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Cancer Lunation
July 2 - 31, 2008

The New Moon in Cancer on July 2 begins a 29.6-day cycle with an emphasis on property, housing, family, and emotional security. Receptivity, initiative and perseverance are vital to success. Act now to establish your independence and set things in motion. Use this cycle to get in touch with your past conditioning, to communicate with your parents and to nurture the seeds of intention you planted in April. These activities and your intuitive responses to them will be your foundation for the next nine months. This is a time to prune for growth. Remember your priorities and eliminate activities that do not support your goals.

Affirm: Change nurtures my development. Love sustains and supports my home and family. I Am secure in the Heart of the Divine.


Sabian Symbol:
"A Chinese Woman Nursing A Baby With A Message"

The degree symbolism of this Cancer New Moon suggests the birth of vital new ideas, which need to be nurtured with a different attitude or tradition in order to develop to their full potential.

Metaphysically, the baby symbolizes a new valuable, yet vulnerable, creative project or idea, which requires nurturing to reach maturity. The message carried implies essential knowledge in service to humanity. That the woman nursing the baby is Chinese could represent the influence of either a foreign perspective, an ancient tradition, or according to Rudhyar and Hill, the Tibetan mysteries and the Dali Lama.

Marc Edmund Jones in his early writings on the Sabian symbols referred to the baby as having a 'glorious nimbus of divine incarnation', rather than a message. To clarify the meaning, in his later work, The Sabian Symbols in Astrology, he renamed the symbol as used here and wrote, "When positive, the degree is a gift for bringing the more Godlike resources or superior powers of self to a point of real community service, and when negative, completely unreasonable demands for recognition."

Perhaps to reinforce the importance of the message, authors Rudhyar and Hill both retitled this symbol "A Chinese Woman Nursing A Baby Whose Aura Reveals Him To Be The Reincarnation Of A Great Teacher."

Dane Rudhyar, in his book An Astrological Mandala, implores us to "look beyond common appearances to find the hidden character", saying the keynote of this degree is "the revelation of latent worth in an experience once it is seen in its deeper meaning."

Sabian Symbols as an Oracle author Lynda Hill says about this degree, "In this situation messages of hope for the future are coming through younger and more vital elements. There may be an opportunity to learn important lessons from younger beings."

Degree Affirmation:
I Recognize, Accept and Nurture The Divine Essence I Carry Within.


Additional perspective on this lunation cycle:
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The dates on which the Sun enters each sign are approximate, as they change slightly from year to year. If you were born a day on either side of the dates listed, you were born near the cusp and will need to have your natal chart calculated in order to determine your Sun Sign.


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