When you think of “home”, what do you see? Is it a place? Is it people? Is it a feeling? A bit of all of the above? Tuesday’s New Moon in Cancer inspires the zodiac to imagine our contexts for emotional safety through emotion, people, places, and experiences. With that in mind, I try hard not to overly externalize “Cancer”. Said differently, of course we find home and belonging with people and places. Yet I think the highest experience of Cancer is an internal state. An inner peace that’s developed as a function of self-acceptance. 

I’ve come to understand that our accurate self-acceptance is one of the most crucial prerequisites for living a wholehearted life. When we feel self-accepted, we normalize emotion. When we feel self-accepted, we express our feelings. When we feel self-accepted, we don’t compromise our authenticity with perfectionism, people-pleasing, pretending, and performing. And perhaps most importantly, our ability to find belonging with others is a direct result of our accurate self-acceptance. When we feel at home within ourselves through experiencing Cancer, we can connect with others more meaningfully from a place of authenticity. This is the work. And this is the New Moon to identify the constrictions you have in place that prevent you from accessing your most accurate level of self-acceptance. This is the New Moon to identity what stops you from feeling at home within yourself and making the conscious choice to align with its solutions. 

This New Moon forms a square to Jupiter in Aries. I love how my colleague and friend Lars Mellis says, “take the scare out of square." So if we were to take the scare of the New Moon-Jupiter square, what we would see is the idea that this work around self-acceptance and home requires tremendous bravery. Jupiter in Aries is helping the zodiac connect with the bravest versions of themselves in an effort to find home and self-acceptance. You will run the risk of disappointing people. You will have to teach others a new way to treat and talk to you so you can feel at home with them. And Jupiter in Aries wants to help you with this. Additionally, there’s a supportive and exact sextile between Saturn in Aquarius and Mars in Aries helping you follow through on the commitments you’ll need to make to yourself and others throughout this work. This aspect provides the grit and perseverance needed to ensure that you say what you mean, mean what you say, and will do what you say you’re going to do. 

Of course, it’s not all internal, so if you’ve wondered about a new place to live and want to use the New Moon to help you find the dream home, this is the lunation to do it. “Home” as a space is imperative for wellbeing so I hope that you find the place you’re looking for. May this New Moon provide you with the home, family, and feelings of belonging that deepen your life quality.