A Deep Dive: New Moon in Cancer

We’ll be doing a deep dive into our emotions this month.

Emotions usually rise unbidden, often driving the actions we take before our reasoning minds can catch up. Some people act out, others stuff their feelings like clothes in a suitcase and zip it up. Most of us do both at one time or another. Neither approach is particularly helpful, but emotions are so big, so important, such a major part of the human psyche that we need to do something with them when they arise.

It takes a certain amount of self-awareness to break free of our conditioned responses and learn to work with our emotions instead of being ruled by them. But sooner or later we realize that acting out can destroy relationships, and emotions never stay quietly in the suitcase. So we go looking for another way.

As any Method actor or trained magical practitioner can tell you, we can learn to recreate, re-experience, and—to some degree—control our emotional experiences. This New Moon in Cancer helps us learn how to encounter …