The full wolf moon in Cancer invites you to howl for your healing
Happy New Year, star seeds.As we burn what’s been and look forward to what will be, we do so under the light of the first full moon of 2025.The Wolf Moon arrives on Monday, January 13th at 5:27 pm Eastern Time — at 23º59 degrees in the sign of Cancer.Full moons mark the midway point of a 29.5-day lunar cycle, which begins with the dark night, sown seeds — and fresh potential of the new moon.As the full moon rises and shines, it casts a glaring, culminative light on what can no longer be ignored or endured.The sign in which the full moon falls lends specific energy to this phase of the lunar cycle.In this case, we have the emotionally sunburned, sentimental face tattoos, smother mother, home is where the hurt is, promise you’ll never leave me, hard shell, soft belly sign of Cancer.Cancer is ruled by the moon, and when the full moon falls in this sign, we are at our moodiest, mooniest, and most vulnerable.
Under a Cancer full moon, emotions run high, and our proverbial feels run deep, deep, deep.Think belly aches, blue notes, apex ennui, and increased nipple sensitivity.Cancer rules the root system, mother’s milk and the umbilical apron strings that tie us to the past — the homes we are born into and the homes we build of our bodies and for ourselves.
As such, Cancer is the most nostalgic sign in the zodiac, a bit of a blessing and a bane — depending on where and how you cast your reflective lens.Idealizing a lost relationship? Candy coating your childhood? Self-destructive wistfulness? These tendencies might pacify us in the present moment but serve only and ever to paralyze our progress.This full moon will be conjunct Mars, our warrior planet of will and conflict, currently retrograding in the sign of the crab.
When the planet of war backpaddles through the waters of memory and mothering, we go in, look for a nip to nourish us, and harken back to the days of yore that have made us who we are.Yet, while this retrograde and this lunation ask us t...