🌗 Waning Half Moon in Pisces

July 17–18, 2025

PST: 17:37 (July 17) |UK: 01:37 (July 18) |WITA: 08:37 (July 18)

Sun in Cancer | Moon in Pisces (True Sidereal Astrology)

Welcome,

The Waning Half Moon, also known as the Last Quarter or Third Quarter Moon, marks a moment of quiet transformation. It is a time to begin letting go, but not from urgency or exhaustion. This is a gentle release. A soft exhale.

The waning moon energy invites us to take what was illuminated under the Full Moon and begin the process of implementation. Not through grand actions or bold declarations, but through small shifts in how we think, feel, and relate.

This is the time where insight becomes a lived truth, where remembering becomes becoming.

There is no rush. This isn’t about fixing or forcing change. It’s about honoring what’s been revealed and allowing it to take root in its own time.

As we begin to welcome a new way of being, in thought, action, or presence, we are also asked to gently surrender the old. The beliefs, stories, or patterns that once helped us survive but no longer feel aligned. This moon holds space for both: the emerging and the releasing.

📌 A Note on Sidereal Astrology

This post follows true sidereal astrology, which reflects the actual placement of the constellations in the sky, rather than a fixed seasonal system. If the signs feel different than what you’re used to, that’s okay. Many find this approach aligns more deeply with what they’re actually feeling. It’s not about replacing old beliefs, it’s about finding what resonates in your bones.

✨ The Energy: Water on Water

With the Sun in Cancer and the Moon in Pisces, we are immersed in water energy, emotional, intuitive, imaginative, and deeply receptive. These signs come not just as influences, but as reminders of the wisdom already within us.

☀️ Sun = What you’re learning to express

🌙 Moon = What you need to feel safe doing it

☀️ Cancer Sun comes as a reminder that softness is strength. It invites you to lead with your heart, to tend to what matters at home and in your inner world. Cancer teaches us to care, not from obligation, but from presence. It whispers: you don’t need to explain why it matters to you — it matters because it does.

🌙 Pisces Moon comes as a reminder that not all truths can be seen or solved. Pisces teaches us to trust what we feel, even when we can’t name it. To dream, to dissolve, and to rest in the mystery. It speaks through silence, through art, through the language of the soul. It asks: can you let go without needing to know what comes next?

Together, these signs create a tender space for deep inner listening and emotional release. They invite you to allow things to shift without resistance, and to recognize that healing doesn’t always look like doing.

🌀 Reflection Prompts

Use these prompts to sit with what’s surfacing in your inner world, no need to rush toward answers. Let the questions open space.

1. What gentle shift is asking to be lived — not just understood?

2. What am I ready to lay down that no longer nourishes my emotional or spiritual well-being?

3. Where in my life am I being asked to listen more deeply, even if I don’t have clarity yet?

4. What part of me wants to be cared for, without needing to produce or explain anything?

5. How can I invite more trust in the unseen — in the slow unfolding of my own becoming?

   
   

🌊 Ritual: A Water Offering for Release & Trust

This ritual honors the element of water, present in both Pisces and Cancer, and invites you to symbolically and emotionally release what’s no longer needed while calling in deeper trust.

You’ll need:

• A bowl of clean water or access to a natural water source (river, ocean, stream, rain)

• A small natural object or written note symbolizing what you're releasing

• A candle (optional)

• A quiet place (preferably near or connected to nature)

  
  

Steps:

1. Create your space. Light your candle if using, and sit quietly with the bowl of water in front of you. Take a few deep breaths and place your hands on your heart.

2. Speak your truth. Whisper or write down what you’re ready to release. It might be a feeling, belief, pressure, or energetic pattern. Hold your natural object or note in your hands and infuse it with that intention.

3. Offer to the water. Gently place the object into the bowl or release it into a natural body of water (if safe and biodegradable). As you do, say aloud or silently:“I let this go with love. I release what no longer needs to be carried. I trust what is becoming.”

4. Cleanse and bless. Use a few drops of the water to gently anoint your third eye, heart, and hands. Feel the symbolic cleansing — not to erase, but to soften and renew.

5. Close in stillness. Sit in silence for a few moments. Let the water reflect your own fluid nature. Let your breath come and go like a tide. Feel your feet on the ground and the wisdom of your body holding it all.

   
   

🌙 Want to Go Deeper?

Join me and my sister Sian every Sunday at 4pm UK / 8am PST on Instagram Live for a gentle weekly sidereal astrology & tarot forecast. It’s soulful, grounding, and always meets the moment with truth and tenderness. Bring tea, your journal, and your heart.

Love, Danielle

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