A Full Moon Lunar Eclipse takes place on Friday, December 10th at 20 degrees of Cancer. Cancer is the sign most associated with home, family, mother, and hearth. It’s one of the more sensitive areas of the chart, where the topics of the house Cancer rules becomes instantly emotional and emotionally charged. Cancer has to do with tribe and security - where we feel we belong or want to belong. And these tender parts of ourselves are being opposed by the coldness of the Capricorn energy, which is being triggered by most of the planets currently, including Saturn, Pluto, Mercury, and the Sun.
Saturn opposing the Full Moon in sweet, sensitive Cancer can feel like someone saying “No” to that which you seek for comfort and safety. Instead of comfort, Saturn offers self reliance, boundaries, limitations, and the challenge to overcome. Pluto opposing the Full Moon in Cancer might feel like an emotional crisis that comes to a culmination. Pluto indicates crisis, decay, and death followed by rebirth. This transit might invite a journey to the underworld where the Crab feels most uncomfortable, but where it must go to feel truly safe in the long run. The only darkness the Crab likes is that of its own shell. But darkness enforced for this summer sign is inherently uncomfortable. Mercury opposing the Moon in Cancer denotes challenges in expressing emotions or in seeking comfort through words. There may be a block or inhibition with asking for the comfort you seek and need. The Sun opposing the Moon indicates a culmination or peak - it is the height of energy for the month where there’s a sense of being busy, perhaps overly emotional, and generally oppositional - feeling one way, yet being another way. Emotional sensitivity and perhaps defensiveness is heightened during this time, yet discipline, duty, and productivity are visibly seen. You might find during this Full Moon a sense or need for comfort, yet plunging ahead with your ambitions and obligations.
Eclipses indicate changes ahead. Lunar Eclipses specifically indicate changes that involve endings. Look at where 20 degrees of Cancer is in your chart. The House topics that are highlighted will tell you in what area of life to expect the changes. The changes can take up to 6 months to pan out and may not be very big or noticeable- it depends on what other planets are being triggered in your chart. Regardless, this Eclipse is occurring opposite of Saturn and Pluto for everyone, so the mood for the day is intense and heavy. The intensity and heaviness could be productive in some way or it could be stressful. Just remember that Saturn is the great authoritarian that sometimes limits or blocks us for reasons that are sometimes unexplainable or unknowable. Pluto is the force that purges; that forces you to go into the depths of shadows to find the truth of the matter. Resistance creates suffering, but acceptance creates space for relief. Choose to release rather than being taken from.