Emotions can be running hot and powerful this week, starting with the New Moon in Cancer. The New Moon is joined by Mercury in Cancer with each of these bodies in opposition to Pluto in Capricorn. Pluto is the planet of desire; the spectrum of desire as it exists in the unconscious and in the conscious states. This New Moon may start with a desire, the outcome of which has not been reached but we are beginning to sense an opening. Pluto’s opposition to the New Moon can have the effect of exposing the cracks in the things that are, or were once, a source of comfort and familiarity. On one end, it can be something like a rule or an arrangement, a particular and desired status quo, that is broken, and the Cancer side of the spectrum reveals the energy that is wanting to be held or contained in the absence of what was holding it. Or the Pluto energy could represent a limiting container, or an oppressive one, that is ready to molt and dissolve. Whatever the value judgement on the evolution of the containing environment, this is both a vulnerable and potent position for the New Moon. It can call up, […]