Poems to Dance the Year
WOUNDED BLESSING
Our world descends
Revealing roots rotting in what was.
La Blessure* the wound, the gift, the shift,
Opens vision to reveal
Laceration’s scars of grace,
Blessings we must face.
Those broken by deception
Of power’s underground abyss
Beg to turn the page
To where love exists.
Here, soul crafts seeks new light,
Reweaves fabric torn asunder,
Embraces harvest’s sacred promise,
Rather than our fungal blight.
Dear amber waves of grain grow tall
Feed diminished dreams grown small.
Calibrate the cost of hate,
Les blessures of regretted fate.
Hallowed be our bloody wounds
Informing where dear evil dwells.
Release us to our Vodou power~
Life unfurled, unbound, transformed.
Dear brave new world, rise from core,
Open wide wisdom’s door,
Stand sacred now in heart repair.
What was ~Will be no more!
*La blessure is the French word for wound. I particularly love its sound similarity with the word ‘blessing’ ~as all wounds are blessings when we turn to the hard work of healing, and grow new muscled-grace from the struggle. Samantha Cameron July 4, 2025
The Astrology of Now
SEEDING NEW LIFE
Wisdom Body Notes for June 25-July 5 by Samantha Cameron
After last week’s great turning of the Solstice, this week’s Cancer New Moon returns us to many similar energies, upping the ante to listen to Cosmic offerings. The Solstice focused our attention on surrendering and releasing so that we have more space to undertake and focus the new, asking us to consider our willingness to move on and up. Today’s lunation has the same demand, with added emphasis on seeding self-care through nurturing habits to support us through this emotional time.
The Summer Solstice occurs when the Sun stands at 00 Cancer, declaring summer in the Northern Hemisphere and Winter in the Southern. Cancer ‘s unique energies are watery, personal, profoundly emotional, possibly defended, and very feminine. Its archetypal power is that of the Great Mother, Gaia- who creates and protects life. With our world so polarized with masculine force, it is more important than ever to listen to the quiet voice, the song within asking us to sing together, to hold hands and dance, and embrace the forlorn. It is a wonderful opportunity to rebalance the feminine and masculine within and make a stab at it in the world. The feminine principle always asks for listening and sharing, which lately seem to be in small supply.
Like everything else this year, the New Moon, which would normally arrive like a quiet sea of tenderness, is filled with quixotic and expanded energies, mainly due to its embrace of the big rolly-polly one- Jupiter who expands everything he touches. If we understand what the ‘Great Mother’ is asking of us, we won’t be quite so overwhelmed, making it easier to execute.
Consider the following ‘ Big Mama Desires’
*As all gardeners know, weeding is a pain, but the health of the garden depends on it. Consider weeding your dark cellar of ‘failures, and frustrations’ to feel the vitality of beautiful new growth taking its place.
*How might I take greater responsibility for my own well being?~ Therefore be more available to sustain another?
*Burn the candle at only one end. Light that inner fire, allowing the flames to be shared.
*Listen to your anger. Validate it- or dismiss it. Either way you have a right to it. And women especially have the right to express it.
*Self-reliance, and the feeling that you support yourself well is critical, especially with Saturn now in Aires, along with the fear often present with a Cancer Moon.
*No rushing! We are under a watery flow that appreciates quiet inner time along with green walks with ma nature.
* Finish what you begin. Left over dangling dongles affect our confidence. If the intention turns out to be the wrong one- fine. Create closure. Begin again
*Ask what your heart needs at the opening and closing of each day. Hold these requests as sacred.
*Root your receptivity, expanding intuition and unconscious yearnings.
Each of us requires certain conditions to grow and flourish. With this year’s energies changing in huge ways, creating bigger and different demands than we have known, realize that what may have served last year is no longer viable. That is confusingly difficult. We are having to re-assess and begin again in every moment, which requires enormous energy….Therefore using this highly emotional 28 day journey of the Sun through Cancer, along with Jupiter’s presence her for the coming 12 months- as a far more critical time of self-care than is usual. Male and female need to restore the power of the feminine if our world is to survive. The divine feminine is about receiving, peace, compassion, feeling connected, and being willing to bloom ever more beautifully It may not feel like it, but our daily habits of planting new seed, rooting within, nurturing our soil to grow as a vital plant is what our world depends upon, especially this year!
With enormous pressure points from outer planetary shifts, rising in strength, we must grow our humanity to inhabit this new era. We are in an unknown paradigm, needing to shift intention, POV, Practices and human expression to higher levels. Jupiter’s recent entry into Cancer and his close contact to this New Moon spotlights how and why we need to question old beliefs, old designations of the feminine, and outworn ideas of kinship. Jupiter is very happy during the year’s passage through Cancer, supporting us to prioritize what heals and sustains the emotional body, especially the ability to open to our intuition. He offers growth for family life, or home life, highlighting shadowy expectations of what we hope family to be. As the ‘higher mind’ of Mercury, he supports the growth of small, practical ideas into quantum explorations and discovery.
Upcoming game-changing Cosmic events soon to be dissected:
July 4- Neptune turns Retrograde at 2 Aires, not turning Direct until 12/10.
July 7-Uranus, the revolutionary, higher-minded chaotic god of quantum leaping, enters Gemini- where he resides until 4/25/2026. While here, he brings his process of transcending the normal toward ideas of enormous change….not without chaos and turmoil.
July 13- Saturn turns Retrograde at 1 Aires!
Greater reveal will take place of the important shift of Saturn and Neptune into first degrees of Aires. (If you seek information on their energies while in Aires- go here: https://dailybreathjournal.com/astro/just-the-factsand-too-many-of-them/ )
July 18- Mercury turns Retrograde in Leo.
There will be no rest for the wicked or the wise. Dig deep, my friends as we need our entire Self at the table of life every single day.
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ASTROLOGIC OFFERINGS: Along with the natal deep dive, uncovering soulful aspirations of past/present/future, we look at the year ahead with a Solar Return, revealing the incoming cycle and what you will meet and master. These also make wonderful gift certificates for those you care deeply about.
“I consult from psychological, metaphysical perspectives, keeping the energetic information practical and useful to support you navigating deeply into life.” Contact Samantha at samcatcam@gmail.com ~or text 508-505-7700
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HAPPY RE-BIRTH NEW MOONERS: This birthday will be a year of big re-birthing, filled with hope and ideas to support your blossoming. It will also be an emotional year, and most likely tied into family needs and drama. With Jupiter so prominent, you will experience lots of growth, greater optimism, bigger ideas and likely greater responsibilities. Healing is tied into much of this year so spend more time caring for yourself before you are the ‘great mother’ to others.
