Michael & Monica Berg's connection
for the New Moon of Cancer
This page gathers a synthesis of Michael and Monica Berg's connection for the New Moon of Cancer, the month when we train our eyes to see only the Creator's Light in everything, dig the well of blessings, and transform the year's most challenging three weeks into its greatest days of revelation.
Cancer is the only month ruled by the Moon, and its spiritual sense is sight. The work is to train the eyes to see only the Creator's Light pulsing in every person and every situation. Every time we refuse separation and judgment, we dig the infinite well of blessings a little deeper, the Be'er from which all of the month's Light will pour forth.
Michael starts with the foundation: if I truly believe that everything that exists in reality is the Creator's Light, that it's me, it's you, and it's every other person, then when I see someone negative, someone who seems to be there to provoke me, that person is actually giving me the opportunity to "enroll": to rewrite my consciousness.
Especially this month, things will happen that tempt us to see separation. Michael is direct: don't fall for your own eyes, which lie to you. There are many dangerous situations in Cancer where we let our eyes deceive us, lead us, and steer us toward judgment.
When you look at someone and want to see them as separate, as negative, stop. Ask: what pulses through them? The Creator's infinite, pure Light. Discard the rest.
The year's historically most challenging three weeks (Bein haMetzarim) begin this month. But Michael clears up a major misunderstanding: it wasn't the Creator who decided to create difficult weeks. We create them, whenever, this month, we stop fighting to see only the Light in others, in our actions, and in ourselves.
Over these next 15 days, you and I create that well of blessings through every elevation of consciousness. Then, the three weeks that follow, usually called challenging, become the time when we dig that well and drink from it.
That's how what was historically the most difficult period transforms into the greatest days of revelation. This month's energy influences even the nine more sensitive days still to come.
These are the "three weeks that follow" that Michael speaks of. Starting Thursday, July 2nd (17 Tammuz), we enter the period tradition calls Ben haMetzarim, "between the narrow straits", the Three Weeks, running until Tisha b'Av (9 Av · July 23rd), the anniversary of the destruction of the two Holy Temples. Historically, it's the year's most challenging time: the selfish nature awakens, and it becomes harder than usual not to react with negativity.
But the kabbalists teach the opposite of what it seems: in these three weeks there's more Light available than in almost all the rest of the year. It's precisely in the hardest moments that we receive the rarest opportunities to transform and grow. Rav Berg didn't call them weeks of negativity, but weeks of making miracles, a time to remove negativity from the past, present, and future, and even to heal.
Three "negative" weeks, better to hide at home and protect yourself.
21 powerful days, the rarest portal of blessings all year, if we choose to walk through it.
What opens this portal is a choice of consciousness: unconditional love, sharing, and restriction, resisting the reactive impulse instead of giving in to it. That's how what seemed like the hardest period becomes what Michael calls digging the well, and drinking from its blessings. Over the coming weeks, we'll prepare together to walk through it.
Monica reveals what's under the veil: this month has a heavy reputation, but it's not about darkness, it's about healing. It's no coincidence that the month itself carries that name. And here too is the energy of Yosef the Patriarch, and of Shabbat Pinchas.
And we're not just talking about healing physical illness. We're talking about healing in every area of life: our relationships, our work, our sense of purpose, and our own sense of who we are, so often full of doubt.
Monica recalls a kabbalistic principle: the antidote for everything is created even before the problem. If there's a challenge, the opportunity to overcome it is already there; if there's darkness, the Light within it has already been created. This month is about lifting the veil off those blessings, and the antidote is sharing.
Sharing pulls us out of our own worry, fear, and doubt, and gives us the ability to see through problems and above them. Karen, Monica shares, always answered a problem with an invitation: come share, come help.
Monica offers three concrete practices for stepping into this reality:
1. Keep moving forward. It sounds easy, but it's the hardest thing spiritually. The Cancerian seeks the comfort of the past, but we're meant to look toward the future, even when it's frightening. There's nothing behind; only what's possible ahead.
2. Let go of the calculations. Stop measuring whether the person "deserves" your generosity. Keeping score on sharing is falling into judgment, and judgment destroys the one who judges more than anyone.
3. Get out of your own way. The biggest obstacle we place is self-judgment. Whoever judges themselves harshly judges others, because judgment begins within.
We're meant to see ourselves as giants, not out of ego, but because we become what we see in ourselves. If you see yourself as insufficient, that's the level you'll reach. So this month, make sure your lens is the way the Creator sees you.
And Monica closes with the image of the crab, the month's symbol: alone, it walks sideways, in fear and shame. But in a documentary, many crabs walking together, in unity, actually moved forward.
Today, in whom or in what situation did my eyes want to see separation, and what would happen if I saw the Creator's Light there instead?
Michael brought an ancient prayer to the screen: the Ramban (Rav Moshe ben Nachman), the great kabbalist, taught that it should be recited every Rosh Chodesh. It awakens our connection to the infinite well of blessings, so that our sustenance, physical and spiritual, comes directly from the hand of the Creator's Light, and not from the hands of people.
Below is the prayer in Hebrew, verse by verse, the same pages Michael and Monica brought to the screen, with transliteration alongside. Scan the Hebrew on each page and meditate on the English meaning just below.
May it be Your will before You, O Creator, my God and God of my ancestors, that You bless the work of my hands without end; that You supply me from Your full hand, and that from Your good storehouse You fill my house and satisfy me.
May You guide my path and my ways toward the good; guard my feet and their course, for everything that lives is in Your hands.
And may my sustenance be delivered into Your hand, and be sweet; and may it not be in the hands of any person, for such hands are bitter and hard as wormwood, humiliating and shameful.
Therefore, in Your great mercy, seal for me sustenance from Your good and full hand, and may it be complete; and guide me on the straight path before You.
And grant me grace, kindness, and mercy in Your eyes and in the eyes of all who see me, for You are a merciful and gracious God. Blessed is He who hears prayer.
Recite this prayer at the New Moon, with the intention of receiving sustenance, physical and spiritual, directly from the Creator's Light. The Ramban taught that it be recited every Rosh Chodesh.
Source: New Moon of Cancer connection with Michael Berg and Monica Berg, The Kabbalah Centre. The prayer is the Ramban's Prayer (Rav Moshe ben Nachman) for Rosh Chodesh. Translation, synthesis, and adaptation by Thiago Moshe · Kabbalistic Insights.
Details of the month (letter חֵית Chet, the sense of sight, tribe of Reuben) per the Sefer Yetzirah and Kabbalah Centre teachings on Cancer / Tammuz.
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