In most ways, the Summer Solstice of June 2009 is likely to work
and play out in the Northern Hemisphere much as it has for
thousands of years now. Ever since we lived in prehistoric
matriarchies in the Age of Cancer (c. 8,790 – 6,630 BCE), we
have intuited that this major hinge point in Earth’s annual
cycle is connected with the sacred feminine, the element of
water, and the Moon. This is why, long before the first zodiacs
began to evolve, we had a knowing, that was not yet a proving,
that the month that begins with the Summer Solstice—what we
would later call Cancer month—was ruled by the Moon and water,
and somehow began a “female” half of the year. This made sense
in the Age of Cancer when the Agricultural Revolution came, and
along with it better techniques of irrigation and water
management that would get crops, animals, and babies safely
through the hot ripening season and on to the harvest. The
“second half” of the year was clearly more domestic, the Mother
Time when farmers had to work their fields,