Full Moon in Cancer
January 6, 2023 at 3:08 PST
Illuminate, Release, Healing

With the New Year 2023 there will be a slight change to this monthly posting. We have gone through several years of New Moon posting and now,
starting with January 2023, it will be about the Full Moons, which is a very different energy than New Moons. The Full Moon meaning will be
generally the same each month on a base level, but with unique additional energies depending on which sign it is occurring in.
Just as Full Moons illuminate, you are seeing things more clearly in your life. It is a time of culmination, fruition, releasing, welcoming
closure, and allowing things to complete. It can also make you feel things more intensely, which can be good or bad, depending on your state of
mind when the full moon rises.

A Full Moon is the most powerful of moons filled with heightened emotions to help you understand what is causing disruptions in your life so you
can let go of patterns, endeavors, or relationships that are no longer serving you and your highest good, and are the best time to take inventory
of what no longer serves you and where you can make more space for something better to come in.

From Dec 22-Jan 21st, the Sun is in the sign of Capricorn and the first Full Moon of 2023 falls in the sign of Cancer. This lunation peels back
layers of protection which you have carefully accumulated over the years in several areas including your inner life and family relationships and
deals with the balance between the private life, domesticity, the need for a home base, and nurturing (represented by Cancer) versus the public
life, career, reputation, and accountability (represented by Capricorn). You could be feeling empowered to shake up how you’re managing your
work-life balance or open up about deep-rooted emotions within your closest personal and professional relationships. Growth is inevitable into
2023, and this Full Moon appears to be the catalyst.

This Full Moon asks you to address healing deep-seated wounds from the past that are hindering your growth. Don't continue to put off what you know
must be handled. Time to clear up past patterns that have been holding you back from personal fulfillment, particularly those that are home or
family-centered or that revolve around work-home balance and attitudes toward comfort and responsibility. Over the years, you have gained a lot
of insights from prior lessons and relationships so now would be the time to really focus on your emotional needs and explore how family dynamics
from the past and your reactions to them are shaping your present situations and challenges, because some of your closest and oldest attachments —
especially to loved ones — are helping or hindering your growth and balance.

No matter your age, this Full Moon shines her light on ways in which you continue to act out your childhood and find yourself replicating patterns
of what others may have said or done to you. It’s up to you to decide which of these to carry forward or to cut. If you are planning to address
or confront these issues with others, emotions are always heightened around the time of a Full Moon so use as much tact as possible since people
can be quick to respond defensively and may resort to fight-or-flight modes.
Release the expectation of knowing all the answers so you can be open to embracing varying views. Be curious and adaptable especially in terms of
how you’re relating to others while working on setting healthy boundaries. This could have you seeing situations in an illuminating new way and
tackling them from in different ways and approaches.

Accept all the parts of yourself. This lunation reminds your that you don’t need to overexplain who you are, what or how you look like, or what you
enjoy – and that you need to stop justifying those things or worse, apologizing for them. Everything you’ve experienced has created the unique,
quirky, and wonderful person that is you today. Truly believe that it is a privilege for others to know and love you.
This Full Moon is a time to consider ways to bring more alignment into your life.
Ask yourself:
“What is no longer in alignment with who you truly are?”
“Where do you need to establish better boundaries?”
“How are you dimming your light in order to fit in”
and
“At the end of the day, what matters to me the most is…”
and see what answers and inspiration follow because
it is a good time to remind yourself of what is important and what you truly care about.
Joyful and Peaceful Blessings,
Lisa Luna
WiseOwlTarot.com
Cards shown include: Moonology Oracle Cards by Yasmin Boland; StarCodes Astro Oracle by H. Roan Robbins and L. Lua De Souza;
Work Your Light Oracle Cards by Rebecca Campbell;
Elisabeth on Earth Oracle cards by Elisabeth Ladwig;
‘GrandMother Spider’ © Jo Jayson 2016 used with permission.
Past Blogs
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2023 Is The Year Of The Chariot
New Moon Sagittarius, November 23, 2022
Samhain, Halloween, All Hallows Eve, October 31, 2022
New Moon Partial Solar Eclipse, October 25, 2022
Autumn Equinox, September 22, 2022
Mercury Retrograde in Libra and Virgo, September 9, 2022
New Moon Virgo, August 27, 2022
Super Full Moon Aquarius, August 11, 2022
New Moon Leo, July 28, 2022
New Moon Cancer, June 28, 2022
New Moon Gemini, May 30, 2022
Full Moon Scorpio, May 15, 2022
New Moon Taurus, April 30, 2022
New Moon Aries, March 31, 2022
New Moon Pisces, March 2, 2022
The Super-Charged Energy, February 22, 2022
New Moon Aquarius, January 31, 2022
New Moon Capricorn, January 2, 2022
2022 The Year of The Lovers
New Moon in Sagittarius and Solar Eclipse, December 4, 2021
Full Moon Taurus and Partial Lunar Eclipse, November 19, 2021
New Moon Scorpio, November 4, 2021
Remembrance Cookies, October 31, 2021
New Moon Libra, October 6, 2021
New Moon Virgo, September 6, 2021
Uranus is Retrograde in Taurus, August 19, 2021
New Moon Leo, August 8, 2021
New Moon Cancer, July 9, 2021
New Moon in Gemini, June 10, 2021
New Moon in Taurus, May 11, 2021
New Moon in Aries, April 11, 2021
New Moon in Pisces, March 13, 2021
New Moon Aquarius, February 11, 2021
New Moon Capricorn, January 12-13, 2021
2021, The Year of the Hierophant, Beliefs, Balance and New Paths
Winter Solstice, December 21, 2020, The Great Jupiter-Saturn Conjunction at 0 degrees Aquarius
New Moon Solar Eclipse in Sagittarius, December 14, 2020, New Perspective, New Direction
New Moon Saturday November 14th, 2020, Transformations, Strength
Full Blue Moon October 31st, 2020 Halloween, All Hallow's Eve, Samhain
New Moon October 16th, 2020 Balance, Harmony, Patience
New Moon September 17, 2020 Organize, Simplify
New Moon August 18th, 2020 Get It Together
New Moon July 20, 2020 Revise, Rebuild
June 2020 Transformation, Redirection
May 2020 Opportunities for New Beginnings
April 2020 A Time to Review and Reset
March 2020 Evolving into a Different Future
February 2020 New Seeds of Inspiration
January 2020 Endings and Beginnings