June 2009 blockbuster new moon in Cancer at the summer solstice

June 22, 7:54 AMAstrology ExaminerMaria Barron

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Today’s new moon in Cancer highlights the beautiful message of yesterday’s summer solstice and deepens the promise that 2009 is a year of healing for our world. Keep reaching out like crazy this summer, at home and in your career, for the ways you think things ought to be. Even incremental improvements undertaken now are the kind that will have a special strength to them and will take root and grow.

The new moon (conjunction of the sun and the moon) at the beginning of Cancer gains power from its linkage with Pluto, which is opposite in the wheel of the sky at the beginning of Capricorn. This lights up the axis of Home and Mother (Cancer) and Career and Father (Capricorn). The sun, moon and Pluto are then linked through harmonious trines and a sextile with the conjunction of Big Healing Dreams in Aquarius. Meanwhile, Venus and Mars, standing for love and will, are in happy trine with Saturn, which returns what is deserved.

Changes you want or need to make in your home life or career can be undertaken now in a way that will have power and will turn out well. This happens against a background of a few challenging squares, but everything worth doing has its challenges.

For the nation, it’s an ideal time to take on health care reform, with the energy of the nurturing maternal Cancer and the calculating yet paternal Capricorn engaged in the equation, along with a general willingness in the populace, represented by Aquarius, to expand access to health care, as represented by the Jupiter conjunction.

There are some astrologers who, for whatever reasons, saw this year’s primary astrological marker – the conjunction of Jupiter, Neptune and Chiron in Aquarius – as scary, rather than the sign of Big Healing Dreams that it is. They’re now pointing to the World Health Organization’s declaration of a swine flu pandemic as vindication of their frightening interpretation that the conjunction would portend major illness rather than major healing.

On the contrary, the WHO determination seems to paradoxically underscore the existence of healing energy running rampant at this time. The very first pandemic in 41 years has, halfway through the year, claimed fewer than 200 fatalities globally as compared against regular seasonal flu, which kills up to 500,000 people each year. This is despite the fact that the swine flu has spread rapidly and its spread is now considered to be worldwide.

There seems to be plenty of healing underway and, try as it might, this particular flu hasn’t seemed to establish much reputation for severity. “Wait for fall and winter,” say the voices of doom, but the signs of the summer solstice and the June 22 new moon continue to link into the year’s major conjunction in Aquarius in ways that can only be seen as powerful affirmations of a year that highlights healing in a big way. Let’s take advantage of it and heal every situation we feel up to taking on.