January 13th 2025, 5:26 pm, Eastern
23*59' Cancer, 9th Shape SERPENT
SERPENT: 12° 51' 26'' Cancer – 25° 42' 51'' Cancer

Tonight’s Cancer Full Moon in the Shape of SERPENT has a counterpart in last July 5th’s New Moon which also occurred in SERPENT Shape. Looking back Pluto, Neptune, Uranus, Saturn and Jupiter were almost all in the same position as today. Much has changed, and much has not changed. The story has been folded over onto itself in a variety of ways not really making progress as much as it has seemed to coil, meander and slither around in the same territory since this subjective cycle was initiated 6 months prior. One savagely notable factor is the hole Mars has burned into a spot of the origami, which of course means so many things for all the various layers which are right there on the surface as well as sit hidden beneath, seemingly insignificant now but will make a rather dramatic incendiary pattern once the medium is allowed to shake out into its full spectrum and some of what's inside turns out. We are all likely well aware that certain events, the most obvious of which has been the fires in LA, are only antecedents in the depths of Cardinality which catalyze much of what all the other outer planets are going to weave into the narrative when they change signs this upcoming spring and summer. The zodiac is populated with several swaths which potentiate potency and revelation amongst a procession of overlapping ends and beginnings. SERPENT is full high summer energy. It is past the solstitial peak and displays the world fully created in all its primordial fullness, the “let there be light moment.” Unfortunately, tightly conjunct Mars at dead center of his retrograde, we receive a simultaneous Full Moon and Full Mars at once. Bright, red and aggressive in tone, we unfortunately witness a let there be the light of destructive fire.

Summer Solstice is the time of most yang, most bright, longest period of ability to see in a day. SERPENT comes from a word for dragon, Draikon, with etymological roots in “to see”. This is in some respects a hypnotic stare, an inability to avert the eyes. There is spectacle here, and grand scale visions. The world egg cracks and the totality of life rapidly hatches forth. Jupiter will come by June 2025—June 2026 to replace Mars in Cancer, the sign of comfort, care, nest and nurture. So, we can expect some plot twists in what opportunities develop in the realm of homes that might have succumb to dangerously erratic heat. And in your personal lives (if not directly affected by this disaster) it is likely that some aspect has become far too irritating to deal with, or has in some way been already slayed, and despite its current hydral quality, it may transition over the next several months from being a fierce slaughter to an opening for profound growth and expansion of what is needed to nourish existence. The cup may later overfloweth in the current center of the cataclysm.

The parallel Nakshatra speaks of hypnotic, trance inducing states as well as hidden gems, Nagas, or other/underworldly snakes beyond mystical bodies of water, the intoxication of excess sexual energy. These dizzy, infatuated, distracted by romance ideas are extended into the Chinese material, where lovers wander the world in pursuit of each other. The hot, wet summer spell infuses in this display of light, although the advice given is to stay home, guard resources, not get carried away and pay close attention to detail. Deleterious levels of intoxication would be all too easy in a lunation blossoming amongst reversed Mars in a sign associated with quenching and libation in a Shape associated with the flooding waters which irrigate all life. The punch here may be spiked, and the liquid might need to be redirected elsewhere. Water being brought to critical locations is a theme, which makes water used in wasteful ways elsewhere implicit. As does the quality of vision, and in which way you may be hypnotized. Are you enchanted, deceived, drunk, lost your glasses, in the dark, blinded by the light, bleary, seeing double or seeing things 20/20? Dragon’s are dangerous as well as extremely generative, and 2025 looks like a year with an incredible amount to give birth to, so when Picatrix says defense from attack, we need to consider what parts of our world are viper pits arranged beside slippery slopes and if things are over heated where we can stay hydrated as well as monitoring how much we are perspiring, whether that’s from exertion or much needed detox.

The idea of embrace circles around this Shape in multiple ways. What existence, as it appears in this revealing episode, do we feel intuitively we most need to embrace? Venus sidles up to Saturn significantly. She’ll spend some time here again at the end of her upcoming retrograde which carries us from winter into spring, as the pair also did last year so check your notes. What would we like to be immersed in? If we must be embedded in a totalizing atmosphere what sort would we love to be bathed in and follow the flow of and which includes obligation to let go of a world needing to be lost to time and history? Nostalgiaville doesn’t have long left to sprinkle fairy dust on us, but we can potentially romance ourselves into a new fate, a more nourishing destiny. Right now we are subject to dysfunctional care, polluted nests, refreshments that dehydrate rather than lubricate communing. Let there be light. I think you already know the answers. You can feel it.

Last night the Moon readying for this lunation was bright above the snow and with a sky patterned like snake scales a rainbow encircled the glowing orb wide enough to almost touch deep red Mars rising in the East. I didn’t get a photo but ended up capturing a trail of the same kind of clouds the next morning as they drifted over the horizon.
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