Saturday, July 12 @ 4:26 am ~ Full Moon in Capricorn
I can’t believe it is already July.
I can’t believe my baby will be one on the Capicorn full moon.
The last few weeks, as summer has waxed and the Cancer sun has been churning the emotional tide, I have been thinking a lot about the passing of time.
It is not such an odd thing to consider. Time is an obsession of us humans. We have been tracking its passing for many a moon, and anthropologists believe some of the first human tools were calendars. Our ancestors tracked time via the sun/moon seasons, celebrating these cycles through ritual and ceremony. We have since created other calendars and clocks, many of us obsessively planning and booking our lives from minute to minute, hour to hour, day to day.
Time is a funny thing, as it is both relative and an illusion. When you are five years old, one year seems so long because a single year makes up a big portion of your life thus far. But when you are eighty, hey, what’s a year? Additionally, time is different wherever you go.. what with the agreement of time zones, daylight savings, etc.. We are always trying to find the “time” and yet there really is no time but right now.
Capricorn, Cancer’s partner and the full moon ruler, is especially associated with time because his planet is Saturn, considered “father time.” Where Cancer connects us to the moon and the emotional cycles, Capricorn and Saturn shift us into linear and physical manifestation. Most of you have heard of the dramatic Saturn return, an astrological shift that occurs every 28-30 years (because that is how long it takes this slow outer planet to get back to where it was when you were born.)
If you are not on the right path at this point for this particular journey, Saturn will kinda… request… you get on it. I imagine a father wolf grasping his pup by the scruff of the neck and dropping him on his butt facing the appropriate direction. Saturn is not gentle. He is not emotional. He is firm, strict and demands you live up to your potential. As his view is linear, there is a huge concern that you are not using the time you have wisely, and an urgency to get you doing the right thing, as it will take him another 30 years before he can give you another not-so-sweet nudge.
The Capricorn full moon is not as intense as a Saturn return, especially because he has mama Cancer and grandma Moon on either side of him, but it is still strong because it is Saturn plus, right now, the close planets all are now direct for the first time in 2014 (thank Goddess), urging us to take action as well as residual energy from other recent alignments that make us want to get times a’changin.
I also think I feel it so fiercely right now because this has been the fastest year of my life. My little baby is nearly a toddler and its like I blinked and it happened. I used to urge the passing of time, I was always so excited to get to the next thing.. but now, even though I am grateful and joyful about future possibilities, I feel the nostalgia and sentimentality of Cancer in a way I never have before.
And it is okay. There is nothing to be done about the Saturnian pull to the future and the Cancerian tug to the past but be in my center.
Under this full moon, can we just be in our center and observe, observe with love, compassion and hope the things that have passed and the things that are coming. Can we enjoy the moment fully with all the feelings and possibilities swirling around and within us. Can we honor the sweet memories that have passed away as well as the exciting ideas ahead without attachment or expectation?
It can be tough with these two signs, but it is possible. Time will pass no matter what. That is just how life works on this planet. Children grow up, the seasons change and life goes on. But we always come back to this place. One of my first teachers said that life is both linear and cyclical. But rather than just being a line or circle, it is like stacking cd’s (Is that an out-dated reference, now? Yikes!) on top of each other… as time passes, we move further away from certain points but we always cycle back to this moment in the year, and hopefully, when we do, we can acknowledge the experiences, the lessons, the loves and then keep ascending on our path.
I wish you a beautiful full moon and hope that time continues to bless and guide you, and all of us, on this sacred planet.
Love,
Bekah
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Bekah is a Yoga teacher, shamanic practitioner and moon devotee. For more information on her work and writing please visit www.sacredwayyoga.com.
