Physical integrity. Healing. Self-nurturing.
These are phrases from Marigold. She commented on the blog today that some of my writing about mothers or mothering (or my own mother) had affected her and honestly I couldn’t remember the last time I had written on these topics so I asked her for a topic and she brought us those words.
I’m not entirely sure what she meant by “physical integrity” but I like the phrase 🙂
Maybe she meant: knowing the difference between her and you i.e. you are your mother’s daughter (or son) but you are not your mother.
And I was sitting here thinking hmm hmm hmm how to zoom in and then I remembered Mercury is in Cancer. Venus is in Cancer. The Sun entering Cancer later this month, Mercury going retrograde later this month, and how we spend our whole lives in dialogue with our mothers whether they are near or far, whether they hurt us or loved us or both.
My Moon is conjunct Pluto in my birth chart, thus the name of this blog. First House. And well-aspected (as I’m so fond of saying), sextiled all around the chart (with a trine to Saturn).
I am not my mother but everywhere I turn, there she is, despite her not having walked this earth for… damn. How many years? She died before my Saturn Return and no one is “ready” for their mother to die but we were radically close despite the hard years. And despite the hard years we had made a lot of peace and I was planning to go home for Pesach that year, the year she died. I hadn’t been “home” in a while. If only I knew how easy it was to make her happy. But there were years (at least 2) when I couldn’t bear to speak to her. The past was so heavy. My traumas were her fault. Etcetera, etcetera etcetera.
So here we are *almost* in the Season of the Mother, the Moon, the Womb and Mercury going retrograde in this sign means… it’s time to think about this stuff once again 🙂
Have you learned to self-soothe? Have you learned to stop crying? Have you learned to cook for yourself? To clean yourself? Just like baby kittens learn 🙂 These are metaphors and these are real.
How do you express Moon energy in the world? Who and how do you mother?
Love, MP
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12 thoughts on “Almost Cancer Season: The Moon & The Womb”
Sun, Moon and Mars in Taurus…I mother everyone and I’m not shy about what I say! 🙂
That’s interesting, muddytaurus. I don’t always think of Taurus as mothering. Are you a 4th House gal?
I think I mother everyone I come across. Unintentionally. 🙂 I don’t like to see the struggle, it bothers me less when I’m part of the story; helping someone grow up. Gently. I mother gently.
Muddytaurus just said something similar. I wonder if I do the same. I’m not really sure. Maybe that’s why people always ask me for directions. Hmm!
this speaks to me a lot… i love your site. i just discovered it last night… im a 7 degree cancer sun in my 7th house and the past week or so has been really tense for me regarding partnerships… basically my gemini (hes a 2nd degree gem, and my venus conjuncts his sun in gemini in my 5th, while his venus and mars conjunct my sun in my 7th) has been very distant ever since mercury entered cancer, and i’m giving him his space and NOT smothering him or banging down his door, especially with the current square… im really hoping that by next week things will get better… sun in cancer, and then jupiter… thank god… i need a positive breakthrough in my relationship… and im hoping chiron will heal us both…
Fingers crossed for you, jgirl xoxo
We have plans made for next weekend, yippie! Yay for the blessings cancer is going to be getting this summer, finally!!
My mother passed (I have to think about it too) almost 6 years ago. She was my rock, and my biggest fan, As a Sag sun with a Cap moon she was always happy on the surface but repressed her dark emotions which I think caused her great inner turmoil that I don’t even think she was aware of. Maybe that is where the cancer came from.
I have Sag moon in the 12th house and I when I found astrology I began to realize that she withheld as much as she gave, emotionally speaking. She was there but she wasn’t in a lot of ways, if that makes any sense.
I think I am mothering myself by doing deep exploration of who I am, dark bits and all. I’m doing it for her as much as I am for me. You can’t ignore the messy, shadowy parts and be whole.
So true, Sara! “You can’t ignore the messy, shadowy parts and be whole.”
Especially when you have a whole bunch of ’em like me. LOL.
No planets in Cancer, but Cancer is my midheaven, and my mom and my eldest sister, both born on the same day, are Cancerians. I’m very connected to all my family, my mom did a good job. We kids are all independent but caring of each other. I most definitely clean for myself, cooking ehhhh not so good at that! Meditation has helped with the self soothe, and (moon in the 5th) working out and dancing helps that a lot too.
Sometimes yes, sometimes no. I’m lucky enough to have my mother around, but we’ve been fighting a lot. I’m also scared over the fact that I still haven’t been out of here by myself, living by myself and away from them. I don’t want them to get sick anyway, but I’m scared that I’ll just be stuck here. I have Saturn in Cancer.