Astrology for Thursday, 9 January 2020:

Today the Moon ingresses into Cancer, its domicile, where it has dignity and access to the resources it needs in order to bring about that which it signifies. In Cancer, we are brought back to our fundamental needs for safety, security, care, and belonging. These could be tender days as the Moon moves through Cancer, especially as the Moon approaches tomorrow’s lunar eclipse and its opposition to the perfecting Saturn/Pluto conjunction. I invite you to take some time to be still and get quiet, to lay your hands on your body, and ask yourself the questions: what do you need? What needs to be heard and held and healed? Listen to what arises, comfort and care for the wounded places that ask for your attention. We all carry our younger selves inside of us, and we all get to practice mothering ourselves, as Audre Lorde taught us. We get to affirm our own worth by committing ourselves to our own survival. The Moon makes an opposition to Jupiter in Capricorn, and we may feel pulled to grow and take responsibility in ways that our younger, wounded selves do not feel ready for. This is an opportunity to reassure our younger, wounded selves: “Don’t worry. I’ve got this. I know you don’t feel ready to step into these responsibilities, but I am ready, and I can take this on for all of us.”