Leo | Cancer Season 2025
The Universal Overlay
Cancer Season | June 20 - July 22
The Wheel Turns: Welcome to Cancer Season
As the Wheel of the Year crests into the Summer Solstice, we’re not just shifting zodiac seasons—we’re entering a whole new quarter of the year. Summer arrives in the Northern Hemisphere under the quiet leadership of Cancer, a cardinal sign that initiates not with fire and force, but with feeling.
Each quarter of the year begins with a cardinal sign—signs with the sacred gift of beginning. And Cancer ushers us into this new chapter with intuition, emotion, and a longing for rootedness. Unlike Aries’ bold spark or Libra’s airy dialogue, Cancer’s initiation is fluid, quiet, and deep—pulling us into the watery realm of memory, belonging, and the soul’s true desires.
This is the season to turn inward. To tend the soft spaces within and listen. What is your inner landscape trying to tell you about what you truly want? What does alignment feel like—not just in your mind, but in your body, your dreams, your longings?
Where Gemini's previous season brought ideas, social movement, and a thousand crisscrossing possibilities, Cancer asks us to gently prune. Choose a direction. Nurture one or two of those seedling visions into something real, something soul-fed. Let this be the moment you begin to walk the path—not all paths, just your path.
Cancer Season is ruled by the feminine: by the archetypal mother, the nurturing protector, the builder of homes and safe harbors. It invites us to check in with our emotional foundations. How do you feel held in life? Where do you feel safe to rest, to be vulnerable, to soften? This season asks for boundaries—not as barriers, but as loving containers. Boundaries that honor your energy, your privacy, your people, and your peace.
It’s the perfect season for family picnics by the water, for slow mornings and shared meals with those who nourish your spirit. There’s a tenderness in the air. A softening. Notice who you gravitate toward. Is there safety in their presence? Let them feel yours, too.
And while community is a balm this season, so is solitude. Cancer rules the subconscious. This is a dreamy time for journaling, for long aimless daydreams, for fiction that transports you to inner worlds rich with meaning. The heat of the sun drives us inward—not in withdrawal, but in sacred retreat. Gemini’s high mental buzz gives way to a more graceful unwinding of the mind. Let your thoughts drift. Let your imagination wander.
Ruled by the Moon—our ever-shifting queen of tides and moods—Cancer Season is an emotional ebb and flow. Luna changes signs every 2.5 days, coloring the atmosphere with ever-shifting hues. One day, you may feel open-hearted and ready to pour your soul into the world. The next, you may crave silence and sanctuary. Trust the rhythm. Tend to both the internal and external sunburns—what’s been overexposed needs cool balm, not pressure to push through. Let yourself be visible when the mood calls, and tucked away when it doesn’t. Offer that same grace to others. We are all moving through tides.
Across the zodiac, the Earth in Capricorn stands in balance to the sun’s watery sway. This is the ground beneath your barefoot dreams. Let your career, your aspirations, your sense of responsibility offer quiet structure—like a trellis supporting a blooming vine. You don’t need to strive right now. Let the life you’ve built, and are building, hold you. Especially around the Capricorn Full Moon, notice where your longing for mastery and integrity intersects with your emotional needs.
Above all, ease up. Journey through this season with deep breath and long exhalation. Explore soul over speed, roots over reach, presence over performance.
See what you discover when you soften into the soulfulness of summer.How the Season Activates You
Your Dimensional Growth
Sun In the 12th House | Soulful Dreams
As the Sun moves through the signs and houses, it shines a light on a dimension of you. This helps you to become well-rounded and develop holistically.
Cancer Season illuminates your twelfth house of the subconscious, dreams, and solitude. Before your birthday season begins, take this time to rest and recharge. Your natural inclination is to shine brightly, but now, turning inward can provide profound insights. Engage in practices like meditation, journaling, or therapy to explore your inner world.
With the Sun now illuminating your 12th house, a gentle light is cast on the hidden corners of your inner world—those quiet, unconscious spaces where emotions ripple just beneath the surface. This is a time to pay close attention to the subtle tides of your emotional energy. What feelings have been living in the shadows, acting out behind the scenes? Once a shadow is seen clearly, it often begins to soften and heal on its own. Don’t be afraid to look. Revelation is a kind of grace.
On June 24th, the Sun and Jupiter meet in their radiant annual conjunction—a cosmic blessing, especially potent this year as Jupiter begins its journey through Cancer, a sign in which it is exalted. This is a fortuitous season to imagine the expansion of your soul’s expression—through art, compassion, spiritual connection, and the tender wisdom of your emotional undercurrents.
Push beyond the edges of what you think is possible in your liminal world. Let your gentle, mysterious nature guide you into new realms of sensitivity, creativity, and deep feminine knowing.
The Cancer New Moon on June 25th is a potent time to release past burdens and set intentions for spiritual growth. Embrace the healing power of solitude; it will prepare you for the vibrant energy of Leo Season.
The animating guide of The Season
Your Lunar Month | Bookended in collective thought
Luna is the ruling body of the season, creating a seasonal ambiance of mood and imagination. She will touch every part of your chart as she ebbs and flows with gentle speed. Her reflective glow brings insights to all aspects of your life. Listen to her intuitive whispers as she helps you ground into deeper alignment from the inside out.
Flowing with the tides of the Moon and translated through the temple of your soul, let the ambiance of this season soften your fire and awaken your inner light through feeling, dreaming, and deeper belonging.
June 20–25
🌗 Last Quarter Moon → New Moon | Transformation & Sharing
The moon moves through your 10th and 11th houses, illuminating your legacy and your longing to belong. This is a time to release how you've been seen and make space for how you wish to serve. Let go of performing and return to your soul’s true vision. Sharing your heart doesn’t always require a stage—sometimes it’s a quiet moment of truth among kindreds. What needs to be let go so your future can open?
June 25–July 2
🌑 New Moon → First Quarter Moon | Intention, Detachment & Rejuvenation
The Cancer New Moon on June 25 roots into your 12th house—an invitation to retreat and replenish. Your light turns inward now, seeking the dream behind the performance. Set intentions not for the world to see, but for your spirit to feel. This is a sacred week of cocooning. Tend to your inner waters. Rest in the mystery of becoming. Detach from expectation. Rejuvenation is the ritual that feeds your flame.
July 2–July 10
🌓 First Quarter Moon → Full Moon | Initiation & Assertion
As the moon crosses your 3rd and 4th houses, your energy begins to stir. This is your time to pollinate and ground with gentle courage. How do you want to belong and feel secure? How do you assert your identity not only through what you do, but through who you are? Let your presence be your proclamation. Initiate new expressions of permission from the inside out. Begin from curiosity, not the ego.
July 10–17
🌕 Full Moon → Last Quarter Moon | Maturity & Refinement
The Capricorn Full Moon glows in your 6th house, asking you to refine your daily rhythms and devote your creativity to service. This is a harvest moment—how are your gifts ripening? What routines help you stay rooted in your radiance? Reflect on what keeps you whole. Mature your creativity with care. Let discipline become devotion. Let effort become elegance.
July 17–22
🌗 Last Quarter Moon → Season’s End | Transformation & Sharing (Again)
As the moon passes through Taurus and Gemini, it returns to your 10th and 11th houses, revisiting themes of legacy and collaboration. This is your time to share what’s been clarified within. How have your ambitions softened into purpose? How has your belonging deepened through vulnerability? Share your wisdom. Let your heart speak to the future. The world needs your light—but even more, it needs your love.
Your Ground and Materialization of the Season
Earth in the 6th House | Poised Wholeness
In tandem with dimensional growth in our solar season, Earth’s placement, directly opposite the Sun’s reach and exerting energy, shows the dimension of us that has become the fertile ground maturing underfoot. It’s normal to feel like our efforts in a solar season aren’t paying off, but they will, in time, when that sign becomes the Earth’s sign, the ground holding us, embodied and tangible. Look to the Earth sign to tend to what is maturing and growing in your roots and soul, that needs you to be receptive and caring.
Cancer Season asks you to rest and dream, to float in the mist of your inner world. But Earth in Capricorn insists on rhythm, practice, and purposeful effort. Let your care take form through daily rituals.
Feel the fertile ground of your work, lifestyle, wellbeing, and wholeness. Let these hold you now with soothing support. Embody your rhythmic focus as you open to your soul’s path and the processing required to receive and integrate your life’s ecosystems so they can feel at home within you.
At the July 10th Full Moon, assess how your service nourishes your soul—and where boundaries support your vitality. The duality of our need to shine and become versus feel and receive arises at our full moons. It’s a time to bring your radiant, caring compassion and the roots of your dedicated lifestyle into equal and opposite alignment.
Personal & Continuous aims
Your Radiant becoming
PHASE OF Leo’s YEARLY SEEDS | Transforming & Aiming
Separate from the Sun shining a light on our different dimensions through the signs and houses, we have another solar journey—a spiral journey of Conscious Evolution and Radiant Becoming—the path of illumination. I track this journey from your sign’s new moon to its next new moon, with a formula that’s a bit my own.
Your year’s seeds have been about clearing out the debris of a long chapter of life, making messes, but ultimately, space to reconnect to your inner fire—what lights up your heart, courage, leadership, and creativity. It’s been a year of rediscovering who you are and what you want.
At the start of Cancer Season, you're in the process of uprooting and uncovering aspects of your inner light that have long been buried—or perhaps never fully discovered. At the heart of what’s emerging may be power dynamics: how you share with others, and how others share with you. Are the feedback loops of sharing—financial, intimate, or emotional—creating mutual empowerment? Or are there places where energy is stuck or leaking? Follow the mysteries that call to you with their quiet allure. Digging beneath the surface in search of truth has the potential to transform not only you but also the world around you.
Around July 4th, your yearly seeds begin a new phase of unfurling. You’re approaching the final stretch of your solar journey of becoming. Now is the time to pause and reflect on the full arc of your year—what’s been lived, learned, and outgrown. Let wisdom found in this retrospective give shape to your growth and aim it like an arrow toward something larger, more expansive. Something foreign, perhaps even uncomfortable, but deeply horizon-stretching. Aim high.
Your Archetypal Journey
solar tone | Leading with Gentleness
The planet that rules your sign gives you an archetype—a leading character flavor. This planet is a central part of how you show up and your personal agenda. We go on journeys in the skin of our archetypes, like leading characters in books and films.
With the Sun being your planetary ruler, your core journey is a spiral journey of Conscious Evolution and Radiant Becoming—the path of the Illuminated Leader. Following the journey of your ruler, not from house to house, but in an arc from new moon to new moon, a story of your Journey to Radiant Leadership unfolds.
You are inside the last quarter turn before returning to a new moon in your sign—the return home.
Theme: Shedding the excess.
Refine your expression. Ego may have grown alongside authenticity—now is the time to prune. What habits, patterns, or power dynamics block your heart? This is a sacred unraveling, returning to the essence of what you truly value.
Archetype: The Leader in the Sanctuary of Soul
Your light has traveled far, Leo. Through applause and silence, challenge and triumph, your crown has gleamed beneath many skies. But now, the Sun—your ruler—drifts into Cancer’s waters, and the lion must lower its head, not in defeat, but in deep remembrance.
This is the part of your journey when the Leader returns to the sanctuary. The battlefield stills, the crowd quiets, and you are left with the beating of your own heart. Do you hear it? That soft percussion of soul—it calls you home to yourself.
In this season of Cancer, you do not need to perform. You are not required to inspire. You are invited to be held.
Held in memory, in ancestry, in the hidden chambers of feeling, you often rush past in your quest to shine.
This is a time to restore the roots beneath your radiance: to ask not only “What am I called to lead?” but also “Where do I feel safe to soften?”, “Who nourishes the fire when I cannot tend it?”, “What legacy do I carry in my bones?”.
For true leadership—the kind that outlasts kingdoms and reputations—is born not from the spotlight, but from soul-light. And in Cancer Season, you gather that soul-light in the quiet dark.
Let your courage turn inward. Let your vulnerability become the most sovereign thing about you. Let your creative fire flicker into a hearth, where others—and you—can rest.
And when the Sun returns to your sign, you will rise, yes—but this time, you’ll rise with roots.
To round out your horoscope, check your natal moon sign’s ‘13 Moons’ stage to see how your mood is creating atmosphere and receptivity in your life. This is also where to head to do personal work and journeys at the New and Full Moons of the season.