Full Moon in Cancer 2025
On January 13th we welcome the first full moon of 2025 in Cancer. With Cancer’s focus on home and family, and Mars in retrograde, frustration may arise around these areas. The electric energy of Uranus brings the potential for emotional highs and transformation. Stay open, breathe, and embrace the shifts this full moon brings.
Full Moon in Cancer: Feeling the flow with our first full moon
13th January: PST 14:26 | EST 17:26 | GMT 22:26
Arriving in the water sign of Cancer, the first full moon of 2025 is an opportunity for an emotional exhale. If you are new to working with the lunar cycle or are continuing to follow the moon this year, working with the first cycle and this full moon can help you to stay on track. There are some dynamic undercurrents with this moon too, making it even more potent, so let’s explore this together…
When the moon is in Cancer, she is at home, in the sign she rules. Here, she moves with the ebb and flow of emotion, an ever-constant reminder to honour our feelings. Themes of home, family, safety and nurture can come up when the moon is in her natural realm. However, with a retrograde Mars (the warrior planet) also present in Cancer, we may find some impatience or frustration around these themes too. Questions over how we are using our energy and who we are giving it to can surface, and the answers may be very illuminating!
Whilst this full moon brings the nurture of self and others to the forefront, energy from Uranus is tingeing events with a sense of revolution or change. There may be an emotional peak with this electric energy in the mix. Breathe and let the energy flow.
Ways to work with the full moon in Cancer:
- Honour your emotional health: Create space to check in with your emotional self. Quiet reflection and journaling can help to explore your feelings.
- Focus on self-nourishment: Tune into what helps you to feel nourished and nurtured. How can you bring some more of this into your world?
- Cherish your loved ones: Who feels like ‘home’ to you? It might be family, friends or fur babies! Appreciate the connections that bring love, security and support to your world.
- Embrace vulnerability: Do you need to be more honest with yourself or others? We can find great strength and compassion when we connect within and with those we trust about our fears and insecurities.
- Let your intuition speak: As we wade deeper into the Mars retrograde in Cancer, we may find ourselves confronting emotional wounds or conflict from the past. Listen to your intuition about what might be ready to be healed.
What is being illuminated?
It’s helpful to pause at a full moon, stand back and look at what is being illuminated. Some of the astrology has been challenging as we have begun 2025, but as the first full moon of the year in a water sign, this is a powerful time to appreciate and strengthen our emotional resilience. Here are some suggestions of journal prompts for exploration:
Journal prompts for the Cancer full moon
- What is being illuminated for me?
- Where do I need to put my energy now?
- When do I feel at my most intuitive?
- In what ways am I building my emotional strength?
Give yourself time to work with this full moon. Go gently, friends.
Wishing you a beautiful first full moon of the year.
Charlotte x
About Charlotte Lauren
Charlotte Lauren is a resident Astrologer for Moon Phase Studios providing regular insights in our newsletter about each New and Full Moon.
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She also provides the astrological data and written content for our Moon Calendars and 13 Moon Journals.
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Alternatively, you can find out more about Charlotte’s work as a Hellenistic Astrologer, via her Charlotte's website.
She weaves astrology with cyclical living to help illuminate a cosmically conscious path for her clients, offering birth chart readings and astro mentoring packages with a holistic approach.
Charlotte also hosts a free Facebook group for women who wish to work with the lunar cycle. You can follow her love of the cosmos on Instagram or Substack.
