Cancer Full Moon Horoscopes for January 6, 2023
Musings from Maria's StarGarden
“Full Moon with Jupiter Through Trees,” chalk pastel by Maria Theresa Maggi
The moon is full at 16 degrees Cancer of the tropical zodiax on January 6, 2023 at 3:07 PM Pacific Standard Time.
Happy New Year, Dear Readers! At the first full moon of 2023, we come to the peak of this lunation cycle in the moon’s home, Cancer. Cancer is the 4th sign of the zodiac, and the first water sign. It rules the deep self, the one in which the seat of our soul resides. Its time of day is midnight, and its energy carries with it our most fundamental emotional instincts, and the wisdom and emotional currents we receive from our ancestors. In a lovely paradox of qualities, though midnight is Cancer’s hour, it also ushers in the summer solstice, the longest day of the year in the northern hemisphere.
As a water sign, Cancer energy is deeply sensitive to both personal and public sentiment. It brings in the wave of emotion that moves the stock market and investment patterns, and gravitates people to or away from public figures who either care for or abuse the public trust.
The asteroid Pallas Athene joins the full moon to signify this full moon emphasizes the emotional wisdom Cancer has to offer, just through being able to “read the room” and trust the emotional instinct that follows about how or when to interact, both in private and public situations. It also may be that those of us who nurture or mother may be called on to use the experience we’ve gained doing so to advise others who are struggling to hit the right emotional note when it comes to caregiving or rearing little ones in their charge. While Cancer’s “lunacy” can be very funny indeed as it deploys to keep the pulse of social norms and obsessions, this placement downplays the silliness and accentuates the quiet intuitive wisdom.
However, this full moon is also in an aspect to Uranus in Taurus that can be likened to good friends talking on the phone. Uranus is one quirky unpredictable “friend,” and in retrograde motion, flashes of sudden knowing or events disruptive to our sense of material security may force us to revise our stories about how our emotional instincts work.