Begin Again: A New Moon Love Letter for Women Who Hold It All

New Moon in Cancer for Eldest Daughters, Writers, & Creatives

Are You Always the One Who Holds It All?

Are you often the one to hold, or carry, it all?

Do you handle the daily chores? Navigate the daily emotional tides and currents?

The meals. The moods. The appointments.

The apologies.

The dreams. Maybe everyone’s but your own.

Do you know what needs to go on the grocery list before it’s even written?

Can you take the emotional temperature of every room as soon as you walk in?

Maybe you’ve spent your life translating external chaos into some kind of care: by fawning, freezing, or fleeing.

Whatever that looks like for you, it is care. Just because we don’t react the same way to triggers, we all react.

Trust me on this.

“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.” - Audre Lorde

We are all holding together the household, physically and emotionally, with one hand and our sanity with the other.

But, now? There’s a crack of light. You get to place your hands inside that crack, and bust it open.

Because This Isn’t a New Moon. It’s a Portal.

The New Moon in Cancer rises early on Wednesday, June 25, and tells us what we rarely give ourselves permission to hear:

You get to want more. You get to begin again.

This New Moon isn’t a one-night stand. No one turns into a pumpkin, here, and no prince is coming to save us.

Thank fucking god.

This is the quiet ignition of a year-long portal, and, for me at least, the best things happen quietly or loudly. There are few in-betweens. Maybe that’s why I often pull the Wheel of Fortune in my Tarot deck.

SPIN. THAT. WHEEL.

Jupiter, which is the planet of expansion, abundance, and belief, just slipped into Cancer, too.

Duty or Desire: What Are You Building From?

Together, they’re rewriting the map of how we dream, and how we build.

So: What are you dreaming? What are you building?

Are you building from a sense of duty…. Or your real desires?

Radical Tenderness Is Resistance

Cancer is the sign of home, of inner knowing, of ancestral wisdom carried in saltwater and sweet songs from mother-figures.

It’s also the sign of fierce protection, of radical care as resistance. There’s nothing soft about a mother defending her child. Ask anyone who has loved as a mother (whether it’s a child, a pet, an idea, etc).

There’s nothing weak about tenderness. There’s power in your cracked voice, in the way you keep showing up, even if no one wants to see you for who and what you really are:

A force to be reckoned. Someone even the storms of the sea cannot hold. Because you will only rise and fall and rise again, relentlessly, until that force wears itself down.

god help anyone who fucks with your strength.

What If You Stopped Shrinking?

This New Moon is not subtle.

It’s a call to:

• Commit to something that feels risky but right.

• Set intentions that stretch you toward your actual dreams… not just the ones others handed you. Maybe so long ago they feel like your own.

• Create systems that support your joy, not just your survival.

• Name what you want. Out loud.

It won’t be easy. But we were not promised ease. We cannot promise ourselves ease.

We can promise ourselves truth. And I think that brings a certain kind of ease. If we live in truth, in alignment, things may not be easeful, but they will not feel like a fight against ourselves.

You Don’t Need a Map. You Just Need a Spark.

Challenges will always come. That is the nature of this life on earth, as humans. But we can live in alignment with who we are, who we say we are.

We can take a challenge as an invitation to go deeper.

If this feels scary, don’t worry. You don’t need to have it all figured out (I definitely don’t please DM me if you do so you can manage my life).

You just need to be willing to believe in something more: for yourself. For your family. For the life you’re crafting from the bones up.

Go ahead and dream, in the Practical Magic, Sandra Bullock one blue eye, one green, favorite shape is a star, kind of way.

Speak it. For you and for the you that held back on your dreams.

Maybe the you that still does.

Dreams do come true. Even the ones that feel impossible.

A Wish for Us All

Here is my wish for you, and for me. Read it out loud if you like, or silently to yourself.

For us:

May we trust that softness is a revolutionary act.

May we lead with care, and still take up caring and thoughtful space.

May we stop asking permission to feel good, to be whole, to start over.

May we stop shrinking just to keep the peace.

May this Cancer New Moon plant something unshakable in us:

A belief that our joy is worth the risk.

A knowing that our longing is not shameful.

It is holy.

May we ignite a fierce, unrelenting love for ourselves.

Not because we’ve earned it.

But because we’ve always deserved it.

It has always existed inside of us.

🌑 Free Writing Prompt for the New Moon in Cancer

What have you been holding that’s no longer yours to carry?

“What you’re afraid to say is a clear sign of what you need to write.” - Cheryl Strayed

The New Moon Says

It’s time.
To begin.
To risk.
To receive.
You’ve always been an anchor.
You are safe.
Let yourself be the ocean now.

Love you. Mean it.

Kristin

My Favorite Astrology Source: Chani Nicholas. She’s been the Real Deal for a looooong time.

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