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The citadel is an interesting feature of premodern life. We don’t really have an equivalent in metropolitan areas these days. If anything, city centers are sprawling grids designed for consumption.
But the citadel served a key purpose which we’d be wise to rediscover now in our overpopulated cultural discourse.
Citadels are fortified city cores which serve a defensive function. Oftentimes, they sit on raised land to aid with defensiveness.
We see the citadel personified in Cancer energy, and here we are at the annual Cancer New Moon, which always launches our July story.
Take Michael Jordan for example. Cancer Rising. He was the core of the Chicago Bulls. Despite his amazing offensive feats, he played essential defense and was amazing with assists.
And, like the defensive crab (Cancer’s avatar) who has a hard shell, Jordan is what we’d call a softie at heart.
He is prone to welling up with emotion. How else would he be fueled to compete at such a brutal level?
Emotions are the spirit at the core of us. Yes, they may ebb and flow like the tides and the Moon, ruler of Cancer.
But they are what keeps us fighting. Indeed, they are often what we fight FOR.
Cancer holds the family together. It is the preeminent energy for understanding home and hearth.
It’s just that this defensiveness may be a little preemptive this July. As if every little word and opinion is triggering our soft insides.
Which makes the defender turn to aggressor—even though they would deny it.
Victim—or instigator? It’s all in the eye of the beholder now.
Let’s dive in.
The Birth of Tragedy
We’ve got a cargo ship filled with Aries energy at this Cancer New Moon.
Aries is bold, masculine, assertive, proactive.
In some sense, it’s part of the same family of energy as Cancer.
Even though the Aries sword is sharp, it seeks to preserve something, like Cancer—namely, its own momentum.
But as we’ve just said, there’s quite a bit of difference between instigating an attack and being attacked.
Until, of course, you throw in someone trying to have it both ways. And yes, people will try to do that at this New Moon, with both Venus and Mercury tag-teaming it up in two-faced, double-speak Gemini.
We have to understand why this is.
It’s due to the fact that people are EXTRA sensitive now. If someone is poking around their citadel, you’re going to see this flurry of accusations.
“They dishonored my family name! They tainted the most beautiful statue in our city!”
“Please, sir, they merely scuffed it with their shoe. At worst, they are negligent, and it will buff out in no time. . .”
“Nonsense! This is war! And besides, I want my pound of flesh for this temporary inconvenience.”
“But again, sir, maybe this shows we need to move statues to higher ground. The sea air has eroded them worse than this vandal. . .”
And so you may have helpful allies and soothsayers at this time pointing out crucial perspectives.
There is, after all, a beautiful trine from chatty Mercury to Saturn the elder statesman, who sits in brotherly Aquarius.
Not only will we see the Mercurial nuance to the situation, we may be persuaded to evaluate our troubles more sensibly.
Namely, that not only is the trouble temporary, but it’s been a blessing alerting us to where we can develop MORE security and freedom.
We can see precious things for what they are, and draw them closer to us.
Furthermore, we can understand that these things have already been under siege, in worse ways, from environmental or market factors.
So vandals and thieves and even well-meaning visitors do us a strange justice now. One, by directing our attention to a neglected area which WE have carpet swept.
Two, by reorienting our perceptions to what constitutes true injustice.
And it’s funny, the truly unjust things may be completely out of our hands. Will we file suit against the beautiful sea air for eroding the marble ideals we’ve erected shoreside, out of pride and folly?
Shouldn’t these things have been more modestly hidden in the citadel center, where they could be laden with daily offerings of incense and flowers, in an atmosphere of quiet reverence?
Oh no, perhaps we are the vandals! But that’s ok, we should forgive ourselves for that pride and folly.
Can we do that without demonizing and razing the cities of others?
Womb & Tomb
Mercury is in a harsh square to Neptune at this New Moon.
Neptune is fogginess, deception. But also redemption, forgiveness.
Perhaps if we push our folly to the breaking point, we will see it for what it is and begin the path of forgiving ourselves so that we don’t murder others—especially tricksters who do us a strange favor.
It will be a hell of a challenge, though.
This New Moon is harshly square Jupiter the Loud Mouth, who sits in warrior Aries.
“Oh, it is only WE who are both victim and hero! Everyone else is pillaging and raping the land!”
That’s the kind of emotion you’ll see.
And then we have warrior Mars himself clashing with Pluto, the ultimate planet of nuclear destruction and demolition.
Pluto has been in the governmental and banking sign of Capricorn since 2008.
As these violent planets clash, we’ll most certainly see some kind of physical escalation that draws out the police state.
Perhaps the clash starts close to home. This is a natalist Cancer New Moon, after all.
Violence in the schools or downtown retail core, for example, which draws out the body armored SWAT soldiers.
Oh, are some shining heroes going come to rescue and redeem us?
Or are the only going to make the situation worse, with their excessive use of force, rudely bulldozing past civilian bystanders?
And are those civilian bystanders themselves—witnesses to a gross shadow that has fallen on their city—innocent or uppity?
It’s all going to swirl in a media stew, where every YouTube commentator presents one more clue in the theory of How It All Went Down.
You’ll see this, too, internally.
Emotions prompting you to single-mindedly pursue an absolutist view, while knowing full well there’s more than one side to the story.
Irrationality is here.
But you can harness this irrationality, and use it to keep your focus on what’s really worth fighting for.
Draw those precious things closer to your heart, for an experience of quiet reverence away from the madding crowd.
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Beautifully written, hope to keep all that in mind for the days to come.