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Paris, July 5, 2005 (from Eric)

The Moon is now in Cancer and as of this writing we're about a day away from the Cancer New Moon, conjunct Varuna (see Planet Waves Weekly last week). The intense watery activity of a Sun-Moon conjunction, plus Saturn in the last degrees of Cancer, mean that many will be feeling the REALITY of the transitions they've been in for a long time, and feeling it on an emotional level.

The story of astrology is the story of change. That includes progress; progress implies something different happening. And every person goes through changes differently. The more challenging situations occur when we consciously strive to resist movement, and do so over a long time. Most of that resisting comes in the form of denying what we KNOW. This always leads to crisis because we know what we know for a good reason: to avoid crisis and make decisions.

Saturn and all the other water activity are saying we know what we know because we feel it. In fact, we're likely to have been feeling it for a while because Saturn has been doing its thing in Cancer going back two years, which was the commencement of a get-clear process that's had many developments and revelations. Saturn in Cancer is going to raise all kinds of subject matter around the question, "Do I feel safe?" and "What do I need to feel secure?" but also on a deeper level, "What am I feeling insecure about?"

The territory involves parents and children. It involves, as a result, childhood material that most people, indeed the great majority of people, don't connect to their present experience. The usual excuse is "that was then, this is now," to borrow the title of an old movie. But I think the more pervasive excuse is that it's a) simply uncomfortable to go there or b) people don't know how to handle childhood material once it arises in adult situations.

There is still time; that's what time is for, if you need it. In the sequence of the signs, Cancer (security and nourishment) comes before Leo (risk taking and fun). So unless we address the first, we're going to have a hard time getting to the second. Always, the question, "What do I do?" comes up once there's the small willingness to grow or to heal.

The first thing is to be aware.