Solar Eclipse in Cancer 2020
Solar Eclipse in Cancer 2020 “Gimme Shelter” Rolling Stones
The Solar Eclipse in Cancer falls on the Summer Solstice June 20th 2020, giving it a double dose of newness. On the first degree, 0 is uncharted territory of a sign, with a focus on beginnings, newness and starting fresh on a blank new page. Solar Eclipses (supercharged New Moon) also focus on new beginnings. With the Covid pandemic, we are dealing with a new emphasis on life and a new way to function in this new world. The old normal is no longer, making way for the new normal, giving new meaning to “home sweet home” and “no place like home”.
The Solar Eclipse in Cancer is in its home, so is functioning at its most relevant. It is the last of the Cancer Eclipses we have seen in the last year. Cancer carries with it all the qualities we seek to move through the phases of the Covid pandemic. The Covid pandemic has put strong emphasis on all things Cancer. Cancer is intrinsically cautious as a side way strutter, ever on alert and careful, quick to pull back into a shell of safety and protection. Cancer resides over everything needed and essential, motherhood, home, food, shelter, warmth, safety, comfort, touch, attachment, closeness, feelings, emotional support, hugs, nurture and care giving. Cancer is connected to food, the stomach, feeling the soothe, salve of safe shelter where staying home, closeness vs. distancing, food supply, security and safety are top of mind.
The Solar Eclipse doesn’t have any major aspects aside from a minor adjustment aspect to Saturn that gives the Solar Eclipse an added piece of caution, restraint with safe distancing that is drawing out the discomfort between wanting to be close and needing to be distant. This Solar Eclipse follows a tumultuous last few weeks with a tense tsquare on the Lunar Eclipse in Sagittarius, June 5th, as Sun Mars Neptune squared off showing a strong fighting spirit and global protesting (Mars) amidst confusion, apathy and weakness (Neptune). Venus is currently retrograde in Gemini, ready to move forward while Mercury just turned retrograde in Cancer.
Retrograde periods bring up anything to do with delays, slowing down with anything to do with communications, movement, short trips, neighbors. Whenever there is a retrograde, I always look at habits, routines and rituals as these are the natural repetitive actions we take for granted, mostly with ingrained entrenched patterns. Retrograde periods give an opportunity to revisit these habits and rituals and bring them to awareness. During this Covid pandemic, rituals, routines and structure are in a shake up which shows the increase in anxiety. At this time, unpredictability and uncertainty builds new skills in managing in the face of the unknown, going with the ebb and flow of cycles.
Jupiter Pluto Capricorn join again during this Solar Eclipse and will complete by December this year. In many cases it is showing big endings, big transformations, big reactions, with more spikes of Covid in certain parts of the world, protests to injustices (Jupiter), Pluto destruction and death. The term “winter is coming” symbolizes the cycles of life where spring is new life to summer and fall growth to winter, dying and decay. Capricorn, Pluto represent winter cycles which we are seeing with the predominance of Capricorn/Pluto cycles this year..