Welp, here we are. We are at the start of the New Year with the Lunar New Year just around the corner. It will be a bit of the “Take two” and a chance to rewrite the solar year’s less “organic” start to the year. Whether you are a fan of the Sun or the Moon, it’s a bit like being a dog or a cat lover. Some are both. I would put myself in that camp. While I am allergic to cats (or was, long story not for now), I did have a dog who was golden like the sun, a retriever. We did actually have a kitten named “Brendy” who ran away. The kitten and puppy did play together, actually.
I loved them both. I was so sad when Brendy bolted. Maybe an animal got her. One day she just didn’t respond to her name being called. My heart still aches for the little girl who called to her trying so hard to make her voice like a magical lasso to reel the kitten back into the fold. We love you. I love you. I wanted my love to reach her. I tried so hard, called louder, tried different inflections.
But now, it’s 2025.
I’m a dog and cat lover for different reasons. I think cats and dogs should get along but I understand why most don’t. I’m also a sun and moon lover. Probably because my sun is in Leo (its domicile) and my moon is in Cancer (its domicile). I guess you could say “I’m at home.”
That’s what this cancer full moon is all about but with a twist. The energy is mega intense. We have Mars and Pluto acting very strongly in this Full Moon chart.
The Sun is nearly next to Pluto and the Moon is paired with Mars. This adds some spiciness to the familiar, the comforts, and tension with Pluto. We are here to grow and stretch ourselves and in the midst of that find and define home.
Right now so many people in Los Angeles are suffering through losses, bad fumes and devastation. Over night people have lost their homes and insurances have bailed. They are without. It wrenches my heart to think that people are suffering like this.
Look for the helpers. This moon is all about the helpers and finding them and fueling them to do what they can do best: understand NEEDS.
The sign of Cancer is very explicit in pointing to and differentiating needs from wants. Mars is here, though. There can be urgency.
Settling the nervous system is always a good idea but maybe it will help to use this Moon’s wisdom to get ever more clearer about those body and emotional needs. Get clear about your physiological needs around peace and calm so you can be more clear about triggers and irritations as they arise and are bodily expressed.
My focus is to point out that Uranus, the Awakener, here is positively interacting with BOTH the Sun and Moon. This is opportunity to enlighten around what changes in consciousness can be made to make home more what it should be, more what suits your comforts and needs to settling, needs for sleep and calm. Also, Uranus is in Taurus helping to awaken the senses to be more in tune with how to distribute the energies. What colors and sounds are soothing for you? There much to explore to become more in alignment with those daily needs that Cancer full moon 🌝 needs to get cozy.
I’d love to hear from you. Share your experiences and desires here. Mars’ presence with the Full Moon is going to be giving you messages around your energy level fluctuations, motivations, and more. There is so much beauty in how we strive for the sake of our families and the love in community we extend from our family into the greater world. How can we expand the cozy bubble? Can we become closer friends with the foes experienced through our environment?
These are some thoughts to work with.
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Here’s a cute aside: My daughter’s calendar has the moon on it and we are talking about how the symbols on the calendar represent the Full Moon for today and how approximately a week from now it will be a “half moon” as she called it, and then approx a week after that on the 29th, a new moon. “Blank.” On the calendar it’s pictured as a dark circle. It’s so fun that she’s naturally interested and attentive to the moon as it corresponds on the calendar. She noticed it herself. Just 5 years old and her observation skills are getting ready! She’s getting the tools and soon she can apply and make note of what she discovers!
Fiesta Estrellas 
Let me see, I’m a Cancer with a Cancer rising. Na, shouldn’t affect me. I normally sing from my balcony while eating chocolate and doing my Tax 🤣
Now last month was another thing altogether 😂
Hello Ka, glad to hear your new year voice. May this year sing with much chocolate too 🤗❤️🙏
Hello Mark,
That dark chocolate is key! Singing in key? haha. Well, my friend, no wonder you are so empathic!
Yes, it probably is affecting you in a lovely way. I’ve got my Cancer Moon, Mercury and Venus! I’m feeling cozy and things are nice. Over the nasty colds, etc. What is
“doing my tax”? That sounds like an Australian thing. Or what? Are you literally doing accounting on your balcony?
Love you friend, so much! Nice to see you on “this side” of the New Year 2025 🙂
‘Doing my tax’ is our end of financial year (yes accounting), that we have to send in our earnings and deductions and costs and a form that takes a week to fill out…so that they can turn around and tell us you haven’t paid enough tax to run the country. In other words they don’t trust any employer to tell the truth in their earnings and get us to dob them in with our input for the year. All it does is show where the government comes from, their thinking at any given moment in all they do…regardless the department. Everybody hates doing it because it takes so long and such a painful waste of ‘time’ 🤣
I was just implying the my lunar moon cycle can send us a bit crazy sometimes. In fact, the impact of the end of last year, the beginning of this one and that moon has been something else. Because I can ‘feel’ so much, it is so powerful. I’m usually feeling hearts but this is something else. If I didn’t know any better I would almost say this is like the change from medieval to the renaissance. It’s just big…but I can’t define it. It has been coming on for several years now, accelerated recently, and I’m waiting for…I don’t know…aliens landing at the White House 🤣
But at the same time I…yes I…am on-guard. It’s like I’m going to be offered something very nice, like a lovely juicy apple…but on the other side of it, its full of worms 🤔😂
I feel a trickster, a lie is behind it. Its intent will start good but ulterior motives fill it.
Mmm, listen to me babbling. I think I might go back and sing and eat chocolate on my balcony Ka, and just forget all about my tax. It’s not due until July anyway 🤣
You have both amused me and given me much to think about! I hear you. I’m with you. Let me see what you said and how it settles! Your aliens at White House made
Me laugh. What’s the equivalent in Australia? 🇦🇺 Is United States really that big of a deal in the world that the aliens would CHOOSE White House?! Your metaphors are amazing about the juicy apple.
Where do you think this bait and switch sensation you are feeling is coming from? I get the on-guardedness you are feeling. Jupiter is retrograding in Gemini and that sign usually gets the trickster label. I tend to see it as more playful and surface though than dark and sinister. Are worms healthy? Protein? Haha. Chocolate 🍫 go for it. I’ll be thinking about you my friend. 💗🙏🏻🤗😆
We just have this unusual half buried building called Parliament House (English related), full of tricksters 🤣
And I can’t pin what is behind it all but your right, even if it has bad within it there is always a possibility to create some good from it. And the aliens…probably a plane load of seagulls will rock up on the Parliament House steps and squawk and poo on their steps more than the politicians do 🤗😂❤️🙏
Beautiful post, Ka ❤ and many blessings to you and yours this year! I’m a kitty/dog moon/sun soul too (lol)! I have to say … though, your moon shot looks like the moon/sun/earth glowing combined ~ Stunning! 😀
Awh thanks! 🙏🏻 so happy to “see” you. Happy 2025!! It’s really sweet that you chimed in so I am aware that we share this love for kitty/doggy and sun/moon. It’s the most beautiful balance to connect on. Have a lovely day and week! ☺️ You made me smile!
A beautiful homely and nurturing cancer moon Ka! 🌕
And at the same time, I’m full of inspiration, creativity, and wanting it to be all done yesterday ha!
Love all your ideas and your love for life Ka. Happy Full Moon 💞💞💞
My dear friend, as I’m taking my time in turning the page in this New Year, 2026, I am back to 2025’s start and reflecting. I’m not even close to “catching up” to “today.” Yet, I’m only ever in “this moment.” You understand. You are wonderful! I’m so glad to traverse the universe with you on spaceship Earth 🙂 Wishing you all kindness, love, and joy!
finally I see a post from you. So happy. I need to read this a few times because it’s so interesting the way you say it .. it’s like you are talking to me , explaining to me in your most eloquence elegance. Love you, Ka. And I love that about your little girl. So endearing. 😘🤗 glad to see you back. Love you
Love you, too. So very much. Words are so interesting, expressing, communicating, letting spirit animate us and how we connect with one another. I’m happy to help explain anything—or at least try too! Muah!
You enrich the reader’s experience with your choice of words. Your way of communication makes it easy for the reader to understand and connect and there in develops a deep sense of appreciation for you . Love your style.
Thank you so much for appreciating my writing style! I enjoy writing, and connecting. Thank you very much 🙂 Thank you in 2025, and in 2026. Your feedback means a lot to me!
It’s so my heart’s pleasure to be reading you. 😘