It's a complex world for you right now, Cancer. You are called to inner contemplation while at the same time feeling somewhat stuck in your self-expression, and reaching out to active partnerships in your life for support and sustenance. The emotional trap is that you overly rely on your partnership connections resulting in a loss of self-focus, but you are also in condition to be very focused on your own needs, once you give yourself space to do just that without feeling guilty. You are in a better place to strike a healthier balance by the time of the Full Moon at nearly the end of the month, so the recommendation is to let go and leave the details in the hands of a benevolent universe.
As the month begins, you are experiencing an almost uncomfortable fluidity of your career position, and this was even more greatly highlighted by the recent Full Moon in your sign, in the last few days of the old year. This has in fact been an intense year-long period for you, and the feeling of it comes through loud and clear in this moment of deeper contemplation represented by the closing and the opening of the calendar roll-over. It might seem especially anxiety producing that your work in the world is in such flux, but the other side of this coin is that you have the opportunity to try new approaches on for size.
It might be that you will keep trying, and keep finding another way that is just not right. You will continue to miss the mark until you suddenly hit it, and this is natural. Truly is it said that if nothing is ventured nothing is gained. The biggest mistake would be to give in to discouragement and not to try. It is simply an important part of your process right now that you go through the exercise of adjustment, in both your outer world contributions and also in the way that you do relationship with significant persons in your life.
The Uranus-Pluto square is far from over, picking up again in the spring. This has been the hallmark of these past few years, and symbolizes the wringer that you have recently been put through. It hits your sector of outer world performance and achievement, and also your seventh sector of relating and deep bonds, the place where you experience partnership and projection in your life. You have a strong commitment now to transform in these areas. There has definitely been a foretaste of the coming changes over the next six months that has taken place in this recent end-of-year period of time, so that the consciousness gained can be very useful in laying out the year ahead.
You are also focused now on your creativity and self-expression. There are changes that you can make in this area also, that truly matter to you when you take to opportunity to tune in. You are looking ahead to a more aligned future that you would like to create for yourself. There is a fundamental optimism springing up from deep inside, a feeling of deep connection with the spiritual purpose of the cosmos working itself out through your life, and it represents your saving grace. You benefit in the extreme by holding onto this feeling of inner peace and faith in the universe to take you home to your true self.
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With the Last Quarter Moon of Friday, January 4th, you are pulling back from activity and entering into a contemplative mood, in keeping with the tenor of this phase of the lunar cycle. In reflecting on prior events you are also reframing them according to where your thought process has taken you lately. You are dwelling mentally right now on inner rather than outer priorities, and this reorientation makes a difference in how you see your life unfolding. Recent fluctuations in professional requirements might be seen as flitting shadows across you're the foreground images from your inner landscape, rather than the other way around.
With the New Moon of Friday, January 11th, there is fresh energy for your purpose, involving both active partnerships and possible career moves, and the opportunity is there for you to choose how to direct this new energy. This is also a time when your awareness could grow regarding old behavior patterns likely stemming from an earlier time of unresolved trauma, which have really outgrown their usefulness, but are hanging on. It may be helpful to recognize that you do not have to expunge these dysfunctional patterns from your psyche, but only to accept and acknowledge them. When you just witness what is going on beneath the surface, in these relatively unconscious places, and grant acceptance to these walled off parts of yourself, you take away their power to run your actions or to otherwise endanger your calm.
The First Quarter Moon of Friday, January 18th, represents a time when the collision within your psyche between inner and outer might become more pronounced and throw up roadblocks to this month's plans. There is a sense that you are on the verge of a breakthrough but not quite able to make the leap across. It is a time when you must keep faith with yourself and trust in your angel guidance to see you through, and also when you might need to make adjustments in the acknowledgement of new circumstances.
With the Full Moon of Saturday, January 26th, you come to a powerful time of heightened awareness of the need for action in the direction of important life changes that have been in the works for some time, and with yet also the urge to hold back from change. You are dealing with issues of self and other at this time, and perhaps there could be a return to issues of wounding or reactivity based on old patterns, as seen now in a different light. Like a sailboat you are tacking back and forth across your course as you allow for the direction of the prevailing wind. It might seem at times as though progress toward your eventual goal is slow, but it is sure.
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