MOONRISE MUSING 90: Dealing With Parental Wounding To Learn How To Properly Receive Again
Messages meant to support emotional healing are continuing to come through - especially in dreams. Honour your body’s call for rest right now. Trust that allowing yourself to slow down and reset is not laziness, but a devine act of self-respect.
As the Sun moves into the final decan of Cancer, we’re entering a phase of deep inner integration. We are in Four of Cups energy.
The first decan of any sign introduces the lesson. The second helps us stabilise and embody it. And the third decan is where we alchemise the experience and begin preparing for transition.
Just as each zodiac sign carries a mode - cardinal, fixed, or mutable - each third of the sign reflects that same structure:
- 0–9 degrees initiates (cardinal)
- 10–19 degrees stabilises (fixed)
- 20–29 degrees transforms (mutable)
We’re entering into the mutable waters of Cancer - a time of both closure and preparation. Cancer’s final stretch always carries the imprint of reflection, release, and emotional reckoning. And because the next sign is Leo, its energy begins whispering in before the official shift - blending into the current with warmth, boldness, and heart.
This blending reveals a powerful theme: the role of the father, and how his presence - or absence - affected our sense of safety, identity, and self-belief. This, in turn, connects to how our mothers were or were not able to offer nurturing, protection, and emotional grounding.
These themes may show up strongly for some, and more subtly for others. Much depends on your own personal soul path, natal placements, and where you are in your healing journey with mother and father dynamics. These reflections deepen further if other planets are also moving through Cancer or Leo at this time.
The lead into Leo season is not just a seasonal shift - it’s a devine invitation. It asks us to return to the heart, to live with openness, and to take up space from a place of love. But before we can do that fully, we must face where our father wounds have caused us to shrink, to perform, to doubt the light within us.
A healthy father figure was meant to offer protection, guidance, and encouragement - to be a mirror that says, “You are powerful. You are capable. You are safe to be fully yourself.” Without that, many of us learned to second-guess our instincts, to edit our truth, and to search for permission outside of ourselves.
The devine intention for our upbringing was for both mother and father to work together as channels of devine love and wisdom. One nurturing the inner voice. The other helping us walk its path. This was never meant to be distorted by the false systems that benefit from our fragmentation.
Cancer teaches us to feel, to trust our emotional body, to remember the sanctity of the home within. Leo then asks us to express what we find there - to act on it with courage. In this sequence, we learn that emotional security is the foundation for devine confidence.
Some of us were given this support in childhood. Many of us were not. Some of us had parents who simply didn’t have the tools or awareness. Others had parents who projected their own unhealed wounds onto us, sometimes consciously, sometimes not.
Even those who tried their best were often still operating under the weight of collective wounding. The consciousness of the planet has only recently begun rising enough for many of us to even see what was missing.
Despite it all, we’re not powerless. We can reclaim the parts of ourselves that didn’t get what they needed. We can re-parent. We can rewrite. We can heal. The zodiac gives us these tools - not just to understand the world, but to come home to ourselves.
This final Cancer decan gently exposes the places where we still doubt our worth, where we resist receiving, where we try to control what should be surrendered. Control is often a leftover survival tactic.
When we were young and unsupported in chaos, control felt like the only way to create safety, but now, it can block the very flow we long for.
In truth, you don’t have to force what is already meant for you. The life, love, abundance, and joy that aligns with your soul is already making its way to you. Your only job is to make space for it - to believe in your own enough-ness, and let go of the fear that tries to micromanage the process.
So ask yourself this weekend:
- Where am I gripping out of fear?
- Where am I trying to manufacture outcomes instead of trusting my devine path?
- Where am I resisting ease, and blocking the very blessings I’ve been asking for?
The Four of Cups offers wisdom here. It shows a gift being offered from the devine, emerging from a cloud - yet the figure in the card almost ignores it, lost in disappointment and unmet expectations.
Are you so attached to how your blessings should arrive, that you can’t see them when they’re right in front of you? This card calls us to investigate the stories we carry around rejection, betrayal, and emotional letdowns. These stories shape what we’re willing to receive. The Four of Cups reminds us that emotional renewal is possible, but it requires us to release our grip on the past and choose new patterns - ones aligned with joy, authenticity, and devine trust.
Let this be a season of loosening the grip. Let it be a time of letting in. Let it be your gentle return to knowing you are already worthy…because you exist.
Not because of how much you’ve healed, nor because of how well you perform, but because you are a living expression of the Devine Father and Devine Mother’s love.
Your parents were meant to reflect that love to you, but if they didn’t, you still have access to it. The true Source was never severed.
It’s never too late to return to your own wholeness. It’s never too late to feel safe again. The cosmic energies of now are here to guide you - through rest, through softness, through trust.
So as we enter into this final decan of Cancer season, take a sacred pause.
Rest your body, open your heart, and allow for your timeline to unfold now in devine timing.
You are enough. You’ve always been. Now let your life reflect that truth.
Asé
Thanks so much for your continued love and support…I appreciate you 💙