Fulfilling Your Soul’s Assignment

Full Moon in Capricorn, Sun in Cancer

In honor of my Ancestors, I wanted to share how I changed the story of my family’s lineage. This Full Moon in Capricorn under a Cancer sky has an invitation and a challenge that can change the patterns for all those standing behind you.

Think about your family (either of origin or chosen) and how much that thought can elicit two energies: love (Cancer) and the burden therein (Capricorn) to be there for them and/or to carry their sadness, heartbreaks, and issues.

As with every Full Moon, opposites and polarity occur. Why? Because every Full Moon includes two planets: the Sun and the Moon being 180 degrees apart. Cancer is opposite Capricorn. Let me explain.

We are built to love, as well as to carry the karma from our family lineage. This is our responsibility as a human being: to take on the ancestral patterns in order to break the karma we inherit from our families – thereby fulfilling our job as a member of the evolutionary club. 

Everyone is included – it comes with being human, having a chart, and a bundle of karma.

Have you noticed that you are handed patterns at birth without being told this is both your karma and your dharma? In other words, you may have gotten the shittiest story from someone you grew up with, or all the women in your family were shut down, or a cultural imprint was handed to you from your religion. Now it’s up to you to change the story, update it, so that you are free from the bondage your whole family was handed. Do so for all those in your lineage.

Welcome to Cancer-Capricorn! 

I have a friend born with Cancer-Capricorn polarity. Her mother suffered from mental illness; at different points in her childhood, her mom had to be institutionalized.  Mental illness was then handed on to her sister (who eventually took her own life). My friend is, at last, breaking the karma.

I was surprised the other day as she was circling around repetitive negative thoughts when I bluntly said, “You do have mental illness in your family, this is not your fault, and by the way, these thoughts are not true, nor are they helpful.” I thought she would be offended. But she wasn’t. She was relieved and said, “Thank you for calling that out. You are so right.” She is obviously on the path of awakening and just loves the truth. This is why we are friends. I cherish those who can admit, call out, and work on the stuff handed to them that longs for healing, instead of pretending and sweeping it under the carpet.

Are you willing to call out your karma? Whatever the story is – a family with mental illness, abuse, secrets – say it without pretending, denying, or stuffing this truth under the system. And then do something about it? 

Truth be told, we all carry issues from what came before. We absorb the pain of our ancestors, our family, to see if we can elevate the symptoms into teachings/healings/lessons to be transformed. So your children, and the next generation, will have a better version of the human experience.

After doing 23andMe, I found out I was 99% Ashkenazi Jew. No surprise. All in my family (Cancer) were refugees, immigrants who came from Eastern Europe, mostly Russian and Ukrainian. They arrived on a long journey on a boat that carried great risk and terror.

In fact, my great-grandfather died on that journey. My grandmother told me that story as she cried; he died in her arms. As the years went by, she had so much trauma in her life that, eventually, her tear ducts dried up. At the end of her life, she could not cry anymore.

One day in meditation, after moving to Hawaii, I realized I had lifted up the karma of those long, cold winters that were harbored in my DNA, in my bones. I felt through her heart the terror my grandmother carried from the journey on that boat. I changed the family karma.

While all of us carry something of our bloodline, not all of us know how to utilize that burden and turn it into a job description (Capricorn) that will elevate and evolve our world and our species. This is our unspoken job.

I have this joke: I am the president of the Jews for Joy club, of which I have few members. But it’s true. To take sadness, or abuse, or deep fear to the door called Transformation City, in order to change the narrative of our children’s children, is not an easy path nor a well-worn one.

I wish this job description was told to us at birth, when an Astrologer would have met with your parents and handed them a list of karmic issues that detailed your assignment. That’s my crazy dream – but right now the Full Moon in Capricorn asks us to come back to reality.

This Full Moon addresses hard truths. If in your family the karma was hard, or in your last relationship it was crippling or so painful (Cancer) you shut down at the end and now live with that sad story… and if you have given up hope about relationships or family or the greater human family we all belong to – I want you to know that at any moment, even right now – you can stop, observe, remember this was an assignment handed to you from your ambitious soul. To be here now, at this time, in this energy, to learn and grow. To transcend and rewrite the karma.

It’s not easy – but then this Full Moon is all about the strength of character and commitment that only such a Cardinal combo could elicit (Cardinal is an Astrological term that describes strong leadership). 

Pluto is in Aquarius transforming how we see our future, how we utilize our gifts, and how we develop new systems that impact humanity. At the same time, Saturn and Neptune in Aries are spurring delusions and harsh lessons of old systems that no longer work. Uranus just moved into Gemini, where revolutionary thinking can bring new ideas and upheaval to established paradigms. Uranus visits a sign for about seven years. The last time Uranus was in Gemini was in 1941-1948. Before that Uranus was in Gemini in 1859-1866 and before that 1774-1782. These are powerful times.

We are being tasked with doing the inner work on ourselves, on our own karma, so that the whole world benefits. It’s heavy lifting, but it’s necessary for a bigger shift. I want you to know: you can count on me, my team, and my school. We are the real thing. 

We do Cancer – take care of our students, and we do Capricorn – expect their commitment to give their best. Come study with us. Simple Astrology brought to you by a 6-week program that is solid, real, and trustworthy. If you have been flirting with the thought of studying YOU…this Full Moon wants you to dance with YOU and get a solid commitment from you. Classes begin again on September 8. There is time to save, to prepare. 

If you need help (which we all do) to rewrite your story, we have trained therapists that I can strongly endorse. I want you to know that in September I am teaching in person in Boulder. It’s a process that I created to assist the clearing of karma. It sounds like spiritual jargon to say that 4E can change your karma – but it’s true. If you are interested, let us know.

Find out more about the 4E Process here.

If you seek individual support, connect with one of our recommended experts here.

This is every human’s job. We all come in with a (heavy) backpack filled with issues that follow us around for a lifetime, hoping we will seek help and change the narrative. All you have to do is find good counsel, find real authentic healers who will get that pack lightened. And you can seek deeper meaning to how life works by delving into the metaphysics of self through studying Astrology. I did it, so can you.

From Russia to Hawaii with love. In honor of my Ancestors.

Debra