I had the most enjoyable evening last night watching Shakespeare’s play, As You Like It, in the beautiful outdoor Shakespeare’s Glen in Forest Park.
The famous quote from this play, that is the title to my post today, was well timed to the Capricorn full Moon energies forming in the sky above me. Indeed, we all create the roles we play, and even the stage we perform them on, in our own lives.
The Cancer/Capricorn axis in the astrological wheel holds a powerful set of energies to help us shape these roles. With Cancer energy, we FEEL an impetus to act and with Capricorn energy we bring that feeling into PHYSICAL creation. This will be especially important starting with our next Moon cycle on July 5th. More on that in a minute…
Today is the beginning of Cancer season and tomorrow we have the first of two consecutive Capricorn full moons. Our current lunar cycle, which began with a Gemini new Moon, helped us to get curious about what we’d like to create. Hopefully, you’ve been using this cycle to ask yourself questions about what you want to experience with your time.
This Capricorn full Moon is shining a light on the ideas that feel super juicy and sustainable.
Our next new Moon on July 5th will be in Cancer with the first full Moon in the same axis since April 2023.
This is a SIGNIFICANT shift in our lunar cycles. For 16 months we’ve had practice around starting something (new moon intentions) but then having the full Moon light shine in a sign that felt disconnected from the original intentions. There was a discordance with the lunar cycles that had us on edge, so to speak.
I’m really looking forward to next month’s return to the new and full Moon’s symbiotic relationship with the same modality.
For example, this month we had the new Moon in MUTABLE air sign, Gemini, with tomorrow’s full Moon in CARDINAL earth sign, Capricorn. Next month, we’ll have a Cancer new Moon, CARDINAL water, with a Capricorn Full Moon, CARDINAL earth.
This shift back to the new and full Moons being in the same modality will give us a flow to the energies each month that’ve been missing for some time! Anyone who has a major Cancer placement in their chart, ie. Cancer Sun, Moon or Ascendant, has been feeling this strongly and will likely be breathing a deep sign of relief soon since the Moon rules Cancer signs.
As a Cancer Sun, I know I will be!!
And, this has affected us all collectively, as well.
So, my suggestion is to finish out this 16 month cycle, that ends July 5th, with a good dose of internal foraging.
Reflect back over your life since April 2023. What’s felt off to you about your goal setting? What intentions did you set that led you into places you never expected? Which feelings have been front and center, especially anything that was repeatedly frustrating?
Your life’s been trying to get your attention about goals that may have been based in false beliefs.
Starting with the Solstice today, energy is flooding to the planet to fuel our CONSCIOUS efforts once we reach the next Moon cycle.
It’s all systems GO for creating the things that ARE worthy of your efforts.
Clarity on what those things are is your Golden ticket from here on out!
xo, Kimberly