The New Moon is exact overnight at 11° Cancer 32′14″ at 2:18:35 UT on July 3rd (minor planet chart here).
This Moon is conjunct Ceres (2 degrees away), exactly trine Psyche in Scorpio, and exactly opposite asteroid 23, Thalia, in Capricorn.
There seems to be a cyclical theme; Moon in Cancer emphasises this, and Ceres, at her most basic level a fertility goddess, is also about natural cycles, in her case the seasons. In mythology Ceres’ cycles are intimately involved with Pluto, ruler of Scorpio, where we find Psyche exactly trining this lunation. Psyche had to journey to the underworld in her search for Eros, and Ceres was one who refused to help her. This setup has a deep, sensitive, easily hurt feeling to it.
I’ve seen Psyche in a few charts seeming to literally represent the study of the subject of psychology, and it is the root of that word, and Scorpio can also represent this. So I guess now’s a good time to embark on your psychology degree. But Psyche in the chart can also be a real emotional ache. The myth at one level is about trust — blind trust. Psyche’s troubles began when she “looked on the face of god,” wanting to know him, which caused her to loose him. This could be related to the idea of no-mind; the way direct, inexpressible experience can be perfectly beautiful until the mind comes in with its very helpful overlay of interpretations, questions, doubts etc. It’s common for people to experience a moment of blissful enlightenment, where their mind and ego disappear and all is one, and then immediately lose it as the mind comes back in. They then spend the rest of their lives trying to get that moment back. Good sex or the right drugs can yield the same experience. These are some of the things I think Psyche’s myth is about. The unfulfilled longing that you can’t seem to let go of has its roots in spiritual longing, but often manifests as longing for a particular person or thing forever. And of course we’ve all lived in bliss at some point and lost it, maybe in utero. The trine suggests there may be supportive New Moon energy for making some progress with this. Longing for external things is really longing to connect with the deeper Self, where we are all the same anyway, there’s really nothing “out there” that can actually make us happy for long.
And for some very necessary lightening up, we have Thalia, Greek muse of comedy, opposing the lunation from Capricorn.