Ready for The Summer: Strawberry Full Moon in Capricorn
Ready for The Summer: Strawberry Full Moon in Capricorn
Friday, Jun 21th, begins the Strawberry Moon Full Moon in the Sign of Capricorn. Strawberry Moon (or Rose Moons in Europe) derives its name from the harvest time for such fruit among the Algonquin tribes. The effect of the full moon will last over the next three days.
Capricorn, cardinal Earth sign, is concerned with personal ambition, rules, boundaries and limits. At its best it can be highly ethical, self-directed, disciplined and industrious. At the worst, it can be callous, selfish, materialistic and abrasive.
The Moon is the planet responsible for needs. Nurturing, feeding, emotional security and one’s maternal experiences are governed the Moon. The Moon represents how you pursue, receive and maintain those needs. The Full Moons increases our demands for those needs, urging us to acquire them in the most direct way.
Together, the Full Moon in Capricorn may draw your attention to needs and feelings in an effort to fulfill them. As a hunter/gather what are you lacking for? What is it you’re hungering for? How best to examine your needs and requirements?
Full Moons are times for completions, bringing projects and endeavors to their conclusions or redirecting existing energies to new efforts and enterprises. Full Moons nourish and feed our actions, providing the energy and support to help them develop and grow.
The sign that governs the Moon is Cancer. This management or “Rulership” provides the characteristics we associate with that sign. Because Capricorn is the sign opposite of the sign of Cancer, the Moon, when it travels through Capricorn is at its weakest state or what we in astrology call its ‘detriment”. This means that you can expect greater challenges and demands from this moon during this transit i.e. not getting sufficient nutrition, rest and so forth. You are urged to be patience and calm in through the course of this transit (next three days
Capricorn, you should view the next three days as a time to take stock of how you feel and what you need. Consider it a time of preparation for your larger aims and ambitions by securing and maintaining that which helps you feel strong and stable.
Cancer, examine some of the needs you’ve overlooked or neglected. Your ruling planet in its detriment may make this somewhat challenging but the extra scrutiny and care you take during this transit may make such efforts productive and affirming.
Aries and Libra, you may have to review how you’ve dealt with some particular needs in the past to see how you can better address it in the future. You may be inclined to disregard the matter but during the next three days if you devote yourself attending to that need it may prove to be to your profit.
Much like the Algonquin seeking out strawberries, find those sweet and compelling items to satisfy your hungers. Recognizing what you need and what will sustain your being will play an important part of the upcoming days. Revel in and embrace the Strawberry Moon as a part of the emerging summer season
Aeion is a professional astrologer and tarot card reader with +30 years of experience. His approach is based in the belief that divination should be in employed to enhance ones' life experiences, not to predetermine them. Let Astrology and Tarot be your tools for better living
