only points of Cardinal contention in the offing are a Mars opposition to Uranus on June 25th, the Sun's opposition to Pluto on July 4th and its squares to Uranus July 8th and Mars on July 18th and the full Capricorn moon's opposition to the Sun on July 12th. Even in those uncomfortable conflicts, there is cosmic wisdom to be gleaned. For example, in his book "The Astrology Of Awakening" Eric Meyers shares the following about constructively working with the polarity of sober Capricorn and emotional Cancer.

"Capricorn involves maturation - taking a sober look at the state of things and complying with reality. Since the past is the past, it is unrealistic to attempt to go back and change what happened. Therefore, the most logical and strategic plan (Capricorn) is to completely accept reality. Then we can legitimately become the master (Capricorn) of our emotions (Cancer) instead of being unconsciously and reactively driven by them."

Mercury's retrograde through July 1st, with its Neptunian retrograde undertow, will give us time to revisit unresolved emotional issues. Once direct in social, cerebral Gemini, accompanied by attractive Venus, it will offer new information, contacts and ways of seeing our circumstances. Finally, under that full Capricorn moon, Mercury will move into Cancer, a combination that suggests that the emotional maturity needed to make peace with the past is at hand. Also supporting emotional resolutions during this cycle will be Neptune, Saturn, Chiron and Cancer's ruler, the moon. In nurturing Cancer, the Sun will trine Neptune on June 29th, Saturn on July 8th and Chiron on the 9th. Also from Cancer, Mercury will trine Neptune on July 18th. These linkups offer opportunities to listen with your heart and to act in ways that foster peace and well-being within yourself and with others. The new Cancer moon of June 27th as well as the lunar transits of fellow water signs Scorpio from July 6th-8th and Pisces from July 14th-16th, will also give us time to reflect, feel and heal. But the days of introspection are numbered.

Jupiter's move from watery Cancer to fiery Leo not only breaks up the Grand Cardinal Cross, it also rebalances the planetary elemental mix. With Saturn in Scorpio, Neptune in Pisces and Pluto in Capricorn, Jupiter's year-long Cancer transit has lent considerable weight to the earth and water, or yin, elements of astrology. During most of that time the lunar Nodes were also in the earth and water signs of Taurus and Scorpio. With the Nodes now firmly on the Aries/Libra, or fire/air, axis and Uranus midway through Aries, Jupiter's move to the fire element broadens the yang or outgoing influence. Later this year Saturn will enter astrology's third fire sign, Sagittarius, putting an important planet in each fire sign. In short, we're moving out of contemplation and into action, and the cycle ahead is when changes begin to take form. So, enjoy soaking up care-giving Cancer rays and get ready for your moment in the Sun.

In closing, the summer is getting off to a lush and beautiful start here in Colorado. I get happy every morning when I put on a pair of shorts and a tank top, instead of lounge pants and a long-sleeved tee. After completing a program at Berklee College of Music's online division, Berkleeonline, I am writing some new songs, studying harp privately and preparing for my first opportunity to begin performing live. To start, I will be playing at a friend's yoga class, and I could not be more excited. It's one thing to work in class after class for fifteen months, and it's quite another to step out in front of others and play for them. The serendipity of this happening as the planets make their momentous shift is not lost on me. I look forward to playing and singing anywhere and everywhere the harp and inspiration take me across these amazing Rocky Mountains. I hope that you too are seeing new doors opening and that you are finding more time to do what you love. I wish you a very blessed and abundant summer and look forward to meeting when the Sun moves into enthusiastic Leo.

With love and gratitude,

Elizabeth

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