Or how to balance emotional comfort and deep introspection!

On July 17th, at 18:31 GMT, the Moon and the Sun both at 24° of Cancer offering us a very profound and challenging New Moon in Cancer. New Moons represent a wonderful opportunity to start a project, work with intentions and goals. This one, however, requires us to readjust, reflect deeply and strategize more than usual.

The Moon feels at home in the sign of the crab and encompasses the notions of comfort, emotional well being, nurturing of the soul and a cocoon-like atmosphere. A new Moon in Cancer is usually a great time to refocus on how you feel at home, in your surroundings and with people that are close to you. This is still very true for this particular lunation but this reconnection needs to happen after a deep (and perhaps painful) introspection.

The Moon and the Sun are opposite Pluto in Capricorn and this aspect creates some tension between our need to shift, transform and evolve at a soul level and the difficulty to step out of a nurturing and safe comfort zone. The Lunar Nodes change signs (from the Taurus/Scorpio axis to the Aries/Libra axis) the same day as the New Moon occurs and create a square to the Moon. This aspect is challenging us to learn from our past relationships and coping mechanisms (avoiding conflict, people pleasing, codependency…) in order to move forward with a healthy sense of boundaries and enough maturity to confront people or walk away from them if needed. Chiron in Aries is also forming a square to the Moon, asking us to work on our deep rooted fears about self-worth and our individual place in the world at large. This aspect can be quite intense and might push us to take action on the road of recovery and to look for means to heal deep-seated traumas.

On the other hand, a beautiful trine between Neptune and the Moon offers us sensitivity and spirituality: both ingredients will help us look at the bigger picture and find meaning in daily matters of the heart. An interesting sextile between the Moon and Uranus brings progress and liberation from usual and alienating inner patterns to evolve and embrace our cosmic and everflowing emotional nature.

Find out below the big themes associated to this New Moon according to you Sun, Moon and Ascendant signs!

• Aries: home and family, relationships with important women in your life, comfort zone, roots and ancestry

• Taurus: siblings and neighbours, social activities, giving and receiving information, communication

• Gemini: self-worth, material things, your personal salary and the way you make money, physical body and how to nourish it

• Cancer: identity, personality, how other people perceive you, the image you give, your appearance

• Leo: spirituality, liminal spaces, subconscious patterns, time in solitude, hidden enemies, secrets

• Virgo: communities and large social groups, friendships, progress, future plans, hopes and dreams, use of technology

• Libra: career, professional advancement, status, legacy and what you bring to the world, how people see you at work

• Scorpio: philosophy and how you see the world, core beliefs, higher learning, various cultural and geographical elements

• Sagittarius: intimacy and sexuality, deep inner psychological questionning, shared finances, end of a chapter to start a new one

• Capricorn: contracts, partnerships, agreements and documents that are important and legal, marriage, divorce, diplomatic relationships

• Aquarius: routine and physical health, what you eat and how you move, daily work and close colleagues, pets

• Pisces: hobbies and creative or artistic activities, romance and passion, reconnection to your inner child, interaction with your children

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.

Anne Frank