Author: evandevovere

The Cancer new moon flows through in just a few hours (around 7pm July 5th). This moon is sitting with Venus and squaring the nodes still traveling through Aries & Libra.

Cancer is ruled by the moon, forever tied to its predictable rhythm and cycles repeating each month. What can feel like a spontaneous outburst of emotion or pleasant surprise of calm waters is only part of the natural ebb and flow of being so connected with the moon. If we are paying attention at all to the story of our lives there is always some sort of cycle at play we might track through our own intuitive knowing.

This moon wants us to remember what it means to Care. To be Care-full and remember the pleasure and sweetness that arises when we treat ourselves and others with grace and softness. Part of this means embracing our tears and overflow as a natural way we stabilize, cleanse, and understand more deeply our truth in any given moment.

The moon in astrology holds many different archetypal meanings. From symbolizing our mother or prominent nurturing figures in our early childhood, to representing our inner child, the karma we come into this life with to work through, ancestral inheritances which are present within the body, our physical body in general, how we like to be nurtured, how we nurture others, our instinctual needs, what we are comfortable with, patterns which begin in childhood, the things we do when we are not thinking consciously about it.

Cancer as a sign holds memory in the emotional body, all the remnants of a life lived through Feeling from sorrow to ecstasy, held tight and safe inside the crab shell ready to be re-experienced in full at any given moment. There is a need for surrender with Cancer—similar to all the water signs—where we are asked to learn when to release, when to trust, and when to believe in what we know intuitively/instinctually. And for Cancer specifically it has a lot to do with moving in sync with what is kind, what is supportive of life, and what brings comfort.

This is quite a soft new moon sitting in the space between the nodes which have had us reckoning over this last year with what it means to be fully ourselves and in relationship at the same time. Are these actually at odds? Maybe that is what this new moon is asking us to feel into. If we are care-full, do we need to worry so much about either of these? When we are aligned in how we nurture life, our environment, the people around us, our greater communities, our global neighbors, doesn’t this also imply care of self? When did we become so fixated on separating how we give and receive? When did we forget that love freely given from our unique expression of self to someone fully receiving it is the most mutually healing experience of all?

This is a place of growth which Cancer can support us with. Discovering, through our emotional knowing, when it is true giving for us and when someone is actually receiving us. And with Cancer I’m being drawn to the mother archetype and a child receiving milk, a form of sustenance holy understood without pretense or confusion. Things get more convoluted as we get older with more memory layered within us and complex relational conditioning and expectations. But what if things were filtered through this level of simplicity?

Is my energy being received as holy sustenance? Am I needed here right now? Am I hindering someone else’s growth process through my giving? Is what I have to give actually aligned with this person or situation or might it be more fully received somewhere else? Am I recognizing what truly feels like a gift to my soul, those things which offer a level of sustenance and pleasure that I feel completely held and taken care of? Am I really honoring those people/places/things enough to have them continue flowing in my life? Am I overlooking things that are trying to offer this to me? Am I actively saying No when someone is giving to me in ways that are not aligned? Am I actively saying No when someone expects me to give in ways I am not comfortable with, resourced to do, or just don’t want to do?

Care is love. Love is care-taking our evolution physically, spiritually, emotionally, mentally. Love is recognizing our limits and the magic that happens when we let ourselves flow outside preconceived ideas of what “giving” and “receiving” looks like. When Love is present it is an embrace for all, an infinite receptive flow where distinction between giver and receiver falls away.

May this new moon help us all understand more clearly where our intuitive genius is guiding our flow of Care/Love and all the ways it infinitely returns to us that we may have yet to recognize.

xo

Evan

Co-Creative Astrology Update!

For those who haven’t seen, I have a few new offerings up on my website — The Archetypal Key session & The Illuminated Dreamer session. For those wanting a more intuitive and symbolic approach to the birth chart which includes bringing in oracle and tarot cards, I invite you to check out the Archetypal Key session! And for anyone who has interest in discovering deeper meaning behind your dreaming life, I am now offering sessions which incorporate dream work ✨

I’ve also been doing collective tarot readings up on youtube under the channel STARSTARoracle. I typically post a new pick a card reading each week which blend current transits with the questions I form for the readings in dialogue with the planets.

Thank you for your presence in my life through engaging with my writing here. It means a lot to get to share and be received in so many unique ways in this lifetime 🐚💓🌊

CHIRON x SUN x MOON x NORTHNODE
Lately I’ve been drawing my inner world into a concentrated awareness where I coax out the feeling within my body of a future me who exists without any restriction upon the creative life force flowing within and through them. Accessing this version of me who exists without the tight grip of past conditioning suffocating their desire to express has felt like a secret purification where I get to tap into the sanctity of my own unrestricted creativity.
We are always creating. There is no way to exist without being creative. Creating is natural. Art is the devotion and willingness to be destroyed by it. (Says my 5th house Scorpio stellium)
Ok, I understand we all have our own way of understanding art. I just think it’s important to have some reverence for the art that speaks to our collective nightmares, our unified crisis of consciousness, our walks on the edge of life where pathways to gnosis have us strung up like the hanged man in our own quest to feel again and again.
The archetype of the hanged man has been flooding through my experience lately. In a dream I traveled through an abandoned part of a city called “the hanged man” and climbed up into the beams of a beautiful metal structure to finally free myself from where I’d been only to fall and be caught by my partner in the dream, waking up to a feeling of being safely held while dangling from a very high place.
We all have to meet the hanged man in life if we want to know true progress. The kind that pierces our conditioned preconceptions about what is real, true, and all the ways we say “I am _____.”
This solar eclipse in Aries conjunct—to the minute—with Chiron has me in deep contemplation of what sacrifice and suffering mean. Ruled by mars who is sitting with Saturn in Pisces, this planetary combination and zodiac placement similarly calls to mind the energy and religious iconography of Christ on the cross.
What are these images, stories, myths—which are so deeply embedded into all of our psyches—trying to express to us about suffering and sacrifice?
Chiron was a true master but not a hero figure like other big players in Greek mythology. His gifts were expressed through mentorship and being the one everyone would go to as a teacher. Being immortal, when he was pierced with the poisoned arrow by accident it meant an eternity of suffering. Chiron’s story ends with him sacrificing himself to take the place of Prometheus who is being grotesquely punished by the Gods for bringing fire to humanity. Strung up on a rock to have his liver eaten out and regenerated each day. I see this part of the myth, when Chiron asks to take the place of Prometheus, as his way of accepting the suffering fully and putting it up as a form of sacred sacrifice. This act causes the Gods take pity on him and make him mortal so he might die, be released, raised up and honored in the sky.
These stories of the extremes of embodied suffering and sacrifice tell us something significant about the illuminating power that exists within this state of suspension when all we have left to do is sacrifice the suffering. All that is possible any more is to either hold on to our pain or let it burn through the fire of our surrendered heart.
A spiritual path isn’t about looking to finally end our pain for good or have every person in a 24/7 state of bliss where nothing affects them. It’s learning to release the suffering of life. How we make meaning is what matters. No one can tell you what the right path is or what sacrifice you have to make in order to release your suffering. We each have our own way and own unique set of limitations, challenges, and oppressive forces that we are working with to help us understand what it means to be free. To us. Freedom in general is an end to suffering, what that means specifically in the context of your unique soul’s evolution is your own. It may even look nonsensical to others. It doesn’t matter.
Ending my personal suffering has meant sacrificing my epoch of shame to the cauldron of art. I’ve been in a deep hanged man period for years, wondering if I’d ever find inspiration again to devote myself so fully after severe burn out from getting my MFA. But this is the way, the long game we came to play. When that feeling comes it’s like being pierced through the heart. The pit of grief welling up from being separate from it for so long mixed with the intense ecstasy of tasting a fire you know is just yours and it doesn’t matter what happens because it’s why you came here.
Capitalism has made us all starving, insatiable for the seemingly endless flow of creation being curated to us via algorithms trying to sell us the experience of art as a product, and the experience of each other as capital.
How is devotion to craft and being possessed by our own process meant to coexist with this void we all feed our content to?
I guess each creator finds their own way to answer that question. The squeeze and disillusionment of social media on artists is really producing some interesting ingenious responses. Beyond our brilliant capacity to navigate this culture of starvation that capitalism has created, I do question on a collective level how we contend with the the way companies purposefully design their services to be addictive, taking our imagination from us and replacing it with endless streams of content. Who is serving who here?
This Aries eclipse is the poisoned arrow in our side, stringing us up on the cross and begging us to become intimate with our suffering, especially around our motivation to Live. Not survive, but the primal intuitive impulse, the spiritual excitement that drives our vessel through this experience with a wildness and pleasure that is unstoppable.
Who are you before anyone tells you?
What did you desire before it was sold to you?
How will you reclaim your imagination?
Your answers to these questions will tell you exactly what you need to sacrifice.
It makes so much sense to me that my path brought me full into a spiritual breakdown/through. We would never know who we are if we didn’t sacrifice everything we knew of ourselves first. I studied filmmaking because it was the closest thing to dreaming I could tangibly work with. It is clear to me now that I needed to understand how to enter my own dream and the collective dream more fully before returning to Life.
Sending an endless bounty of gratitude and love to all those who engage with my work. And massive heart embrace and solidarity with all those standing in their light and using it in their unique way to serve the collective and a world that truly honors human life and all sentient beings upon this beautiful planet. May this eclipse ignite the sacred fire within each of us that is needed to propel us out of the delusions being fed around who deserves the type of freedom I was speaking upon and who does not.
Bless this life & our collective path toward awakening into the truth of our oneness.
♡ Evan ♡
Along with my natal chart and transit sessions and the longer 8 week program, I am going to start offering a new type of session where clients bring a dream to dive into together. I am excited to incorporate tarot and oracle guidance into these sessions as well to expand upon how the medicine of the dream wants to be expressed. More details on this session should be coming soon on my website and instagram but feel free to reach out ahead of that if this is calling to you! Looking at recent dreams or significant past dreams is very much encouraged.
I have also been giving weekly pick a card tarot/oracle readings which are in conversation with the current planetary transits every Sunday for the collective over on Youtube! This project started rather spontaneously and has been pretty exciting so far. I invite you to check out the magic over there.




xo