New Moon in Cancer Kemetic Ceremony
About this Event
New Moon in Cancer
There is a moment each cycle when the Moon descends into the darkness of the primordial waters. In the Egyptian sky, Cancer is the scarab: Khepri, the one who comes into being from nothing, pushing the new light over the horizon by the force of his own becoming. A New Moon in Cancer is that scarab at its most secret hour; the seed dropped into the primeval waters before anything has form. This is the root of everything.
This is not one night's working. The dark Moon we plant in Glastonbury is the first beat of a single story written in light. In Kemetic lunar theology, the Eye is torn out at the dark Moon and filled, day by day, until it is whole. This Eye will fill across eighteen months and reach its charged completion at the lunar eclipse of 12 January 2028, in the very degree of Cancer we gather under now. What we conceive in the marsh-waters this night, like Isis hiding Horus in the reeds, we are tending toward that distant fullness. The seed and its harvest are the same point of sky.
We do this work in Glastonbury for a reason. The Isle of Avalon rises from its own sacred waters; the red and white springs, the Lady of the Lake's mirror. Cancer's element finds its echo in this living, watered ground: a place that has always known how to hold what is conceived in the dark until it is ready to be born.
You will leave with the seed named, and the eighteen-month thread placed in your hands.
Where is it happening?
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